The Big "Hi, I'm New Here!" Topic - Part 40

JeanJPoirier · January 10, 2007, 10:41pm

Salut à tous !

I’m a Senior in high school and I’m just checking out this site on the recommendation of someone in my Psych class. Um, at first I thought lucid dreaming sounded kind of scary, because someone I knew told me about how he accidentally had a lucid dream when he was little, and as he was dreaming he was afraid he’d be stuck there. Haha, I know that’s not true, though, I’m ready to try ! I’ve thought about it for a while, too. After reading through a little of the forum I thought it all sounded much more complex and interesting than I thought before, and I wanted to join !

I’ve never actually had a lucid dream, but I’ve dreamt I had one…unless you guys would say this is a lucid dream. I’m not sure. Anyway, in my dream there was this one big metal pipe in front of me, and I « realized » I was dreaming and colored it with red stripes like a candy cane. The thing is, though, that I feel like I just dreamed I realized I was dreaming rather than actually realizing it. Does that make sense ? Haha. I think if I had actually had control I would have done something much less lame.

I live in Eau Claire, WI for now, but on the 25th I will be starting a 6-month stay in France as an exchange student. Est-ce qu’il y a des francophones sur ce site ? J’aime beaucoup pratiquer mon français et en fait je le préfère beaucoup plus que l’anglais !

I hope to get to know y’all soon enough !

—Jean

JeanJPoirier · January 10, 2007, 10:48pm

Tenoch:

Hello people !

I’m Tenoch (real name Noé), 19, from France. I found about lucid dreaming per chance, really, since I read about it on : stevepavlina.com/ a great site from a great guy. In fact it… completely astonished me. I never thought this could even be possible.

And, though, I had a lucid dream once. A long time ago. A simple dream, really, except that at a point, I became aware of being in a dream, and could even willingly move my arm. In fact it’s all I had done at this time : moving my arm back and forth, absolutely baffled and amazed by this totally unexpected thing.
I was so deeply moved that it took a week for me to get back to normal state, absolutely certain of having reached a new step in self knowledge and introsepction…

And then I more or less forgot about it, got back to real life. I don’t even remember if it was before or after I had a dream journal. I had read Freud’s works about dream interpretation, and thought it would be fun to analyze some of them. That’s what I done for a few months. Then, I suppose I got bored, or to busy to go on, but I was definitely fascinated by the complexity and the beauty of this everyday thing that is the dream.

Then, a long time has passed, and I stumbled upon this website, with this guy talking about “lucid dreaming”. Then Wikipedia, and then this website, and a few others. In fact, I can’t imagine now how it is possible that I never tried to find out about this wierd dream I had. Maybe at that time the Internet was not so widespread, or something. It never came to my mind that I could try to search other people who had this kind of experience.
And now in a few hours I discover that it is a “skill” that everyone can master. I’m… so happy ! It’s like magic. I can’t even understand why poeple don’t know more about it !

Actually, for a while, I didn’t believe it. I wondered whether it wasn’t some kind of new age mystical rubbish like it is so easy to find out there on the web. It looked like those websites full of “ancient runes” and “magical words” that are, of course, not efficient at all…

But then I found those articles and links in Wikipedia, and, most of all, all these people here on the forums. It just can’t be some conspiracy made to make me sad when I discover that, in fact, there is no such thing as Father Christmas.

So there I am. I read my old dream journal again, and I realised that I remember almost all of them. Each simple description brings back the original images and feelings. I can’t stop being impressed. I started a brand new dream journal now, after all these years. I can remember always one or two dreams per night, so I feel rather confident.

I’ll start all the explained techniques very soon. Maybe after one week of simply filling the journal. I want to take my time. I mean, this thing is so big… I still can’t believe it. I’m almost wondering if it’s not a dream

Hehe, je viens de demander dans mon « post » s’il y avait des francophones ici…puis j’ai regardé les autres posts récents et te voilà. =P Quelle coïncidence !

Hmmm…après avoir lu les règles du forum je me demande si on ne voudra pas de français sur le forum, vu que ça empêche la communication avec les autres. =P On va voir !

Hehe, désolé, mon français n’est pas (encore) parfait. D’ailleurs, je vais bientôt étudier à un lycée à Lagny-sur-Marne…est-ce que tu sais où ça se trouve ? Je ne sais pas si c’est bien connu…

Tenoch · January 10, 2007, 11:04pm

Hello !
Indeed, I think this forum is English language only.
I suppose Lagny sur Marne is near Paris, but I hadn’t heard of it before.
Welcome ! I hope we’ll find here the answers to our questions, and I’m sure it will indeed happen.
Good luck !

moogle · January 11, 2007, 12:14am

hello Keegster, Laughing And Crying and JeanJPoirier

personal recommendations

the definition of a lucid dream is knowing you are dreaming while in the dream … control and vividness are two other factors
LD4all is an english only forum (if you wish to converse in french it’s best to do it through private messages) … but I believe that pasQuale is planning on launching a french version of LD4all

it’s great when past lurkers finally decide to register

Laughing And Crying … AP discussions can be found in our beyond dreaming forum

Keegster · January 11, 2007, 4:45am

Ok, I posted some here.

Sandra · January 11, 2007, 1:03pm

Welcome Laughing and Crying
LD4all is the best (but of course I just say that because I am here and everywhere else they would say that one is the best =p)

Welcome JeanJPoirier,
When looking at your DJ I noticed you were probably French since you used “Janvier” and now I notice you are trying to learn French.

I could actually read all the French you two said There used to be a french only topic in the playground, but it disappeared due to inactivity in it. (Every topic there disappears if there isn’t posted in it for a month)

Keegster, I noticed your work. I really liked the one you posted. Maybe I’ll comment later on it in depth, or maybe I just leave it with that. but I must say that I enjoyed listening to it.

Keegster · January 11, 2007, 1:12pm

I feel like I’m spamming up this topic now, but thanks! It’s always nice to know my work is enjoyed.

Anyway, so I feel less spaminating, welcome to all the other people who joined afterward, from one LD Rookie to another. I guess.

Laughing_And_Crying · January 11, 2007, 4:26pm

Thanks guys, I feel really welcome now

I have managed to borrow a book on lucid dreaming from my psychology teacher, so with that and this site, I feel I know where I am and what to do…after all there isn’t much information better than personal experiences.

Jayster · January 11, 2007, 8:21pm

Hiya to all fellow Lucid Dreamers,Id just like to say hi as I am a comlete newbie to the forum and pretty much to Lucid Dreaming.
I used to LD between the ages of 9 and 12 and then they just stopped.I didnt really know what they were back,but a few years back read an article on LDing and new that I had experienced them before,and on quite a regular basis.
I havnt had time to invest myself fully into getting back into LDing but am doing so now.
Iv got myself a couple of books and searched the net,where I found this site.

You all seem really cool, and from reading other threads can see you have a wealth of knowledge I can learn from.

Im looking forward to re-joining the LDing world.

Duck · January 11, 2007, 9:23pm

Jayster !
Don’t worry, getting back to lucid dreaming is usually way easier than trying it from start. Even more when you had them naturally. And yep, on Ld4all there are much people with knowingess and experience.

Good luck with rejoining to lucid dreaming !

@down
about of nine months maybe ? Somehing about that, but before it I was interested in OoBE thingy

Jayster · January 11, 2007, 9:25pm

cheers,how long have you been lding 4

Aquarys · January 11, 2007, 10:13pm

Hello! I’m new here. I never did a LD before, so I might be needing some help. I would LOVe to try to enter a LD (animal transfigurations!) but I’m a bit scared… I don’t know what happens when I start it. I tried it last night and felt like I was falling (although I was in bed. Does this happen?). I gave up and decided to ask some more questions here. See you around!

moogle · January 11, 2007, 10:15pm

welcome back to the LDing world Jayster

Marioman64 · January 12, 2007, 5:27am

Hmmm… so hi. I am the lover of all things Nintendo and pears… yes. So anyway i didn’t know if I was going to join the forum, but then I had a Lucid Dream! on my 6th night after reading the guide! yay! I’ll post it here straight from my dream diary on my PC:

My Dream Diary:

Jan 10, 2007:
LD-OMG YES! Ok OK. I made a pencil grow and mom gave me a clock thing made of foam or whatever. Uh… I made a fly go away… I wonder what triggered lucidity… OH YEAH… in order… 1- Still normal… I saw a bee chasing me in my house and I thought to myself “oh dear God not again” because… it happens every nightmare or something. I’ll see a bee, its only target will be me and it’ll sting me hard until I wake up. So I was like “oh darn it, another nightmare” because this has happened in my nightmares for a long time. Then, because of reading about Lucid dreams, something struck me (not literally). I said “OMG, I’m dreaming!”. Yes, my excitedness may have ended Lucidity, but then I focused on that bee I saw and thought “please let it be a fly” and then when I found it, it was a fly and I was like “I thought it was a bee… oh well”. So I was like “okay, let me try something” I said “Go away fly!” and it went away. Then I found a pencil or something and I thought to myself “let me see if I can make this grow longer” and behold! It grew! I was so excited, that I lost Lucidity and switched to part 2 of this 30 minute dream period (woke up at 5:25 AM, fell back asleep and mom woke me up at 6:00 AM). I found this wierd clock thing… it unfolded and it was a clock… but anyway. Mom saw me and was like (unknown pieces of the story are shown with “…”) “If you want that you’ll have to buy it from me. That clock is expensive. Your dad and I got it in high school when … then they found out it wasn’t worth as much as people were buying them for so they just … and your dad and I got one-” and then I said “and you got to keep it” and she said “yes, now be careful with it” (she let me have it then). And then my mom woke me up to get ready for school. So I’ll have to try back to bed or whatever again it seems to work best for me.

Yeah so that’s my first Lucid dream. Yay me.

Edit: lol oopsie i just finished posting a new topic when i got a message saying "post in the “BIG Hi, I am new here!” topic "…

oh well… [mod]So I moved it in that topic now [/mod]

Inverted · January 12, 2007, 5:36am

Yay you! insert overused smily Lucidity is awsome for me, and I suck at it. How great would it be If I actually tryed…? Anyway, my advice is if you find things like lucid living too difficult for your life (eg. I’m too lazy) try to casualy induce LD’s. Just know you’ll get them once in a while, think about them randomly, get a good nights rest, stuff like that. Anyway, here’s a bowl of lucidity cookies up for grabs! [size=75] I only had the motivation to eat a few…[/size]

Edit: Ooooh… I gots 100 posts…

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*Grabs a handful of cookies, runs out back door…

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Inquisitor_Bob · January 12, 2007, 5:42am

Fair 'nuff.
Welcome.

FishtankHank · January 12, 2007, 10:24am

Hi I’m new here and I just started training myself for LDs about 2 and 1/2 weeks ago so I have a lot of work still. In fact I’m in the mist of a WBTB right now! Wish me luck and I’m happy to be apart of the forum.

Sandra · January 12, 2007, 10:47am

Welcome Jayster,
I hope you like it here and welcome back to the world of LDs. You probably remember how great they can be.

Aquarys,
I’m sure a lot of people can give you the help you need. You can find a thread about transforming into an animalhere if you’re interested

Welcome Marioman64
Congratulations with your first Lucid Dream. It is good to see that it made you join this forum. It is a really nice one

Welcome FishtankHank
I moved your topic into this big thread as well. Good luck with LDing and let us know if your WBTB was successful

moogle · January 12, 2007, 6:28pm

hello Aquarys, I didn’t spot your post last night
There is a topic about morphing into an animal LD4all Quest #2: Overtone Moon: Transform into an animal

Marioman64,
congrats on your first lucid dream!

FishtankHank
good luck with your WBTB

Welcome to LD4all I am sure you will all enjoy your time spent here ;boogie:

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