Hi to all.
I’m a 20 year old student from Helsinki, Finland.
Like many others, I had many spontaneous lucid dreams when I was a child. I gradually lost the ability and forgot about it in my teens. Years ago I found a link to the LD4all site and got interested in rediscovering the world of lucid dreams. However, I never had enough motivation to continue to try, and the site collected dust for many years in my bookmarks, where I kept it thinking that some day I’ll start to try in earnest.
This spring I once again browsed through the LD4all site, determined to finally become a lucid dreamer. That’s when I discovered the book “Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming” by Stephen LaBerge in the books section of the site. That seemed like a good book on the subject. I ordered it through a local book store and started reading it. Once again I started to keep a dream journal, this time more commitedly than before, inspired by the advice of the book, and I started to attempt inducing LDs. Once again I lost my motivation, when I didn’t get results quickly.
During the last couple of weeks, however, when I have had much time off, I started again. After the first week of commitment I had my first LD in this period. It wasn’t much, I got to fly for a while until it faded away (now I realise that I should have noticed that the lucidity was fading because the sky went muddy and dim, and should have tried to strengthen it) but it inspired me to continue.
Now, after a few weeks of commitment, I have had four lucid dreams during the last week. I seem to have crossed a certain treshold and I expect it to become easier and easier as my confidence grows. They are still not much, only a few minutes in lenght, but clearer than I’ve ever had. I have been using LaBerge’s MILD technique as described in the book, and that seems to be a good technique for me.
I plan to use my LDs (aside for fun, of course) for strengthening my self-confidence, which has never been as good as possible. I also plan to learn WILD techniques. Another area of LD usage in the future may be spiritual discovery. I recently resigned from the Christian church as I increasingly became to think that beliefs should be individual, not prescribed by a religious community (I would join a community with common rituals but no common beliefs, if there were one where I live, as I have nothing against shared rituals that strengthen the ties of a community).
Quite a long post for an introduction. Oh well, maybe that tells something about my intensified enthusiasm. 
, I’m Kevin - a 19 y/o student from Ireland.
dreamwitch, ogmoir and Xine 
welcome to LD4all dreamwitch, ogmoir and Xine
hello Jadge and spatookbien 
we have a moderator called sureal (with one R) 
you seem to be doing well with WILD |ntern, most dreamers wake quite fast during their first LDs.
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