Hello Everyone!

My name is Austin and I am 16 years old. I am currently enjoying summer vacation and will be going into my junior year of high school. I want to use this break from my studies to delve deeper into lucid dreaming and get my stuff together before school starts again. I enjoy tennis, anime, and lucid dreaming. I first discovered lucid dreaming after watching Inception (cliched right?). However, this phenomenon I read about called lucid dreaming, was something that I have done all my life without me knowing it. I was never able to control the dream or anything like that, but I would become lucid. About a year ago, I began writing in a dream journal and finding the right induction technique for me, and within a week or so, I began to lucid dream. Now after a year of devoted lucid dreaming, I can lucid dream within 1-5 times a week. I think I lucid dream, because I want to learn more about myself, and my subconscious's agenda. I think it will make me a more powerful person as I continue on the journey. Right now, I struggle with stabilization and anchoring myself to the dream world. I want to make my lucid dreams last longer, and be more vivid. I have no problems with summoning people or controlling the dream, it's just that I can't hold off the blackness that engulfs my dream within a few minutes. I've tried spinning and touching my hands, which holds it off for a little while, but I find myself having to do these things every 20 seconds to hold off the blackness. I'm really hoping this class will give me more knowledge and skills to become a better lucid dreamer.

Thank you.