Hello community

**GRValentine** · 05-20-2015 10:01 AM

My name is George Valentine Rafael. I am from Romania. I have 21 y/o ( turning 22 on 4 august ) and study psychology at university.

After finishing high school I started my adventure in reading more heavy, unlike others at the age of 18. The books I've read might be unusual for some. Studying writings by Eliade Mircea, Aleister Crowley, C.G. Jung, Phile Hine and many other similar authors. After a year I started to be more interested and i started to read chinese philosophy ( Lao Tzu , Daoism ) and the all-known Budhism from India. I had lucid dreams in the past when I was very young, but in this year I had lucid dreams with characters ( old friends from school ) that were talking to me and telling me that I need to see " something " in my dream. The dreams were not in the late morning, as they usualy were, because I woke up many times at 3-4 AM. And here I started.

I had some knowledge of lucid dreaming from previous readings, obviously, but I needed to know more, like...everything. I sticked to my books and my dreams. I started to watch dream flaws ( reality check you call it ) in real life and started to do that in my dreams ( intensity of the sun, the clock and exploiting the atomic structure of objects aka walking into walls like Harry Potter ). I became very good in controling my dreams and doing all kind of things. I became more aware of my enviroment in real life. All was good until something else happened.. I asked all my friends and mates about lucid dreaming, but very few of them ever had one and even less could control them. Surprisingly for me ( not anymore now ) they were using lucid dreaming only as a play ground and nothing else. I understood that people wanted to be Gods in a world, because they were frustrated of all laws and parenting of this real life, so they were going like rebels in a false reality.

I abandoned my search for other people, in the sense of lucid dreaming experience, because all were the same. I discovered that LD can be used to pay more attention to the dream and let the dream teach you what he wants to teach you. The true meaning of lucid dreaming, speaking directly to the unconscious mind. I occasionally used the dream to have other sensations ( like sex ) and it turned to be very good, but far from reality.

I don't know why, but I never thought there are any lucid dreaming forums / communities. Even so, I googled it and here I am. The sign up was saying up to 24 hours, but it took like 4 days. This is my first complain because I was thought to say what I do not like. I found many interesting things and terms that i did not define, because i didn't find it so important at that time ( like WILD, DILD, MILD etc. ).

I am very glad to be part of the community, I hope my introduction was not boring. Sorry for bad english if any.

**gab** · 05-20-2015 05:58 PM

Whoa, what a nice introduction.

to Dreamviews

I shouldn't be surprized that you read, but I am a little bit, because unfortunately movies had become more popular than books, which is a shame. Here is a thread you may find interesting. I would love to hear about the books you have read on the subject.

And yes, many lucid dream mostly for fun, and there is nothing wrong with that, haha. But we also have members that use it to selfexploration and discovery. I think you will find our forum fun with lots of cool topics. Hope to see your posts soon.

And I checked your profile. You have registered on 13th, and were approved on 14th. Agreed, that does seem like an eternity. But as you know, time slows down when we are waiting for something good to happen.

**GRValentine** · 05-20-2015 09:42 PM

Hmmm, that is strange. i checked every day and i could not post. Only after 3 days i was able to post on the forum and check my profile.

**ParanoidLlama** · 05-20-2015 09:54 PM

The scared old llama welcomes you to dream views!

But seriously, very nice introduction.

Like you, the one thing that excites me most about lucid dreaming is exploring myself, rather than living out fantasies. I really love to gain knowledge on particularly everything, yet I don't even know everything about myself!

I'm glad you could learn more about actual terms here. I hope to see you around the forums! Sweet (lucid) dreams..

**GRValentine** · 05-20-2015 10:12 PM

Originally Posted by ParanoidLlama

The scared old llama welcomes you to dream views!

But seriously, very nice introduction.

Like you, the one thing that excites me most about lucid dreaming is exploring myself, rather than living out fantasies. I really love to gain knowledge on particularly everything, yet I don't even know everything about myself!

I'm glad you could learn more about actual terms here. I hope to see you around the forums! Sweet (lucid) dreams..

I'll be free on friday and weekend, I'll be spending pretty much time on the forum.