Thread: This! Is! Necessary! Life! Feeds On Life! Feeds On Life!

Well hello there.

My name's Tyler, and I love music. I love fantasy and sci-fi, I love quantum and theoretical physics. I'm always daydreaming, and the music I listen to is very weird and out-of-this world. I'm always designing other worlds in photoshop, and I'm constantly thinking. So when I came upon this website, it seemed natural to me that, even though I haven't remembered a dream in a very long time, that I should try this.

I sent it to one of my friends, the 2nd guitarist for my band. He was instantly in love with the idea...he read the guide, and he's gonna do this with me, and learn too. My cousin who is my best friend may do it, and I can't wait to see if she does or not, because we'll have so much fun.

Other stuff about myself:

My favorite bands are Opeth, Tool, Planet X, Allan Holdsworth, Shawn Lane, Meshuggah, Rhapsody, Jeff Loomis, and Cynic. Favorite authors are Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, and the author of the Earthsea Quartet who I cannot remember. I like(d) to write and plan to get back into it...eventually. I love guitar (seven string of course) and I never truly feel like I can express all the ideas in my head. Which is what I hope this website (and some INTENSE jazz fusion theory) can help me unlock.


Ignore the thread title please. I always post reeeeeally weird titles for my forum introductions, hoping that they'll get attention. They're lyrics from Disgustipated by Tool, which is like an "extra" on the CD Undertow, in this case.

Welcome! Keep posting on forums and you will learn TONS! Some people learn lucid dreaming quickly for other it takes a while. Make sure you stay dedicated and have COMPLETE CONFIDENCE it will work and it will pay off. Lucid Dreaming is not like anything else. You can do ANYTHING. No limits. If you dont have confidence something wont work then most likely, it won't. Make sure you start a dream journal. Here is a good dream journal for your computer. Recalling your dreams is important. Here is the tutorials section. This shows you the different techniques and how to do them. Anyway I hope to see you around!

Remember, no matter how long it takes you, you'll never be as slow as me!

Welcome. I think you and I will get along very well. When you said you listen to some very weird, out of this world music, I instantly thought Tool. And Puscifer.

Anyways, I think you'll like the site. It's got one of the strongest community bases out of any website I've seen, and information that I've spent hundreds of hours poring over. I've probably only found 1/10th of everything that's been posted on here before.
I recommend starting a Dream Journal -- found in the Dream Journal section of the forum -- to write down all the dreams you have, or anything related to your dreams.

Also, (I think) posting threads with titles like this is considered against the rules. If it isn't, it's at least frowned upon, so you may want to refrain from doing it in the future.

i really like the title of this thread. tool kicks ass

No I definitely won't ever post a title like this again. I'm not a troll, or anything. I really love Tool, but I've never check out Puscifer, or A Perfect Circle. I know Maynard's in both of them. I'm aware it's frowned upon.

Last night I went to bed, told myself I would have a dream, wake up, and remember it completely, and I did. First one since I was like, 3. (Maybe induced by reading about dreaming and dreams so much, plus being totally confident that I would have one.) It started out with me being in my school band and complaining about it being too boring. Our teacher told me about a special "advanced" band, so I went there. It was a smaller class, and some of my friends were there. The teacher was my current French IV teacher. I needed music, and it took him a hell of a long time to call on me so I could ask for it, which usually happens in normal band. Then he gave me the wrong music (stuff for percussion, it was all tabbed like a weird guitar though) and I had to get called on again. We practiced, and it was hard (I can't really remember what it was, I don't think I even knew). We somehow ended up in New Orleans where we were playing, and the only things I remember there are flowers, houses, and walking on this ledge and having this guy get pissed cause it was on his property. The next day got interesting. I came to band, and had forgotten my instrument. The bandroom changed to a shack, and he made me hold a hot iron straight out, hold one to my chest, and he turned the heat really high in the shack. I thought about tripping him and leaving, but somehow I survived and it was a blur, I ended up running away. First we were near a school, then we were in my yard. Liam Beecher, this annoying percussionist, was there with a sling throwing these large crystal globes at me.My neighbors had a HUGE house and treehouse, and the porch under my house was really old, one we changed a while ago. I convinced Liam to stop with the sling and hide with me, and the next day we went into my house. My parents were fine with it once I told them what happened, and the dream ended.

I had a dream before that too, after which I dreamed that I woke up and wrote about it in my journal, but I actually didn't so now I can't remember what it was. XDXDXDXDXD


EDIT: By the way, the fact that this website apparently has a semi-large, friendly, non-flaming population is really important to me. This is something I want to do, but a lot of the times bad online encounters with other people can ruin something like this. You guys all seem friendly though. I hate people who flame, and I know there are forums where people realize "Hey...just because I have anonymity and because I can pretend to be knowledgeable does not mean I'm any better, or that my opinions are any better than those of, the people on the other side of the internet!"

I would like to see some of your photoshop worlds. It would be cool if you put some in your DJ.

See, the funny thing about that is in chat, the reason everyone hates me is because of those photoshop worlds. But I posted them in chat yesterday. It was interesting, cause people were lining up to shoot me down. I posted the simplest one first, and everyone was quick to criticize it and stuff, but then I posted some better ones and we ended up talking about alt accounts. I'm still learning, though. I really want a Wacom tablet so I can paint without a cruddy mouse.

They hate you... because you thought up worlds and photoshopped them? That doesn't make sense. o.0

No, because of the argument that led to my posting of them.

Well, welcome to the forum! I've been lurking and dropping little replies throughout the site for a long time. I only recently decided that it was time I actively participate. Hehe.

As you noted, this is a really non-flaming, interesting, friendly group of people all working together with collective goals. It's a nice place and it has so much information it could make your mind pop. The only advice I have at this point, because you seem to be scooting right along, is not to get stressed. A lot of people jump in to the Lucid Dreaming hype and get their confidence quickly shut down. The idea is to enjoy your dreams to the fullest, because they can be very amazing and refreshing. They can also lead to many epiphanies (song lyrics, new things to draw in photoshop, etc.. BTW: You should post some of your photoshops. I love to see people's creative work in it!). Just remember that Lucid Dreaming will come naturally over time if you focus on building up your dreams.

And it's so worth it.

Also: Listening to Tool coincidentally as I write this. Ah-ha. Love this band. ^^