Thread: Hi, new and unsure of what to do.

It's a good thing your friend mentioned it to you. It seems a lot of people have their first lucid dream soon after hearing about it from someone else.

Sounds like your DILD experience is the way to go for now, which will involve you getting to know your dreams and dream signs so you can recognize you're dreaming more often.

Control will probably come after you're more capable of having more lucid dreams and mainting lucidity for longer periods of time. Only relatively recently have I been actually experimenting with manipulating and controlling things in my LD's. Before, I was happy to let the dream take its course and hang on to lucidity for as long as I could, but now I'm making a conscious effort to exert control, with mixed results.

Sounds like you're off to a good start. There are lots of ways of doing a dream journal, just find a form that works for you.

And I'd strongly suggest you read "Exploring the Word of Lucid Dreaming" by Stephen LeBerge and Howard Rheingold. There are a LOT of suggestions and fasinating concepts in it, and I doubt anyone can practice ALL those exercises without devoting their entire lives to it, but it's a great place to start.

Originally Posted by CorpseGroom

And I'd strongly suggest you read "Exploring the Word of Lucid Dreaming" by Stephen LeBerge and Howard Rheingold. There are a LOT of suggestions and fasinating concepts in it, and I doubt anyone can practice ALL those exercises without devoting their entire lives to it, but it's a great place to start.

Thanks
I've been sick today so found it and spent quite a bit of time reading it. I feel slightly put off by his respect for the 'mystic' point of view on the subject. But other than that, it's proving an excellent read.