Thread: Hi, its been a long time coming.

Hi there,

My name is tom, im a student living in the UK, and most importantly, im a dreamer (among other things ). I have been now for almost a year. Im finally joining up to the site as my waking life friends have become extremely bored with all my 'crazy dream talk' hahah.

I first began to learn the art of lucid dreaming as a phase like obsession (abit of a personal experiment), however after becoming lucid for the first time its been something iv stuck with... as most of you should know, theres nothing quite like that first time.

Firstly then, a dream from last wednesday night (DILD):

I am driving, which is strange in itself as im not a qualified driver, although driving is a common theme among my most recent dreams.
Some of my friends from my old school are in the car, Craig and Matthew. They are commenting on my driving skills and making jokes which i cannot recall. One then shouts 'LOOK OUT' and i swerve off the road avoiding a weird lump of twisted metal (??) and go onto the pavement, still driving full speed. Somehow i am avoiding the tress (although they are lined to the center of where im heading), which makes me stop the car and realise that i am in a dream. I try and calm myself and as i do Craig, matt and the car vanish from the scene, leaving me stood on the road amazed at what had just happened. Once my thoughts settle i then explore my immediate surroundings and find a building tucked away within the foliage, it has a big sign over the door saying: ENTER DREAMER in huge letters.. I enter and walk around the building, which is a museum of some kind, its really dusty and covered with spider webs, but the walls themselves dont look right (it was sort of like your perception of straight lines after taking acid). I decide i dont like the museum, so i start slowly spinning while thinking about a beach. My spin seems to take me out of control and next thing i know im standing on a paradise beach (the spin works every time for me!)... I explore and chat briefly to a dream character (a guy dressed in pink swim shorts and the whitest teeth i have ever seen), he tells me off for getting on the beach without going through a gate he point at in the distance, i chuckle to myself and decide its time to go flying. As i float away i can hear the swim shorts guy shouting at me again, dream then ends shortly after (not sure how it did).

So, im currently at the stage where I become lucid in most of the dreams that i remember (more on that in a sec) and I can control most if not all aspects of my dreams fluently... I still struggle on the the odd occasion though with keeping lucidity, which is something i hope you lot may be able to help with in the future. Any advice that isn't: stay calm or something similar would be much appreciated!

Anyway, as I mentioned, general dream recall is a thing im constantly battling with as (warning, dreamers taboo coming up) I enjoy getting stoned at least once or twice a week (which innevaitably means i can only remember 3-4 dream cycles a week)... I realise this is probably the reason why, but i wonder if any of you have managed to overcome this? and also if getting high is hurting my lucid techniques rather than just limiting what dreams i can recall?
Also i should mention; the first month of learning the techniques i quit the mary jane altogether. My dream recall improved immensely and i learnt to become lucid within that first month (partial lucidity after just a week!). After that month i began to slowly start smoking again, and while my dream recall went downhill, i was gaining lucidity at the same rate as losing memory of them (less dreams but more of them lucid).
For the last 3ish months, I also haven't kept a DJ.... Shocking i know, but i kinda lost my way with it, what with uni starting again, masses of work, and the continued lack of available hours in the morning.
This is something ill be starting again though, obviously, so i can post some (very strange and) valid stuff here ;D

Lastly, im really interested in exploring the idea of shared dreaming. Im abit dubious as to whether actual dream sharing exists, however im open to the idea. Even if its just controlling my dream so well that its LIKE im meeting someone from waking life.
SO if you'd like to investigate the idea with me, please PM me and we'll figure out a good dream-scape to meet on!

Thanks for having me DV.