Thread: Hello.

My name is Aaron Morrison. I live in a small southern town in Georgia. I spend most of my time listening to music and attempting to focus on school studies, as well as walking. Walking has become one of the most beautiful things to me. I began walking a lot at night, with no real intention in what I was doing. At times, where I went things would become very tense and I would become horrified, and still do from time to time. However, in this horror there is a very detached, psychedelic, beautiful and yet terrible feeling present. I remember most walks that I take as very dreamy, mostly indescribable experiences. Not all of them are at night, but the ones that are are probably the most wonderful. They're full of introspection, thought, and often fear, often malaise, and often serious questioning of what the hell I'm doing. It and music are probably what I love most in life. I would like to be a musician to get through life, and I haven't any idea where I would find myself if such were to not work out.

I realized the beauty of lucid dreaming after waking up one morning this past summer to work on summer assignments for the upcoming school year. I worked for a little while, drank a cup of coffee, but eventually just went back to sleep anyway. In my sleep, I think the coffee kicked in and, instead of waking me up, sent me into a lucid dream. I'm not absolutely sure if the series of dreams I experienced were necessarily "lucid" so to speak, but I remember them as being so vivid and spectacular. I have not again tried drinking coffee to have a lucid dream, as I want to be able to have one at will without having to use coffee to make it happen. I've tried the method of going to sleep telling myself to stay alert and aware, telling myself that I "am going to have a lucid dream," etc. However, when I do this, I will drift, and once I come out of the drift to stay alert, I just end up completely waking up. I've come here primarily for help with successfully having a lucid dream by will, but also to tell of my lucid dreams once I succeed in making myself have them. Any help, perhaps?

Thanks a lot, and it's nice to be apart of the forum.