Thread: New to LD and have few questions...

Welcome to the forums! This place is great, and if you stick to it, you'll be a pro in no time.

It is very fun indeed. It can be used for fun, creativity, self exploration, and so much more.

Yes, it is fine for you to have music playing. You can actually use this as a dream sign. You could be in the dream and hear the music playing, and it would trigger you to think you're dreaming. Some people use specially made songs for this, even!

The first time I ever heard of lucid dreaming, I had one that next night. This beginner's luck is common though. I then forgot all about it until about a month and a half ago. When I started getting into it this time, it took me about a week and a half, and since then I've had about one a week.

Before you start focusing on getting lucid dreams, you should focus on getting a great recall by keeping a dream journal and writing your dreams down right when you wake up. Once you wake up, try moving as little as possible to gather your memories from your dreams, then once you think you've got them, write them down. If you commit to this and to doing regular RCs, you'll be lucid in no time at all.

Also, once you start to get deeper into it, you can learn to do the various WILD and DILD methods such as FILD, VILD, MILD, WBTB, etc. You can find all of the tutorials for these in the tutorials section.

Good luck on your dreams!

Thank you very much for fast reply and help. I will put on some Goo Goo Dolls tonight and wake up to my dream journal.

Last few nights though i have not recalled any of my dreams, which was frusterating.

Welcome, jsrnash12 !

I don't listen to mucis as I sleep, so I'll skip to question #2. It took me about three weeks after finding this site to have my first LD. Before finding this site I had never heard of Lucid Dreaming. I tried for a few weeks with no success and I started questioning whether this was even real. But then I had my first LD, and I was so excited to know that this was possbible...and especially that it was possible for me.

Like you, dreams had always fascinated me and I had fairly good recall. What helped me the most was reading this site often (the tutorials and other people's experiences), keeping LDing on my mind a lot, and thoughout the day questioning if I were dreaming or awake.

You have a headstart because you already have been keeping a dream journal and have been practicing dream recall. That is definitely a plus, because as you do learn how to lucid dream you will remember so much more.

Good luck...