Hi, I'm new here and thought I'd just like to introduce myself.
I'm a student studying computing and philosophy and I've had several lucid dreams.

One when I was little and I realised I was dreaming. I had almost full control over the dream and decided I would be a 9 year old spiderman and swing through the streets of new york, it was brilliant!

I then had one when I was about 15 but had almost no control over the dream and woke myself up as I was so frustrated.

My last one was about 6 months ago; I occasionally go into SP accidentally when trying to sleep, until I found out what SP was I was terrified as I had Hypnogogic hallucinations of a witch cackling and saying spells in my ear and an overwhelming felling of dread(until I was 15 I didn't know what SP was and so thought I was being haunted or something). I then found out about SP and that it is the final step before a lucid dream so when I was stuck in SP 6 months ago I remembered if I relaxed and rode with it I could get into a lucid dream which I did and was then immediately woken up by my rats having a particularly large fight :@.

I've been trying to lucid dream for about a week now and have been keeping my dream diary for almost three (I can now remember about a dream a night up from about 1 a week). I haven't had any success with lucid dreaming yet though (am doing RCs and MILD)

I have some questions I thought you might be able to answer(I'm sure they'll have been asked before but i thought since i was introducing myself i might as well ask anyway)?

First a specific question: I have heard you can WILD without the WBTB method but it is difficult, how hard is it? Does it get easier with practice?

Now some questions for everyone to answer!:

1. How long have you been trying to lucid dream?
2. Have you had any lucid dreams?
3. How long did it take you to have your first lucid dream(since you started actively trying)?
4. How many lucid dreams do you have on average a week?
5.What is your most successful lucid dreaming technique?

Thanks for answering and sorry for the long post!