Thread: Greetings!

Hey everyone,

I got into lucid dreaming about a year ago at lunch when a coworker mentioned it. I thought immediately of Inception, the movie, and did not believe it was a real phenomenon. He recommended reading Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge, and I was off to the races! Well, sort of.

I had a few lucid dreams within the next two months. There was one problem: in the short period of the time I was lucid, I never actually saw anything - I didn't have any vision. I was so annoyed with how LaBerge claimed that it was exactly like real life. Until one night, when I became lucid and made the realization that my eyes were closed. Boom! Opened them and hello brave new world!
I was stunned at how this was the first time something had lived up to the hype. And how there are actually endless possibilities...
After that initial breakthrough, I experimented with a few techniques over the next months. However, I have since then gone to a pure DILD approach with auto suggestion and a mantra before bed. I guess I got lazy, or simply wanted to keep doing it with the least amount of mental energy - since it took a lot for a while. I have taken up meditation as well, and found that it has improved my rate of lucid dreams too.
So, the things I do daily are meditation, Laberge's MILD pre-requisite exercise, mantra, and of course dream journaling.
The one thing that I'm pumped for is how I see that there are many people here on DreamViews that have had many, many years experience and have some awesome stories to tell. I am excited that if I just have the perseverance and persistence to practice a little bit each day, that one day I will be able to also have the same lucid dreaming skills and perspective.

Anyways! Expect to see me around, I am already excited that I decided to join after being a lurker for the last 3-4 months!

GoldenCave