Thread: Howdy From Texas

Name's Nathaniel, but I'll just go by SuperOhm. Kudos to anyone who manages to parse that anagram.

I've been an avid lucid dreamer for years. It started with vague interest in my early teens, but without access to the wealth of information now available online, I had to trudge through it and discover how to accomplish these things on my own. It actually took me about two years of trying before I managed to have my first lucid dream. It most certainly didn't come naturally. Now, I'm lucid every night... although I often have a hard time remembering what it was I wanted to accomplish. I have done quite a bit in the dream world, become quite a bit, and now I often meditate in my lucid dreams (which I highly recommend). That being said, even though I feel like I'm practically a god of my own dreams, there's a lot of room for improvement.

I have always been a rather shy person. In fact, I used to suffer from both generalized and social anxiety. Well, more accurately would be to say that I had social phobia bordering on agoraphobia. It was pretty bad. I literally couldn't go out, so instead, I delved inward. In fact, it was the realization that if I could control my dreams, because it was all happening in my head, that I should be able to able to control what's going on in my head while I'm awake. Here I am, two and a half years later, and I'm unrecognizable as someone who has ever suffered anxiety.

In my sleep, I research how the mind works generally and how my mind works specifically. While I'm awake, I plan out experiments to perform both in the waking and the dream worlds to discover new ways to change the my experiences. I've come to the point in my research, however, that I feel like having a sample set of... well, just me, is insufficient for further progress. I'm looking forward to pouring over dream journal entries, sharing my own, and I'm especially looking forward to setting up proper experiments. In science, repeatability is extremely important. Getting more people involved in this process could lead to some very interesting findings.