Hello everyone,
I used to have lucid dreams about 5 years ago, and I had pretty good control over them. Although now I’ve driven stuck. I don’t remember very many dreams anymore. I want to retake the fact that I was a lucid dreamer…
Today I bought a dream journal to keep track of my dreams. If some people could give me some advice on what do do next I would be really grateful… and exactly what to do and how long.
Thanks,
-Pythang
I’d suggest you to purchase an introductional book about lucid dreaming, perfereably Stephen LaBerges “Exploring the world of lucid dreaming”.
While you can get a good overview about the topic at the internet, this book provides you with a much more detailed introduction.
For me, that book was very helpful.
Hi Python Angel,
First, write down your dreams until you have a good dream recall. You can use some autosuggestion to help yourself by repeating mentally a few time “Tomorrow morning, I’ll remember my dreams”.
Your dream recall should enhance quickly. During this time, you can read the forum, the LD4all main page or the LD’ing wikibook to have an overview about the different induction techniques.
Once you recall about one dream per night, you can practise an induction technique. Now I suppose that your first LD’s were DILD’s and not WILD’s. Thus you could perhaps try a DILD technique (reality checks, autosuggestion, MILD).
As for me, I think autosuggestion + RC’s work rather well. If you can practice WBTB + MILD or autosuggestion, it’s good too. In average, people get their first lucid dreams with these techniques in about 3 weeks but it may be shorter (or longer of course).
And feel free to ask questions if you don’t understand something.
Thank you so much Basilus for that very solid information. Today I actually tried doing the advanced WILD technique but as a beginner it did not end well. But your suggestions sound great! I will definatly follow these next time I will sleep.
About RC’s, how many times a day would be good to do them (awake of course)? I do them maybe 16 times a day, but maybe that’s too little?
One last question; do these CD’s (or I could burn one myself) saying “You are dreaming!” work any good?
According to Paul Tholey, RC’s work well from 5 RC’s a day ; 10 according to Laberge, if I remember well. So 16 is not too little. 
By the way, it’s better to perform them correctly (by questioning reality) than automatically. If you perform too many RC’s, you tend to do it without even thinking about.
I think you can find a free induction CD into the Lucid Tools subforum. As for me, I never tried such tools and I can’t answer your question.