I've suffered heavy bouts of sadness ever since I entered college (I'm now in my third year). One day, I accidentally came across the concept of lucid dreaming on the Internet; actually, I've heard about it before but it never really captured my interest since my dreams aren't that fun anyway. But my Google searches led me to Rebecca Turner's website, and the way they presented lucid dreaming struck something inside me. The possibilities for entertainment, honing skills, creative inspiration, etc. were all great incentives, but what really got me interested was the proposition of being able to perform self-healing by directly communicating with my subconscious. So, I guess you could say I'm pursuing lucid dreaming as a way of coping with life and as a spiritual/therapeutic journey.

So far I've had a handful of lucids, and though they're all rather 'blurry' and far from the profound experiences I keep reading about, they still always leave me with amazement.