hello all.

Glad I found this forum. I am really interested in getting back to having lucid dreams. I suppose I am doing this backwards in that I used to have them all the time when I was a kid. I remember when it all started. it started with a smurf episode if you can believe it.

I was young enough to be watching smurfs but old enough to understand the meaning of the episode and what I would be able to do. See when I was a child I was watching this smurf episode. I don't remember all of the story line but I do remember that the strong smurf was fighting a monster of some kind in a dream world and loosing. In the middle of the fight someone told him this is his dream and that he could control his dreams. He then became powerful and defeated the monster.

I remember being fascinated by that thought. Image if you could control your dreams and go on adventures and fly! All while sleeping. I don't remember how long it took me but I don't think it took that long to gain control of my dreams and it happened often enough to keep me interested till my late teens. I think I was able to control the dreams about 80% of the time. I had great adventures and fun. In my early 20 I don't know what happened but it faded. I also believe I may have had instances of OOB and potentially my 3rd eye opening but I would need to check with some one that knows about that.

The only reason I mention the 3rd eye is I have had at least 2 times where I was taking a nap and I could see. Both happened with me laying on my arms or backpack on a table and napping. I remember suddenly being completely awake and aware of everything however I do know that my body was asleep. Also I could see everything in front of my face and look around like I was using my eyes however I could feel my eyes were closed.

On the OOB issue. I have had some extremely vivid dreams that were a bit distressing. One that I had several times was that I was floating in space with the earth hanging in front of me. I remember being very scared because it was so huge and I was outside of it. Like I was out side of a safe cradle. I usually fixed this vision by turning around and willing myself to fall back to earth. As I was falling I remember thinking that I should be burning up from the drag of the oxygen but I wasn't. I remember as I was falling being surrounded by a great warmth and a feeling of home and safety. Then the dream ends. I am always aware that I am dreaming and that it has happened before.

anyway I hope to get back into this. I have had some instances of being aware that I was dreaming however I was still caught up in the storyline of my dream and didnt really take control. Also I have had no luck in forcing specific story line or dream like I could before.