Thread: New member

Hi everyone,
I'm excited to be on board!
So a little about me.
I live in NZ, although I am originally from Europe and I'm 31 years old.
Throughout my life I have always had very vivid dreams (most of which happened to be nightmares). Now that I have done some research, I am quite confident I have experienced SP on and off since I was quite young.

The reason I got into LD recently is as both a way to control my nightmares, to explore my inner self and hopefully solve unresolved conflict and feel better during the day as a result. I am also an avid sci-fi reader and I enjoy reading novels about pioneers conquering new planets - and I thought that LD would allow me to do just that! I have experienced LD in the past, only a few times and without any training, and I remember fondly the great feeling of being able to control the environment around me - which is something I would love to fee again.

So far, other than reading a lot of information on the Internet, I have read LaBerge's "Lucid Dreaming" and I'm currently half way through Daniel Love's "Are you Dreaming?". I found that, although I haven't had a LD yet, the information I have been learning has helped me deal with SP episodes a lot better. In the last two nights I came very close to experiencing a LD, so signs are promising.

I am going to read up here on the forum about how SP leads into LD and then I will perhaps post a specific question with my personal experiences (I find that SP lasts quite a long time and doesn't lead into a LD - I know I am becoming lucid, but the vibrations/feeling of cold going from the head to the rest of the body/sounds (mainly ringing in my ears) are quite hard to shake off even if I control my breathing and relax...).

Anyway, great to meet you lot!