Any tips for a newbie?

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Welcome to LD4all! :wave:

WILD isn’t recommended for newbies anyway. It takes a lot of patience and practice, and there’s lots of other ways to have LDs. What I would normally recommend are these three things:

  1. Keep a dream journal. Your dream recall will increase, and it’s harder to forget an LD than an NLD, but it’s still possible. You want to remember your dreams, no? :content:

  2. MILD is one of the easiest techniques and is great for starting out. You can find the basics and questions about it here.

  3. WBTB can also be useful. Some like it, some don’t. It just depends on what you like and are able to do. With WBTB, you wake up anywhere between 4 1/2 - 6 hours of sleep, and depending on your preference, stay up anywhere from a few minutes to an hour. If you’re staying up more than a few minutes, it can help to refresh your brain by reading lucid dream or dream-related material. After you’ve woken up and maybe stayed up, go back to sleep with the intention to have an LD fresh in your mind.

That said, there’s lots of interesting topics around on the forum that can help you, and if you haven’t already, read the LD4all Guide here!