You may say I'm a dreamer.

[Neon304]

Well, I suppose by being here that wasn't exactly a mystery. Here is the obligatory introductory post, that will likely remain in obscurity until the end of time, but hey, it is obligatory. Anyway, I'm Neon304, real name is Dale (first name anyway). My screen name really has very little relevance left, but it has become my internet identity, so I continue to use it. I first stumbled onto this site a couple of years ago when I was first getting into lucid dreaming, and various threads here have already given me some advice and tips, and even led to some success. Over time though, I have lost and regained interest a few times, but overall, I think I've lost more ground than I've gained, at least in the last year. I recently had my 3rd full fledged lucid dream, but for whatever reason, I completely forgot the content of that dream. Since I forgot it, I've decided I can't really count it, so other than that, I've only ever had 2 completely lucid dreams. At the time of having both of them, I was still trying to get past some road blocks that I have since gotten over, and based on what I remember of me describing my forgotten lucid dream to my now ex-girlfriend over the phone, things like the inability to basically let go and let myself do things like teleport or move through solid objects weren't a problem for me in this forgotten dream. In my first lucid dream I was still having problems with flight, although strangely I had been having a lot of normal dreams prior to that of me actually learning how to fly in dreams, which in and of itself was an interesting experience. By my second lucid dream, flight was no longer an issue, and now that dream stands out as one of the coolest I have ever had, which is saying a lot, considering I seem to have an above average dream recall, and that's without trying. Actually, when I first really started putting a lot of effort into lucid dreaming, I went from having a dream recall of about 2 dreams a night on average, to remembering 5 or 6 a night, although oddly enough, I never went full lucid in that time frame, I had several instances of partial lucidity, and on average more control over my dreams than I had before, but not a single dream I would count as a lucid dream. All 3 of them (including the forgotten one, as well as the instance of my first ever lucid experience, which actually woke me up too fast to really do anything about, I don't count that instance as a lucid dream either) have oddly seemed to have just happened without me really trying, just basically random realization that the dream was a dream, and then suddenly being in full control. Nearly every lucid dream induction technique I have tried has only really resulted in partial dream control. The reason I finally decided to make an account really is because of the forgotten lucid dream. I forget dreams all of the time, its usually no big deal, but to forget a fully lucid dream, that just doesn't sit well with me. This seems like it would be a good place to potentially archive something like that, and hopefully avoid losing it. I do suspect the recent break up I just went through as well as an unusually large amount of recent family drama have contributed to the loss of that dream, and that stuff seems to be settling now, so I'm not sure it would be a problem moving forward, but you never know what else might come up in the future that could also lead to me forgetting a lucid dream, or even just a really good normal dream. I don't put much personal stock into using a dream journal on a daily basis, it has an effect on my dream recall, sure, it was what lead to me being able to remember 5 or 6 dreams a night, but I noticed most of the early night dreams were less vibrant, repetitive in theme and just boring, not to mention, it actually made sorting through them to get anything worth writing down more of a hassle. So mainly, I just try and archive a few dreams here and there, although unfortunately the place I had written down a lot of my dreams at, including both lucid dreams I had prior to the forgotten one, no longer exists, so I also kind of need a place to start over. So yeah, that's who I am, and why I'm here.

[sanctispiritus]

You are welcome. I look forward to reading your first dream in your dream journal. I guess you will open one, no? your first post, has been quite descriptive and entertaining.

[SpaceCowboyDave]

Welcome to Dreamviews. Good choice to join the forum, it certainly helped me to better focus on lucid dreaming. In my opinion, it sounds like you should find a happy medium between writing down all of your dreams to the point of boredom and not recording any dreams. I try to write down as many dreams as I can, but I usually skip boring ones in my DJ simply because they don't seem to be worth remembering. Good luck and dream on!

[Neon304]

Thanks for the welcomes guys. Yeah, I do plan on using the Dream Journal here, not every day though, just when I have a particularly interesting one, or if I happen to go lucid. Probably also read a few dreams others have posted from time to time. I've always been interested in the mysteries of the dream world, even before I even knew lucid dreaming was possible. I probably should have made an account here back when I first stumbled across this site.

[paigeyemps]

[Wakeup34]

Welcome!, Interesting post, thought I'd just quickly check the forums didn't think i'd be reading a post for about ten minutes! Really interesting stuff Hope you enjoy your stay here..

[Wakeup34]

Hey, Couldn't help but notice your signature, the dream goals part.. what's even more interesting is going up to a dream character once you're lucid, and taking them aside and convincing the dream character that it's a dream and making a dream character become lucid with you.. it's a real eye opener and I don't want to say what happens, try it

[Neon304]

Welcome!, Interesting post, thought I'd just quickly check the forums didn't think i'd be reading a post for about ten minutes! Really interesting stuff Hope you enjoy your stay here.. My forum posts can sometimes get out of hand in length. I haven't really posted anything on this site yet. My 'wall of text' posts tend to make generally long posts look like one liners. That's not much of an exaggeration either, but those posts are rather rare. I suppose I have a 'wall of text' about 1 in 100 posts, and about 1 in 10 the length of the original post in this thread. Edit: Tried to edit this into the OP, but it seems I can't do that. Anyway, I just remembered what happened in the "forgotten" LD, and when and where I had it, and what I suspect actually caused it (its actually the only WILD I have ever had, and there was a huge key difference between this almost non attempt and the serious attempts prior to it) I can see why I was blocking it out, and the fact that I can acknowledge it finally is a good sign. Lets just say my ex-girlfriend was even more involved in me even having this dream in the first place than I could recall while typing the OP, and it wasn't over the phone that I first told her about it.

[Sivason]

Welcome to Dream Views! This is the place to be for anyone wanting to learn how to lucid dream. The Dream Guide team is here to help you navigate the forum and answer questions. We all have 3 green stars above our avatar. Click on our user name and you can then select private message if you have a question, or you can start new threads. Don't worry about starting threads that have been started before, just try it out, if it ends up in the wrong place one of us can move it for you. One thing you can do in a post is place a link to another thread. I have done this below. You can click on the colored words to see the new thread. Start with this extra basic one, it will help you read the acronyms in other posts, Help With Acronyms For Complete Beginners After that one the very first thing you should do is check out basic tutorials. This one covers most of the terms you will see members using in much more depth, so start here, http://www.dreamviews.com/f20/beginn...eaming-124786/ Also be sure to check out the DVA Dream Views Acadamy, click on this link to get there, DV Academy. Matte , our Dream Guide team leader runs a general lucid dreaming class, and you can join in contests where you gain points for dreams you have. General Lucid Dreaming (Matte87) Gab , another Dream Guide runs a class that is very valuable to beginners on MILD/DILD, which is by far the best method to start with. DILD (Hukif and gab) Finally as far as the DVA stuff goes, there is a class on introduction to lucid dreaming. This is a great place if you are just starting out and need a little personal help. Intro Class (OpheliaBlue, RareCola, CanisLucidus, Chimpertainment, Xanous) I hope to save you some time by giving you a link to a thread we all put together on the topic Sleep Paralysis. There has been so much misinformation and confusion on this topic, that after a few days on the sight, you would surely run into confusing statements refering to SP. Save yourself some frustration and read this post if you want to know about SP, http://www.dreamviews.com/f79/sleep-...lained-136993/ Now, on the lighter side, you may be excited to learn to fly! Here is a thread where people explain how they went about learning to fly, http://www.dreamviews.com/f14/can-u-...u-learn-40468/ Then just for a laugh here is a thread where people list all the things they want to do in an LD. It is mostly light hearted and supposed to be funny, http://www.dreamviews.com/f11/1000-t...-dream-104556/ Have fun and good luck with your dreaming!

[Suck4Luck]

Welcome to dreamviews!!!