I have been away for a while, but no way inactive in the art of dreaming.

I come back here and face the forums, but this time I see all the people who desire to become lucid dreamers, yet do things that to me, seem like would block themselves from learning. I didn't bother with this when I was last here, but now I would like to say this to all who cares to listen.

Listing the amount of times you have had lucid dreams, and listing your many in dream abilites (like creating fire and doing whatnot) is like running straight into a brick wall as far as progress is concerned.

You seem like you have pride in your abilites, where does this pride come from? a sense of achievement? To believe that lucid dreaming is a difficult skill to learn is to make it harder for yourself. The sooner you realize that you can only become all powerful once you believe you are all powerful, the sooner you will be!

I think being a good dreamer is more about your own ideas towards the topic rather than this fictionall "skill" level there seems to be commonly assigned.

I am having a hard time explaining what I want to say here, and I know it will be misread, but whatever. I just want to help, and to get rid off the silly attitudes I encounter in some dreamers who are arrogant of their abilites because others is less "skilled" than them. It's a matter of understanding your point of view for dreams (in the basics) once you realize dream is just your imagination, its your imaginations awake or asleep it is down to, not your "skill" in lucid dreaming. (techinques is a different matter but i don't want to confuse any noobs with this)

Don't make excuses for why you don't succeed at first, there is no rush, no race.

I think the monthly challenges ave an unfortunate side effect in creating competition amongst those in the process of learning. But then again I'm also against glorified post counters and other bling.