Hi. I'm new. I'm a 47-year-old technical writer and aspiring entertainment-industry professional living in Toronto, Canada. I have frequent half-lucid dreams where I'm aware that I'm dreaming, but can't change anything without intense concentration. I'm on Cymbalta for depression at 60 mg/day, and Cymbalta is a medication that has the withdrawal side effect of inducing very vivid dreams if you've forgotten to take it that day.

For obvious reasons given the industry in which I aspire to work, I've decided to remain nameless here. But I'm extremely interested in lucid dreaming because:

a) all of my dreams are currently nightmares and I'd like to be able to create some pleasant dreams once in a while - isn't sleep supposed to be restful?

b) I suspect that the ability to take control of one's dreams may tie into the "Law of Attraction" school of thought, which I've discovered sometimes works in my life in a delightfully spooky way; and

c) I want to explore ways to use my dreams to inform and fuel my creative processes.

Anyway, hi.