Hi everyone,i'm glad to be here! Its hard to find others who are into lucid dreaming. Ok so i just started training for this about 3 nights go. I have this book called The Art of Lucid Dreaming,and i've also been reading websites on it. So,here's my progress so far...every single night since i started this,i've been waking up at exactly the same time,with a few dreams to write down,and then EVERY SINGLE HOUR after that i wake up with more to write down! This might sound great but,each time i wake up i have a harder time sitting up,finding my book and my light and my pen...and then when my alarm goes off,i can barely drag myself out of bed! I fall back asleep quickly each time but its that i wake up EVERY single hour with all these dreams to write down! So i'm not getting a full nights sleep and i've been dragging at work and my eyes are burning all day long! Is this normal? I dont know how much longer i can keep this up,do you have to keep a dream journal every night of your life from now on?
And my 2nd question was,was this a lucid dream or not; I was dreaming and my grandpa came into the dream (who has passed away) so i knew it was a dream then and right away i started floating up into the air and i thought it was so cool,and i spun around to keep it going,but i dont remember willing myself to do any of this,it was like thats how my dream was going to go anyway. Then when i landed i tried to imagine a certain person and i even called out to them and they never appeared. I thought when you are lucid dreaming you can make anything show up just by thinking it? So i'm not sure if that was a lucid dream or not,cuz i've never flown in dreams before but i also didnt feel like i was controlling anything in it,even though i knew i was dreaming after i saw my grandpa. But this happened in another dream too,i thought "i hope this isnt real..." then i plugged my nose and i could breathe so i plugged it harder and i couldn't breathe (but i was still dreaming!) so i said "darn i'm not dreaming" but i was!! How did that trick not work for me?
I would appreciate any thoughts on my experiences! THANKS IN ADVANCE! :-)