Hey guys, I'm glad that I finally found an active community on Lucid Dreaming. I recently "stumbled upon" an article on lucid dreaming and it peaked my interest. After a few nights of research into the actual science behind it and the different methods used to induce lucidity, I finally had my first purposeful lucid dream. (i.e. I went to sleep attempting to become lucid and it worked)

To introduce myself, I'm almost 20, live in southern Alabama and am currently attending college in the field of chemistry, hoping to go to medical school in a few years. I have only been able to successfully go lucid once in the past 5 days of attempting, but every single night I did recall a dream after I awoke, just only knew I was dreaming during the dream a single time, and after I opened a hole in the wall with my mind, my excitement woke me up so it only lasted a few minutes.

I'm glad I'm here now and hopefully I will improve my skills and eventually be a veteran LD'er, I'm sure this community will help me achieve that goal.