Introducing Myself (Rainstorm)

[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). "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 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 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

[Valo]

Welcome to DV rainstorm! <---man that's odd you'll find a wealth of knowledge on this board and on the tutorials section of the main page.

[benhnat]

welcome to dreamviews matey! yeah i daydream a lot too! i normally have huge daydreams during the day when im bored canny sad but fun! i find that if i daydream a lot itll help improve my imagination for my LD'S

[Damascus]

Howdy newcomer *tilts hat* Welcome to dreamviews, Have a good time here. As someone already said, ready the tutorials section for all the real meat of the site, get to know the community in the lounge (and senseless banter) kick back, relax and chat a while. We're friendly enough, and only one or two of us bite. Though not the green guys, dreamguides. PM one of us if you have any questions at all. (though not me, since im going away for 2 week soon) Hope to see you round!

[Leo Volont]

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.

[Barbizzle]

Hi Rainstorm!! We have already met in the chat and I just wnated to say Hi to you on the fourm. Since you are already a natural, and are a professional daydreamer, you can use it to your advanattage to prolong your lucid dreams. There are many threads on prolonign lucidity, look them up beacse they are very helpful.

[Rainstorm]

Those shadow dreams sound about right for my issue when I was around 15. I can fall asleep while "daydreaming" now and find myself in a real dream.. and when get wake up I feel well rested. (however the oversleeping thing is now an issue I sometimes deal with)