How long have you had intrest in dreams?

[CWHunt456]

So how long??? I have been since I was around 5 when I had a weird nightmare where I got chased by headless Franklin (the turtle from Nick jr) and didn't watch him for a month. But I always wanted to tell everyone about them but my family would tell me to stop telling the stories because they are weird and they find me weird. So I got SP when I was around 6 and after that went bonkers on it and had to learn (still didnt know that google existed). So at 13 I finally searced online Dreams and found that I have had SP for a VERY LONG TIME!! And then found lucid dreaming at 14 which took me to this

[Pretzel]

I've always had very vivid and exciting dreams, and I've always been able to remember one dream almost every night without trying. When I was about ten I asked my sisters, brothers, and parents about this, and they all said that they could almost never remember their dreams. My one sister remembered her dreams more than anyone else, though, but she said that they were generally nightmares or very boring. I was very interested in this, but didn't bother googling, I just really liked dreaming because my dreams were always exciting, and I've never had a nightmare in my life. When I was ten or eleven, I had my first lucid dream (I didn't try), and I remember thinking how cool it was. I had another one not long after, but then they stopped. I forgot about it for a long while, but just recently it came up in a conversation, so I searched google and it took me here. Since finding this about two weeks ago, I've had three lucid dreams. Yay!

[IrisRavenstar]

How long? Ah, I remember a few dreams from early childhood, but not many. I started writing papers on dreams for my biology classes in the early sixties in high school, using a goverment free publication for a primary source, so that got into the physical aspects of dreams mostly. I did them in college in later years as well, because it was always an easy 'A' because not many were doing papers on dreams at that time. Then I had a clinical depression and worked with my dreams with a psychoanalytically oriented psychiatrist from 1976-85, and read tons of books by Freud and Jung, and started back to college, where I majored in Occupational Therapy and minored in Psychology, so dreams were always part of it all. Then I went to a retreat where an Episcopal priest and Jungian psychologist named Morton Kelsey was leading the group, and that really set me up for what came later, as he gave me a way to combine my spiritual and psychological interests in the dreams. He was an amazing man and a wonderful teacher, and I also read all his books. Then when my interest really took hold and blossomed was in 1986, after my brother died, and after my 40th birthday, and I think both events had a lot to do with it, really. I sometimes now refer to the years prior to that as my forty years in the wilderness, because my dreams changed so intensely at that time, they were so vivid and meaningful and demanded my full attention. They'd wake me up, and sit bolt upright, awed by the vividness and color, and I just *had* to learn what they meant. I started working to understand them, and then I kept having more of them like that, and then I started opening up psychically, and discovered a whole different world, really. Dreams are wonderful and varied and full of life and full of other people, both living and dead, not just dream characters, but real connections. It's fascinating, really! I know I've still got tons to learn about them too! I've read tons of books by all kinds of dream writers, and have a few on my shelf yet to read. I don't think we ever have to stop growing, really. We just keep learning more, and that's fun, isn't it?

[Unelias]

I remember better my childhood dreams than my actual waking life memories. I have always had a great interest in dreams and their cultural and spiritual meaning for people. Time has just increased my interest and here I am now

[Cacophony]

I've always had an interest in my dreams. When I was growing up, every morning my family and I would talk about our dreams. My grandmother used to have me write my dreams down every morning. I always had vivid dreams and had always been curious about them.

[bradxx4]

I have always had a big interest in them , but never really did to much. I always loved remembering my dreams in the morning and thinking back and laughing. Then my friend who is on this site starting telling me about comming on here and all about lucidity and i got even more interested. So i decided to try it on myself and see how well it works out. Its pretty crazy , you sleep away almost 3 quarters of your life so being about to lucid dream and control your conscious is very intriguing and fun, although i have not had one myself , i will soon cause i am not giving up : D and good luck to anyone whos in my place now still trying to achieve their first LD.

[44CalibreSunlight]

It's one quarter brad :p I've pretty much always loved dreaming. I had a lucid dream once as a child. and the term was kinda burned in the back of my head from somewhere. then a couple years back I saw the word somehwere and instantly began researching, which broguht me here, but I wans't as motivated when I signed up. Then I got back into it hardcore a couple months ago

[bradxx4]

mark , you know im dumb , cut some slack lol

[Pegorian]

I was in middle school, so around 12 or 13 when I had nightmares and while looking online for ways to get rid of them discovered lucid dreaming. That's when I really became interested in dreaming.