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[DeKaFu]

I, for one, lay in bed for maybe 2-3 hours before I go asleep, just staring at the celing, and if I don't think of anything, it is really fucking boring. Because of that, I have little stories that I continue night after night, going back and changing or adding stuff for maybe a week or so until I decide I've milked everything I could possibly get out of that plot, then I go to a new one. Not sure if 'daudreaming' like that before you sleep helps at all, though.

I do this. I usually have several concurrent plotlines that I project myself into on different nights depending on what I've been reading/watching during that day.

I absolutely do this too. Can't sleep without it. Sometimes if I'm lucky they'll segue into dreams (or I'll consciously continue a dream plotline when I wake up in the middle of the night and then fall back asleep and resume dreaming while incorporating the part I consciously added, though that's pretty rare and only works if I don't wake up all the way)

I tend to be quite good about remembering my dreams. The moment after you wake up is key though - I'm much more likely to forget if I'm woken up by an outside influence like an alarm and have to immediately interact with the real world. I've also found that I sometimes suddenly remember forgotten dreams when I go back to bed the following night. Just being physically in the same position in the same place is enough to trigger the memory by association, I guess.

[wobbly]

Well, I'm back.

Nothing, my alarm failed to wake me up. Shoot.

I got into the habit of reality checks though, so that's a plus.

Note: You'll have more luck remembering dreams if your not using an alarm clock (it can be a little jarring). If you need one to wake yourself up for work or school, try suggesting to your mind to wake up half an hour before the time set on the alarm clock before going to sleep. You can train your mind to wake yourself up at a certain time each morning. Of course this works best if you keep to a fairly regular sleep pattern.

[freeformschooler]

If you have a regular sleep pattern and know what time your alarm goes off, your circadian rhythm will generally wake up you up 5 minutes before your alarm anyway.

[Tawa]

Alarm failed. Again.

Gotta think up a way around this.

I did have a dream, though. Non-lucid and made no sense, as is typical.

[Alev]

I'll start this tonight, maybe. Edit: MILD, because my family would get pissed off at me if my alarm rang at 4 in the morning.

[Tawa]

I'm going to keep doing WILD until I have around two pages of dream journal material.

[ShadowHammer]

I was just going to do MILD last night, but then my dog was nice enough to wake me up at 6 am, so I attempted WILD. Success was had!

I decided that in my forum log, I will fully record all lucid dreams, and just quickly summarize all non-lucid dreams. All dreams will be fully detailed in a non-virtual journal.

Shadowhammer's log, day 2
After falling asleep the first time, I had a non-lucid dream about a school competition, which one teacher made me restart all my progress four times.

I woke up at 5:45, after falling asleep at around midnight. I got up, went to the bathroom, read for five minutes, and then went back to bed. I used the tapping fingers technique.

After a while, I felt my left hand fall asleep, despite my having put it in such a position that I thought it would not. I ignored the feeling, assuming it to be simply losing feeling, but then I started actually losing feeling in my leg. Realizing that it was a different feeling altogether, I very slowly moved my hand from my chest to my stomach, where it regained some, but not all, feeling.

My whole left leg went mostly numb, but my right leg did not; only the right foot did. After a while, I started having spasms in my left knee (not very often or severe), and the occasional spasm in my right knee. After a while, the numbness spread across the left half and lower right half of my chest. I did not experience any hallucinations.

After a total of an hour and a half, these were still the only numb body parts, and my fingers were getting tired from tapping. I decided to give up, so I checked the time, rolled over, and fell asleep.

I had a dream in which I appeared to be at least somewhat lucid for parts of it, but non-lucid for other parts.

Spoiler: dream (click to show/hide)

In the beginning of the dream, I was sitting at my kitchen table, counting coins with a kid I have only met once. I kept thinking something was off, but it took me a while to realize that I barely knew this guy, and there was no reason for him to be at my kitchen table.
I then shouted, "HEY!! YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE!! THIS IS A DREAM!!" I became lucid, and the dream destabilized, probably due to excessive excitement, but I just... focused or something, and managed to get it to re stabilize. I looked away from the kid, looked back, and he was gone, but I felt a malignant presence where he used to be. In hindsight, I believe that there was no such presence, and that it was just imagination within the dream, trying to make my kitchen table seem like a more exciting setting for my first lucid dream.
I tried to use 'dream magic' to give this imagined presence a physical form, which didn't work. After that, I ran around the house, attempting more 'dream magic', including summoning fire and making a glowing summoning circle, with results no better than what would happen in real life. I wasn't really expecting it to, though, so I wasn't too disappointed.
After I was done testing my magical abilities, I noticed a blur of motion in my kitchen. At this point, I believe I lost lucidity, due to my reactions to the following events. I entered the kitchen and saw a girl crouching behind the counter. I looked to see what she was hiding from, and another, completely identical person was standing on the other side of the counter, where there hadn't been anyone a second earlier. Looking back at the first girl, there was now a third identical person standing beside her. In real life, I would have freaked the freak out had a trio of apparent doppelgangers appeared out of thin air in my kitchen, but the fact that I merely backed up a couple steps probably means I wasn't conscious. They all laid down in a line on the kitchen floor, with a space open in the line. Thinking that this was the obvious thing to do (more signs of a lack of lucidity) I laid down in the space. I realized that I was lying down with a bunch of attractive girls, and teenage-boy-puberty-hormones type stuff immediately sprang to mind, causing the dream to destabilize.
At this point I regained lucidity, and started yelling at myself, phrases such as "Why the **** did you think that was a good idea?! Why the **** would you do that?!" while attempting to stabilize the dream in the same way I did at the very beginning.
At the time, the stabilization appeared to work, but in hindsight, the fact that there were several inexplicable changes in the characters present and the layout and contents of my house suggest that it was actually a different dream.
The next thing to happen is very vague, and all I remember is a fish tank in which there was a burst of bubbles that briefly formed a word. I don't remember what the word was.
After that, I was in "my basement", which in the dream was this really cool rock-hewn tunnel (it isn't IRL). I was not lucid. Someone called the name "Beetles" or "Beets" or something (not my RL name), and I knew they were talking to me, but I had difficulty speaking when I tried to respond. A random guy who was dream-implied to be my dad walked in, handed me some really rusted and bent rebar, walked back out, came back with some more rebar, took back the rebar he had given me, and left.
The following part involved a secret tunnel, but I can't remember really what happened.
The next thing I can recall is walking along a dirt trail, trying to find the outside entrance to the secret tunnel. I didn't, and instead came upon a large white house built in a very blocky, square style.
From beside this house, I saw a group of aliens standing in a field. I switched to a disembodied eagle's-eye narrative viewpoint, and gradually flew towards the aliens as I recounted a story of their adventures up to this point. When I got to the group, I saw an human among them who I decided was supposed to be me, and apparently I was lucid, because I can remember making a conscious decision to attempt to switch to his viewpoint.
I then ran around in this avatar-ish form, attempting to get the rest of the aliens to follow me to grand adventure, but they just stood around, ignoring me and each other. I then thought that perhaps by changing the natural flow of the dream by possessing this guy that I had messed everything up, but I didn't have to long to ponder that because that's when I awoke.

Spoiler: tl;dr (click to show/hide)

I realized that I was dreaming because some random kid I've only met once was at my kitchen table. I then ran around attempting to use magic, which didn't work any better than it does in real life. I lost lucidity. Three identical girls appeared out of thin air in my kitchen, and teenage-boy-puberty type thoughts caused the dream to break. I then had another dream (which may have been the same dream) which started non lucid. I was in a rock-hewn basement. I had an incident with a secret tunnel. I found a group of aliens, became lucid, and decided to try possessing one of them, which worked, but then all the others just sorta became brain dead. I woke up.

The only part of the dream that I am certain of my lucidity was the very beginning, where the kid disappeared and I was experimenting with magic. The rest of it may have involved imagined lucidity, incorrectly remembered lucidity, a dream about being lucid without actually being lucid, etc. I am especially skeptical of it since it was only my second attempt.

I will deliberately try WILD tonight, to see if it happens again.

[Alev]

I was just going to do MILD last night, but then my dog was nice enough to wake me up at 6 am, so I attempted WILD. Success was had!

I decided that in my forum log, I will fully record all lucid dreams, and just quickly summarize all non-lucid dreams. All dreams will be fully detailed in a non-virtual journal.

Shadowhammer's log, day 2
After falling asleep the first time, I had a non-lucid dream about a school competition, which one teacher made me restart all my progress four times.

I woke up at 5:45, after falling asleep at around midnight. I got up, went to the bathroom, read for five minutes, and then went back to bed. I used the tapping fingers technique.

After a while, I felt my left hand fall asleep, despite my having put it in such a position that I thought it would not. I ignored the feeling, assuming it to be simply losing feeling, but then I started actually losing feeling in my leg. Realizing that it was a different feeling altogether, I very slowly moved my hand from my chest to my stomach, where it regained some, but not all, feeling.

My whole left leg went mostly numb, but my right leg did not; only the right foot did. After a while, I started having spasms in my left knee (not very often or severe), and the occasional spasm in my right knee. After a while, the numbness spread across the left half and lower right half of my chest. I did not experience any hallucinations.

After a total of an hour and a half, these were still the only numb body parts, and my fingers were getting tired from tapping. I decided to give up, so I checked the time, rolled over, and fell asleep.

I had a dream in which I appeared to be at least somewhat lucid for parts of it, but non-lucid for other parts.

Spoiler: dream (click to show/hide)

In the beginning of the dream, I was sitting at my kitchen table, counting coins with a kid I have only met once. I kept thinking something was off, but it took me a while to realize that I barely knew this guy, and there was no reason for him to be at my kitchen table.
I then shouted, "HEY!! YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE!! THIS IS A DREAM!!" I became lucid, and the dream destabilized, probably due to excessive excitement, but I just... focused or something, and managed to get it to re stabilize. I looked away from the kid, looked back, and he was gone, but I felt a malignant presence where he used to be. In hindsight, I believe that there was no such presence, and that it was just imagination within the dream, trying to make my kitchen table seem like a more exciting setting for my first lucid dream.
I tried to use 'dream magic' to give this imagined presence a physical form, which didn't work. After that, I ran around the house, attempting more 'dream magic', including summoning fire and making a glowing summoning circle, with results no better than what would happen in real life. I wasn't really expecting it to, though, so I wasn't too disappointed.
After I was done testing my magical abilities, I noticed a blur of motion in my kitchen. At this point, I believe I lost lucidity, due to my reactions to the following events. I entered the kitchen and saw a girl crouching behind the counter. I looked to see what she was hiding from, and another, completely identical person was standing on the other side of the counter, where there hadn't been anyone a second earlier. Looking back at the first girl, there was now a third identical person standing beside her. In real life, I would have freaked the freak out had a trio of apparent doppelgangers appeared out of thin air in my kitchen, but the fact that I merely backed up a couple steps probably means I wasn't conscious. They all laid down in a line on the kitchen floor, with a space open in the line. Thinking that this was the obvious thing to do (more signs of a lack of lucidity) I laid down in the space. I realized that I was lying down with a bunch of attractive girls, and teenage-boy-puberty-hormones type stuff immediately sprang to mind, causing the dream to destabilize.
At this point I regained lucidity, and started yelling at myself, phrases such as "Why the **** did you think that was a good idea?! Why the **** would you do that?!" while attempting to stabilize the dream in the same way I did at the very beginning.
At the time, the stabilization appeared to work, but in hindsight, the fact that there were several inexplicable changes in the characters present and the layout and contents of my house suggest that it was actually a different dream.
The next thing to happen is very vague, and all I remember is a fish tank in which there was a burst of bubbles that briefly formed a word. I don't remember what the word was.
After that, I was in "my basement", which in the dream was this really cool rock-hewn tunnel (it isn't IRL). I was not lucid. Someone called the name "Beetles" or "Beets" or something (not my RL name), and I knew they were talking to me, but I had difficulty speaking when I tried to respond. A random guy who was dream-implied to be my dad walked in, handed me some really rusted and bent rebar, walked back out, came back with some more rebar, took back the rebar he had given me, and left.
The following part involved a secret tunnel, but I can't remember really what happened.
The next thing I can recall is walking along a dirt trail, trying to find the outside entrance to the secret tunnel. I didn't, and instead came upon a large white house built in a very blocky, square style.
From beside this house, I saw a group of aliens standing in a field. I switched to a disembodied eagle's-eye narrative viewpoint, and gradually flew towards the aliens as I recounted a story of their adventures up to this point. When I got to the group, I saw an human among them who I decided was supposed to be me, and apparently I was lucid, because I can remember making a conscious decision to attempt to switch to his viewpoint.
I then ran around in this avatar-ish form, attempting to get the rest of the aliens to follow me to grand adventure, but they just stood around, ignoring me and each other. I then thought that perhaps by changing the natural flow of the dream by possessing this guy that I had messed everything up, but I didn't have to long to ponder that because that's when I awoke.

Spoiler: tl;dr (click to show/hide)

I realized that I was dreaming because some random kid I've only met once was at my kitchen table. I then ran around attempting to use magic, which didn't work any better than it does in real life. I lost lucidity. Three identical girls appeared out of thin air in my kitchen, and teenage-boy-puberty type thoughts caused the dream to break. I then had another dream (which may have been the same dream) which started non lucid. I was in a rock-hewn basement. I had an incident with a secret tunnel. I found a group of aliens, became lucid, and decided to try possessing one of them, which worked, but then all the others just sorta became brain dead. I woke up.

The only part of the dream that I am certain of my lucidity was the very beginning, where the kid disappeared and I was experimenting with magic. The rest of it may have involved imagined lucidity, incorrectly remembered lucidity, a dream about being lucid without actually being lucid, etc. I am especially skeptical of it since it was only my second attempt.

I will deliberately try WILD tonight, to see if it happens again.

Cool. Magic will be even cooler if you can focus and not get excited enough for it to work. 

[freeformschooler]

Gratz, ShadowHammer! Most people don't get lucid dreams that early. Destabilization is very common. You're the first person to have an LD and write about it here since the thread started. This means the wall of text wasn't a waste of time after all!

[Elephant Parade]

I'm going to attempt MILD tonight. I haven't been keeping a dream journal, so I doubt it'll work, but you never know.

[Alev]

I'm going to attempt MILD tonight. I haven't been keeping a dream journal, so I doubt it'll work, but you never know.

It's like we're connected. Anyways, I have a journal somehwere from when I first found this out, then I forgot about lucid dreaming.

[alway]

Read about this stuff years and years ago; may as well give it a try.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

I'll just be posting to watch on this one. And I'll definitely be trying to get a lucid dream.
If only to be a wizard.

[Solymr]

Interesting stuff. Most control I have on my dreams is a escape mechanism in case of nightmares, which I had a bad case of :v

Might as well write what I remember of this night's last dream:
I remember it being in the style of San Andreas (which I had been playing yesterday) but I was more like Transporter's Jason Statham.
Can't remember the first part, only the last part, when I was escaling from the baddies in a motorcycle on a highway rigged to explode, so I sped towards the water. I swam to a pier where some workers were loading containers onto a ship, so I climbed exactly four containers and hid in the highest one until it loaded onto the ship, when I waved goodbye to the baddies and woke up.

One strange thing is that I slipped and fell down a lot, and I never do that in reality.

[DeKaFu]

Incidentally, I just remembered a dream I had that the guy saying he wanted to know what being a non-humanoid felt like.

It was after an inheritance cycle binge, which is why I imagine I had this dream.

Was a dragon, flew around, and couldn't get higher than about 5 feet off the ground. I felt human, though. Couldn't feel a tail, wings or anything, so I suspect it's our body's utter unfamiliarity with what having a tail would be like, or five tentacles or something that makes you feel like a larger human. After all, when was the last time you had a giant tentacle sticking out of your stomach and three eyeballs on your arse cheeks?

Interesting. Yeah, I used to think it was maybe just a limitation of how brains work, but then I had someone else inform me that they'd had dreams where they had full sensation and movement in e.g. four limbs and a tail, so I guess it's just a limitation of how my brain works. And some other people's, apparently.

Incidentally, flying by flapping your arms can still be awfully satisfying as long as you're getting the air resistance feedback like they have the surface area of wings.