Hello, my name is Doug (if you didn't figure it out already), and I'm now working on becoming more lucid. So far (after a few days), I've already have gotten my recall up to about two a night. I've had lucid dreams before (I didn't know what they were called then) when I was in elementry school, and about one more after that. (It seems to me that the peak for natrual lucid dreaming is about 8 or 9.) I have a few questions about lucid dreams.

1: Once I remember having a lucid dream when I was 8. I appered in my living room, and I remembered that I built a tent from blankets and chairs in the same spot, in order to sleep in. I asked my mom (who was on the phone) if she took the tent down. She says, "Not right now, I'm on the phone", and dissappered. I realize I'm dreaming. I tried doing a breaststroke through the air, and floated up a little, than drifted down a little more. With a whole bunch of effort, I was able to get myself up into the loft, then hit my head on the ceiling and woke.

Has anyone started flying, or had a lucid dream when they were little where some of the rules in the waking world still exist a little? It felt kinda like I was swimming to the bottom of a pool, but the opposite direction...

2: In a dream I had recently (non-lucid), I walked into a computer lab, with the intent of typing something for school. I walked up and sat down. Apparently it worked (now that I think of it, the screen was really blurred out). I got done typing and walked out.

Now, I know machines in the dreamworld have a tendency not to like working. But..., it seemed like it worked, and I have total amniesa of actually typing on it. This happen to anyone else?

3: Has anyone tried turning themselves into a machine? Like a gun, jet, or computer? Can someone try and tell me the results? I'm sure it would be interesting to see how that works out!

4: Anyone have good luck with brain wave entrainment? Specificly 3.9Hz?

Thanks alot, I can't wait to try to have more control of my dreamworld!

- Doug