Hello, everyone!

**Riley** · 05-07-2007 03:21 AM

Hi. My name's Lukas, my alias online is Riley. I came across Lucid Dreaming very recently, by Wikipedia. I was quite curious. I always dream as if it's a movie, or a picture (I had a dream where I was running up a mountain, but I only saw a picture of a mountain). I've since been quite fascinated by the concept of having your own world inside your head.

I always have really weird dreams. The earliest and weirdest dream that I can recall was: I was sleeping, woke up, and found that my family was going on a trip without me. I shrugged it off, and started to play with my trains (this is when I'm 5) and then I heard the door slam open, and a heavy breathing thing in a black cloak started to chase me. I hid under my bed and he couldn't find me. I got up and started to head toward the roof, and he found me, so he chased me some more, and I hid in the laundry room, in the laundry basket, and he got confused, so he started to look everywhere else, and I jumped off the roof. Before I hit the ground, I woke up.

And... yeah. Hi, everyone. I'm interested in learning how to dream lucidly and remember all my dreams. Any tips will be helpful.

PS: Please excuse the awkwardness of the post, I'm still learning.

**Placebo** · 05-07-2007 09:31 AM

Hi there, and welcome.
Many people dream 'movie dreams', my wife claims that most of her dreams are like that.
Lucid dreams are best when you can be in a body of some sort, but there's some tricks to 'possess' a body if you need to

So are you learning lucid dreaming to combat nightmares?
As a kid, I naturally started lucid dreaming in order to fight my nightmares (just happened when something tried to hurt me)
Lucid dreaming really does help nightmares, and you'll find that the fear/worry/phobia behind the nightmare will become better by combatting it in your dream.
At least that's what happened to me - I don't have nightmares like that anymore.

Check out the tutorials, and feel free to ask questions

**Riley** · 05-07-2007 05:03 PM

Yes, I'm a kid. I have alot of weird dreams, one where I run up mountains, buy movies, or do math problems. I usually don't get nightmares, that one was an extreme. But, I want to dream lucidly so I can actually have fun during my dreams instead of being incredibly confused.