Hi I'm new

[Nick89]

Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum, although I've been familiar with the topic of lucid dreaming for a year or so. I've been keeping a DJ since February but there were two or three short periods when I gave it up temporarily. Yesterday I began to record it on my mp3 (I've got a dictaphone on the player). My dream recall is not that bad, there are nights when I remember 3 or 4 dreams. Occasionally I don't remember anything, though. No lucid dreams, yet, but I don' hurry. Have recently had a false awakening. OK, that's the end of the boring part. Two curious things I've noticed last night: 1: from this forum and other sources I know that alcohol severely decreases our dream recall. But last night I was at some party and drunk alcohol, an equivalent of maybe 6 beers. And you know what? I remembered 6 dreams or so and even quite vividly (though were too lazy too record all of them ). And I remember that some time ago, after I think six beers as well, I managed to remember a really, really long and vivid dream.. Seems that alcohol improves my dream recall. Any explanation? (well, mine is that maybe as I'm more relaxed when "slightly drunk" it is this lack of stress that helps me remember dreams. What do you think?) 2: Last night I had a dream in which a friend of mine (let's say John) asks me to taste some disgusting-looking food, and when I ask him what it is, he only repeats: 'Just taste it!' and so on. In the room was my another friend (let's say Mike). Before the dream I'm describing now, on the same night I had a dream with Mike, and the dream was hilarious. So i thought that Mike would tell John about the dream and make him laugh and deceive him so that I would sneak to the kitchen and ask the rest of the people what was in that dish that John offered me. So I started the topic of what happened in that hilarious dream, and now the interesting part (at last): I realised that MIKE HADN'T DREAMT IT - IT WAS ONLY MY DREAM, and so how could Mike know what I was dreaming about and tell John? I'm a dumbass not to realise that I was dreaming there and then Don't know what happened next... Sorry for such a long post Thanks to everyone who survives until the end of it.

[ninja9578]

1) I've also had some insane dreams while drunk. It's probably because you are relaxed and don't wake up as easily. 2) Don't worry, everyone misses dream signs like that. 3) to DV

[Nick89]

No, I don't worry of course , rather have a big laugh at it. Just thought it was quite an extraordinary idiocy there not to realise it was all a dream. I kind of boast about it, actually. Like you met in a dream someone who told you you were dreaming and you can start being lucid now and and you told him off, called a lunatic and so on. That kind of thing.

[Nick89]

Has anyone has something like a pen which has a small light so that you don't have to turn on the nightlamp to write down your dream in a DJ? Often the nightlight wakes me up too much... And I don't want to wake up my roommate, either.

[NickKanieval]

Has anyone has something like a pen which has a small light so that you don't have to turn on the nightlamp to write down your dream in a DJ? Often the nightlight wakes me up too much... And I don't want to wake up my roommate, either. Try writing it down in the dark. If you have enough room on the paper, and you focus on feeling your pen strokes it will be readable enough in the morning, I do it all the time