Thread: Hello everyone and why I'm here

Hi folks,

I just wanted to post a hello and introduce myself. I am sorry for the length of the post, it will likely be the longest thing I ever write here though. I just thought it was important to state where I'm coming from if I happen to post about anything topics. Thanks for your time reading.

I'm a 35 year old Database Administrator for a group of West coast Hospitals. I've been struggling with Depersonalization and Derealization episodes for many years now and recently decided to try to address this problem. During the therapy to help with these challenges we've done a bunch of dream analysis and excercises. During those excercises and my descriptions of my dream experiences with her, she talked to me about lucid dreaming and directed me here to read up and maybe share some information.

I've also had bouts of insomnia and difficulty falling asleep since a very young age and spent some time in a few of the CA Sleep Centers to work on it but mostly they drugged me up too much for me to function well on a day to day basis. Tired was preferable to loopy.

All through my sleep challenges, I've been able to shape and guide what I dream since I can remember. I'm not sure where I fall in the context of this board but after reading over some of the posts, I think I chose the right experience level. I don't know most of the terms here yet so I'm not sure if I do any of these things specifically.

[list]1. I am able to plant a themed suggestion before falling asleep with a high success rate and a decent specificity if I actually concentrate on it.
2. I have an apparently high recall rate as well according to the therapist and I've never given any thought to not being able to remember my dreams. I can get far too much detail if I actually right anything down.
3. I rarely find myself unable to alter details and when that does happen, it just takes a different approach to effect change in that dream.
4. I'm able to return to a dream that I was woken from by mistake somehow relatively quickly.
5. I often incorporate sound stimulation into my dreams with a fair success rate and to help guide a theme for example.[list]

Being a long time web user (like from the start, how sad!) I can't believe that it never occured to me look for other dreamers. I'm looking forward to reading people's dream journals to see how you are all spending your dreamtime and the experiences you are exploring. I'm affraid most of mine are (embarrassingly) the typical male stuff you'd imagine so I'm not sure how much help that would be to post. I'm hoping to springboard into new ideas and experiences from some of yours.

I'm also of course very interested in interpretation of Lucid Dreams and how that interpretation filters through people's dream conciousness.

If you made it this far, I thank you for your time and patience with my rambling. I hope that my future posts can be short and concise as well as helpful in some way. Thanks for providing and building this great resource for all of us.

Jerod

EDIT: p.s. A special thanks to Barbizzle for the nice welcome message!

Welcome to the forum, diableri. It's great to have you here! You shared quite a bit about yourself dream wise. It is wonderful that you are interested in dreaming and lucid dreaming. You might want to check out some of our wonderful tutorials. They are great Lucid Dreaming related resources. Anyway, I look forward to reading more of your posts. I hope you enjoy your stay here. If you need any help, you can always contact myself, another Dream Guide, or another more experienced member.

Welcome on board! Please let us know how we can all help.

Database Administrator? Yeah, that can be interesting sometimes, especially when someone deletes a key somewhere!

I am glad you found us. If you get a chance, please ask your therapist to drop by and browse around. I'd love to hear a professional opinion of Dream Views.

Originally posted by Seeker+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Seeker)</div>

I'd love to hear a professional opinion of Dream Views. [/b]

Ahem... Ahem! I belive the therapist would be coming to the site for OUR professional opinions!

Originally posted by Jerod@
1. I am able to plant a themed suggestion before falling asleep with a high success rate and a decent specificity if I actually concentrate on it.

Essential for doing the MILD technique. You should have no problem with lucidity with this ability. Be sure to check out our tutorial section. Seeker's got a great one for the WILD technique as well.

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During those excercises and my descriptions of my dream experiences with her, she talked to me about lucid dreaming and directed me here to read up and maybe share some information.

No shit! a "professional" actually acknowledged lucid dreaming as a therapy?! Nice to see some people in the medical field are startin to get it.

Originally posted by diableri
Hi folks,

I just wanted to post a hello and introduce myself. I am sorry for the length of the post, it will likely be the longest thing I ever write here though. I just thought it was important to state where I'm coming from if I happen to post about anything topics. Thanks for your time reading.

I'm a 35 year old Database Administrator for a group of West coast Hospitals. I've been struggling with Depersonalization and Derealization episodes for many years now and recently decided to try to address this problem. During the therapy to help with these challenges we've done a bunch of dream analysis and excercises. During those excercises and my descriptions of my dream experiences with her, she talked to me about lucid dreaming and directed me here to read up and maybe share some information.

I've also had bouts of insomnia and difficulty falling asleep since a very young age and spent some time in a few of the CA Sleep Centers to work on it but mostly they drugged me up too much for me to function well on a day to day basis. Tired was preferable to loopy.

All through my sleep challenges, I've been able to shape and guide what I dream since I can remember. I'm not sure where I fall in the context of this board but after reading over some of the posts, I think I chose the right experience level. I don't know most of the terms here yet so I'm not sure if I do any of these things specifically.

[list]1. I am able to plant a themed suggestion before falling asleep with a high success rate and a decent specificity if I actually concentrate on it.
2. I have an apparently high recall rate as well according to the therapist and I've never given any thought to not being able to remember my dreams. I can get far too much detail if I actually right anything down.
3. I rarely find myself unable to alter details and when that does happen, it just takes a different approach to effect change in that dream.
4. I'm able to return to a dream that I was woken from by mistake somehow relatively quickly.
5. I often incorporate sound stimulation into my dreams with a fair success rate and to help guide a theme for example.[list]

Being a long time web user (like from the start, how sad!) I can't believe that it never occured to me look for other dreamers. I'm looking forward to reading people's dream journals to see how you are all spending your dreamtime and the experiences you are exploring. I'm affraid most of mine are (embarrassingly) the typical male stuff you'd imagine so I'm not sure how much help that would be to post. I'm hoping to springboard into new ideas and experiences from some of yours.

I'm also of course very interested in interpretation of Lucid Dreams and how that interpretation filters through people's dream conciousness.

If you made it this far, I thank you for your time and patience with my rambling. I hope that my future posts can be short and concise as well as helpful in some way. Thanks for providing and building this great resource for all of us.

Jerod

EDIT: p.s. A special thanks to *Barbizzle for the nice welcome message! *

well then welcome and have buches of fun.

Originally posted by Tornado Joe

No shit! a "professional" actually acknowledged lucid dreaming as a therapy?! * *Nice to see some people in the medical field are startin to get it.

Well, she labled what I was doing and wanted me to be informed as we talked about ways to incorporate the difference into her work with me. She seemed fairly knowledable about it all. I'll be sure to share her insights with you guys. She was going to talk with some of her peers to see if she should take anything special into consideration with the dream discussions/interpretations and perhaps give me dream "homework".

Thanks for the warm welcomes. =)

Please have her drop by. We have helped countless people work trough issues using lucid dreaming. Some of them were really quite exciting!

*Disclaimer: The views and opinions of Dream Views members are not a substitute for professional therapy*

Originally posted by diableri
Hi folks,

I just wanted to post a hello and introduce myself. I am sorry for the length of the post, it will likely be the longest thing I ever write here though. I just thought it was important to state where I'm coming from if I happen to post about anything topics. Thanks for your time reading.

I'm a 35 year old Database Administrator for a group of West coast Hospitals. I've been struggling with Depersonalization and Derealization episodes for many years now and recently decided to try to address this problem. During the therapy to help with these challenges we've done a bunch of dream analysis and excercises. During those excercises and my descriptions of my dream experiences with her, she talked to me about lucid dreaming and directed me here to read up and maybe share some information.

I've also had bouts of insomnia and difficulty falling asleep since a very young age and spent some time in a few of the CA Sleep Centers to work on it but mostly they drugged me up too much for me to function well on a day to day basis. Tired was preferable to loopy.

All through my sleep challenges, I've been able to shape and guide what I dream since I can remember. I'm not sure where I fall in the context of this board but after reading over some of the posts, I think I chose the right experience level. I don't know most of the terms here yet so I'm not sure if I do any of these things specifically.

[list]1. I am able to plant a themed suggestion before falling asleep with a high success rate and a decent specificity if I actually concentrate on it.
2. I have an apparently high recall rate as well according to the therapist and I've never given any thought to not being able to remember my dreams. I can get far too much detail if I actually right anything down.
3. I rarely find myself unable to alter details and when that does happen, it just takes a different approach to effect change in that dream.
4. I'm able to return to a dream that I was woken from by mistake somehow relatively quickly.
5. I often incorporate sound stimulation into my dreams with a fair success rate and to help guide a theme for example.[list]

Being a long time web user (like from the start, how sad!) I can't believe that it never occured to me look for other dreamers. I'm looking forward to reading people's dream journals to see how you are all spending your dreamtime and the experiences you are exploring. I'm affraid most of mine are (embarrassingly) the typical male stuff you'd imagine so I'm not sure how much help that would be to post. I'm hoping to springboard into new ideas and experiences from some of yours.

I'm also of course very interested in interpretation of Lucid Dreams and how that interpretation filters through people's dream conciousness.

If you made it this far, I thank you for your time and patience with my rambling. I hope that my future posts can be short and concise as well as helpful in some way. Thanks for providing and building this great resource for all of us.

Jerod

EDIT: p.s. A special thanks to *Barbizzle for the nice welcome message! *

welcome to dv.