Hello Dreamviews,

After having lurked moar than I could take, I have finally decided to join Dreamviews (especially after having my first fully-fledged lucid dream a few nights ago). I stumbled upon this site about half a year ago, after only just starting to research lucid dreams. I first heard about lucid dreaming after watching Inception, whilst I was looking into the concept of shared dreaming.

After seeing so many people talk about it on here, I decided to buy Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge. However, I struggled to devote enough time to learning the ability of lucid dreaming with the jumbled-up lifestyle I had at the time. I became frustrated at my inability to achieve lucidity and decided to give it a rest. However, I have since managed to get life under more control and decided to take up lucid dreaming again. To my surprise, I had a lucid dream within only a week of taking it up again. The sheer sense of achievement has only fueled my desire to become lucid more often.

I have always been fascinated by somnological phenomena, especially since my regular episodes of sleep paralysis (with hallucinations) during my final year of sixth form and throughout university. My main reasons for lucid dreaming are that I have always sought to become more spiritually enlightened and that I wish to use it to boost my creativity. That being said, I can definitely see the intrinsic worth of lucid dreaming, and the sheer amusement it causes (simply levitating around in my first lucid dream was a blast in itself!). I cannot wait to have my next lucid dream and to become a part of this forum.

On a side-note, does simply thinking about lucid dreaming increase your chances of having one?

Thanks,

MagicBeanSeller