Greetings everyone, my name is Tim and I'm a currently unemployed 18 year old that is looking for work still, and has only recently found this forum through researching kangaroo shoes. As I found this forum though, it reminded me of when I lucidly dreamed frequently when I was younger. I had found the information on lucid dreaming when I was younger and quickly picked it up, even going as far as to own a journal with every dream and experience for 3 years straight. The reason I stopped however was due to stress at my father's house leading to my father burning my dream journal, calling it a waste of time, effort, and paper, and that lucid dreaming was just fantasy nonsense. This crushed me at the time, and even when I tried again the stress made it impossible, which led to me stressing over being too stressed, and I hadn't lucidly dreamed since.
Only today when I saw this forward did all the memories flow back, and I remember almost all of my lucid experiences. Another thing to know about me is that I am currently in the process of writing a series that spans 6 books, and I've been writing it on and off for 10 years now. It all started with a single dream that I might make a topic about one day, but after that dream I got incredibly interested in dreams and stumbled upon lucid dreaming. Since then I have used lucid dreaming as a tool to help me write by experiencing not only situations in my series, but experiencing the super human abilities they possessed as well. In my dreams I have been able to recreate a lot of powers, including but not limited to manipulation of the 4 elements to their maximum potential, flying with and without wings, super speed and jumping, teleportation, telekinesis, armored/spiked body, firing various projectiles from my body, shapechanging, elasticity (weird), and entropic projection.
If you guys have any questions, comments, or complaints feel free ask or tell me. I will try to answer as soon as I can.