I'm Marta, 20 and I'm currently at the Universitat de Barcelona studying for my Biotechnology degree. I found about these workbooks just a few days ago and thought it was high time I started one myself to keep my motivation and progress up.

Reality Checks:
- Nose blocking
- Counting fingers
- Looking at clocks
- Asking myself questions

Dream Signs:
Although my dream signs change over time and they're not too well defined at the moment, the current ones would be:
- Darkness (most of my dreams seem to take place at night)
- My boyfriend
- Anything university-related (lessons, classmates...)
- Being chased after and not being able to run (this dream sign was stronger a few months ago, but it still appears every now and then)

Short-Term Goals:
- Improve daily awareness
- Have a lucid dream soon (the last one was half a year ago)
- Find an induction technique which works well for me
- Have lucids at least once a month

Long-Term Goals:
- Increase my frequence of lucid dreams
- Increase the length of the dreams
- Gain control over the dreams

Lucid/Dream Recall History:
When I was little, I remember one day having told my parents I had realised I was dreaming within a dream. They didn't believe me. I don't know if I experienced that any other time back then, but I didn't know what lucid dreaming was.

I found out about it almost a year ago. I spent a couple of weeks gathering information about it until I started my dream journal. My first aim was to improve my recall, which wasn't so bad originally, so it wasn't difficult. A month into it (at the start of August), while I was only focusing on dream recall, I had a lucid one night. Not knowing what to do, I woke up almost immediately.

I went on focusing mostly on recall until late August, when I lost interest in it. I was going out at nights a lot and had a shitty sleep schedule, so I didn't bother, I have to admit.

It wasn't until late October that I had another lucid. At that time I wasn't even keeping my dream journal, so it was super random. At mid December I decided I would regain the recall I had lost and I would get back down to lucid dreaming. Around a month ago I started reality checking regularly and I've been basically waiting for a random DILD, but I want to try other less random techniques and find the one I feel most comfortable with.

As for my sleep pattern, it's quite regular now. On weekdays I go to bed and wake up at around the same time and I try to sleep between 7 to 8 hours each night. It's only on weekends that I usually spend the whole Saturday night out and I have bad sleep that day.

Current Technique:
Until now, I've only been into DILDs, but I've heard many people say DEILD is quite an easy technique. I've made a couple of attempts of DEILD before which have been unsuccessful, but I've received some helpful advice and I'm ready to try them again.