Alright, first post, hi all you can can me ryan or whatever. I found this sight on accident and think it is proby the coolest thing i have scene in a while. The whole do anything aspect of lucid dreaming. I read some tutorials but just have a few questions about how to get this going...

1- where do i start? just writing down my dreams?
2- i am a terrible sleeper (i lay awake for hours before falling asleep somtimes) will this affect my ld's

3- what exactly is a lucid dream... i have had some prety cool dreams and some really f'd up ones, one example was i was decapitated and i was a living head and had to watch as my body was tourtured- that was really really f'd up- on the other side i discovered i could fly and zoomed all around doing cool things. So is it just a state where you know that you are dreaming and can do whatever you want?

4- how good can you get? can you get to a point where everytime you go to bed its like your in some adventure story with infint possibilities?

5- dream sings... do you check these at all times of the day? of just when somthing wierd happens? i don't think i can tell that im dreaming when i am so does checking dream sings just become a part of what you do everyday?

thanks in advance