Thread: Greetings - and an experience.

Hey guys,

Uhh. Not sure where to start. My name is Max, I am a University student here in New Zealand, I am studying to become a professional programmer/game programmer through Computer Science. On the side I am also studying Psychology, Mathematics and Philosophy.

Okay... So, first of all, hi! I hope I will be able to become a long standing community member due to my peaked interest as a result of my experience which I will now share

So... Lucid dreaming. At first I thought, rather ignorantly I admit, that lucid dreaming was exaggerated, and that it was merely a form of being very aware of/and remembering your dreams extremely well.

Unknowingly, back when I was 17, I had a dream. It kept going... staticy, foggy if you will, every time I tried to concentrate on what was going on. In the dream, I focussed on not ... well, focussing so much. And jolly, the dream was so crystal clear it wasn't funny. I was totally, and conciously aware that I was asleep, I could feel myself inhale and exhale through my nose. I was amazed, and a little scared. I was so confused. I had control of everything around me. I conjured up a large box room, which seemed relatively easy.
And well... I bounced around a bit. I played with gravity, walked on the walls. Jumped from one end to the other, and was amazed.
I could feel that I was safe asleep. But was too confused. So I sort of wanted to prove to myself I could easily wake up.
It was like a heavy weight struck my mind, and everything went foggy again, as it did the first time I really concentrated during my dream. And bang, I was awake in my bed.
I just lay there for hours, pondering upon this.
After a couple of days, with no more results, I let it go.

...and for 2 years nothing happened...until today.

I am currently at home, visiting my parents during mid-semester break at University.
I just had my last wisdom tooth pulled yesterday and was pretty tired from working for my dad all morning (trying to get money for girlfriends birthday). After I had done a decent amount of work, I had lunch, jumped in bed, and watched How I Met Your Mother for a good two hours, then I thought I would have a nap.

It was a long nap, I drifted in and out of sleep a lot. The last time I fell asleep, I was on my side, and I was dreaming I was with my flatmates and we were all on this huge bed eating and chilling, just having fun.
Now...I don't really know how to explain it. But... In my dream, I ... opened my eyes? And bam, everything was crystal clear, I was blind but now I see.

I quickly looked at my flatmates and had a intellectual conversation with one of my bro friends. I knew I was dreaming, again, I could feel the air rush in through my nostrils, but I knew I was safe this time, I didn't care. I figured I would have fun with it.

It constantly amazed me how, in my lucid dream, stuff could happen, without me realizing it. Situations would arise as if it were real-life, but it wasn't, it couldn't be, this was in my head, everything that I was seeing was bubbling out of my subconscious, and in my dream, I applauded my subconscious for having some truly marvellous events made up for me.
I zapped myself into a large room (almost like a huge arcade), and figured I'd have some fun. At first, I tried, what I thought was simple stuff, I was trying to simulate telekinesis within my dream. I looked at a book on the ground (which I knew was gonna be there before I turned around and looked at it, because I thought about it ! ), raised my hand, felt like my hand, brain, and book were all sort of magnetically connected, and concentrated for it to fly into my hand.

It didn't. It stayed there. And my dream was starting to go foggy. So, I opened my eyes again. And I was there. I kept trying. One time I actually got... lost - if you will, and after concentrating so hard, I slipped out of my dream and started actually dreaming. But I managed to 'open my eyes', in one of my apartment beds again, and boy was the difference apparent - for lack of a better word -everything was clear, I could see, and I could finally think.

I went back to the room with the book, concentrated on it till it went foggy, but just before I was about to stop, the book flew into my hand. And oh my god. The feeling I had was surreal. I knew I could do anything from now on - to an extent.

I turned around, only to find an amazing situation that is quite personal - if you know what I mean - this was quite difficult for some reason (I can't even begin to describe what weird things happened). Once I finished up I went to the door, before I opened the door, I knew there was going to be a lady running at me flailing her arms. So I opened it, and there she was. She ran at me, running, flailing her arms. And ... unexpectedly, embraced me. I still found it strange that stuff happened even though I didn't know it was going to happen. But gradually, and surely I was becoming in control of most things.

This went on for what seemed like hours and hours. I wont cover everything I did in my dream because I may be boring readers by now, but I found it awesome

Eventually, I thought it was time to wake up, and I did. Again I lay there for a long time pondering what just happened, and I could remember every last detail of it, as if it were a legitimate, reality-based memory.

I told my parents, they didn't believe me, and I didn't care.
Some time back when me and my girlfriend moved into together, we lay awake and talked a lot. I told her about the first time, and she seemed to believe me, but thought it was very strange.

But... I know I want to do it again. I seemed to, I don't know, get better at it during the course of my dream, and I got a hold of things.

I really want to do it again, it's currently 11:37pm at the time of writing this, and seeing as I slept from 2 - 6pm I don't think I will head to bed for awhile. But when I do, I want to lucid dream again, even though I know this is entirely implausible seeing as it had been a two year interval between my two dreams I've had.

But hopefully, I will be able to do it again. And explore what feels like a whole new world

At this point, it feels like I've written half a novel, but nevertheless, I am extremely excited about sharing my experience, and look forward to discussing it with people.

If people here want me to. I don't really know the community.

Thank you, and, sweet dreams

-Max