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**Jerad** · 01-11-2008 11:22 PM

Hello everyone!

I am new to LDs and am very eager to have my first. As you probably see, I am also a noob to this site.

**CrimsonWolf** · 01-11-2008 11:50 PM

Hey! Welcome to Dream Views! If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

**Jerad** · 01-11-2008 11:53 PM

Well, I am curious of a few things.

As i said in a different post, i dont quite understand the concept of dream journals. How can you remember later dreams by writing down old ones?

When I am dreaming (i rarely remember them) i cannot RC because i have literally no control over what i do in my dreams.

Thanks

**Lord Toaster** · 01-12-2008 12:00 AM

Ok... if you remember a dream, say, once a week, but you always write it down, and focus on the dream for a few minutes while writing it down, then you effectively program your brain to remember dreams. You'll remember more and more, if you keep writing them down.

Also, the point of the RC is to do it so often that you just do it in dreams as well as in real life. Do one now. Do one again in a minute. Try to to do them as often as possible, and you will start remembering to do them in dreams as well.

Also, as Grod said in the other thread, check the tutorials

**Jerad** · 01-12-2008 12:03 AM

alrighty. thanks a lot!

**Jerad** · 01-12-2008 12:13 AM

oh and one more thing:

I am a very self-conscious person, and am scared to keep a dream journal because someone might find it. Are there any like password-protected online journals that do not share my entries with others?

**detail** · 01-12-2008 09:17 PM

welcome!

**Jerad** · 01-13-2008 07:18 PM

WOOT I had my first lucid dream last night!!!

**nina** · 01-13-2008 07:28 PM

Congratulations!

**Wavefunction** · 01-13-2008 07:30 PM

I never welcomed you, so I'll do that now. Also congratulations on your lucid dream!

**Adverse** · 01-13-2008 07:30 PM

I feel the same way about keeping my journal private, so I use a small pad that fits in my back pocket and I keep it with me always.. A lot of the time throughout the day at work and whatnot I'll remember parts of my dreams and write them down quick.

**toucantango** · 01-13-2008 07:37 PM

Welcome and congrats on already having your first LD!!

Keeping a notepad with you during the day is an EXCELLENT idea. I do the same, and I like to take it one step further by also noting what it was in the moment that "randomly" reminded of a part of my dream..

**NeAvO** · 01-13-2008 07:46 PM

Welcome to the forum and congratulations!

**Jerad** · 01-13-2008 09:40 PM

Thanks Guys!

**Jerad** · 01-13-2008 09:41 PM

Oh and the notepad thing is a pretty cool idea ill have to try that... but dont the papers always peel off of the notepad?

**Adverse** · 01-13-2008 10:17 PM

I haven't had any problems with pages falling out or anything.. Its just a small pad with preferated pages... Not those yellow sticky pads if that is what you're thinking