Hey there, friends and strangers! Great to know you. Schmendrick here, a longtime-dabbler in dream journaling and (very) rare lucid dreams, trying to get back into it a little more seriously.

Here's the quick story of my fall from grace: Ten-ish years ago, when I was still in high school, I stumbled on a couple lucid dreaming articles, and was instantly entranced. I started my journal, ordered a copy of good ol' Stephen LaBerge's Exploring the World of Lucid Dreams, and I was off to the races. I wrote down my dreams every morning, I had a handful of passable lucid dreams, and I even had an account on this very site, though I lost my login info long ago.

Then college happened, then grad school, and slowly my dream-related activities drifted from the forefront of my mind. I stopped logging onto Dreamviews; my sporadic lucid dreams disappeared completely; and my journal entries became smaller and smaller. But for some reason, I never stopped journaling. Even when all I can recall is an image, or an object, or an idea, I always write down a sentence or two every morning. I guess I've been secretly hoping that one day, I'd give lucid dreaming a try again.

Anyway -- I'm greatly looking forward getting to know you folks, as I try to revive this decade-old interest of mine. It's gonna be a blast, exploring the forums and putting together a new lucid-dreaming-strategy.

Here's to reclaiming our dreamscapes. Best wishes.