Just another introduction topic

Ok, I'm 17 years old and I live in Belgium. I am an artistic person who uses both pencil and pc. I really like Adobe Illustrator but I'm also good at Photoshop. I'm planning to study product development next year.

These are some basic facts about myself, now I'm going to say why I joined this message board:

I once had a lucid dream when I was 12 years old (that I can remember of). It really wasn't that spectacular. I was standing on a tall building when I suddenly thought "hey, maybe I'm dreaming". The dream became crystal clear but I wasn't really excited. I didn't care so I threw myself of the building to end the dream and woke up.

I think this is the least exciting lucid dream ever. A few months ago a friend sent a site (LD4all) on msn, saying that he was training himself to induce a lucid dream. Then I got interested again and tried to challenge him to get one. We both didn't get a lucid dream and so we forgot about it.

During the exam period in December I got interested in lucid dreaming again so I now started properly with a dream journal. Everything went well, I remembered at least 1 dream each night and one night I even remembered 4 dreams of which one really clear and vivid. After the exams were over I started failing at recalling my dreams. Now I only remember a dream each 2 or 3 days. Last week was the worst week. I only recalled 1 dream but it was a really long dream which came back to me throughout the day and even 2 days later some parts came back to me.

I now need to solve the recall problem. Before, I woke up from my alarm, pressed the snooze button and started thinking about my dream, grabbed a pencil and wrote it down. Now I do the same but no matter how hard I think, it doesn't come back, or it does but only in fragments throughout the day. So now I have a problem! I am ambitious to attain this goal, I even go to sleep earlier but it doesn't help! And that's why I came to this message board to get some help.

cheers, hope you don't fall asleep while reading this.

Welcome mathmagic. as you might notice, this site is way cooler than LD4ALL :)
The only things i can think of that help your recall is a dreamjournal, a steady sleep schedule, and than setting alarms at the ends of your REM periods so the dreams are fresh in your mind. When you wake up and try to remember the dreams, just lay there with your eyes closed. Sometimes it comes back to me right away and sometimes it takes an hour. Tell yourself you will wake up after every dream and you will remember it. Have confidence that your recall will be better. Dream recall isn't detrimental to lucid dreaming, but it helps a lot.

I have a dream journal and I try to keep my eyes closed but the noise of my alarm clock prevents me from thinking. I also don't dare to set my alarm at night because my alarm is pretty loud and my parents also sleep on the same floor. I don't want to wake them up and annoy them!

If you have a phone, you could set it on vibrate and put it in your pocket or on your night stand and it isn't too noisy.

And how do I set my alarmclock to vibrate, I can only set the ringtone but I can't set up a silent alarm. I think thee isn't a silent alarm because most people don't use a silent alarm.

And I also didn't really like LD4all, it's too spiritual :D, they talk about meeting other people in your dream, like a telepatic connection.

That's the same probably I have. My old phone would let me set my alarm to vibrate but my new one won't :D. I have looked at LD4all a couple times and i just find it weird. Some people believe in shared dreaming, but I just don't see how it is possible. I won't believe until there is some concrete proof.

I found it, the agenda also contains an alarm that vibrates and keeps vibrating until you're awake.

And shared dreaming would creep me out, I rather don't want people in my thoughts, that's telepatic control.

Ok, only one vague dream this night. I woke up 2 times but I was too lazy to grab a pencil and write it down, so the first time I just repeated the important words of the dream and wrote it down in the morning. The second time I couldn't remember the dream and I turned off the third alarm because I wanted to sleep that much. My lazyness won, but tonight I wille try it again!

The dream was about a teacher who was in his midlife crisis and wanted who was horny and who kept looking at the girls of mu class, he litterally wrote on the board that he had a midlife crisis. There was also one pupil sitting at the front and he sat there all alone with nobody around him within 3 desks, some sort of empty cirkle around him. I also remember the exact location of the class room but there are still many more things which I remembered at night but are fuzzy now.