((NOTE: I haven't been here for 2 weeks, I know. However, I'm just roughly 24 hours short of 2 weeks. Less than that, even. I'm not going anywhere any time soon. If the moderators feel the need to lock this, then please do so. No hard feelings, hopefully.))

Hey everyone!

I am, like 50% of the people who come to this specific board, looking to be adopted. Throughout all my life, I've been having natural semi-lucid dreams. What I mean by semi-lucid, is that I become aware that I am dreaming, and fail to act upon it. It just sits there at the back of my mind. I have zero control in these, and almost always awake in just a few moments. Even after I learned of all the possibilities of Lucid Dreaming, this still happens. However, I have had 1 recent (possibly 2. Check the 'Was this a Lucid Dream?' thread.) Lucid Dreams in which I did have control. It only lasted maybe 45 seconds, but it was really great. Even though I never even managed to get out of my bed, the knowledge that I can do anything, without consiquence was an amazing thing. I managed to do it through a WILD, I believe. It could have just been I was attempting to WILD and fell asleep, as I had no HI aside from a few swirling colours, and I don't really remember going into SP that time.

I keep a Dream Journal, but my recall is still very poor. On average, I remember 1 full dream and one or more fragments a night. On occasion, I will remember up to 3 full dreams. I do have a nice schedule going with that, though. I'll wake up at 5:30AM, jot down a few fragments, go to sleep for another hour, and remember an entire dream that occured in that hour.

This would probably be a good time to say, I have never experienced any audio HI (Actually, what do you call Audio Hypnogogic Imagery?) I have the feeling I may have said that I did, at one point, but the truth is that I haven't. It's generally what holds me back from succesfully WILDing every night. To be honest, I'm a bit afraid of it. I am fully aware that nothing I hear is real and that it could never hurt me, but I still don't want to hear screams or some of the other strange stuff people speak about when I am alone in my room during the middle of the night. I have experienced visual HI a few times, none of which led into a LD. These visual HIs were not frightening in the slightest. In fact, they were all of familiar places to me and were quite comforting.

Now for a bit about myself aside from my (non-existant) LDing skills. I'm a 15-year-old Honors student that spends less time on his studies than he should. I live in British Columbia, Canada in a nice little community not too far from Vancouver. I take time with my writing, though I will be the first to admit it's wrought with imperfections, especially if I'm in a hurry. Generally, I'm easy to get along with. I'm not Mr. Popular, but I don't believe I have any enemies. I'm a student of Japanese, having completed my school's intro level with 93%, and am set to take Japanese 11, Japanese 12, and Japanese AP in the next 2 years. I read a lot, but it is mostly fantasy. I have somewhere in the range of 70 Dragonlance books alone, with over 110 fantasy books total. I also watch a fair bit of anime.

I'm rambling a bit, I know. Anyways, in an adopter, I am looking for a few things:

- Experienced. Please. I am here to learn. While I appreciate that you may be a very nice person, if you've only had 2 or 3 Lucid Dreams, it would be hard for yourto help me out very much.
- Easy to talk to. I am not a master at keeping a conversation going. In fact, I fairly suck at it. An easy to talk to person would be excellent.
- Available during 6:00AM Pacific - 8:00PM Pacific (2:00PM GMT - 4:00AM GMT) even though I might not always be (school taking up 6 hours of that time.) If I am never able to speak to you, there would be little point.
- Finally, while not a requirement at all, I wouldn't mind if you were a bit well known around the community. Mainly so that you can get answers when you need to, and so I know that you aren't going to suddenly vanish without a good reason

In retrospect, that may seem a bit picky. I have no preference to age or gender. A 16-year-old male is no better or no worse than a 29-year-old woman or any other age/gender combination you can think of. I also have no preference as to which ILD you are most experienced in, as I am eager to learn as many as I can to increase my chances of having lucid dreams.

This post ended up 3 times as long as I had originally intended it to be. I'm sorry for forcing you to read through all that.