Thread: Introducing myself

Hello everyone. I thought I'd take some time to introduce myself. I'm not exactly new to this but it feels like it. I had around 5 distinctly memorable lucid dreams when i was a young kid. When I was 20ish I was very diligent with my pursuit of the lucid dream. I meditated 2 times daily(zen sitting) and performed reality checks all the time as well as using the MILD technique. Kept a solid dream journal and really just studied everything I could find on the subject. I had perhaps as many as 20 lucid dreams with varying degrees of lucidity over a period of about 2 years. It was very difficult for me to achieve. I'm not a natural I guess.

I heard about LDing in high school and from the moment I heard about it being something you could do on purpose I wanted to do it and would fantasize about the possibilities of having that kind of ability. As life progressed I sort of stopped the discipline part of my interest. I started to drink more and smoke more weed and all dream recall and lucidity just faded.

I am now 42 and I'm re-connecting very passionately to my lifelong desire to be a skillful lucid dreamer. I don't smoke or drink anymore and I do at least 5 days of strong yoga practice per week and have been doing daily yoga nidra. I practice awareness all day everyday and do reality checks often. Not pretend ones either. Really noticing if I'm dreaming or not. I have not had a lucid dream yet in this new era of commitment to the skill. I am patient this time around though. I reallize it is a learned skill and am willing to put in the time and effort. I've already posted here twice and received a response very quickly and I am finding this community to be a truly amazing resource. Back in my 20s there was very little available for me to find on the subject and now I'm almost overwhelmed with the amount of resources and information.

I look forward to getting to know you and am glad I found this resource. Thanks.