hi people :D

Hi ive just spend the last day n a half of my time at work reaserching lucid dreaming and am really interested. I can only recall two dreams in my life where i knew i was dreaming but this was a long time ago and untill now didnt even know there was a term for it. (thort i was just mad lol) from what i remember from the dreams they were awsome and like absolute freedome.

Im very interested in training my mind to be able to achieve lucid dreams now and have been RCing all day and telling myself that next time i dream i will know its a dream lol. i have read all the info on this site and am going to go to work at trying to make this happen for me.

I just wanted to say hi to everyone here and i hope i can dream weave like the rest of you soon :D. if anyone wants to talk about their experiences or have any more advice on how to really get good at this im more than happy to talk.

im gona go fall asleap in my car now for my hour lunch n see what happens lol.

cheers :D

Hello and welcome to DS :D! You should check out the tutorials and pick up all the techniques you can! Dont forget to check out some of the members Dream Journals they are funny

Hi

Thanks for the reply. i sware im gona get sacked at this rate haha i cant stop looking at this site im amazed by some of the peoples experiences on here. keep RCing everytime i get up or go through a door to prepare myself for a dream. also i tried to WILD when i went for a kip at lunch was only half an hour n i dont think i fell asleap properly but u know when u are sorta awake sorta asleap but u know what is going on n u twinge like mad lol i did that but have neva been so aware i knew it was gona happen well odd im gona keep going at this tho im hooked now.

cheers again for the reply

Yea i have yet to have a LD but i just started keeping a DJ on the forums, i am getting a notebook today because i noticed when i got up this morning waiting for the laptop to wake up (its a crappy IBM thinkpad) took forever and i wasnt concentrating on my dream i had. But i have tried WILD 2 times and only one time i felt weightless and tingly and saw some colored shapes but i was woken up by my mom sooo..didnt get to see what happens next lol. Im gonna improve my recall before i try, but i will do RC out the day and stuff hopefully it will help.

have u ever had l LD that u can remember then i only thort i had one but after reaserching this i remembered another from like 8 years ago or something both were pretty vague as i recal but still remember waking up after like wtf how did i know i was dreaming lol. im finishing work in like 10 mins so gona go home n have a nap lol cnt get this outa my head now. hopefully speak tomoz take it easy :)

Sweet, I just stumbled across this nifty forums myself :)

Hey, welcome! I'm a newb too (just started researching last week) and had my first LD last night! whoot! I found the hand reality check worked great (that's what happened last night) and I think just reading about it and thinking about LDing really helps. And a dream journal is a must!

Cheers!

thats awsome in a week! ive only been trying the last three days but i cant even remember any dreams as of yet. im trying the hand check to and holding ur nose n trying to breath but nothing yet lol. did your LD last long what was it like? yea i need to get a DJ and try n wake myself up throughout the night even a dream i can remember is a start lol.

It was pretty cool but I forgot part of it because I guess I was too tired to write it down so I fell asleep again and wrote it out in the morning.

Anyways this is what I remember: I look at my hands and they are all blurry and double visiony so I think "I must be dreaming!" then I tried to stay calm because I didn't want to wake up. Then I was trying to think of what I wanted to do and I did a spin to make sure the dream stayed vivid. I decided to do an experiment and change my hair color. I thought of a color and shook my head and my hair changed neon pink and got longer (I was looking in a long mirror in an attic type room). Then I shook my head again and changed it to metalic colors, kinda like tinsle, lol. Then at one point I try flying by jumping but can't get in the air. That's all I remember.

At first when I woke in the morning, I thought I had had a dream about having a lucid dream because it happened so fast and it lasted longer than I would have thought for a first time (almost too good to be true). But I do think it was real because I remember knowing I was dreaming. It was so wierd!

that is so kool ill keep trying n yea i need to get a DJ cos i cant remember any dreams lately. think tonight im gona try wake up 4.5 hours into my sleep so its the end of the third REM cycle hopefully ill remember a dream then. could you remember a lot of your dreams before u started reaserching cos i only remember like 1 every 2-3 weeks at the moment :(

No, I didn't remember many dreams before last week. I used to when I was younger though and had a little DJ years ago.

So last week when I started reading up on this, I put a DJ by my bed and I also set the alarm to 4.5 hours after bedtime. Then in bed before I fell asleep, I repeated to myself "I will remember my dreams tonight". I kept repeating that out loud, then in my head, and it was the last thing I was thinking about before I fell asleep. Then I didn't even need the alarm clock because I woke up a bit before it and wrote a dream down and then 2 more times that night. Since then, I've done the same thing most nights and can remember 1-3 dreams per night. Sometimes I'm just too tired to write them down though which sucks.

So just make sure the last thing you think about when going to bed is "I will remember my dreams tonight". It actually does work!