Can't be sure what my first post is here (the search function refuses to find it or half of my other old posts for some reason), but at the time I first joined I had already experienced LDs for much of my life, going back far enough that I really don't know for sure what my first one was. They were rare, though, and I never realized their full potential, so I didn't get into them a whole lot. But this forum definitely started my biggest interest and effort at the time in exploring LDs when I came across it in 2005. (Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly what prompted me to visit in the first place.) The biggest memory I have was learning for the first time that it was possible to be conscious during non-dream sleep (as in WILD). This alone was pretty intriguing to me. The really weird thing is that the very night I read that it was a thing, I happened to get my own quick glimpse of conscious NREM by accident while trying to fall asleep, and ever since then to this day I have episodes of it from time to time, which I always take advantage of.
Anyway, for a couple of years, a bunch of cool things happened, but eventually I fell into a lull period through 2008 up until late 2014 where my focus shifted to other things and LDing dropped to a lower priority. I still did some of it but at a very slow pace compared to my initial peak (though it was still higher than before then in my life). Then I finally started wondering why I felt like I hadn't accomplished anything with my LDs after all those years and decided I needed to readjust my priorities. I hadn't visited DV in ages and decided maybe I could come back and see if I could find a couple of new hints or strategies I could try.
Well, I got a lot more than I bargained for. I found Sageous, his classes, a bunch of other people with some really awesome, thought-provoking perspectives I had never considered before (there's unfortunately no way for me to remember and name everyone), things about self-awareness, meditation, all kinds of stuff I never knew about or considered, and I learned for the first time that it had important applications to issues in my waking life, not just LDing. So in a way, I feel I only really got started just a couple of years ago when I came back to DV, and this time I've made up my mind that this is a journey I'll be staying on permanently. Right now I'm in the middle of my biggest, most active LD peak yet, and I believe the most exciting things are yet to come.
A big thanks to everyone here.
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