Thread: Hello from Colorado

Welcome and here's your daily reminder your hockey team sucks hard!

Originally Posted by Churro

New guy, here. Greetings and well wishes to all.
Excited to get started- any advice on how to begin exploring this forum?

Welcome Churro!

Where to begin on the forum depends upon where you wish to explore, I guess; there's quite a bit of variety here!

If you are new to LD'ing and seek advice on how to get started or hone your new-found skills, I highly recommend that you read through DV's excellent tutorials, and perhaps take a class in the DV Academy. Beyond that, I would suggest browsing the subjects and following what catches your eye -- something likely will!

See you around the forums!

Welcome Churro!

I'd say take your time to explore the different sections of the forum and find areas of interest. If you have any questions feel free to post in the relevant areas or ask us directly .

Have a great time!

I guess I should have included some more biographical info. I'm in my early 40's, live on an isolated ranch in Colorado where I raise sheep and grow hay. I've been interested in LD since about 6th grade, when I read an article in Omni magazine on the subject. I started trying to have lucid dreams then, but with little discipline.

I started journaling and dream-journaling heavily at about 18 yrs, and had my first LD in October that year. Very brief, but hey, I was hooked. Around that time and again a few years later I worked as a baker, so I had to be at work by 3 am. Balancing that with the usual late-teen/early 20's hijinks led to some erratic sleep schedules. This seemed to intensify dreaming at times, but didn't lend itself to developing repeatable results. During this time I had frequent false awakenings where I would hear my alarm clock, get up, go to work, start baking, then hear a phone next to my head and realize I was dreaming and had not gone to work at all. It actually was pretty common with the other bakers I knew.

In the late 90's I moved to an isolated ranch (not where I live now) and had some really intense dream experiences, some lucid, some not. Among them, these are notable:
1) I dreamed of a mountain lion outside my house, then found tracks the next morning in the same spot as in the dream;
2) A long series of recurring dreams that always seemed to pick up where the last left off. In them I had a whole "other life", complete with childhood memories, family, a girlfriend, neighbors and friends, an apartment, etc. I'd wake each time confused about who I really was, and kind of sad that the life I'd dreamed was not really "real.
3) A series of dreams that were more like narrated visions about how the earth "really" looks, how physics "really works and the like. In these dreams/visions I had no body and was just shown a bunch of 3d images while a male voice told me how things "really" worked.

There were others, but that gives the flavor of it.

Later, I moved with my wife into a house that appeared to be haunted or something. I had never really believed in that kind of thing, but the evidence was convincing enough that I began to pray a lot, even in nightmares. Praying in the name of Jesus Christ ALWAYS worked to overcome demons, monsters, whatever (not evangelizing, just saying what I noticed), and seemed to work in one particular dream to end the weird activity permanently.

Since I have had enough LD's to know they are possible, I am finally settling into a routine, making it a consistent practice. Part of the reason I am doing this is so I can teach my 2 year old son to respect and use his dreams from a very early age. He's very kind and intelligent, and my hope is to foster these and other good qualities in a context larger than merely waking life. God only knows what the results could be.

Welcome! I hope you have a great time here!