Hey everybody, I accidentally stumbled upon this site yesterday while web surfing, and I was interested immediately, mainly because of the one lucid dream that I have had was interesting, and I wanted to experience it all over again.

That said, I should introduce myself. I am a boy of 15 years and I hail from South East Asia. Fun place to be, except the hot and humid nights can kill, figuratively.

Anyway, I'm kind of new to the idea of lucid dreaming, and I hope that some of my doubts and questions can be clarified.

Firstly, just this morning, when I woke up, I found myself trying to recall any of my dreams. And it suddenly occurred to me. How do you differentiate between your mind actually trying to imagine things and actual dreams themselves. That is, this morning I woke up thinking that in my dream, I had hit somebody.(And no, I am not a violent kid. ) How do I know that in my desire to actually have a dream recall, my mind did not imagine this dream up, and that I DID actually have this dream?


Secondly, I realized that one slight problem of my imagination is this: I am unable to add color to anything I try to imagine. That is to say, everything that I imagine is without color, or rather, like I am looking at them in darkness. This has caused some problems when I tried to use HILD.
I did everything successfully all the way to the point where I was trying to imagine a chalkboard with the alphabets and numbers. At this point, I had much difficulty trying to keep the chalkboard in place, and HILD kind of lost its effect after that.
And so the question is, are there any similar ways that don't require myself trying to imagine things and are relatively easy to achieve that will allow me to hypnotize myself? Also, on a random side note, I want to know if my mind is damaged, because it doesn't seem normal to not be able to imagine things with color.

I hope that I can have some of my questions answered, and thanks in advance.


On a really random sidenote, I've noticed that in most of the dreams that I have recalled when I was young, it mostly happened from a 3rd person point of view. I hope I'll be able to dream recall again, mainly because I seem to have lost the knack for it over the years, and I kept thinking that I had stopped having dreams.