My name is Donna. I am from the Lone Star State (Texas). I have known about LD for at least 20 years. I saw mention of it in a magazine article about 'The Lucidity Institute" back in the day.
My first LD was when I was 8-10 years old. The spaceman was drilling a hole in the back of my friends neck and I was next. I realized I was dreaming and thought if I just turned the light switch on and off I could wake up, which I did. I had watched “Invaders from Mars” the day before…lol…
I became interested again after watching the new Scifi series “Scifi Investigates” this past week. It had a segment on LD.
I now feel like I have the time to devote to this endeavor. I have made some progress in the last several days. Working on dream recall, keeping a journal, reality checks. I have been doing a reality check with a clock on the wall. I have seen the clock in my dreams but have not initiated a reality check in my dream. I think it will be soon though.
Of course, I went ahead and typed a rambling account of a recent LD in the General Lucidness forum before reading the notice that said READ THIS FIRST, so a disciplined, orgainzed thinker I am not. I am, however, interested in having more LDs, but my goals are not control of my dreams. If indeed, as a few Buddhists I’ve spoken with have suggested, the waking world and the dream world are not much different, why would I want to control my dreams when I can’t control my life? What I want out of my dreams is this: I know there are insights/memories/knowledge/etc. lodged in my brain that I can’t recall. I want to, through my LDs, pull some of that stuff out of my subconscious mind and plant it in my conscious mind. Does that make any sense? Also, communication with anything or anyone while dreaming is something I am interested in. Either it’s possible or I keep dreaming awfully realistic simulations of it somewhat regularly. I’d like to know how to tell the difference. Any feedback welcomed. To close this ramble, one of my biggest problems is that I rarely get more than 5 hours of sleep, so I don’t have the luxury of expanding my REM cycle until the kids are much older. Any advice for the REM-deprived would be a huge help. Thanks for reading through this mess. PA Zetsubou
Hi, I’m new. I’ve been checkin out LD for a couple days and am going onto my 3rd morning of recording dreams. I hope I can have lucid dreams a lot as soon as I can. It sounds really cool to be able to control dreams. I can do ANYTHING! It almost sounds too good. I heard you can share dreams with a friend, that’d be sweet too. Anyway, this morning i couldnt remember any dreams . but I’ll remember tomorrow. I’m looking forward to LD.
whoops, I meant to put this in the sticky, if a mod or someone could move it to the new peoples sticky thatd be great.
I don’t know how old they are … but if it’s possible to take short naps in the day/early evening when they sleep - it could be a good opportunity to try to experience a LD.
mmm as for your LD post in the general lucidness forum … I could move it into the dream diary forum (which would be the best choice since you can add future dreams to it there) or the beyond dreaming forum (let me know which you prefer)
CJB … lucid dreaming is great and the first time it happens it is an amazing sensation just being aware that you are inside a dream and everything feels so solid!
I am veeery happy to join this Forum . The reason why I want to master LD is one special dream that I had long ago.
A boy/hawk (we both turned into hawks the moment I met him) talked with me and said that he will ever be there for me in my dreams when I want to.
Perhaps he is something like a spiritual guide . I never met him again, but I want to see him by doing LDing ^^.
I am looking forward to talk with you and hope that you can give my good advice to achieve my goal.
The dream you had sounds interesting. I can understand you want to meet him again. Good luck with it ^^
There are a lot of people here who don’t have English as their first language, including me, so it’s not a problem. I can also remember I said it when I first posted here, but at that time my English was worse as what it is now. Your English seems fine to me.
Hi there. I’m VERY intrested in the subject of Lucid dreaming, and this site seems like a great place to go. Hope that all the info i’ve learned will help spark a lucid dream!
In last nights dream, I was in a library but my vision was blurred. I couldn’t see the title’s of the book’s clearly. In my mind I thought, “Increase Clarity Now!” My vision wavered a short moment, I thought if I could just scream it out loud it would work. So I did, the titles became crystal clear, but eventually my vision blurred again I and I would have to scream it out again. I didnt do a reality check in my dream to see if I was dreaming but I knew if I could vocalize waht I was thinking it would work.
Hello, I’m new here as well
I am 16, from California, and a very analytical person. I am an atheist, but have no fear because it is my decision, based on what makes sense to ME. It is not my goal to try to force any of you to be an atheist based on what makes sense to me!
This whole “living your dreams” thing would sound like a bunch of lies to me if I didn’t feel that I had already experienced it
Brains are crazy things. I am against drugs, and I see this as a non-damaging way to experience my subconscious at a more intimate level!
hello eternalhope, Krows and mezz
eternalhope, I hope you meet with your hawk-boy again
/me wishes Krows good luck in his LD quest
mezz, we have quite a few atheists and agnostics as members including our “famous Atheist” (his LD4all dj is really inspiring, even though it hasn’t been posted in for ages )
/me gives the customary warm welcome to all
sounds prelucid to me too, since you didn’t say you actually knew you were dreaming … it was more like trying out the techs you had read
you could begin a dj in our dream diary forum to keep all your dreams together (seems like those lucid vibes are beginning to work )
first off i must say this forum is pretty laid back and everyone seems to be chilled, which is a nice change! I’m a lucid dreamer, but only recently iv started to take it seriously, like keeping a dream journal and meditating before sleep. I’ve had many lucid dreams through my life, even if i didn’t mean i discovered the dream world, and also iv had many precognitive dreams. But now i want to explore the mind and precognitive dreaming, and have a bit of fun with lucidity as well.
hello O.Man, welcome to LD4all
there is a sticky pre cog topic in the beyond dreaming forum so you will prob spend quite a bit of time in there
I hope you decide to share some of your favourite LDs with us in the dream diary forum I would love to read them
Hi i’m new here, i just stumbled across the lucid dreaming subject on wikipedia one day and found this site and got really interested at it so decided to give it a shot, so here i am hope i can get the hang of this.
thanks and good luck to everybody
P.S: sorry for any grammar mistakes not a native speaker
Hallo all. I’m not TOTALLY new to LDing; I’ve known about it for a year, but haven’t successfully gained a consistent method for inducing them. I also have pitful recall, but hey, I’m always practicing!
I’d describe myself as highly dedicated. I take a long time to fall asleep, but once asleep I STAY asleep.
Very nice place you’ve got here; very friendly people! If anybody knows how to cure insomnia (specifically, FALLING asleep) or how to improve recall for said insomniac, please lemme know. I’d be happy to help anybody else out with actual LDing or other things!
I can’t really give any original advice on how to fall asleep (I’m pretty sure “close your eyes and don’t move” doesn’t count as good advice ) but I can wish lots of LDs on you!
hello twelvefortyseven and dsbmerrill 
I wonder who that is? 
I heard you can share dreams with a friend, that’d be sweet too. Anyway, this morning i couldnt remember any dreams 
. but I’ll remember tomorrow. I’m looking forward to LD.
hello PAzetsubou and CJB 
lucid dreaming is great and the first time it happens it is an amazing sensation just being aware that you are inside a dream and everything feels so solid! 
. The reason why I want to master LD is one special dream that I had long ago.
. I never met him again, but I want to see him by doing LDing ^^.
(his LD4all dj is really inspiring, even though it hasn’t been posted in for ages 
)
hello O.Man, welcome to LD4all 
so you will prob spend quite a bit of time in there 
I wouldn’t have known 
) but I can wish lots of LDs on you!