Introducing Myself (Rainstorm)
Hello everyone. I just found this website and thought it a bit interesting. I'm 23 and I've been a dreamer all of my life but only within the past year or two heard of lucid dreaming. When I heard about it, I wasn't sure what all was considered lucid dreaming and what wasn't. I still have not read a good bit of the material on this. There was a point in my life where I enjoyed dreaming so much that I could not get any real rest. My mind would always be going off on fantastic adventures and I ended up exhausting myself. I don't know if that's something I grew out of or if it was some of the medications I took as a teenager that fixed that, but if I'm too exhausted I will truly rest now(which I'm grateful for). :-P
"Daydreaming" was one of my favorite things to do and currently my daydreams are very much like my "sleep time" dreams, though this was not always the case. I'm going to look into daydreaming more while I'm here :roll: I'm glad this site is here and this forum as well. If you want to talk to me, I won't mind getting some PM's :D I still have a lot to learn about defining what I have done and can do, so that's my goal for now. Apparently I don't seem to have any issue doing most of what I want to do. Have a good day :lol:
Re: Introducing Myself (Rainstorm)
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Originally posted by Rainstorm
Hello everyone... There was a point in my life where I enjoyed dreaming so much that I could not get any real rest. My mind would always be going off on fantastic adventures and I ended up exhausting myself....
Really? There are several ways in which you can lose out on the benefits of a full nights sleep. The first way is to not really be sleeping -- not going down through all 4 stages of sleep but only just resting upon the surface, perhaps in the hypnogogic state which is just a shadow of Real Dreaming, but which can be continuous, whereas Real Dreams are confined to rather concise periods of REM Sleep -- hypnogogic shadow dreams can go on and on, but Real Dreams begin and end within a semi-fixed period during the healthy sleep cycle.
The second way you can lose out on a restful nights sleep is by somewhat overdoing it. Too much sleep makes one feel lethargic. That can be fixed if one remembers after a good oversleeping to do set of exercises or run a few miles -- one needs to get the juices flowing and shake off the lethargy. But an adolescent would hardly think of that and might prefer the lethargy, as it helps so well in maintaining that signature posture of the typical young person, that is, the slouch. ... just kidding. I'm quite an old man and my one last enjoyment in life is in sniping at the young.
