Hello all, I started researching and practicing lucid dreaming just over a week ago. The first night I had no success in gaining lucidity or even recall, not that I expected much to happen the first night. The second and third nights I had lucid dreams, they didn't last long but I realized I was dreaming and tried to take control. The first time I got so excited after realizing I was dreaming I woke up in about 10 seconds. The second time I was able to stay asleep and lucid for a little while but lost control as time went on. At first I was doing "spiderman-like" acrobatics but as time went on I wasn't able to do anything superhuman. The next few nights after that I was able to recall my dreams fairly well but did not obtain lucidity. Then I had a three or four night dry spell with no memory of my dreams, but I am pretty sure that's because I smoked marijuana before bed on those nights. For the last four or five nights I have had extremely good recall, remembering about four dreams a night and remembering most of them fairly clearly, each morning it is easier and easier to recall. But, I have not been able to attain lucidity at all since those first two times. The nights when I was able to recall four dreams a night I was praciticing MILD and WBTB. I have been keeping up with my dream journal every morning. I do reality checks about every hour during the day but once I'm home from work I only do one every three to four hours.

So I am recalling very well, doing RC`s fairly regularly, keeping up with my dream journal and I`m thinking about buying some vitamin B pills (I`ve heard they help you have clearer, more vivid dreams). Any advice or tips about how to help gain lucidity would be greatly appreciated.