I just wanted to say hello to all the fellow dreamers here and get to know the first names on this forum, which I probably visited one decade ago when I was on my lucid dreaming conquest.

I'm happy that I found this forum and hope to read cool stories, experiences and advices on lucid dreaming and I intend to stay here for a while.
During my teens I was so fascinated by the theory of Lucid Dreaming, even obsessed by it, and I even managed to have like ~10 LD.
They mostly were very short, because as soon as I realised that I was dreaming, I got so excited that I almost immediately woke up.
I even tried WILD some times, eventhough I was quite intimidated by all the sleep paralysis horror stories back then... once I got as far as seeing one tall, shadowlike man in my room, which of course freaked me out.
Yet I kept trying again and again, but every time I got somewhat far, my heart started beating like crazy and that scared me a lot, until I gave up.

Then waking life took over again, especially during early adulthood, and lucid dreaming was at the back of my mind for like 10 years, until I recently got a smartwatch.
I didn't even know that sleep tracking with smartwatches was a thing, so I downloaded one app and tracked my sleep for 2 weeks to get to know my REM phases first.
Even tried WILD again the other day, and tracked my heart beating rate with the watch during it, just to get rid of my fear.

Now I have a ton of plans and ideas of what I want to do next and hope to have some LDs.
I had a really short one last week, but I intentionally woke myself up because it was a nightmare.

Cheers,
SKYZ0R