Hi everyone! I'm Chard, lucid dreamer extraordinaire!
Okay, well I've done just minimal research into the subject so far, but you can't fault me for my enthusiasm.
A little background on me: Back in 2008 I experienced a brief psychotic episode that was diagnosed as bipolar, and at the time I was unfortunately medicated to the point I had the personality of a stick. I ended up blogging about my experience when I regained some bit of myself. Cycle one year later, in November 2009, I began to experience extremely vivid, lucid dreams with no change in medication and no trying on my part. So I figure they have something to do with my psychosis. Now these dreams have some exciting recurring themes, including 1. Ecstasy (four types: normal, rollercoaster, buzzed, and liquid) and on occasion sexual ecstasy, 2. Unbelievable landscapes, including an amazing cityscape of St. Louis, where I'm from, 3. Question and answer sessions, where I ask what I want and sometimes the dream answers (got annoyed when a dream answered in written Japanese one time, which I had just started learning in the waking world, and couldn't make out the answer before the dream moved on), and 4. Nerves pulsing to the tune of music if I have the radio on.
I look forward to sharing some of my lucid experiences on this forum, but I guess I'm going to have to behave myself in the dreams to make them proper for reading. I do give serious consideration to the fact that the beings we encounter in our dreams could be sentient and autonomous, which some might seem as radical. The thing is I get so caught up in the dream that I do actually sometimes hurt or offend those beings.
I was lucidly dreaming daily, sometimes 3 in one night's sleep and noontime nap session, but the past couple of weeks have been disappointing up until yesterday, and I only got a good lucid dream in because I changed my sleeping pattern back to where it was when I would achieve them with ease. I woke up to catch the Wimbledon final, then went back to sleep at noon. It's these noontime naps when the lucid dreams come, and usually when I feel like I'm still half-awake and could just open my eyes at any moment and be fully awake. I don't know if dreams coming when you're so lightly asleep is common or not. In any case, I was wondering what the rules about posting lucid dreams are? Could I just start a thread in the correct section of the forum as a dream journal that others can read and maybe even request a question I could ask in a dream (not that the answer should be taken seriously by anyone). I'd like to start with the one I had yesterday at noon. I really appreciate you guys having this site as an outlet for those with this fun talent.
