Hi all,

Wrote a long introduction last night which apparently got lost.

So I'll try again, I'm a Swedish guy living in Switzerland (which is sometimes confusing to people!).

I learned about lucid dreaming about 10 years ago, as I was struggling with recurring nightmares. Actually, I pretty much only dream nightmares and have been doing this all of my life. After a short period of documenting my dreams, I can really recall the thrill as I touched a wall and felt my hands go through it! I had one other lucid dream where I looked at my face in a mirror, truly the weirdest and most thrilling experience!

However, as I mentioned I pretty much only have nightmares and remembering more and more about them in combination with depression made me stop writing my dreams down as I couldn't take the vivid imagery.
Subconsciously I have since somehow repressed my dreams and have most often not remembered anything about the dreams when waking up. Now I am really excited to have started this journey again!

I have only written down my dreams for a few nights now but am astonished how powerful writing down one's dreams are! It really transform dreams into memories! I still vividly remember a part of a dream I had the first night where I joined my sister to a concert. I can still recall the concert hall, the rows of chairs, people in it, the general atmosphere.

I realise that I have a long way to go before becoming lucid since I only remember fragments of dreams at the moment. Usually I will remember the last part of a dream and backtrack my way from there, which can be quite frustrating. But I'm hanging in there!

My ultimate goal for doing this is getting to know myself better and of course having loads of fun! Looking forward to getting to know others and talking about our experiences.