Just wanted to introduce myself

[Lelangir]

Hey, I'm Lelangir, or just Lelan. I've known about lucid dreaming for about a year now - I practiced it intently, never got to LD, then just sort of stopped. Maybe I was trying to use LD for the wrong reasons? But anyway now I've gotten interested in it again and am willing to spend more time on it!

[Clairity]

Lelan, welcome to Dream Views! It's great that you know about LDing and I'm glad you decided to join our forum You might want to review the Newbie Zone Guide for helpful information about this site: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=36723 You may also want to check out the Tutorials forum which contains information on the various lucid dreaming techniques: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...splay.php?f=25. If you should have any questions, please ask and we'll do our best to get you answers! Now that you found us .. let's see if we can't get you some lucid dreams!

[Burns]

Welcome to the forum, Lelan Please let us know if you have any questions!

[Pastro]

Welcome Lelangir, you should enjoy the friendly atmosphere of Dv, its alsoa great resource, just stay out of Senseless banter.....

[Jeff777]

Hey, I'm Lelangir, or just Lelan. I've known about lucid dreaming for about a year now - I practiced it intently, never got to LD, then just sort of stopped. Maybe I was trying to use LD for the wrong reasons? But anyway now I've gotten interested in it again and am willing to spend more time on it! We open you with welcome arms.

[MisterHyde]

Welcome. The more the merrier as they say! I have found this to be the friendliest community I have ever joined, and that's saying something after leaving forums for 5 years after finding them too hostile. Nicest bunch of blokes and blokettes you will ever meet on t' interweb.

[Wavefunction]

to Dreamviews!

[Altasi]

I'm new to DreamViews aswell, But.. From Me!

[Sir Mark]

Greetings, It's interesting. I too have recently returned to lucid dreaming after about a year. I too have yet to have my first. I therefore have little to offer you other than a hearty welcome and to say that this appears to be a wonderfully friendly community that contains loads of information and experience. What do you say you and I both set a goal to have our first lucid before the end of the year?

[Wavefunction]

If you're setting goals... why the end of the year? I'm sure you can do it faster!

[Lelangir]

After reading a lot of threads, it seems like some people have a natural talent for LD'ing; although dedication does play a large part in developing skills. I just started a dream journal yesterday, and remembered only two brief pictures. I tried to WBTB but that didn't seem to work - I fell asleep! I'll try WBTB'ing every day if I can. The hardest part are the reality checks. It's as if I haven't ingrained them into my head yet, I only remember to do them if I'm thinking specifically about LD'ing, or by a completely random thought. I think if I can make RCs second nature, they should also be so in dreams, right? Isn't that the point of them?

[Wavefunction]

That's partially the point, but also RC when you see anything out of the ordinary (even a light bulb not working or a bus being late) or you see a dream sign. You'll find that once you get your recall steady, some element appear in your dreams more often than others. Someone on here said that spiders are their dream sign. Then when they see spiders in real life, they RC. Yours will be different, but you'll find it once you have a good amount of dreams in your journal.

[ClouD]

We open you with welcome arms. Something's wrong here. Oh no, i'm tumbling down the rabbit hole.

[peppy]

Hello, to Dreamviews! If u have any questions, feel free to ask.

[Lelangir]

For my RC, I just count the fingers on both my hands. Is this effective? Last night, during a dream, I vividly remember looking at my hands, the same way I do my RC in waking life, and noticing how sweaty they were - but I didn't become lucid!

[Wavefunction]

For my RC, I just count the fingers on both my hands. Is this effective? Last night, during a dream, I vividly remember looking at my hands, the same way I do my RC in waking life, and noticing how sweaty they were - but I didn't become lucid! It's very effective for some people, not for others. My goal in my last lucid dream was to try each RC to see if it worked. The text and hand ones didn't work for me, but the nose RC did. So if the hand one didn't work for you in the dream, I'd stick to doing other RCs in real life.

[Lelangir]

Hm, well in the dream I remember looking at my palms, but not specifically my fingers, so maybe that's it. It could also be that I haven't ingrained the RC into my subconscious mind yet. Maybe as an RC I can look at my wrist as if I'm looking at the time, but the thing is I don't wear a watch - never have. So maybe that'll work faster since the fact that I don't wear a watch is more obvious to me.