Hi Gang!
And thanks in advance for this great forum!
I found this on Yahoo search (yes, submitted to poll)
I spent my first 90 mins scouring the site this am (0300) while doing my Wake Back 2Bed Method

Here's a quick bio:
I am ancient (37) compared to many of you young'uns
I am American, deep south confederate gal
I fly helicopters for the Offshore Oil/Gas Industry in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) (yes, this is impt b/c it helps my Awareness and Reality Checks!)

Although I am Not new to OOBE/AP/LD, I am Very new to the fact that these all can be controlled! I just never knew this...

I am a Silva Mind Control (now Silva Method) junkie (since 91) and a recent TMI (The Monroe Institute) member also. My husband and I completed GATEWAY in March.
We have also joined TLI (Lucidity Institute) and are attending the 10 day Lucid program in Hawaii this summer

I am looking forward to learning more about CONTROL here and achieving lucidity in my dreams.

My goals: To learn more and more and more about who and what I really am. I am a firm believer in WE control our own destiny if we so choose to do so.
I depend Daily on my intuitions...my job is very high risk and my dreams and feelings have saved my life numerous times! I never question any feeling that otherwise seems senseless and out of the ordinary.

OK, enough for now.
I wish to be adopted and follow the program here. I know now I have to be here for at least 2 weeks though, fair enough!
I will have dry spells in attendence due to the fact that living in the middle of a big pond doesn't always afford me the opp'y to gain access to Internet:-(
I will have to settle for it in dreamland

LATEST ACHIEVEMENTS:
I achieved my "first" step towards a controlled LD the night before last!
Here it is in a nutshell:
I had been pondering the HOW's of How the hell am I going to ask myself IN my dream if I am dreaming. I have been doing a tons of reality checks daily...as I just incorporate that into normal daily flying operations (not too good to daydream while flying these eggbeaters!)
SO, I dreamed that I took off from a ship and was airborne, about 400'. Then I realized "hey, something is not right..." I remembered (while in dream) that I had started my helicopter and suddenly I was flying.....hmmmmm what is wrong here?
Then I realized, Oh $#IT!...I did NOT do any proper start-up procedures! I had literally jumped in the machine like it was a car and driven (flown) off.
It dawned on me that I had NOT turned on the generator, nor done anything else that you HAVE to do in order to launch safely and successfully.

THEN I said...."Hey, wait a minute (as lightbulb goes off in head)
and I ASKED the question "Is This a Dream?"
And sure enough, it was as though "IT" was caught...I felt the feeling as though I had ruined the game, prematurely told the punchline, etc. "Hey, she knows now, so we can't keep screwing wiht her anymore, at least not in this dream!"

I felt bodily sensations and the dreamscape dissolved.
I tried to contain my excitement, but did not do anything to keep the dream going (rub hands, do math problems, spin, etc). But that is OK, I just wanted to confirm what I was experiencing!

OK, that is all.

Looking forward to some action here!

Until then,
Blue Skies, Fair Winds, Following Seas, and Safe Passages

OFP
(A.K)