Hey, I'm Becca, I'm 19, from Canada and I'm new to this sight and to lucid dreaming in general.

My friend Quat was the one who introduced me to the idea of lucid dreaming, I actually didn't know it was possible until he told me! I was kind of skeptical at first but when he described his dreams to me I became extremely curious. Actually I've been kind of obsessed with it for the last few days. I was so happy to find out that I can actually learn to have dreams like that cuz i thought he was special or magical or something I dunno haha... I want to be able to do more with my dreams because i feel like i am wasting them by not learning how to manipulate them. I can't wait! So yepppp thats just kind of my intro to the site and I hope to learn a lot here (I have already learned so much already!) Thanks a lot!

Also I have a question about something that i'm not sure is related. A couple years ago i had a bad experience with shrooms (honestly the worst experience of my life, I'll never do them again). now that I have read up on different dreaming states I think that what i experienced might have been an OBE and i was wondering if someone could help me in determining whether it was or not..

What happened was, I was in a movie theatre and i started feeling dizzy so I put my head down but i was still awake and i could still see everything around me. I felt like I was paralyzed and I was stuck there with my head down on the arm rest and I was closing my eyes but I could still see everything around me. Then i felt this kind of disconnectedness from my body and it felt like i was rising above myself and looking down on my body from above. I don't remember a lot of what i experienced but i know i was flying through a white sky and at one point I could see the breakdown of every element around me...kind of like i could see particles of objects and even sounds and feelings. I felt like I was travelling back to previous memories...at one point I went to the time when iw as just about to take the shrooms and tried to stop myself but i had no impact on anything around me. Never experiencing anything like that before I was convinced that i was dead and i would never be able to return to my body so it scared me so much. Eventually i was able to bring myself back to reality... even though it was REALLY scary it kind of made me curious. but i would never want that to happen again unless i could control it.... anyways I was just wondering if anyone could help me understand what was happening.. im not sure if it was just hallucinations or if it was, in fact, an OBE but I was definitely disconnected from my physical self and i was not sleeping! Thanks a lot!