There we go!

A workbook, for me I guess another way to be busy in my mind with LD.

"About three years ago I read about LDing and I remembered how I seemed to dream a lot more when I was a child. Vaguely I even remember having lucid experiences. Looking into it, I learned that I didn't dream more, but I remembered more and I with some work I would be able to get back to that"

After training for a while I had a lucid dream (I decided to fly and it worked), but I was to busy in life and I stopped putting effort into it. Maybe a year later I did another attempt, after a while I reached my goal, breathing under water, and I stopped again.......

I started again in the beginning of december 2015.

Reality Checks:
- trying to breath through my pinched nose
- pushing my finger through my hand
- looking at my hands
- reading something twice

Dream Signs:
- My father and my mother
- Primary school and university friend
- The house where I was born

Short-Term Goals:
- Improving dream recall
- Improving awareness
- Being lucid more often
- Free riding a horse in a LD
- Seeing my (small) children in a LD (they are 18 and 15 yrs old at the moment)

Long-Term Goals:
- Being able to LD at least once a week
- Use LDing to learn about my subconscious mind
- Getting over fears

Dream Recall:
I guess that this is my priority at the moment. Some days I remember nothing at all. Other days it would be one dream, or one dream and some fragments. I think I've looked into the matter quite thoroughly, there are a lot of methods/tips that I can't use though because of my husband, who is a light sleeper. I can't write anything when I wake up during the night (not even without putting a light on) because that wakes him up. I really have to get up and write in another room, and I do that every now and then, but sometimes you it's too difficult. Often I drink tea/water/apple juice to make me wake up, go to the toilet and write down a dream when I'm up. Somebody gave me tips how to make yourself remember a dream in the morning but it doesn't work for me. (I'm too sleepy, or maybe my memory isn't as good as it used to be (I'm 49 yrs old)).

Lucid dreams:
- Some three years ago, after reading about it, and practicing, I had my first lucid dream; in which I flew, which was what I planned to do.
- About a year later, after a new period of practicing a did what I planned again: I was able to breathe under water, in our own natural pool. There was a "extra" that I didn't ask for, a living miniature hippo (so cute) was on the bottom of the pool, I carried it out of the water to show it to my children.

Since december, when I started again:
- I have to go from one side of the city to another but there is a traffic jam. I realize I'm dreaming (don't know how) and decide to fly past the cars to get there more quickly. I arrive I the middle of an empty parking lot. A lot of people around me are looking at me....
- I'm dreaming about a classroom situation, in which a female teacher is teaching English (she speaks dutch, my native language). She says that's she's going to do a test to determine every-bodies level. I tell her that in stead she should just speak English with us, in stead of dutch, and that I'm sure that I'll do fine except for maybe some technical words like "vacuumkookketel". She's very, very, impressed.... and I wake up.
- I tried to go to sleep by getting comfortable in my favorite sleeping position. In concentrated on my breathing, and repeated to my self: I'm going to be conscious in my dreams, I'm going to remember my dreams.... After a while I couldn't feel my body anymore. There was just this peaceful black void. I felt awake, but here was nothing..... I had the idea that I could have forced myself to feel my body and move, but that would have really woken me up. It felt nice, and I think I just went to sleep after a while.
I wrote this experience down in the group "Lucid dreaming" on Facebook and somebody advised me to have a look at Sageous' thread about lucid dreaming in delta sleep. I think that's what it was!

Have to stop now, bed time!