I mostly just wanted to introduce myself. Hi!

I started getting interested in lucid dreaming about two years ago but was in a stressful situation so I never really followed through with the practice side of things, despite reading a few books on the subject. This past week I have renewed my interest.

It was kind of funny because the first book I picked up this week to get back in the swing of things was "The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep" and within the first few pages I felt sufficiently chastised for my failure to practice. I do have a tendency to collect knowledge on some subjects without applying what I learned. So, knowing that, I think I am in a better place to succeed this time.

I have had one lucid dream that I remember (when I wasn't even trying to become lucid). I was walking down the street, blowdrying my hair, when it occured to me that a) I do not blowdry my hair outside and b) no blowdryer has a cord a mile long. Suddenly I was lucid and decided to fly. At first I flew as high as I could but that got weird because there was nothing but blue all around me and a weird verticle rainbow that I could never quite reach so I went back to the ground. I saw some friends and tried to swoop down and surprise them but on my second swoop I crash landed and woke up. That experience gives me hope that I can succeed, no matter how long it takes to have another lucid dream.

I know that my other barrier to lucid dreaming is also my dream recall. I have a tendency to wake up in a rush and by the time I try to remember my dream it went *poof*. But this week I have been working hard on my dream recall and have remembered at least one dream a night all week. This is (at long last) where my newbie question comes in. As I've looked back, in half of my dreams this week I was nothing like myself. In two of them I was a guy and in three others I looked completely different. I guess this could be a dream sign for me but it never seems weird at the time. Is it normal to be someone different in your dreams? Does anyone else on here ever experience that? I feel like I could understand it happening occassionally but 50% of the time seems excessive. It didn't seem weird when I wrote it in my journal but when I saw the frequency it weirded me out a bit.

Sorry for the ubber long introduction... I hope that wasn't too much information.

Happy lucid dreaming everyone!