Thread: A little introduction

Hi everyone
Thought I'd introduce myself. I'm now 20 years old and have been looking into lucid dreaming since I first read some articles on it in a tv magazine when I was about 9 years old. I used to have nightmares then and I started lucid dreaming and succesfully reduced the number of nightmares to about a handful each year. Well for what I can remember at least. It's a shame I haven't really bothered to do more with it in the meantime. I've always thought of it as very very cool to do, but I just don't make the time for it during the day to prepare for the night. I go to sleep pretty late too, to give an example of my motivation. Now I occasionally have a 'lucid dream' in which I tell myself I'm dreaming and go off throwing bad guys in the air with my telekinetic abilities, but I still don't think it really fully gets trough to me that I'm dreaming. I remember my dreams sometimes but they never really make sense. They're just a collection of stuff happening, with me going from one place to another, but no coherent storyline of any kind. So I have some questions to you now:

I would like to hear some experiences and pointers from people who used to be pretty preoccupied with the day and unmotivated to do anything about their dreaming experience, but who finally started doing it anyway. Like what got you to start properly? Maybe a sort of build-up plan.

And sort of a weird question. But when I become lucid I usually want to do all the cool stuff right away, which is pretty much how I am during the day, I get an idea and I want to do it, no matter what sort of important stuff (like studying) I'm supposed to do. One of the things I sometimes do is seek out a female to do you-know-what :-) Problem is: it never really works out the way I want it. The girl always ends up totally small and skinny and out of proportion. Now I wonder how to do something about that. A few things could be related to this. First, I have trouble with depth perception (heavy glasses) and sometimes wonder about how stuff looks smaller one time than the other. Second, I'm into drawing, so I pay alot of attention to proportions in real life as well. It's either that or I'm too picky and my dream is trying to tell me that I'm a jerk. Or maybe it's cause I'm a control freak? Anyway, any input or personal experience on this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks