Hello! I’m new here. 
I’ve had 3 lucid dreams so far without really trying. The first one I had, I was actually doing an internal monologue after something amazing happened when I said, “Pinch me, I must be dreaming!” I humored myself by doing so and, to my surprise, I didn’t feel a thing, and realized I really was dreaming! The other two were both smaller but actually much more impactful LDs I managed to have while napping. I’d classify all 3 as low lucidity dreams, as I only realized I was dreaming for a brief amount of time, and struggled to maintain my autonomy. The next step for me is to try and immerse myself more in the hobby so I can LD regularly and hopefully reach higher levels of lucidity. And that’s why I’m here! I’m so happy to know there’s such an active LD community online with such a long history.
Welcome Supernova888! Congrats on your LDs!
Hello Supernova888 
welcome to ld4all and congrats on your 3 low lucidity dreams. There is an amazing amount of LD information on the forum (including the two archives which go back to 1999 
), enjoy browsing and if you have any questions just ask. 
The name I use is Yainderidoo. (Yain as my name sounds in english and the last part comes form “didgeridoo”)
I knew about Lucid Dreaming before but never did anything with it until recently.
I’m Autistic and have a very active “innercritic”. So to do something about that I’ve read a lot about Buddhism, Taoism, you name it to bring some rest in my head. Mindfulness and Awareness are my codewords these days. And from reading several books about “enlightenment” I finally came to reading (again) about Lucid Dreaming. One of my sons has a book about LD (Laberge) but being not enough for my “reading hunger” I now have the most important books on my Ipad or in paper.
Dream Recall is now my most important goal and I can say it works! Before I recalled 3, maybe 4 dreams in a year. Since I started at the end of last year with this practice I’ve recalled 12 dreams, some short and some long. Twice I recalled 2 in one night.
Being Lucid in my dreams is of course next, but I don’t want to rush things and want to fill my mind with lots of things that can help me when and if I actually do get Lucid.
I’m 57, male, and have the problems many men of my age have. 2 to 3 times every night I have to go to the toilet. Sometimes this helps to recall this or that but I think it interferes also with recalling dreams.
I already can say that all this dream study changes how I think and it enhances my awareness. I like to think of this all to make it my life goal.
Hope to learn a lot and do some posting every now and then.
Until then…greetings from Fryslân.
Greetings Yain! Dream recall is a good starting point. Good luck with lucid dreaming!
hello Yainderidoo, welcome to the forum
Any LD induction method works better with WBTB (wake back to bed) and since toilet breaks are natural WBTBs, they should eventually help.
Stabilising the LD 
- rubbing your hands together and saying commands ‘more lucidity’ etc really help.
I look forward to hearing about your first LD. 
Thanks for the welcome, and Moogle thanks for the tips.
I’ll keep the WBTB in mind when on my way back from the toilet break. 
Hello all, I’m new to this forum but not to lucid dreaming. Nice to meet you all!
welcome to ld4all Night Hob. Hope the forum gives you lots of LD inspiration.
The other night my friend had a lucid dream, thus introducing me to the whole concept. It even made me realize that a long time ago, I too had a lucid dream, although I did not realize what was happening at the time. This realization has awakened a deep want inside me. I want to experience my dreams, and I want to control them. I feel this can ultimately become an immensely powerful tool, and as such have begun reading many a forum posts, both here and in other L.D. communities. I am glad that so many of you share my understanding and look forward to unlocking my astral body!
Hello Cloudlumps, welcome to ld4all.
That’s great. Since you have already had a LD in the past, you KNOW you can do it again. 
… and also chat about lucidity with your friend.
Hello everyone, I am a new person to this website. I have been interested in Lucid Dreaming for 4 years. I have had 1 lucid dream and 3 semi-lucid dreams. I joined this website because I like making new friends and I thought this would be a good place to share my lucid dreams. I look forward to meeting you all and I’ll be interested to see what kind of dreams you guys share here
hello BenM welcome to ld4all
Good way to get to know new friends is to join the next lucidity challenge. The current one is finishing Lucidity Challenge 57 - Final week!
Hope you enjoy your time on the forum 
Hi Everyone,
Hope to have fun, learn new things, and master dreaming.
Nice to meet you all.
Hello SuperJellyBean, welcome to the forum
There’s a lot of information in various topics on the forum, have fun browsing and being inspired by what you read. Also don’t hesitate to reply to topics, begin new topics or start a dream journal here. 
Hello everyone! so i have practiced LD a year ago with almost no result, because of a lack of sleeping hours and responsibility. just 2 semi-LD and left it. but now i came back to practicing, determined to get many full LDs and i think joining this website is a good option to keep me motivated, posting everything that comes to my mind that involves lucid dreaming! Keep dreaming guys! 
Hello signas, welcome to the forum. 
I see you found our ‘more emoticons’ I’m sure you will do better this time around since you are posting about your ‘journey’ to LDing.
Thanks moogle! 
yes, the cthulhu one is great! 
, and yes, i am doing definitely better this time since last night i had an amazing LD! i am so happy! just posted about it!
Hello I’m new here. I’ve had one lucid dream almost three months ago because I read a lot about it. Since then I’ve been writing down all my dreams, always a minimum of two dreams a night, doing RC’s but no succes yet. I’ll keep trying. How long did it take you to control it?
Hi Jim, welcome! Control the lucid dream, like fly for example? I did that in my first lucid dream as a kid. After I started actively trying to lucid dream, I had some level of control in my fifth lucid dream, where I made the dream disappear and created a concrete wall in a black void. I wanted a wall I could touch to stabilize. A new dream world appeared around that wall.
Or do you meant how long did it take to lucid dream at will? Been five years, still can’t do it at will.