Newie, not so new to lucid dreams...

[LiamDreamer]

Hi everyone, My name is Liam, I just joined. I'm looking to explore lucid dreams having had ones on and off for years. The earliest one I can remember was where at the end of a dream when I was 8 or 9 I realised I was in a dream and did a countdown from 10 -> at 0 my alarm woke me for school. Other examples where when I explored lucid dreaming at uni aged 21 - I found in mornings when I went with the flow I would drift from conscious to dreaming. I guess the WILD technique is probably something like that. I have always found that dreams on Sat mornings are interesting and often lucid and more memorable. The first one I had I was about to have sex with the daughter of my college's maths department, but woke up - sex and anything involving problem solving destabilises dreams. I used to have tons of lucid dreams when I was doing my masters and always false awakened (knowing I was false awake as one of my eyes would be firmly shut). One morning I false awoke so many times I lost track (20 times) and each time kept waking up the same way. I was knackered when I finally woke. Funniest one was a few months ago where I was in a restaraunt and an old work colleague came up to me. He behaved like he would have in real life, offering to come out for a private drink to discuss what happened (I took a redundancy settlement from my last banking job rather than be fired), then I realised I was in a dream and said 'Andy, this is just dream so no worries' and he laughed exactly like he does in real life and then said ok - in the dream it was a little funny but 2 seconds later I woke up and couldn't stop laughing. I'm definitely interested in inducing lucid dreams and doing interesting things and if there are dangers/pitfalls. I'm sure it's both helpful and unhelpful/scary to your mental state. I look forward to meeting you all and hearing your stories. Another funny one was a few days ago where I found myself doing classroom observation in a school. I realised I was dreaming and began to wonder if I could include this experience in my pending real world application for teacher training... ***Posts merged*** If you have not received a reply to your post yet, feel free to add to first post by clicking "Edit post" button, instead of making a new post.