First post.

I have read and scanned through these boards for the last few days, and I can say that I'm pleasantly suprised that I've found a small, yet dependable and functioning community based on this. I have become somewhat familiar with a few of you, the main two being Leo and SKA.

I am 17 and (somewhat) new to lucid dreaming. I have been quite familiar with the idea, but new to the term and specifics behind it. I've had numberous lucid dreams as a child, but they all seemed to stop. Years later, I encountered a problem of sorts, and I needed not only to solve it, but to delve deeper into my own subconcious. Lo and behold, I found lucid dreaming, a mere week from today. That same night about reading about it and it's practices, I had a lucid dream.

My reasons behind practicing is much different than most of what I see on these boards, but that's okay.

Enough with my own trivial blabber and whatnot.

Ignorance truly is bliss, and lucid dreamers are truly in a euphoric state.

"Dreams are a truth fabricated by our brain; a truth that can exist only within our mind."

Do you believe that to be so?

I am no educated scholar, nor am I some kind of New Age realist. I am perhaps a simple layman with some knowlage and an idea.

Before I go any further, who believes in shared dreams? I am almost postitive many of you do, as it is widely accepted that they are very much possible.

Has anyone ever tried to create one? Have you tried to delve deeper into your mind, deeper than your own subconcious? Gustave Le Bon's assumpion that multiple people creates a new mentality - a "group mind" can be used in somewhat relative terms; perhaps there is a force beyond gravity that bonds us all together.

I am trying to relay one question: what if our minds are simply doorways to each other? Being God within our dreams is fine, but we are still grounded by reality (if we weren't, then there wouldn't be much purpose in defying it, now would there). We all share a common idea of what is possible and what is not, what is real and what is not and so on. What if the shadows (a la Allegory of the Cave) that we see and pass everyday was revealed to be not as a shadow, but as a real object - a common idea of perfection?

What if perfection was truly a common thought shared between all of us?

Can Lucid Dreaming take us there? Can we control our subconcious into moving not into what we fabricate within the dream land, but what is perfect?

How deep does it really go, considering we are asking our minds for complete control?

I'm sure you all have your intelligent (and not so much) ideas, so please, share.

Can we slip into and realize a world that is perfect and true? Can we find each other's conciousness in the land of dreams?