Hello, fellow dreamers.
My name is Ian and I'm from Perth, Western Australia. I've been browsing this site for a while now and thought I'd register so I can put in my 2 cents.
I had my first lucid dream at the age of 4 when I was having a reoccuring nightmare and one day I decided to face the monster instead of running from it. That night, I realised I was dreaming and when I stood still to face the monster it disappeared. :)
Since then, I have found myself realising I'm dreaming more and more until eventually I found out what I was doing had a name! I then began keeping a dream journal, doing reality checks, using the techniques such as DILD, MILD and HILD to induce more lucid dreams. After a while I stopped doing this because I found myself having them spontaneously on nights when I hadn't used any techniques.
I am now 21 years of age and have lucid dreams every night effortlessly. I have had well over a thousand lucid dreams and can do pretty much anything in them. Anywayz, sorry for the long post... I look forward to meeting and chatting with you all.