The BIG "Hi, I'm new here!" Topic XI

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I’m new. I was interested in dreams about three years ago (when I was 12), but the interest just faded away and I became a music addict (or a They Might Be Giants addict, depends on how you look at it.)

Was just surfing around and came across this site (again, I believe), and decided that it might be interesting to see if I could do this now.

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Yeah steadily we’re approaching 4000 members! Simply amazing… :eek:

Hi Fizz, Cronian, starday, DreamerKrystal, girliesteph and Astralman0!! May this site and its wonderful forum be a guide to many LDs :wink: Don’t hesitate to ask questions if you’re having LD problems or whatsoever! We’ll be pleased to look for answers :smile:

Enjoy your stay! :happy:

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Welcome Cronian and Fizz. :beer:

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Hi , I have read about LD some time ago and was immediately fascinated.
Since then I remembered a lot more of my dreams and even got 2 half-lucid moments (for about 2 or 3 seconds) , without using any method or putting any effort in it at all .
Now that I have vacation and a lot more time , I decided do more research on the topic . I found this site today and was surprised that there is such a large and cool :wink: community . I especially enjoyed the “fav thing to do in a LD” and the “Sex”-Topic (they’re funny :lol: ) .
Well , thats it , I just wanted to say hi !

Good night :content: !

PS: sorry , if my English is a bit wierd , but I’m a german student . I hope you can understand me …

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Hey im new here and i just had my first lucid dream lastnight (ld4all.com/forum/?https://www.ld4 … te&p=82892) from that ive seen so far the people here are really nice
thx to girlysteph for intoing me to LD :grin:

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:cool_laugh: Lots of new people :wave:
Welcome to ld4all Cronian, Fizz, Lateralus and Scottdaman113 :grin:
Yes Lateralus the “sex” topic always seems to be popular :lmao: , plus what I love about ld4all is that our members come from all over the globe.
Scottdaman113, I read your diary before coming to this thread. Well done on having your first lucid dream. :thumbs:

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:cool_laugh: Hi. I’m new. I’ve been lurking about for a while and decided it was time to join the fun. I’ve had one LD this month, so I guess that’s success…

See you around…

Sleepmonkey

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I’m new to this forum and I never introduced my self… I usually just read sticky topics and start posting away.

I’m 18 years old and I have been trying to lucid dream for 4 months now. I am working on my dream recall and last night I actually had my first lucid dream. It was great.

I am a male and I am a senior in high school at the moment, school starts on the 16th for me. I live in Broward County Florida and next week I’ll be in Boston :smile:

My favorite type of music is Classic Rock. I like pretty much all of it and my favorite bands would have to be either Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin… I can’t really decide to tell the truth. Led Zeppelin has some great songs but Pink Floyd has amazing albums.(The Wall is the only album of theirs I can’t tolerate).

I play a game called Counter-Strike and I work as an USHER at a Regal Cinema.

My Favorite movie is Harold and Kumar go to White Caste, I’ve seen it 5 times now and I just can’t get enough of it, it’s comedic genius.

feel free to ask any questions.

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hey, how is everone doing this fine night. I have been going to the chat room the past couple of nights, and just joined the forum. I have been interested in lucid dreams for a long time now, but never really grasped the idea like I have recently, when I saw Waking Life for the first, and second, and third time haha. I work at a record store in Tennessee, until I graduate high school, when I plan to leave to somewhere like California for college. I love music (of all kinds)-- jazz is starting to become one of my favorites. but anyway, someone gave me the new Phish CD today and it’s great. a couple nights ago I tried to stay conscious while my body slipped into sleep (WILD) for the first time. I heard this distorted, strange voice, and fear felt as if it surrounded me like mist, but I didn’t let it resonate since it was a sign… nevertheless, I got a little excited because it was so extraordinary, and I came out of it. I’m going to attempt again tonight. but hey, I will let the readers read on,
archie

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:eh: You missed the sticky The Big Hi I’m New Here topic :tongue:
Welcome to ld4all Garlic :grin:

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Hello archie-snazzzy :wave: I hope this is the first post of many. :wiske:
Good Luck with your WILD attempt tonight. :grin:

We usually introduce ourselves in the sticky introduction topic
[The BIG "Hi, I'm new here!" Topic XI)

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oops, I had seen that section before, but forgot where I had seen it :smile:

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Congratulations on the lucid dream SleepMonkey :cool: Will you be posting it in the first LD topic?

Welcome to ld4all forum…we are all friendly and don’t bite, so it’s safe to stop lurking. :tongue:

Also welcome to Garlic ld4all.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7904

archie-snazzzy ld4all.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7909

Lucid Cannon ld4all.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7784

and The Late Shinobi ld4all.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7783

:beer: :smile:

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Hey, I can’t say I’m an expert at lucid dreams, but I have had a few, it seems like my main hurdle is actually thinking stuff is “off” I just kind of go along with things even if they make absolutly no sence what so ever, but the tinest things snap me into realization. :cry: but I can not be able to read something and blame it on the fact that I didn’t go to catholic school :wink:

I’ve also had one of thoes “old-maid terrors” yet the old made was the TV not really working and speaking gibberish to me, I was unable to move and tried to look at the clock but it was off (i assumed it was put to the side) or check my wrist watch that didn’t light up and assumed the light was broken. I heard my boyfriend bring my dog over and complain that I wasn’t awake and he’d have to go back to my mother’s house with the dog, when i was finally able to move I went into the living room where everyone was and sat down… then I woke up all confused and went into my roomates bedroom with this baffled look on my face and I asked if my boyfriend was here with my dog and they said no… so I explained what happened to me and went back to sleep.

I’ve also had psychic? dreams… I dream about it and a month later it shows up in real life. For example I gave birth to a giraffe… a month later my mom told us we had a half brother and hes 6`4… I dreamt there were dinosaurs at the zoo… and I got a zoo play set for my birthday complete with dinosaurs…

I remember my dreams quite vividly and I have great feelings in my dreams, like when someone kisses me or rubs my back I feel this intence feeling and usually wake up crying…

When I was able to become Lucid I tried to call upon my advisor or an old friend I haven’t seen in a while, but they never showed :sad: I kept telling myself to increase lucidity and clearity. It was also weird that when i became lucid shortly after calling on people this child picked me up and held me upside down and said “your dream will soon end” it went black and I went into another lucid dream shortly after. Decided everything else I wanted to do didn’t work so i had great sex :smile: sad, but I need to get my skills better i guess :smile::slight_smile:

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Hi all,
Am new tbh imo :razz:. I have only recently found out about this am only 16 and i find it really interesting so am going to try it out i guess. And get a few friends to try it out aswell no doubt they won’t :content:, i’ve got a friend from msn doing it but i am put of by somethings.

rickwalkerhome@hotmail.com my address if you want to add meh.

Peace out imo.

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My God, I’m not the only one!

I am Mystikan (real name Steve), and I don’t know if what I experience is LD, OBE or something else… but what you describe on this and your linked LD sites is the closest explanation I’ve come across by far.

To explain: Ever since childhood, I feel that I have lived two lives. One is my Earth-life, in which I am a male human being, born in England and currently residing in Australia, interests and employment etc. as per my profile here. The other is as a member of a race known as Aimanhyarin, a winged, psychically-powerful humanoid species from a planet known as Aiman, whose influence has spread over millions of galaxies.

There’s way too much to reveal in a single post, and in fact I am currently developing a website dedicated to this experience, but I’ll summarize as best I can here.

First, my experience (I’m reluctant to call it a “dream” for reasons that will become clear) has been occurring on a nightly basis for as long as I can remember - and I am 37 years old. Essentially, I go to sleep here, and when I wake up, I am in another place. I live a life there, meet people, and perform tasks as though I were awake. I go to sleep there, and wake up back here. I call this process a state transition.

Here, I am currently unemployed and on welfare, which I augment by designing the occasional website when I can get work. I have few responsibilities, I can generally make ends meet (just), and face few major problems or dilemmas in waking life. I have no commitments, partner or children here (nor any wish to have either of the latter given the social climate of Western civilisation on this planet), and no debts. I can spend much time designing my graphics and Web pages, from which I make just enough to augment my welfare assistance and live a reasonable mode of life. I’d like to be able to get off the welfare completely, and I’m working towards that goal as best I can.

There, I am a high-ranking official in an intergalactic organisation known as the Arnagest (the name derives from the two Aimanhyarin words arnad, meaning war, and gestad, meaning peace). The role of the Arnagest is to preserve a principle known as Dey Kalahad or The Balance - essentially, to manipulate and influence interracial conflicts so as to prevent the destruction or domination of any starfaring culture by another, and to preserve all cultures by any means possible. My role in the Arnagest bears onerous responsibilities and I am often called upon to make decisions that can affect the lives of billions of intelligent beings. This is not a responsibility I wish for and in that state have often wished to escape it. Most of the time, I am at my desk perusing cultural semantics reports, computing actions and outcomes, and recommending courses of action to my staff.

This is different to your descriptions of LD in several important aspects:

  1. The experience is both exigent and contiguous; i.e. the alternate state fulfils all standard reality checks, and each successive transition to the alternate state leads on from the previous one in both lives.
  2. The experience is involuntary; I have never sought to deliberately “initiate” a state transition, and in fact have on occasion experimentally sought ways to prevent it from occurring, without success. Even if I get extremely drunk, or dose up on Valium, the state transition still occurs unimpeded.
  3. I often have “normal dreams” between states; that is, I have dreams in which elements of both worlds are combined (that’s what you would call a “dreamsign”) - then I know I’m dreaming and can become “lucid” as you say. But this is distinct from either my Earth-state or my Aiman-state, and such dreams invariably fail a reality check - whereas both Earth and Aiman don’t.
  4. When questioned, the Aimanyarin insist upon and can demonstrate their reality, just as you can. To them, my descriptions of Earth are a dream, just as my description of Aiman is to you. One Aimanhyarin girl, Kam-Kalya Sanshina, has described Earth as a expression of desire to “escape my responsibilities of the Arnagest”.
  5. On Aiman, I think, speak and write in Aimanhyarin (I’ve developed a font of Aimanhyarin script that’ll be available to the public when I get my website up). I cannot, while there, utilise English effectively, and can only recall a few phrases in this language. Conversely, while here, I have only a sketchy knowledge of Aimanhyarin and can recall only a few phrases in it - but as you can tell from this post, I have an excellent command of English!
  6. On reading and writing: pages of text and pictures remain constant and do not change, even between state transitions. For example, my Aimanhyarin partner, Shan-Kailin Palandi, has a picture on her loungeroom wall of our daughter, Shan-Chalika, riding a parilet (an Aimanian animal that looks sort of like a winged, crested kangaroo), which has remained there, unchanged, for years. And on my office wall at the Arnagest HQ, I have a copy of the Mandate of the Arnagest, which also has remained constant for the time it has been there.

In short, I am unable to establish by any empirical means that this experience is NOT a reality unto itself, any more than I can disprove Earth and the people in it. I did not wish for this experience, did nothing to trigger it, and cannot control it, except insofar as its laws of physics permit. For example, I can fly, but only because I (as do all Aimanhyarin) have wings and do so as a matter of course (and it takes considerable effort, like running). Similarly, I can effect certain changes by power of will, but this also is a function of Aimanhyarin psionics and there are limits to what I can accomplish by this means.

I cannot, for example, make others change appearance, character or nature, or create or delete them from the experience. Others have their own distinct identities and personalities, as do others here on Earth, which I cannot alter even with the most intense wish to do so (e.g. Kailin’s sister Taliya hates my guts and would kill me if she got the opportunity, and she has tried repeatedly to poison Kailin’s mind against me. She is in a sense responsible for the death of our daughter (who incidentally I have no power to bring back to life) and has been a nemesis ever since I met her and Kailin in my youth.)

Likewise, I cannot “teleport” to other locations except though the Transmat system operated by the Arnagest (they call it the Gamarakhad; I derived the term Transmat from transportation matrix, which describes what it is), and that only goes to specific terminals. I cannot simply change location by will, and to get to other planets unequipped with Transmat terminals I must travel by ‘conventional’ means; i.e. spacecraft. And a spacecraft journey can take a long time (over a number of consecutive state transitions).

Finally, the extent of the culture and detail in the Aiman-state far exceeds my own knowledge and experience. I could fill an encyclopedia with information about the alternate universe, but this post is big enough as it is! There is language, religion, history, arts, literature, sports, fashions and more there that I have no room to describe. Many of these things are even outside my fields of interest; here’s one example:

I have no interest in playing chess (although I know the essential rules of the game) - I’m no good at it, and it just bores me. Yet the Aimanhyarin have a similar game, called thahle, played on a 12 x 12 board; the object is not to checkmate the opponent’s “king”, but to get your six “gestalt” pieces into their back row. Someone once told me that was more like checkers, but since I’ve never played checkers and don’t know the rules, I wouldn’t know. An Aimanhyarin friend of mine, Tan-Marren Adurinak, is good at thahle (he can beat me hands down), but I don’t often play.

And I could go into much more detail about Aimanhyarin telepathy and their Gestalt culture, their utter inability to lie or conceal, their resulting complete lack of any sense of privacy, their open work-based economy, the inter-transitional time shift (I’ve lived around 320 years there while only 37 here; the Arnagest seems a daily reality while Earth seems only to occur occasionally) and much more, but there is not space. I can only say that the cogent reality encompassed by this alternate universe is far greater in extent than could be considered possible in a dream state, and I am forced to accept that the state transitions may not smply be a dream.

I have tried to treat this as a dream, but to no avail. But seeing this site (I found it through Wikipedia) gives me some hope of finding others with similar experiences and hopefully being able to establish the actual nature of such an occurrence.

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Welcome to ld4all Gothiclullaby and Mystikan I’m sure you will both get a lot of enjoyment by becoming members of this community. :wiske:

I would also like to say hello to Asurmen Aka Murdox ld4all.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t … highlight= :content:

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Hello Asurmen Aka Murdox
I have read quite a few of your posts so far. :content: It will be interesting to find out what you discover about your train nightmare link by using your future lucid dreams

We actually have a sticky topic called The Big “Hi I’m New Here” which can be found here
[The BIG "Hi, I'm new here!" Topic XI)

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Welcome Mystikan, Gothiclullaby, SleepMonkey, Scottdaman113 and Lateralus!

@ Gothiclullaby: you’ve got some vivid dreams indeed! I’m sure you’ll find the means here to work further on your skill :smile:

@ Mystikan: wow… that’s just mindblowing!!! You should create a separate topic about this so we can all discuss about the nature of those incredible experiences. I’ve really no idea what it could be. You enter this “different reality” only when you fall asleep here? It still can be a very stable dreamscape. Many ancient civilizations (Phoenicians, Sufis) knew about stable “hotspots” on the dreamplane, ranging from vast gardens to coastal dream cities. They are so stable, because the place is founded upon the thought forms of many many people. In the same way, Easterners believe this world seems so stable because it’s fueled by the mental models of billions of people. I don’t know… But it’s extremely intriguing stuff!! :smile:

To all: good luck with your LD practice! :content:

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kk sorry il be sure to look before i post next time i was really tired tho last night. :content:

Peaceout Imo.