hey everyone! yes, I am new here, but don't worry, I'll try to behave

anyway, I am kind of new to the whole lucidity stuff. why kind of? well, I did have a couple of lucid dreams before, but I never thought about them much, for me there were just dreams (and great ones) that probably happen to people once in a while....well, obviously there is much more behind these dreams than I imagined. The first time I did some research on lucid dreams was some weeks ago after I had a very vivid lucid dream. I came accross this wonderful site and learned a lot!...the result is that I got even more interested in the subject, I then made some attempts to have lucid dreams...but with little results (but honestly I didn't try very hard either). But now I want to experiment more and enjoy it.

During weekdays I can't practice much, simply because I don't get too many hours of sleep, and I prefer not to force myself to be waking up during these nights (which for what I read, is the best way, if not the only one, to remember your dreams, or even lucid dreams if you had one). So during weekdays I am just content with sometimes remembering my last dream of the night. However, during weekends I am all for practicing from now on ...so what I am going to start doing, and please correct me if I am wrong, is, in order to recall my dreams, I will try to wake myself up (using an alarm clock) every hour and a half (especially later through my sleep)...then I will take quick notes of whatever I was dreaming (that's if I can get my lazy self out of bed )....I now know that it is very hard to remember a dream you had earlier in the night when you finally wake up in the morning...it happened to me many times that I wake up knowing that I had a dream but I just can't remember it...so I guess it is worth the effort to take those notes during the night. And well, then comes the use of dream signs and induction techniques I learned from this site, and that I will practice. I guess there is no point in talking too much about this now, better give all this a try and then come back to share my results later on.

As for my 'lucidity experiences' so far....well, as I mentioned before, I had a lucid dream like a month ago, that was what led me to research more about these lucid dreams. After learning 'the basics' from this site, I had one more lucid dream....it was fantastic! I was able to realize I was dreaming through a reality check, then, once I realized I was dreaming, I became very excited about it, and as a result I felt like the dream was fading away, so then I tried spinning to keep my dream going, and it worked (I think this is the part that impressed me the most)...while spinning I thought of a person, and I was surprised to see that person appearing once I was done spinning (well, even though I knew it was that person, it didn't really look exactly like that person does...it was more like a look-alike, but hey, better than nothing ....anyway, is there any reason for this? I mean for the person not looking exactly as in real life???)....then I became too excited again about having a lucid dream and this time I couldn't keep myself dreaming, so I woke up and wrote everything down. After that I didn't have any more lucid dreams (or at least not that I remember, because so far I didn't try waking up during the nights). I did take notes of two dreams I had during last weekend and yesterday, they weren't lucid, but at least I was able to wake up and write them down. Funny enough, both dreams included the same person from the lucid dream I drescribed above....what's the matter with that? am I obssessed with that person?? ....dream interpretation is something that I find very interesting too, but I am so clueless about it

well, I think this will do for now. I don't really have any questions besides the couple ones that are hidden in my long post above. Do let me know if you have any tips or hints for me that I seem to be missing or you will be useful to know....other than that I think it is better for me to practice a little and then "report" my results later on to see what is and what is not working. OK, sorry for the long post, I am wondering how many made it to this point of the post and are still awake ....anyway, I guess I am talking too much because I am excited to join this place, so all I can say for now is that it is great to be here!

good night.....sleep well....and dream a lot