Thread: HypnosChthonius' Workbook

Hey there! I'm HypnosChthonius but I know that's not the catchiest name so you may call me Benjamin. I am a 16 years old student from Hamburg and I've been into lucid dreaming since I first heard about it on Youtube, which was about ten month ago. I began to read a lot about lucid dreaming and I tried various techniques. It took me another 2 month to come back, develop a good dream recall and experience my first lucid dream (it lasted 5 seconds cause I got too excited) by the meas of WILD.

I had my first two fully aware lucid dream sometime last fall. They happened on consecutive days and were pretty similar: Having too many things in mind to do in the dream, I was basically walking around in my apartment trying to figure out what I could do now since I was unable to fly, what had been my main goal.

Since that time I have only had a few short lucid dreams in which was not really aware.

Every lucid dream I've had until now was induced by a sudden realization that I was dreaming. In most cases without any specific trigger, just by some thought like "however, it is also possible that I'm in a dream".
However, I only have these realizations when I had recalled and written down several dreams per night the previous weeks cause remembering a lot of dream time makes it much easier to identify a dream.
The biggest problem I have is that my dream recall is very bad. I can train it and achieve up to 4 recalled dreams per night but if only one time I don't wake up before my alarm goes off, I don't remember anything. The night after that worst case scenario, I can recall a smaller amount of dreams than before it. Usually I will remember an even smaller amount of dreams the night after that and so on til it drops to 0 and I have to restart... A graph of my dream recall would look like a sine.

I do reality checks like every ten minutes in waking life but that has paid off only one time when doing a reality check made me realize I was dreaming and experience the dream more clearly but it did not make me conscious in any way. Once, I even did 3 different reality checks in a dream because I was suspicious but all of them indicated that I was awake.
My RCs (I do both consecutively): Counting my fingers and judging whether my hand looks normal
Closing one eye and looking at my nose

My goals:

Experiencing lucid dreams more frequently. (targeting once per week at the end of the first half of 2017) By:
Greatly increasing my dream recall. (targeting constantly two per night at the end of this month)
Making reality checks appear in my dreams more often and make them work more reliably. (noticeable increase at the end for the first half of the year)

Achieving greater awareness and dream control. (noticeable increase at the time when I've had 15 lucid dreams (have had 7 as of now))


Any encouragement and help with achieving my goals is most appreciated!