Hi there, I'm Toby, I'm 15 and I live in New Zealand. I've recently rediscovered the subject of Lucid Dreaming, It must of been sometime last year I first heard of it but I never thought of trying it myself. Now it was three weeks ago that I read about it on the Internet and I'm determined to have the ability to experience Lucid Dreams for myself.

I haven't done that much so far, I still need to start a Dream Journal and I need to remember to do more reality checks during the day. I usually only manage to remember to do 3 or 4 a day. I already have a decent dream recall, almost always remembering at least one dream in the morning with a near vivid recollection of it. I don't always remember my dreams right away, usually I normally remember my dream (or dreams) 10-60 minutes after waking up, sometimes on my way to school. On a good night I can remember 2-3 dreams. I can never remember my entire dream only the good bits towards the end, I think this should be normal for most people with a good recall? Sometimes I fall asleep listening to Binaural Beats in an effort to help me with lucid dreaming and dream recall, this makes my dream recall excellent in the morning.

For reality checking I look at a freckle on the palm of my hand looking for anything strange. When I look at the freckle on my palm I look for anything strange rather than trying to do or see something impossible. I'm not sure that this is the best way to do it? I also do the finger through palm technique.

I am also good at waking up when I need to, when I set an alarm I quite often wake up five minutes before it is due to go off. Good old mental alarm

I'm not sure if I had a near Lucid Dream the other night, it was quite confusing. I randomly did a reality check in a dream by looking at my freckle, I can't remember why but I just knew I was dreaming, it’s hard to explain. I was full of the excitement of realizing I was dreaming. My dream then started going black and I felt a heavy feeling on my chest, like someone was sitting on it. I’ve read that it helps to rub your hands together to keep the dream going, I did this but I woke up into a false awakening. I didn’t realize it was a false awakening until it ended after 2-3 minutes and I woke up in reality. I’m not sure if this was the beginning of a LD or if I was dreaming about Lucid dreaming.