Just popped out the womb into this dream world.....Herro?

[Matalee]

This morning I was snuggled up in my bed happily thinking about the dream I had just woken up from (sadly). I started to go through the dreams i had this week and wondered what they could mean. Of course google is my friend and that is how I eventually came across the term lucid dreaming. When I started reading more about it I thought to myself "I do this all the time....I thought everyone did this!". From a young age I've always been able to remember my dreams and been able to manipulate a dream, or force a dream on. I usually do it when I've had a dream that ended in a way that I didn't like, so I force the dream to recreate what I want to happen. Some days I will have Dream Days where I make myself sleep for 12 hours and have multiple dreams.My dreams are my happy place and I haven't had a nightmare in years, but I never knew you could completely control a dream to the extent that some people are able to do. Now that I am aware of it, I want to learn more about it, start a dream journal and perhaps develop it more from the help of this site =) I'm Martha by the way and I'm from East Coast Scotland. My interests include my very modest and expanding collection of rocks and minerals, but I don't believe in any of that positive healing spiritual crystal malarkey. No offence if you do, but material only exists due to the fact that they are balanced in energy. Its impossible for them to be filled with positive energy......hehehe. I'm currently doing my undergraduate in Geology & Petroleum Geology, which I love but also have an interest in physics. Sadly my maths skill are thoroughly undeveloped so I am limited in what I can achieve but you cant stop a gal from trying. My second love is video games, I pretty much spend my spare time involved in them. Though now I'm at university with no telly and a laptop that takes off the minute I open anything that isn't basic functions =/ So my addiction is relieved through watching endless supply of youtube videos of LPs. I love watching TV shows and animes to the extent that I have an excel document to keep up with my endless schedule of current viewing...thingys. I'm pretty proud of it, coloured coded and eveythings =3 Another proud collection is my books (you'll notice a running trend of hoarding stuff....mine mine mine my precious) I love cooking too and animals. I'm bored of talking about myself now so Im going to say that pretty much sums me up......sort of. Now, I want to get to know you lovely community better!

[Sensei]

Hello! Welcome to DV! I am Brandon, and I will be your host. I am also a Boss. Don't forget it. :/ A few things I want to point out, I will start with the positive. 1) You have multiple dreams a night, and can learn to recall tons of them without having to sleep in. Here is a guide for that: http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-sign...ompendium.html 2) Sounds like you have good dream control. This is good, because some beginners find themselves in a dream and don't know what to do and can't change anything about it. Bad news: Control does not equal lucid. Sounds like you are incubating dreams, which is a fun practice that I feel is fundamental for any lucid dreamer. It is something that I have done since I was young because I have also been fascinated with dreams. I may be wrong about this though, and they may have been lucid dreams. Here is the definition of a lucid dream: http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...cid-dream.html Hope this is helpful. I recommend practicing your recall since you love dreams so much. I feel there is no limit to amount of dreams in a night since people have dreams in NREM as well as REM. So you may only have 4 or 5 REM periods, but you have tons of NREM time to have dreams. Good luck.

[Kaenthem]

Welcome to dreamviews, I highly recommend you join the the intro class. It's a great place where you can meet new friends, get help from great teachers and keep track of your progress. Here's the link to the sub-forum where you can create a workbook and join the fun! Intro Class (OpheliaBlue RareCola CanisLucidus Chimpertainment Xanous)

[Matalee]

Hello, Thank you both for your Welcomes! Ah I see, incubation? That sounds very cosy hahah. Its so very complicated with so many definitions and states, It's very confusing, but I really thank you for the tips Mr Boss. I'm certainly going to take on what you said and try dream recall. Oh, and I will definitely join the Intro class Areyoume, Thank you.

[Darkmatters]

Lol don't worry about all the different definitions - after a while you'll realize it's like Mexican food - just the same ingredients put together in different ways haha! All these different acronyms wike WILD, DILD, Deild etc, it all comes down to just two basic methods - either falling asleep while retaining conscious awareness (the WILD/DEILD methods) or 'waking up in a dream' (DILD, MILD, autosuggestion etc). If you keep that breakdown in mind it makes this all a lot easier to understand. And I have a suggestion (make that a very strong suggestion) for an addition to the book collection - Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge, the scientist who first brought lucid dreaming into the awareness of the scientfic community and conducted the experiments that raised it from being considered a hack pseudoscience to full academic respect. It's by far the best book on th subject, and many people get lucid just from reading it. But ok, enough blather - welcome to DV and enjoy your stay!

[Sensei]

Darkmatter. Something tells me you have more than 8 LDs. I recommend that book as well. And he is right. Only two ways. DEILD is probably the easiest way to WILD, MILD the easiest way to DILD. And WBTB is your best friend no matter what.

[Darkmatters]

Darkmatter. Something tells me you have more than 8 LDs. Lol no, I actually don't! Well, I did have a few random spontaneous ones when I was a youngster, but I don't count those, only 8 since discovering this place and learning how to achieve lucidity. After that I decided I prefer non-lucid dreams to lucid ones for complicated reasons that I no longer subscribe to, and now I'm trying to get myself back into the swing of it. I know though, I sure do talk about it like I know what I'm saying, don't I?

[Sensei]

Lol no, I actually don't! Well, I did have a few random spontaneous ones when I was a youngster, but I don't count those, only 8 since discovering this place and learning how to achieve lucidity. After that I decided I prefer non-lucid dreams to lucid ones for complicated reasons that I no longer subscribe to, and now I'm trying to get myself back into the swing of it. I know though, I sure do talk about it like I know what I'm saying, don't I? You are probably well read. Glad to see people LDing any time (Oh, I love it so). Good luck to you on your endeavors.