Thread: new dreamer here

whats up everyone, my names mike and i am going to strive to achieve lucidity at will untill i can accomplish it. i recently had a very exciting and powerfull set of lucid dreams one night out of the blue, and i loved it so much that i am now going to be studying the subject as much as possible. last night i found this website and i tryed the WILD technique and i had some positive results, not bad for the first time trying. i achived lucidity for about 10-20 seconds in a dream and then i woke up, and when i fell back to sleep and had another dream i couldn't get my lucidity back. i remember when i realized i was dreaming, i was with my brother and a good friend and i told them that this was just a dream and that we can now do whatever we wanted and they just looked at me emotionless to what i was saying. i remember i still went on trying to convince them i was dreaming and thats when i woke up. did i do something wrong? maybe i should have just just realized it and left it at that without making such a big deal about it. maybe i was too excited, i don't know. another aspect about me is that i have had sleep paralysis since i was a kid on and off and it used to scare the shit out of me. and just a week ago i find out i can achieve lucidity through the paralysis and i'm extremely happy now, because if it happens again, i won't fight to break out of it like i usually do. it used to scare the piss out of me when it used to happen, and i would desperetly try to move a finger or a toe to break the paralysis, which i would always do. in the past, sleep paralysis would come on like a frieght train. i would be lying in bed conscious of my thoughts and all of a suden i hear what seems to be a huge rush of wind blowing and then a slight pop and i would be paralized. it took no longer than a second for this to occur. very scary experience if you arn't aware of whats going on. now that i know, i will be welcoming it with open arms. i can't wait untill my next paralysis episode so i can try to get lucid through it.

anyway, i'm extemely happy i found this forum and i hope to gain a wealth of information about lucid dreams and they're potential. any tips will be deeply appreciated. i will be trying all the various techniques and i will update you all with the results when they happen.

cheers,
mike