Want to start Lucid Dreaming; here's my circumstances.

Quest for Lucidity
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Hey, LD4All. I’ve joined here in a quest for a Lucid Dream. I’ve been wanting to experience Lucidity for a long while, but I’ve never been able to achieve it, or at least bring my self to achieve it. Hopefully, discovering this website and community will help me. So, here are my circumstances right now; your advice would be appreciated.
I’m a university student who has around two months left on his course, and is busy finishing his assignments. Yeah, I probably won’t have time for long LDs.

In recent weeks I’ve been going to bed really late, between 2am and 4am. Many times I’ve woke up late and had breakfast after 12 noon.

I seem to have a body clock; I always get out of bed 8 or 9 hours after I get in. When I awake from sleep, I always have a painful back, and won’t get out of bed until the pain subsides.

Sleep is… not something I fear exactly, but sometimes I try to keep myself awake to avoid going to sleep. It’s the fact that it’s such an unknown, that when you fall asleep you don’t even notice it, it just happens without you noticing. The fact that I fear death doesn’t help either.

Whether I dream or not is pretty much random, I’ve never had control over my dreams, but I have remembered and noted down the most memorable ones, including an interesting gender-change experience.
So, what advice can you give me on achieving Lucidity? I want to get into Lucidity first, but after that I want to achieve this month’s quest, to find my true form… that of a wolf, most probably, but I wouldn’t mind being one of my other characters…

EDIT: think I’m getting somewhere, seemed to experience some paralysis last night, but I got a bit scared and jerked out. But I’m a step closer to lucidity!

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Haha, it’s 2:45am here at the moment. What time you go to sleep and wake isn’t really important, so long as you are getting enough restful sleep.
I’m guessing as it is, you have minimal dream recall? Would be a good idea to start a dream journal of some form (if you haven’t already), and write in it every morning. What ever you can recall from the night before. I sometimes don’t have time to write in mine, and often end up just scribbling notes about my dreams in the corners of my notebooks while I’m in class. This is about the only thing that would actually take time away from your waking life. Everything else is just a second here and there to do a RC, or repeating a mantra like ‘I will be aware of my dreams’ as you lay in bed, or even at most a WBTB in the middle of the night (but even a WBTB, if kept short, isn’t much of an interruption). With your back condition, I’m not sure WBTB would be the best. The pain may make it difficult to fall back asleep. :shrug:

If you can get into SP, without startling yourself, you MIGHT have an advantage at WILD; however, if you are doing this in the beginning of the night, the odds are against you. I would suggest doing regular RC’s, whenever anything seems odd or maybe even just when you think about dreaming and using autosuggestion or MILD to build confidence that you will notice your dreams. Awareness and confidence. :smile: