Thread: Hi guys, I'm new here

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Originally Posted by False

How exactly will having the journal help with lucid dreaming?

Hi I'm new here too, but I have done a fair amount of research.
Dream Journals are used to keep track of your dreams, which will eventually increase the chance of occurring a lucid dream.
When you keep track of your dreams, you can scan over them and look for patterns, or 'dreamsigns', and it is these dreamsigns that can help you determine whether you are dreaming or not. If you see the same thing occurring, or a pattern emerging in your dreams, the next time you see it you can use to help trigger a lucid dream.
"Hey I recognize that, I must be dreaming!"

Ta daa

Hey, I've just registered here as well. I've been looking and reading on this site for a couple of days though. Started a dream journal, the day I saw this (had a dream journal a couple of months ago, but didn't really push through, also just recreational use). Had 9 dream recalls already in 5 days, or 4 actually, because in one I was drunk, and didn't have any recall. Last night I went to bed going over the sentence: I want to remember doing reality checks in my dream and become lucid. (I've been trying to remember myself to do reality checks during the day for a couple days as well) and this morning it sort of worked I was dreaming and I jumped (very high), and somehow I remembered that low gravity might happen in dreams, so I said to myself, let's do a RC. But then I woke up. Could it be that it happened because I was on the verge of awakening or is it real progression?

Originally Posted by Wikihan

Hey, I've just registered here as well. I've been looking and reading on this site for a couple of days though. Started a dream journal, the day I saw this (had a dream journal a couple of months ago, but didn't really push through, also just recreational use). Had 9 dream recalls already in 5 days, or 4 actually, because in one I was drunk, and didn't have any recall. Last night I went to bed going over the sentence: I want to remember doing reality checks in my dream and become lucid. (I've been trying to remember myself to do reality checks during the day for a couple days as well) and this morning it sort of worked I was dreaming and I jumped (very high), and somehow I remembered that low gravity might happen in dreams, so I said to myself, let's do a RC. But then I woke up. Could it be that it happened because I was on the verge of awakening or is it real progression?

This is a real progression, congratulations. You did an RC, but I think you got too excited because you were probably dreaming and you woke up. That can happen. It happens a lot. Just practice, and you'll be fine

Might be. But keep in mind it was 8.15, and my first alarm of 7.15 already went, but decided to skip my first lecture. But on the other hand, it gives great hopes for the future.

Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

Moved.

Originally Posted by deepsleep

Welcome to DV.

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Dreamscape, although a decent movie, in my mind does not depict lucid dreaming well in the least. The main character has an effort-free, direct way of entering a dream lucidly(which many of us on this website would kill to have!), and never once does he realize that he can exert control over the dream world. And the guy who does, uses it to kill other people! Lucid dreaming is just so much better than that!

You will find, once you have your first lucid, that the knowledge that everything you are experiencing is a creation of your own mind, and that you are truely invincible, is in its own an invigorating and amazing feeling, not to mention the endless possibilities thereafter! Keep at it, it's sooooo worth it!!!