i've been registered for a few weeks now but i am just now getting around to posting an intro thread. i'll just cover the basics i guess-i'm female, live in San Francisco with my boyfriend and a fat tabby cat named Wonton, work as a receptionist, design websites and play guitar in my spare time, love music, and have always been interested in Lucid Dreams.

i had my first lucid dream (that i can remember) when i was a kid, i'm not sure of the age, maybe 7 years old or so. There was a bully in the neighborhood who had given me a problem that day on the way home from school, and over the next week i started having nightmares about it-always i'd be walking down the quiet street i live on and he'd appear out of nowhere and start harassing me. These dreams were scary, and one day i sort of realized i was dreaming and shook my head violently in my dream to get myself to wake up. i woke up, and was relieved that i'd found my way out of that frightening experience. Then the next time it happened, as i went to shake my head to wake up i just suddenly realized wait-if this is a dream i dont NEED to wake up, i can do whatever i want! At that moment the bad guy disappeared, and i was standing there in the middle of the street, thinking-"what now?". i decided i wanted to make all the houses change color, so i proceeded to walk down the street-and i thought "change colors!" and they did-all the houses started turning all these different candy colors, and i was just so happy and so amazed, i started skipping down the street, still commanding them to change colors. The memory of that first lucid dream has stayed with me my whole life. I've had a few since them, but for the most part, up until now i've been too caught up in life, and years would go buy without me having one or even really thinking of them. I have had a few since that one tho. i remember a lot of flying dreams when i was a kid, and i remember how real they seemed, i believe i was lucid in some of these too.

Recently i've gone through losing someone quite close to me, and i am trying to move on with my life, and i have decided to get back into lucid dreams. I actually came across this site by accident really-i was surfing on another website and someone made a thread called "post links to interesting sites", and someone posted the link to this site, so i thought lucid dreams, hmm, and came to check it out. i didnt realize that so many other ppl were interested in this, and i didnt realize that one could try to induce them-i think thats why i didnt really think about them for a while-i thought it was out of my control, that if i had one great but if not that there was nothing i could do. then i came here (and after that looked around other places on the net) and found out that one COULD induce lucid dreams, and thought-cool...why not try to have some again

i've had one lucid dream since joining, tho i dont think i was totally lucid, it was still pretty cool. i wish i had enough money to buy the NovaDreamer, but i might try some of the devices talked about in the other forums, that you can make at home for just a bit of money. i'd like to start lucid dreaming again firstly for the pleasure of it-i remember clearly how fun it was and that amazing feeling of freedom-but for other, more personal reasons as well.

anyways i'm enjoying reading about everyones experiences, and i hope to have more success with LD's soon

~storm