SO GLAD TO BE HERE!

Hello everyone! My name is tommy. A friend of mine and i were out having a few pints at the pub after work about a year ago. He was a new employee and we hit it off really well, had a few pints, smoked a joint and called it a day. In the course of the conversation we obviously covered many topics, and somehow the subject came up of lucid dreaming, and apparentyl i have this innate ability. I have had this as long as i can remember but have never met any other people who have this ability, so i have always felt like a freak and dont talk about it. Just recently, this lucidity has been increasing or me. On one hand iam rather enjoying it all.....i feel like the cat that swalloed the canary somedays! I am also trying to learn more about it to gain more insight. I am tired of feeling alone with this. I just wanted to say that i am going to enjoy being here (hopefully) and meeting others who share this strange but beautiful gift. I look forward to making contact with a few people here and , well, i dunno....maybe i wont feel so alone anymore! Looking forward to being warmly welcomed if anyone wants to reach out and say hello! Many thanks, and soar like an eagle!

Hi Tommy :D
Thank you for such a pleasant greeting and welcome to the board!
I only joined a few days ago so im affraid I still know very little about lucid dreaming, but hopefully you can find all the help you need here and even share some of your own lucid experiences. :D

Welcome Tommy.

book no lucid dreamer should be without:
Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge.
so yeah. go buy that.

*ahem* welcome to the board, you are not a freak.
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p.s. i'm a bitch. get used to it. :lol:

a pint!

You drink guinness!!!?

*CHEERS*

Welcome... welcome more if your a Guinness drinker hehe

Het Tommy welcome to the board, and uh I noticed your a musician, what type are you? Just wondering.

Welcome! I think you'll find your not alone, far from it, infact im surprised if non-lders are the minority and lders are the majority... where was I? Oh yeah welcome and ROCK ON!

Everyone can lucid dream, most do, most don't realize it. I've had one I know of, right after reading the beginning of Castaneda's "Art of Dreaming" and smoking a "j". It was interesting, but I don't think I actually entered REM sleep.

Your not a freak. Your not alone.

I've felt the same way before, for many different reasons. Don't follow the norm, it's not worth it.

"...Don't belong! Don't exist!
Don't give a shit!
Don't you fucking judge me!"
- Slipknot

oooooh, you like Slipknot?

i actually think people who don't LD are the majority. i've gone to a board that had hundreds of people there and asked them if anyone lucid dreamed, and NOT ONE OF THEM even knew what that was. plus, everyone i've asked didn't know. i know, i can't judge it by that alone, but i still think that more people couldn't care less about their dreams. it's sad really. :(

I agree... most people stay ignorant of their dreams... but they all still dream, and I can't imagine anyone living an entire liftetime and not having a single lucid dream. Like Dr. LaBerge states in his book, they just probably don't know they had them, can't remember, because they don't care enough to try.

And yes... slipknot is defnitely a good band... along with SOOOOooo MaNY others...

Welcome, dreamer.
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nice avy Scott.. http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/headbang.gif

Lol thanks! :D

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! I really appreciate it. Just have grabbed a couple hours again tonight to go through a number of the threads. Aside from a bit of mud-slinging i noticed (which i refuse to get invloved in....i'm a lover not a fighter. I'm also intensely emotional and highly sensitive), by and large i think i will learn what i need and want to learn here. It was more of a sense of being in the company of others who would understand, hopefully, my lucid experiences. Am thinking this could be fun, so iwill be devoting some time to these forums. Who knows? Maybe i will be able to help someone in a way. Revelations come to us in all different ways, i believe.(and not just in dreaming) I often find as well that my waking life and dream life are intertwined and they can both affect the other. Sometimes it seems that my waking/sleeping self is no different. My dreams are so realistic to me that they can stay with me for a whole day or even a week. They are so intense and realistic that they affect me very deeply....maybe due to my high level of sensitivity and emotions.
Ihave been able to dream lucidly as long as i can remember. I did not know there was terminology for this until recently. I find that i dont even have to try to dream lucidly....it just happens, almost every night for me. Perhaps i take this for granted. There are certainly times when i wish these dreams were reality. The horrifying ones are just too hideous too describe. I find that my dreams have a way of sorting out the shit in my head that i cant deal with during waking hours due to various stimuli. I dream lucidly almost every night. When i do not, i am disappointed, but ido not feel the need to LEARN how to manipulate all of this, because i feel that there is a REASON why i dream as lucidly as i do. I tend NOT to control the actual subject matter, it just comes to me and my dreams are often a surprise to me, and sometimes non-sensical. They defy any kind of explanation. Sometimes they are so real i have awakened to find myself crying, not out of horror but almost like having a spiritual experience. The most recurring themes in my dreams are obviously flying, and get this, tornadoes. I just seem to have an obsession with tornadoes. Sex is a given naturally. I have also had dreams that saddened me greatly, like being a part of the Apocalypse and the sheer tragedy of it all. I have dreamt that i died as well. You name it, i've likley dreamt it.
Cana nyone please tell me the ADVANTAGE of recording my dreams. What is the point of doing this and what good will it do me? (or anyone else for that matter.lol!) Anyway my tendency to ramble is manifesting itself and i dont want to bore people who will come to ignore my postings in the future! Peace out to all you dreamers. And thanks again for the warm welcome....TOMMY

pleasepleaseplease! use spaces! makes it MUCH easier to read! :D

that's very interesting, um...journals...i think the main purpose of keeping a dream hournal it to improve dream recall. don't ask me why that's just...it. :lol:

Recording your dreams in a dream journal probably wouldnt be too useful for you unless you have a spectacular lucid dream that you never wish to forget.

Dream journals are mostly for people just starting to get involved with there dreams, like me! It helps you to rememeber your dreams, and you can compare them with each other to find what early oneironauts coined as "dream signs." These are actions, people, thought, objects, or anything else out of the ordinary that occurs OFTEN in your dream. After you find something that is usually part of your dream, you can start to train your mind to realize your only dreaming every time you see the object or feel that certain feeling.

right?

um, true, VERY true. but you could also do like me and not keep a journal at all, not have any technique really, and yet still have a lucid dream twice a week and becoming more frequent. :D