Hello eveybody, just want to take a moment to introduce myself. I'm a 16 year old high school student who has been trying "this" for years. I first became interested when I was around 11, albeit I never took it seriously until about a year ago and have since then been doing a little more work towards having my first (remembered) lucid dream.

I have, however, had some minor success with astral projection (or OBE, whatever you'd like to call it.) Minor success is pretty much the best way to put it, as I never really broke through to the astral plane but I had some things happen to me that completely solidified my belief in the power of our minds and the power of our universe. My main interest in life is consciousness and it's various different states, especially dreaming. The mind to me is something incredible and it's definitely what I'm devoting my life to (not the scientific aspects, but the philosophical and in some cases religious aspects).

As far as lucid dreaming goes, I'll admit I've been a bit lazy. I spent most of the past two years working on astral projection and made some interesting strides in that area that kept me "too busy" to work on lucid dreaming. I started a dream journal a while back but gave up on it but have just recently decided that this skill is too important to me to keep waiting.

So in an effort to keep this introduction short, i'll end it here. Hope I can be somewhat helpful to the community and I hope the community can help me as well.