Hi. I'm new here.

Some background. I've had some lucid dreams, less than ten in all, I think.

The first I had was spontaneous, a WILD, I just fell asleep in the early morning while following my breath, and went straight into a really vivid LD, clearer than waking reality, and in which I could feel my body sleeping at the same time. Everything was really unstable, the whole landscape was wavering. A staircase opened into the earth just at my feet and a knight in armour came out. It went on like this until I decided to wake up.

A couple of years back I started trying to LD deliberately, read some books, started keeping a dream diary and doing RCs during the day, had about 1 LD per month for a while. I'm a bit hazy on the details now, but I remember one started when I looked at my hands in a dream, and another one involved a false awakening which I recognized. I tried a few things in these dreams, like flying, walking through a wall, and teleporting, and they mostly worked. The dreams were unstable, though, and I had to use a spinning technique to avoid waking up.

Last LD I had, about a year ago, I was in an old medieval town, moving through an alley, and there was a bearded stone face moving along the wall next to me, in a kind of wave movement. I felt that somebody was wise to the fact that I was lucid, and they were there to watch me. I started walking and singing 'I am dreaming' very loudly, but ended up losing consciousness anyway.

After that, no more LDs, for more than a year now. I've been under a lot of stress professionally, and mostly don't sleep enough, maybe that is part of the reason. Anyway, I hope I can get back into this again. Any advice welcome.