Hello,
My name is William. I am a 23 year old male from Australia. I have had a lay interest in dreams for the past 5 years. I have been recording my recalled dreams during this time and I consider myself to be a prolific recaller so I am beginning to amass quite a tome of raw dream data.

It is beyond the scope of this short post to provide evidence but I have no doubt that some of my dreams have been precognitive and others have revealed to me truths about present events that I could not ordinarily be cognizant of. This is what interests me most about dreaming. I understand this forum is primarily about lucid dreaming but really i'm just looking for anyone who has an interest in dreams and ideally, someone who knows more about them than me.

With full respect to the creators of the Dream Views website, i'm not really interested in gaining pleasure from dreams or turning them into some kind of nightly fantasy where I steer them in the direction I want for purposes of self-entertainment. I'm sure lucid dreaming has its place but i just want to express that I think the phenomenon of dreaming should be studied and experienced openly and holistically. I guess i'm concerned that creating a website about lucid dreaming almost creates an unnecessary 'denomination' of dream enthusiasts. Anyway that's not important.

If you are like me and you would like someone to communicate with about dreaming, even if you're just as clueless about them as me, I invite you to contact me on MSN messenger. In my circumstances I have encountered very few people interested in dreams. This is usually because they are such poor recallers and thus don't wake up daily with the excitement or bewilderment that I do at the unexplained images that have just passed through my sleeping brain.

Forgive me if this post sounds a bit grandiloquent but I have been reading a lot of Mark Twain lately and it rubs off!
In waking life I am just a lowly gas station attendant who spends his evenings eating cereal, so don't be put off by the pomposity of the language. Apart from recording my dreams, my life at the moment is not much more than a nervous, static, uneasy wait for the next Tool album, punctuated by periods of extreme suicidal depression. I'm looking for answers and hoping to find a like-minded individual or individuals to communicate with.

And yes I realize I should probably be doing this at an internet singles service but I'm less interested in holding hands on a beach with that 'special someone' than I am in finding a person who really believes and is passionate about the idea that our sleeping state is as important if not more important than our waking one. So yeah, send a brother an e-mail or instant message if you think conversing with me would be more fun than playing nude barbarian bocce with a mentally unstable tapeworm.

Peace & Heavy Metal to all of you.