Hello, my name is Carolyn. I'm 42. I want to take this class to learn more about dreaming, and the emotional issues that cause blockages, nightmares, sleep paralysis. I've been helping people understand symbolism in their dreams since I was a little girl. It was something that I was fortunate enough to be raised for. One of my grandmother's was a medium and she started teaching me how to interpret dreams when I was old enough to talk to her about a dream I had. I must have been about 4-5 years old. From what I've been reading so far, I've been lucid dreaming since I was a child and I didn't know this was something people "tried to do." I've taught classes while I was asleep (in astral defense), astral traveled, visited people who were far away. I dream in vivid detail, with color, smell, taste, everything. If I'm dreaming of hitting the brakes, I wake up feeling the brake pedal under my foot. Sometimes I see myself in dreams (I always appear to be about 30 years old for some reason). I've flown a few times (again, finding out that people are "trying" to do this is weird). I have no experience in the lingo of lucid dreaming though. The abbreviations - its a totally new language I'm going to have to learn as I go. Suddenly I feel like I'm walking into that first day of German class, 27 years ago in high school! So anyway, thats me. I hope its ok for me to join.