Hello fellow dreamers,

I'd like to start off by saying I'm new to the community, but I have had lucid dreams since my teen years and have been fascinated by them.

Ever since my childhood, I have had a close connection towards animals, often imagining and dreaming about what it'd be like to be one myself and even how it'd feel like to change into one. At a certain point in time, my dreams of this turned to what I called "know-dreams" (it's how I named lucid dreams at the time). I was fascinated by them and loved it on the uncommon occasion I managed to get one. I usually turned my hands into claws (I loved dinosaurs when I was younger) and made myself grow to the size of my room and such, haha. I was quite the dreamer - and still am, albeit much more controlled!

It has become a deep fantasy (not an obsession!) of mine to be able to feel what it'd feel like to transform like that. In lucid dreams, I try to "live out" these imaginings, with success, albeit very short ones. I find being able to feel a tail, run around on paws and to fly on wings, to be extremely relaxing and fulfilling, usually causing me to wake up well-rested afterwards.

Over the last few years though, it has been getting harder for me to enter the dream state consciously at night. During afternoon naps, it seems much easier. I'm not sure if this is because of my mind being preoccupied with daily troubles more, or needing better and more consistent rest, or both, or something else entirely. I've been talking to a close friend of mine (also interested in all these things) about it for the longest time and was pointed towards Dreamviews. I've been hesitant to start posting here, as I'd been quite shy about my fantasies towards the general public. I figured it'd be a good time to start opening up more.

Hope this has sketched a clear enough image!

~Frost