New To Lucid

[sapiro]

Well my friend recently told me about this site so I checked it out. It seems pretty cool so I just bought a Dream Journal today planning on waking up at 4 am tonight to write about my dreams (if I can remember them). Well sometimes it takes me a long time to fall asleep (i.e. 1-2 hours) and usually I can't lay still I have to move constantly. So it seems that will be a problem whenever I will attempt to WILD. What I really want to try is to "jump" like in the movie Jumper. It would be so cool if I could do that. I've had a few lucid dreams before where I knew I was dreaming but during those dreams I was close to waking up cause some noise was going on. The close I've ever gotten to controling myself in a dream is when I opened a door. But when I opened the door everything started to get ruined and stuff. I didn't even know I was dreaming then when I took control that 1 time. So does anyone have any tips for me to help me become lucid and to control and alter my dreams?

[shotbirds]

Welcome to DV! ^_^ Eh, don't give up unless you're getting frustrated with it then take a break. Once you get that DJ going start reading over looking for common dream signs and just have fun. There's also a topic somewhere on here about controlling dreams by using force or passive control..i'll post a link if I find it. EDIT: eh, that didn't take long http://dreamviews.com/community/show...+using+passive

[sapiro]

Thanks for the link. By the way, what's a DILD, FILD, and SP?

[shotbirds]

There's an acronym list somewhere.... but DILD = Dream Initiated Lucid Dream, FILD (i dont even know) Finger maybe?, and SP is Sleep Paralysis

[sapiro]

Thanks again, if you don't mind could you briefly explain each of these?

[shotbirds]

DILD is when you fall asleep then realize you're dreaming in middle of a dream, FILD i believe has something to do with a WILD, which is where you fall asleep consciously. You will have to sleep a few hours before attempting this. And finally SP is something which you will most likely experience while trying to WILD. It is when your body falls asleep and you won't be able to move, the dream comes shortly after this. DILD and WILD are the two MAIN ways of LDing, others are just different ways of doing them