Hi! I'm Brad, and I'm 15 years old, almost 16. I live in the United States.. Pennsylvania, to be more specific. I heard about lucid dreaming for the first time a couple of years ago, but haven't really tried to learn until a few months ago. I found Dream Views sometime around the beginning of December, 2012.

I have only had one lucid dream before, which occurred on December 15, 2012. It wasn't really a "good" lucid dream, because it only lasted maybe 20 seconds at most. It was a DILD that was induced by a false awakening. Ever since then, I have been keeping a dream journal. When I first started learning more about lucid dreaming, and about all of the techniques, my initial thought was, "Hmm, DILD seems more like a game of chance". That is why I have been trying to induce lucid dreams through WILD, and all of the variations of WILD. So soon after I learned more about all of the different techniques and everything, I got very excited, and just started doing everything that I could, that I thought would induce a lucid dream. I didn't really set my mind on a specific technique. I was really interested in WILD, so I would try that, along with WBTB, and I would attempt DEILD as well. I didn't really have my mind set on just one thing.

After a couple weeks of that, I stopped and told myself that this is never going to work. I have to set my mind on one technique, and keep with it for a while. Around this time, Christmas break was coming up for me. I decided that from then all the way through Christmas break, I would practice WILD. Once I started practicing WILD, I stopped doing reality checks. It didn't really work out well for me. So towards the end of Christmas break, I decided that I would try a new technique, since I didn't get any success with WILD. I figured I would try DEILD for a while. Up until now, I have been practicing DEILD, still with no success. I actually also tried FILD a few times in there, and started practicing ADA a little bit, although I stopped doing that as well.

So here I am. Still not much success, and I feel like I haven't made much progress either, other than that one short lucid dream, and the fact that I keep a regular dream journal now, so maybe a little bit better recall. Because of this, I have decided that I am going to go right back to the basics. I haven't had a successful lucid dream, so I am not going to try any of the more complicated techniques like WILD. I am going to do what everyone recommends for beginners, and I am going to focus on DILD, because I really want my first few lucid dreams.

I have heard of the DVA, but was never really sure exactly what it was, until now. I looked into it, and found the DILD section of the DVA. I don't really know a ton about DILD, since I haven't practiced it as much, so I figured this would be a good place to start my journey into lucid dreaming!