Hello, I'm thebigm, 31 and I have been lucid dreaming on and off sporadically for about 6 years, around the same time I started to experience sleep paralysis and the vibrations that accompany them.

My first lucid dream happened when I was on the couch asleep and I got up and stood in my living room. I noticed the room was glowing a different colour from normal. I turned round and saw myself asleep on the couch and realised that I was dreaming (further research since then would suggest an OBE or the sorts). The shock drove me to wake up. Throughout that night I kept finding myself standing in my living room realising I was dreaming I tried to will things to happen, but could not.

A few days later, my next experience came (and the majority since) during a weekend long lie. I was aboard a space craft on some alien planet and realised I was dreaming and that I could do what I want. The intensity would get so much that I would wake up, although I kept falling asleep and lucid dreaming in the same dreamscape, after exploring and helping save that planet in a few installments I read up on and found out about the topic of lucid dreaming.

Since then lucid dreams to me have always been spontaneous DILDs, when something happens, like coughing up a stone in a work team meeting. Realising that I'm not physically in the place I am dreaming off. My reflection in windows and mirrors waving at me. In saying that, for every DILD that has happened for a reason like the previous, the majority of nights I have a lot more obvious signs than this (talking spiders) that don't cause lucidity.

A couple of years later the sleep paralysis started to get really intense and the feeling of being pulled from my body accompanied often. Scared I would fight it until I woke up and after getting fed up went online for a medical diagnosis and found a few spiritual websites. I am really interested in Astral Projection and it's possibilities however I am trying to keep a little bit of skepticism until I can actually do it for myself and prove to myself that I feel there is more to it than simply dreaming. I am in a state now where most of the time I can relax and go with the vibrations and have had a few very minor induced OBEs that I have documented in my dream journal as well as talked about in a few threads.