Hi there! I'm new on here, and decided to join today because i've been having the most intense experiences of my life lately. I don't know whether to act on any of these events or to just let them pass. For example, about a month or so ago I had a very lucid dream that I was traveling all over the United States in a small plane. One place I distinctly remember seeing on a map was West Virginia for some reason.
Today I am posting this with heightened emotions, as my roomate informed me that he is leaving on a whim in September to travel to West Virginia. I felt a slight pull to go there, but maybe I am just experiencing future events? It's very odd and weird things that frighten me have been happening the past two years or so.
There are so many things I want to say and get input on but i don't know what questions to ask or what to say.


I guess I can start by sharing my most notable experience in the past two months. I had two lucid dreams separately in the same night during the same sleep period. The first lucid part I was climbing up my neighbors balcony to get to my third story apt. (which i actually did in march after drunkenly locking myself out). After struggling and slipping I finally got my hand above the railing and to my absolute shock, I saw and felt myself grabbing my hand and pulling me up. Directly after the initial shock of feeling and experiencing this, the dream quickly faded into a different scene/dream and i dont remember anything. Later on in the dream, I can remember having a party and it just suddenly was completely lucid and everyone was looking at me. I felt nervous, then they pointed at the sliding glass door and said, hey aren't you gonna help yourself out over there? Confused, I walked onto the balcony, and feeling strong deja vu i realized what was going on and that I was on the other side of the dream this time. I looked and saw myself with glasses and the old haircut i had when i was 15-16, but with the lip piercings i have currently. I was afraid to touch myself thinking something bad would happen to me/us but i realized i was the only one that could do it, so i pulled myself up and as we stood there, it faded again into un-memorable dreaming.

I am having trouble figuring out what lucid dreams are. According to the little reading I've done on it, about all of my dreams that I remember are lucid. It feels like they've been getting more and more real. I.E I've been able to do things like find old address books that were lost and look up numbers that I lost and remember them upon waking. What exactly is a definition of a lucid dream? And does it really matter?
Thank you for reading I look forward to conversing!