Excited Newbie

[Excursionist]

Hello Everyone! I'm excited to have found this place. For a couple of years now my nights have been very exciting and I'm finally to the point where I want to find out more and figure out what some of these encounters that I have mean. I do not know if I'm a lucid dreamer but the dreams are very real to me and I can recall many of them every week and even now. What I especially remember are the emotions I feel throughout. I have woke of smiling and crying many times, always because I'm so happy about the things I see, the people I am able to spend time with, and the places I go. It's all so beautiful. Yes, I have had scary dreams. Usually violent, and I know I'm dreaming so I wake myself up and get out as I want no part of the scary stuff. What puzzles me most is that for the most part, the people I'm with I don't know. There are ALWAYS other people with me and we do some of the funnest things. Most of all travel and exploration to places I've never been. The reason I've been prompted to learn more now is because this past weekend I had a sort of deja vu moment. I was walking down the streets of Chicago with some people I had just met, and I KNOW I had this same experience a few months prior with the same people. I just didnt know them then. It freaked me out. Is this normal, abnormal, or is there anything "normal" about anything I've wrote? I'm exited to learn more and plan on doing some lucid dreaming checks. I am also starting a journal as of tomorrow. I guess I should write down some of my previous dreams as well as I remember quite a few of the most recent ones. And what is most memorable from my dreams are the feelings when I wake up. Ok, enough for now. I really need to get to sleep. Thanks for reading and commenting in advance. I'm glad I found this place.

[tehmuffinman]

Were you dreaming that you were walking down the streets of Chicago or was this happening while awake?

[Excursionist]

All I can say about that deja vu moment is that this weekend I was walking down the street, Michigan Avenue, with a group of people, in real life, during the middle of the day, completely awake of course. While i was walking with these people, I realized that I had been walking down this exact same street, dressed in these same clothes, with these same people, before, but I didnt know them at the time. That's when I believed that it must have been a dream since I constantly dream about going places and doing things with people I don't know. Do I remember when I actually had this dream? No, but it's been within the past few months. I just constantly go places with strangers in my dreams and I always feel comfortable with them when I do so, like I really do know them when I actually don't. I've also had dreams where I go places with people I know, but that don't know each other because they are from different times in my life. This is the first time that I know of, that I actually remember doing this activity with these same people, where I realize that I have met them before, but in a dream. I hope I am making sense. Last night I had a dream and I believe it was lucid as I checked by guiding my own activity. It was with people I do know, but do not know each other and also strangers. I'm going to start a log here in a minute. When I woke up at around 5, I wrote the whole thing out.