Hey! New and, as ever, confused!
I've been trying to Lucid Dream for a long time, partly because I'm fairly sure I did it regularly as a kid. When I was little, I remember I had a period of time (probably about a year) where every few nights, I'd have a dream. It was always the same fictional place, and always the same characters; people I didn't know in real life. It wasn't exactly recurring, because the story each time was different. It was like having two lives - my waking one, where I went to school and spent time with my parents and did my homework etc, and my dream one, where I could talk to and turn into tigers and wolves, and we had adventures. I don't know if the specifics of that are important; it was just the feeling I remember. These were my dreams, and I could do what I wanted, I could choose my directions and change them based on what was happening. The world moved on, almost like the real world. I'd wake up, and when I went back, the situation would have progressed. My friends and I were allied with the eagles during a crisis, for example, and each time I went there, they would have made progress without me.
But, in any case, I started recently looking into lucid dreaming because I would love to find that again. Not necessarily the world from when I was a kid (though that would be fun), but the sensation of freedom.
Aside from that, I want to join this site because I've had some odd dreams lately and would like someone else's take on them. My dad died a few months back, and I've just started dreaming of him, and I'm not sure if my brain is trying to tell me something... This is what's given me the final push to join and talk to you folks.
In any case, hope to talk to you soon!
