Hi All,
I just discovered this forum today. From time to time, I look up info about Lucid Dreaming on the Net. I've been doing lucid dreaming since before I knew what it was. I used to tell people that I could "control" the actions in my dreams and they had no idea what I was talking about. My best friend was doing research on OBE about 10 years ago and fell into info about lucid dreaming. That was when I learned what this gift is and that it is real. I've had the innate ability to really control my dreams for about 15 years. As a child, I would often be aware in my dreams that I was dreaming.

I have lucid dreams almost every night. I love to fly in my dreams. In real life, I'm sort of afraid of heights, but in my dreams, I love to zoom to the top of a skyscraper and just dive down and fly and float among the buildings and above everyone on the sidewalks. I've also changed people into other people that I'd rather talk to in my dreams. I've also had sweet dreams where I conjure up my beloved dead dog and hold and hug her.

I've also change my dream destiny when I have a nightmare. My nightmares usually consist of seeing something gory, not like a monster chasing me. This one time, I dreamed that I walked into a morgue, and I knew in my mind that there was an autopsy being performed and there were body parts all over the table. I was able to prevent my dream mind from seeing the gore, even though I knew it was there.

I also have the ability to get back to where a dream left off after I have been awoken in order to continue it. Sometimes, it seems that I have one dream that lasts all night like a movie, but I don't know if this is distortion of time or really possible. Any thoughts??

Anyway, all the stuff I've read about how to learn to have lucid dreams is stuff I learnd on my own along the way, like the spinning theory. Except for me, I'll try to look at something spinning, like a vortex of water.

Anyway, sorry this is so long, but in reading the posts here, I think I've come really far in lucid dreaming, further than some people on the board. Maybe I can offer some advice to someone in the future.