Greetings from a new member, and my first attempt

[eucalyptblaze]

I discovered dreamviews yesterday while browsing the internet, and after reading a few articles on this site I became very interested in attaining lucidity in my dreams, so I read a few of the tutorials and decided that at night I would give it a go. First, I tried a few relaxation exercises to get in a calm state. After feeling as if i were relaxed and in a comfortable position, I attempted the visualization WILD method, utilising as many senses as often as i could. I tried this for quite some time, several times, however I always felt myself gradual losing focus due the discomfort of being still in the same position for a while, although i did experience sensations of heavyness and degrees of numbness and tingling feelings in my limbs. However I also kept getting distracted by the noises of my brother coughing and snoring in the bed next to mine In order to increase to vividness of my visualizations i began imagining the presence of various friends and in familiar settings. I found that this was quite helpful in making the immersion more effective. However, I became a bit frustrated by the fact that I wasn't falling asleep as quick as I would have like. When I eventually felt like I had been drifting in and out of being half asleep I started alternating to the 'ParadigmShift WILD method' of mentally dragging myself across the bed, and this made me feel interesting sensations - but at this stage my memory gets a bit vague because I think I genuinely fell asleep a few times and entered dreaming states. However, I don't think I ever attained proper lucidity throughout the night. I remember waking up several times in the night between more lengthy breaks of being asleep. When I finally awoke in the morning, at first I felt like I had completely failed to even have any dreams, but then after a moment of reflection, I suddenly remembered a dream I had, and then another one soon after. I immedietly started recalling these two dreams, writing them down in my new dream journal. After writing down two dreams I had, I just lay thinking for a while, and then suddenly I recalled a third dream which I had completely forgotten about, and proceeded to write it down. So, even though I don't think I attained any lucidity in my dreams last night, I did manage to recall 3 quite vivid dreams, which is way above my average rate of recalling dreams (usually I can only remember 1 dream if any at all most nights). I've now committed myself to trying to recall as many dreams as possible each night and writing them down, in hope of increasing my chances of achieving lucidity (I've had a few lucid dreams in the past on very rare occasions, however these have always been through accidentally realising i'm dreaming within the dream, I've never experienced WILD before). Overall, this has been a very interesting experience thus far, and I hope to try again tonight. I'm reporting my experience here in hope that anyone may like to provide comments on helping me understand how I can improve on future attempts, or share any thoughts whatsoever.