Welcome to ld4all Keela. 
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Hello everybody! Glad to be here. Didn’t knew where to make my entrance… so i picked up the general forum. Hope i didn’t made a mistake!
Getting into the stuff, i was a lucid dreamer since i was 16. I stopped doing that at the age of 20 (there was a lot going on…) but never losed the skills. Now that i am more relaxed, i’m going back to the good habits of LD. The fact is that, just the other night, i succeded being lucid, after processing as i used to. The fact is that i couldn’t look up! I was like floating in an horizontal position and unable to move anything but my eyes… Sort of sleep paralysis, but stranger, cause i wasn’t afraid. The only thing i could do was staring at the ground… Meh… Any suggestion is welcome!
Thank you all.
MEDEA
Merged in from General Lucidness 
Welcome MEDEA!
I’ve recently come off a long break from being too busy to LD. 
My first LD after getting back into it felt much less stable and controllable than most of my previous. In my case, I’m sure it’s just a matter of needing to build up better recall and general awareness.
It sounds to me like you weren’t quite fully asleep. Being in a very light sleep can sometimes bleed things happening IRL into the dream. (eg: lingering SP inside the dream). SP isn’t always accompanied by fear, especially if you’re sort of in a dream.
Good luck!
Woah, thanks Ysim, very cheerful reply! 
Also, headache after waking up. I think is normal, right? For me i guess it’s like trying to turn on a car that hasn’t been working for a long time, and takes a few tries to get the engine heaten up.
Anyway, i won’t rush.
Hiya everyone!! 
I’ve been consciously lucid dreaming on and off for a few years now, and I’m in an “on” period in my life again 
I can go into Sleep Paralysis at will, and WILD is no real biggie to me anymore. I would do it every night, if it didn’t terrify me. I did an experiment 2 years ago, where I WILDed every night and I noticed that the more often I did it, the more intense the hallucinations were in the hypnagogic state.
I’ve always been scared of hallucinations (the idea of seeing things that aren’t there simply terrifies me), so I’ve been stuck with no WILDs for a while now. And I’ve also not had any spontaneous (DILD) lucid dreams.
That made me kinda sad, so I’m willing to give it another shot. I’m keeping a pen-and-paper dream diary, but I figured I might as well keep a digital one. And why not on a forum where other people can see the weirdness that is my dreamworld as well? Share the weird, right?
I’ll be all over this forum, so you’ll see more of me
Hello, I’m Jakob from Germany. I’ve been a long time member on another Lucid Dreaming forum, but then for certain reasons I decided to leave that forum. Long story.
I’ve been lucid dreaming for many years. The thing with me is, I get involved in LDing for a month or two, then I suddenly stop for a year or so, and then I get back into it again, etc. etc., it’s just on and off, on and off. Now I’m gaining motivation to start working on it again, and I wonder how long it’ll last.
I think I will enjoy my stay here.
Jakob
welcome to the forum MEDEA
What a predicament to be in. 
I suppose you could keep WILD to just the weekends to keep the intensity low? I hope you find a balance or manage to eliminate the fear.
I hope you enjoy your time on ld4all.
hello Jakobism
I hope you keep the motivation for longer this time. 
If you keep a dream journal, maybe reading old LDs will keep the motivation high?
Also we have the monthly lucid quest and also a lucidity challenge both of which could help with motivation.
Hello everyone!
I first read about lucid dreaming about a year ago, but didn’t think too much about it. I have sporadically had LDs for as long as I can remember, and I always got a bit too excited, and woke up. I thought that there had to be a way to keep control, and actually control the dreams. That lead to me looking around and now I’m here!
I’ve looked around on the forum, and I’m hoping that this will be fun!
Any tips for a newbie LDer?
WBTB (wake back to bed) is your friend 
It really increases the chance of getting a LD. Also remember to use a few good stabilising techs once lucid
Rubbing hands together
Using commands (eg More Lucidity, Increase Vividness)
Touching/feeling dream objects
etc
Also take the time to read the FAQs and tutorials on the forum.
I hope you enjoy your time here 
Hello, everyone! I’m Pixel Pi. I got my username from two things I love: Programming (Hence Pixel, I also like to make pixel art), and (Also name of subconscious/Spirit guide) Pi-3.141592653589793238… I will often make my words colourful. I’ve been Lucid dreaming since I was a kid, and occasionally, I would control my dreams. Now, as I am older (11), I will achieve a high level of lucidity in most of my dreams. If you’d like to know more about me…
I am a big Harry Potter fan
I play The Blockheads
I love dragons, gryffins, and phoenixes.
I am an exceptional nerd (Who finds revising physics papers interesting 
)
A colour’s hex code (Or what’s it called ) is really fun to find…
Erm… I’d like to include more about me, such as I am a pacifist and misanthrope, but I really want to get to my dream journal
Bye!
Hello Pixel Pi, welcome to ld4all.
You may wish to start a dream journal in our dream journal forum.
I hope you enjoy your time here. We have on topic and off topic forums … and the playground. If you have any questions just ask. 
Heyo fellow LD’ers.
im new as you can tell this is my second forum ever haha!
Ive always been interested in dreaming since a young age but only the past 3 years have I been focusing on LD.
Im in need of answers but also to hopefully get a better understanding from personal experiences from others.
Ive never read guides or anything of the sort, ive simply “trained” myself and now im here to share and discuss as I am the only one of everyone I know who can LD.
Hi my good people my name is Asia, and I’m a newbie on this site as well as lucid dreaming. Which seems pretty scary to me, but I’m ready to try it, though I don’t know what to do fully. 
Hi AsiaCee.
Being newbie is not that bad, at least when it comes to dreams, experiencing all this crazy and awesome things for the first time is really something to strive for.
Don’t be scared, have a positive mindset and things will fall into place. Also the most important thing give time to everything you are trying, don’t rush things, take every experience in to the fullest and then make assumptions…
If you have any questions just ask…
Oh and welcome! 
Thank you and if I need anything I will be sure to ask you
'ey, everyone, i’m new here. you can call me pax.
so this year, certain circumstances have sparked a massive interest in dreaming in me, and since then i’ve made it my mission to become lucid. i’ve done ridiculous amounts of research and written myself up a pretty big stack of dream journal. but i haven’t been lucid yet. (for more than about 3 seconds in-dream before i lost it)
so yeah. other than that, my biggest interest is drawing and sketching and i like achievement hunter. one day i want to make movies.
that’s literally all there is to know about me. hi!
Welcome to JoshuaCwolf, Asia and Pax
LD4all was my second forum too! 
I soon drifted away from my first since there was a friendly atmosphere on this forum. 
Hello Asia, I can’t really add anything to dB_FTS’ great post. Good luck with your ld quest.
Well at least you KNOW you can do it and it’s only a matter of time before you get that first awesome LD!
I hope you all enjoy your time on ld4all.
Hiya, I’m sopufruit. Im not new to lucid dreaming, I have had a few in my time, having first had Sleep Paralysis a few times and never knew what they were, to an OBE a good few years ago, and then went on to have some spontaneous LD’s and then from SP.
I bought a book(Stephen Le Berges’s> LDing) and from there really got into it. Unfortunately I leant it out and never saw it again 
…Now I feel like getting back into it again, and hoping being on here will prompt me in the right direction.
My main desire to try again, is to see if I can stay lucid long enough to engage dream characters and have them give me a valuable gift!. I have had a couple of encounters that suggest it is possible, and telepathy I have encountered, as well as premonitions, that have come true, although, I was on the cusp of lucidity when these happened, and ended up waking up. I have also had a few encounters with some odd phenomenon that I could describe as extremely scary. So I hold some fear here also, which put me off LDing to some extent. I realize it’s all in my mind, and so I need to shake off the fear I suppose.
So, thanks for reading, and I wish you all the best in your LDing!!
Not a clue why I left it alone but it was this very website a long time ago that taught me how to lucid dream, I even remember buying a novadreamer, of course that was never required as LD’ing is an inside job
After reading about the modified WILD method (FILD) I’ve decided to give it a serious go, I don’t see why I can’t lucid dream every night/morning I mean what a great way to start the day.
I might re-read ‘exploring the world of ld’ing’ but i feel like I can just jump right back in, my favored reality check been the good old text/digit check. I’ve done this before so i know I can do it again.
Lots to read on here I see…hope you’re all Ld’ing to your fullest desire!
Hello all! I’m excited to have found this forum. My goal is to not only have more lucid dreams but to have at least one OBE per week. I realize that’s a lofty goal but each day I practice something new hoping for success. My life has changed drastically since my first lucid dream. I’ve had some great experiences while listening to Thomas Koner before bed. I like to wake up after 5 or 6 hours of sleep, move to a different location such as a recliner, and fall back asleep. I have only once brought myself back to the position where I was laying while in a lucid state and turned it into an OBE. I want to repeat this but think I’m trying too hard. My dream journal is growing and I’m sure a psychiatrist would have a hayday with it.