Hi there.Earlier this week I discovered this site along with LD4all and have become interested in LD alot. I have been doing the various techs now for 5 days and while I haven't achieved LD yet I think I'm starting to get there here's a few results so far:

1. My dream recall so far has been quite good.Last night(actually all in early morning around 06:30) I had three pretty vivid ND's. I can remember alot from them(like entire scenes and what DC's said to me) which I think is a encouraging sign. i think I've always had fairly good recall but never thought much about it until now.

2. I've downloaded a trance induction mp3 that I listened to in bed on earphones the first two nights. I was able to relax my body using this mp3 until I had achieved I think a mild form of SP. I couldn't feel my arms at all and my legs felt as if they had become melded together.Also I felt extremely heavy. This took about 30 minutes to reach this state. I didn't see any HI but I think i might have heard a few weird sounds. Unfortunately I couldn't go any farther than this and must have fallen asleep. After the first two nights my relaxation tech was good enough that I didn't need the mp3 anymore but still couldn't get beyond the SP stage.

3.I nearly achieved LD last night.I woke up around 07:00 from a dream and went straight back into my sleep hoping for the WBTB method to work. I began thinking of the dream I just had and tried to get myself back into the last scene of it. Unfortunately I didn't quite work and I fell to sleep again and just had a ND.However in the ND I had I was with a group of my friends and I can distinctly remember telling them about this cool thing I heard called LD and the ability to control my dreams using it.Their reactions were pretty much "yeah right man,whatever" pretty much indifference.After I woke up from this dream I was kicking myself that I hadn't realized it was a dream when I was actually talking about LD's and how cool it would be to get one to my friends in my ND. Just a question. Is it possible I actually was in a LD just a very low level one seeing that I was actually talking about LD in my dream?

Anyway I think I've made some good progress in my first week in finding out about LD and hope I'll get there eventually. Hopefully,the people on this board will give me a hand in achieving my goal.

Cheers and sweet dreams!