Thread: Post your first ever post here!!

Thats mine below...


Hello everyone

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi i joined today and already posted 2 threads, i would just like to say i think everyone is so nice i am glad to be part of this website

This should be an interesting thread. Mine is from April 23, 2004.

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

Hello folks. I am so glad I discovered this site. I had my first lucid dream when I was about seven, and it blew my mind. I went a long time without having another one, even though I really wanted to get into them. When I was 25, I discovered The Lucid Dreamer by Malcolm Godwin, and I learned a lot about how to have them at will. Between those two events, I think the only lucid dreams I had happened because I was having a nightmare that was so bad I realized it couldn't be real, in which case I deliberately woke up. I started having good lucid dreams once in a while, but they always happened when I was about to wake up, so the dream state wasn't as unreal and wild as usual. I have incredibly vivid, bizarre, surreal dreams ordinarily, but I have had a hard time being lucid during those. I have had such an experience a few times, but I usually lose track of the fact that I am dreaming after about ten seconds when that happens. Accomplishing mastery of those dreams is one of my goals in life.

I have had two lucid dreams this week. One was when I was on the edge of waking up, and one (last night) was incredible, but very shortly maintained. I came to this web site to confirm that long lasting, vivid, deep and very surreal lucid dreams are actually possible. According to many of you here, it is. That is great news!

One theory I have about lucid dreaming is that it can take the place of psychedelic drugs and keep people away from them. I have been trying to permanently bury marijuana for years now. I quit again last weekend. I have "quit" about 75 times now. One idea I hold onto is that the fun of marijuana is that it creates a conscious state that goes about 10 to 20% of the direction toward a lucid dream. A marijuana experience for me makes reality seem a little like a dream, and it is interesting. I keep telling myself, "Why not give this crap up and get into the real thing?" I want to master lucid dreaming and get past the need to do any weak imitation substances. Other hallucinogens are much stronger than marijuana, but the be all end all of any of them is going into another world of imagery that works according to a different system of reality. The be all end all of such things is ultimate lucid dreaming. I am determined to become an expert at it. I think it is the greatest experience there is, right up there with sky diving and making love.

I also read Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge. Until today, I hadn't come across direct testimony that ultimate lucid dreaming is possible except from people who stood to make a profit. I was hoping some of you here would tell me just how much ultimate lucid dreaming can be mastered and what bizarre circumstances or experiences can happen that might not be otherwise assumed. If anyone can tell me about this from first hand accounts, I will greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

I also wanted to see what you people think about whether lucid dreaming actually takes people to other parts of actual reality. I know that that is a common philosophy. Have any of you been to what you think was a place other than merely your own consciousness? Has anybody met a friend in a lucid dream and found out later you both had the dream? I am very skeptical about such an idea, but I have an open mind. My name on this site is just for fun. I am much more skeptical than my name implies. However, I love exploring wild ideas.

Ironically, another reason I started coming here was to talk about off the wall stuff peacefully and get away from political arguments. Little did I know...

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

This should be an interesting thread. Mine is from April 23, 2004.



Ironically, another reason I started coming here was to talk about off the wall stuff peacefully and get away from political arguments. Little did I know...

Hey how did you find your first post UM? Mine only goes back 500 posts.

Click on my posts and find the first ever one

Originally Posted by Dreamhope11

Click on my posts and find the first ever one

Dreamhope11 I realize you only have 200 or so posts...so you couldn't know...but they cut off at 500 posts backwards in checking your posts.

Here is my first thread though. Titled morality.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A dream is to be considered all in your head, I suppose. I would like to know, are you all bound by morality as I am in my dreams? I find that I am bound to a strict moral code in my dreams, that I may not even be bound to in RL.

Its hard to get into specifics, but I can address one issue by explaining a dream i've had before.

well, basically I spoke to someone in my dream, as if they were a person in my dream, not a charector. I asked them what would happen if I woke up, they said they wouldn't exist anymore, and then I said doesn't that make you said, and they said no because they were doing something important. At that time I was incredibly sad, and couldn't take it anymore, I retreated into losing my... well now I've learned that you would call it a "lucid state" but at the time I had never heard the term.

Does anyone else feel like that?...Like the people in your dreams deserve sympathy? I don't know, I feel ashamed for having toons in my dreams since I know that eventually I will wake up and the ywill no longer exist.

As well as the people they represent, I would not want to dishonor them either.

Edit: I just wanted to add, that while the topic relates to lucid dreaming, it has nothing to do with it. I only want to know about your emotions tied to your dreams, if you have ever felt bad for someone dieing in your dreams, or for hurtning someones feelings, etc, I would like to know. although believing it is a dream may change the equation a bit, I would still like to hear about al lof your experiences with morality.

Unless you're a really old member, you can use the Advanced Search link, search for posts by your username, and then choose "six months", "and older", or one year, or whatever.

...someone made a thread with all of the staff's first posts, but I don't want to find it.

I did, but that was before the staff change. Very few of those members are still staff