Hi everyone,
I'm new to this forum so I thought I'd introduce myself before posting any further:
I'm a 29 year old female from Belgium and I am "investigating" my dreams and dream patterns for the last 15 years. I also took several courses in dream related subjects and
I have an (almost) excelent dream recall abillity.
About 5 years ago I started to learn about dream awareness and dream controll, my first 'success' with this occured after about a week of practice with the reality check method. However, for me every experience ended up in a nightmare or a very frightening dream awaking. I also started to have the typical dream paralasys (waking up and not being able to move) more frequent then before. Since I didn't manage to controll, or work passed all these, I gave up on it.
I'm thinking about taking this up again though...
My absolute favorite is Hypnagogic Imagery. I remember having it every day since I was a small child in all varieties: images, faces, voices, sounds, smells, etc... and I find this the most interesting part about the whole dream aray. Eventually I learned how to controlI it and work with it and I still achieve this state every day, fully conscious and sometimes for hours, before eventually loosing my focus and fall asleep.
There been times that I mixed it up with spirituality or paranormal phenomena in an attempt to understand what exactly I was doing... I used it as a form of meditation... attempted astral travel and OBE thought this state (with the guidance of a mentor)... etc. Well, I'm sure some people in my environment thought I was suffering from some kind of mental illness at times, lol
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to brag or anything... I'm just a person who has been experimenting a lot, for good and for worse, in a search for knowledge and understanding. I like to know what is "outside the box".
I hope that by reading and maybe discussing here I can expand my knowledge and most of all, my experiences
(and I hope no one is bothered by my occasional typo's, I know they sneak in my posts every now and then,but English is not my native language )
Take care all
Gypsie
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