Thread: Hi, just want to introduce myself a little bit

Hello everyone, glad I found this community here. I just want to drop some information about myself and my lucid dreaming history:

I'm Nico and 22 years old and come from germany. I first heard about lucid dreaming in a free health magazine when I was 12 or so. Before that all I had to do with dreaming really were just daydreams.
My first lucid dream I had 2 weeks later. The whole dream I spent with no feet on the ground. Full lucidity lasted only shortly and the dream faded into non-lucid dreaming gradually.
Over the course of the next years up till now I had 100-150 prelucid and lucid dreams. But I have yet to have a fully lucid dream that lasts longer than a few minutes, where my senses are clear and where I have a little bit more control over the dream content (like changing the context or letting certain people appear).
After school, I started studying psychology where I could learn to investigate dreaming scientifically. In the first year of studying psychology, I had some really interesting new experiences, including a dream forming from the waking state, having a pretty high success rate using certain techniques and regaining lucidity MANY times after false awakenings, therefore having long lucid dreams.
My proficiency pretty much declined two years ago up to now, where I don't have any lucid dreams for half a year. I didn't really use any induction technique. I hope I can relive some of the past experiences and also experience something new.

I read several books about lucid dreaming, the better ones including Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge (brilliant) and Lucid Dreaming by Robert Waggoner (very interesting).

Personally, I'm interested in how lucid dreams can possibly modify feelings of so-called "limerence". Is it good to meet the desired person in the dream or is it just worsening the longing? But there's just so much more to do and explore consciously in dreams.

Hi Nico.

I learned a new word today! I had to look up "limerence". Interesting. No experience with that myself in dreams but I'll be interested to read other folks' experiences with that.