Thread: How it began

As I read through the posts I really feel for those who struggle with the task of lucid dreaming. As I stated earlier I began my dreaming experiences 32 years ago at age six. My first experience was that I was standing on the corner in my city at night. There was an individual (my subconscious I am guessing) standing behind my left shoulder who told me that I was dreaming. They began to teach me how to move about the dream. I remember floating into the buildings the first few times I tried moving my dream body. From that point on it became a nightly session of tutoring which went on for a very long time. I never saw the face of my teacher. There are so many techniques provided for lucid dreaming. For me it is simply a matter of closing my eyes to fall asleep her and waking up into one of the many places that I have created over the years. I know which dreamcity I am in by the "feel" of the dream. Each dream has a different vibration to it. I know immediately where I am and what has happened in the past when I was there. Having been a lucid dreamer for so long, and in order to eliminate repetition, I practice what I call "random insertion", meaning that I don't choose the dreamscape in which I will awaken. The only place that I willingly choose is a place that I call "dark city". I know that there will be only confrontations when I visit there and I use this place to challenge myself in the shapeshifting area. When I am confronted by a new adversary for the first time I shapeshift into it's form. After the first time I do this it is imprinted onto my dream mind and I can reshape into that particular form anytime thereafter.