Hi there everybody! I'm new to the forum and this is my HAY GUYS! introduction post.

I've been doing some research on lucid dreaming lately and got really interested in it; just the fact that you can dream of stuff you'd never think about in real life was enough to win me over. So I made a little dreamdiary and as of yet I'm having a blast - even if the lucid thing never works out I'll still have some pretty funky stories to work with.

Woah, too fast. I'm studying graphic design/illustrating and I'm always welcoming inspiration and ideas that actually mean something to me, after having spent years doing superficial work, so to speak. Everybody has his or her own view on things, and I just want to get to know mine as good as I can. Hence the interest in writing dreamjournals. Apart from that; reading about the stuff other people experience in dreams is just way fun.

I'd like to SEIZE the oppertunity to ask a little question too, regarding dreamjournals. I've read on this site somewhere that just writing down your last dream in the morning "isn't going to cut it". The thing is just that when I write down a dream I usually write down two full pages because I don't want to miss any of the details - making it nearly impossible to do that at 2 in the morning - and apart from that I know I can't go to sleep and wake up 3 times and still be able to get out of bed in the morning. My guy says I'll be fine as I've already got some stories that I can take apart word by word to find similarities but the THAT! JUST! WON'T! CUT! IT! line still made me blue.

So hey there's no question in that so I'll make it up right now: is only writing down your last dream enough to start finding similarities and such or do I really have to learn to get up way early? And if so, what's the best way to do this? Setting my alarm clock probably won't work, I had to get up at 6 a while ago and even though it woke me up at first I started to ignore it after a few weeks, or even turning it off without realising it. Alarm clocks are evil.

Uh yeah text! Glad to be here and I'll get myself a nifty ava and all that as soon as possible. That concludes my introduction!