Hey all, I think there's a lot of great information on the web for lucid dreaming but I also think there's a lot of things that people do to improve their recall/improve chances of attaining lucidity that we've discovered on our own and aren't listed under any method or on the web. And lots of things that ARE on the web but that we feel are more important than these sources make them out to be. So I think it'd be a good idea to make a thread like this where everyone can just share their wisdom and post the number one most valuable, amazing, helpful thing they've learned since starting this journey.

I'll go first. I started practicing dreaming a little over a month ago and I went from zero recall to multiple recalls a night. One really important thing that I've discovered is not to get discouraged right away when you wake up and can't remember your dream. This happens all the time. Or I'll wake up and remember it and then lose it and then think it's gone forever. When you wake up and don't remember your dream, don't give up, and don't give up after just a few minutes either like I'm sure a lot of people do. Also, if there's something you think you dreamt about and you keep thinking about it and nothing comes, then you probably didn't dream about that thing and you shouldn't waste mental energy thinking about it.

What you should instead do is concentrate on FEELINGS. I often get a "sense" of what happened... but the sense is unexplainable in terms of either words or pictures, it's just a feeling. I just concentrate on this feeling and a lot of the time I suddenly will recall. Last night, I had two pretty good recalls but they both started with me waking up remembering nothing. It took me a good 5-10 minutes to get the initial recalling going on and from then on it just landslided and I remembered a hell of a lot more at the 15 minute mark, even remembering one scene in which I went lucid.

Another thing is that when I first started dreaming, I'd wake up and realize I had already been thinking about other stuff and I'd get discouraged and think I blew it because I hadn't been thinking about recalling the dream (it's often stressed, and rightly so, that you should wake up and immediately start thinking about recall). I've finally discovered though that those thoughts I thought I was having were actually occuring while I was still asleep and that more often than not they were either thoughts I had in my dream or were very very closely related to the dream. By concentrating on these thoughts and not getting discouraged (frustration = instant death of recall) I've recalled a lot of dreams.

That's all from here... looking forward to what others have to say! I'm sure many of you are itching to share your tips.