...to have found this forum.
To be honest I'm nervous and excited at the same time :lol: It was quite by accident I stumbled across it, but I am so pleased as I've been a bit worried lately about lucid dreams and not had anyone who has given me the advice I've been seeking.
A little about myself:
I am a young-middle aged man living in England. I have always experienced vivd dreams which I have been told are a good sign of a healthy and active mind, but about 6 or 7 months ago, I had a couple of dreams like no other. It was only on doing a bit of research that I discovered that what I had been experiencing were lucid dreams. How and why they came about I have no idea, and why it should have taken me this length of time to ever get this far I still don't know.
The odd thing is, that apart from a magical and thrilling night, I would wake up properly with boundless energy and in such a lovely zingy feel. I would go to work full of enthusiasm and nothing would dampen my spirits for the whole day.
Obviously I would like to do this more often, but as I don't know what triggered it I couldn't easily practice. Two things did become apparent, however. One of these was that they were more likely to occur if my sleep was disturbed in the later early hours of the morning such a s a quick trip to the bathroom and the other thing was that they only seemed to occur in the phase of the waxing moon.
When I tried really hard to fall into this state and always unsuccessfully, I would wake feeling groggy and horrible for the whole day. Everything seemed distant like it can when suffering from a severe headcold.
As I said, I'm in my early thirties and this is a totally new and bizarre experience and on doing som limited research found that some reports say such dreams are totally harmless and that other reports gave indication of mental instability. Being somewhat alarmed at the latter, I delicatley asked a few friends and most seemed to be of the opinions of trying to avoid such circumstances as possible in case I was locked up.
One friend, however, who understands dreams and signs within them and the like was of the opinion that they will do no harm and on the contrary, encouraged me to try harder at remembering details within such dreams.
Here comes another problem. My last dream was so fantastic though when it happened a couple of months ago (total nonsense though), but the colours and details were more vivd than ever befoe. I was fully aware of what was happening - I spoke to people, asked them where I was, looked at shop signs in marvellous towns that I had never been too, heard music with fantastic melodies, I even read the number (license) plate of an old bus in the dream - all the time making a mental note to myself that I must write these things down when I woke up.
And when I woke up I could not remember any of the details I had so intended to take note and remember.
And that was it. :( That was my last of a fairly regular series of lucid dreams and I have not had any for over a month, even though my normal dreams have been quite vivid, they are more seen from a stand point rather than from an active and 'taking part' point..
I hope that by reading the posts on this forum, and asking for the advice of those more experienced, I will hopefully regain this relatively new skill which I seem to have been blessed with.
I still have many unuanswered questions, such as why it is only recently that I have experienced them, and more to the point, why do they seem to have stopped.
I have seen several aids to help induce such states, including verios CDs and the like, but I feel very doubtful of their success and somewhat concerned about any negative effects which they may produce, especially as I have not yet discovered anyone who has bought such CDs or devices and can vouch with confidence of their effectiveness.
Anyway, enough of my ramblings. I daresay I will be reading more than posting, but once again, many thanks for all those who have contributed to this forum and its discovery alone has made me feel less of a weirdo or outsider. :wink:
Blessings
Pokle :)
