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.