Hi, this is just an introduction and my first post in this forum. Please excuse any mistake in my use of the langage as I am not a native english speaker : I am French, live in Spain, travel a lot (in the physical world) and currently spend time in Brazil.
I know I should introduce myself in the newbie forum, but "beyond dreaming" is the forum that actually caught my attention and made me sign up to be a member, so I thought I would do it here instead. I am curious to see the "Deep Dreaming" forum as soon as I can too. Frankly, I am not interested in flying, driving fancy cars, or have sex in my dreams since most of it can be done in real life. On the other hand I am interested in learning about shared dreaming, healing, travelling to other dimensions, meeting entities from other worlds...
So I quite commonly first heard about lucid dreaming in Castaneda, then saw "waking life" and actually had my first LD after seeing this (amazing) movie a few times, about five years ago, doing the light switch check one of the characters talks about, and realizing I was dreaming. Some time ago I've also realized I was dreaming (don't remember how, thought) and tried to fly (I guess it's the first thing everyone tries, no ?). I actually got to float, or kind of levitate if you prefer, which I thought was quite cool. All this was done without doing any training, not even reading a faq on the internet.
So now, thanks to this forum I am starting to understand the real potential of lucid dreaming : pretty exciting. Good night !