Thread: Welcome from this strange little slice of conscious experience I call me!

Hi everyone!

I'm so excited to finally be a member of this forum. I'm deeply fascinated by LDing and have been ever since I first properly found out about it--oh, I don't know--it must be 15 years ago or so by now. It's such a mind blowing experience with such potential that if I ran the education system we'd all be taught about it as kids. There are quite a lot of things that should be taught but aren't but I guess it's all about nurturing a good little worker drone. Anyway best not to say more on that right now--I've barely introduced myself and I'm already ranting, where are my manners?

Other interests include science, philosophy of mind, computers, nature.

It took me about a year to finally get signed up on here. I'm an old timer and don't like modern social media so I was a bit desperate to get on an old school web forum about LD but at the time neither this site or Mortal Mist would activate my account so I couldn't believe my luck when I got activated a few days ago.

As for the LDs, I can count them on one hand so far. I've gone through bursts of trying to be consistent with my reality checks and then much more of the time seem to slide into not doing them. It's funny though that a lot of the more structured and simple reality checks haven't always seemed to work that well for me, at least not at the time (they might have helped many months later). I've had a bit more luck by just being incredibly analytical (which I love doing anyway, I often over-analyse things) and starting to spot patterns in my recurring dreams so that I start to recognise them quickly as dream signs.

I also think if I start reading and posting on here regularly it will help get me in the right mindset to get lucid more often.

Looking forward to getting to know you guys and gals. I really don't get out much, even less since this awful pandemic, so the chance to connect with some like-minded souls across space here is very much appreciated.