Hello, I am 28 and am a natural lucid dreamer. I had my first lucid dream when I was around 8 years old. When was I around 16, I began experimenting with meditation, and also became more interested in my dreams. I would meditate before sleep and keep a dream journal. Eventually, I began to exert control over my dreams and even achieved a few WILDs (although I did not know the name for them at the time). I soon discovered internet forums and progressed well with my LD skills.

When I was 21, I lived in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina happened, which forced me to move to a new state, and resulted in many moves across the country and many adventures. I would occasionally keep a dream journal, but my focus on LD's fell by the wayside.

After a long hiatus of not paying attention to my dreams, four months ago, I accidentally did a WBTB and had two very vivid lucids. After that I remembered, how amazing Lucid Dreams are and have been devoting much energy to not only achieving LD's, but bringing a new level of awareness to all my moments. I now keep a Dream Journal daily now and practice WBTB, DILD and RC's. I instantly saw my LD count jump to about two a week as soon as I started paying attention to my dreams and awareness.

The past month and a half I have been on a bit of a lucid dry spell, and have lost most of my recall. My partner and I are in the process of moving to a new city, so the stress of my WR seems to be affecting my dreaming ability. My hope is that setting goals with DILD will help give me the jumpstart I need to bring back my recall and frequency of LD's.