Hi I am Daytona(male that is) after the city. And I've been lucid dreaming occasionaly since I can remember. But not very often, it just happens the one or the other time.

I recently, had a DILD in which I suddenly became aware without a reason that it was a dream, immediatly I concentrated at the scenery and DC's around me, just to get a feeling about the level of reality it had within. And I was amazed. Well the dream started to slip, which I recognized by the blurred vision I had suddenly, but I could save it by just concentrating to the visual imagery and want it to become sharp again. Sadly I forgot the other senses totaly, but I screamed after some guy in front of me, which might have stimulated the auditory sense as well. The dream stabilized, though it was a rather sterile environment, like a plain featureless plain with a road and mountains in the distance.

I read in some of the tutorials of this page, that the brain doesn't like inconsistencies, this is why you can't create stuff in your dreams at will. Well occasionally I don't have problems, forcing my will onto a dream, I achieved things, by just whising it to happen, like growing plants n stuff. But in the afore mentioned dream, I recognized that there were inconsistencies not through what I did, but in the dreamworld itself. My question is, as one recognizes those inconsistencies, while being awake with the part of the brain that processes logical information and checks for continuity, doesn't that awareness destruct a lucid dream per se? Like saw some people and as I turned around just for a moment and when I looked at them again, they were more than before like 2 to a bunch and they were like 30 meters further away. Which I recognized made no sense. But the dream went on nontheless. I even remembered things from the tutorials on how to control dreams in the DILD but somethings didn't work.

I have problems imagining MILD's to work, as I had very vivid dreams before, which I while awake, designed to be a test for the dreamstate which all failed. Everytime I designed a challenge, which I don't know why I actually was able to perform in a non lucid dream. All failed, to have the desired outcome, because the brain allways filled in the expected information for test as expected if one was awake.

Atm I am trying like for month's to use WILD's but it's hard to learn, because I mostly, try to achive, WILD's in the evening when going to bed and not with more effective times of the sleeping pattern.

Cheers Daytona.