I found this amazing forum a few weeks ago, and decided to make an account. I am 31, and have had extremely lucid dreams since I was a young child. I have amazing dream recall, I remember dreams as far back as 5 or 6. I did not have a horrible childhood. My parents fed me and clothed me, and didn't abuse me in the traditional sense, but I was neglected severely. I think because of this I retreated into my imagination, which only led to more vivid dreams and recall. It has only been in the last year that I discovered the concept of lucid dreaming, and have had 3 or 4 DILDs in the last year. In this time I have used those LDs to conquer a decades old fear (and reoccurring nightmare scenario), fully understand my position and perception toward a person in real life (by confronting their dream character) and have gained a new level of awareness from studying LDs and how to have them. In short, this has been an amazing journey and I want to continue to hone the dream craft in order to have more LDs. I have young children and work the night shift, so sleep can be non traditional but I still am able to remember 2 dreams a night, so there is hope yet!