Hi everyone,

I'm new here, and there was a recommendation that I introduce myself on this forum so...

I found out about Lucid Dreaming from, strangely enough, an episode of Star Trek: Voyager where one of the characters induced a Lucid Dream to communicate with non-corporeal aliens who were terrorizing the crew with nightmares and not letting them wake up. I didn't think much of it at first but after watching it again later I thought, why not, and googled the term. Sure enough, I wound up here. I've been reading the forums for a while and discovered some of the basics in the tutorials. I have also acquired a copy of Exploring the world of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge, and I'm finding it very interesting. I think I had an experience of Lucid Dreaming when I was very young, just after someone told me that old story about pinching yourself to see if you are dreaming. So in a dream I pinched myself, and my fingers went through my arm. Unfortunately I had no idea what lucidity was, so instead of taking advantage of this I immediately woke myself.

My main aim at the moment is to get my shocking recall up, and as I do this I think I am starting to have some very low level lucid experiences. The difficulty is, they are so low I'm not sure if I am really Lucid Dreaming or just dreaming about Lucid Dreaming. Because my recall is so low, in the first lucid dream i think I had, I cant even remember what triggered it. In that one, all I managed to do was make some match sticks appear and disappear by waving my hand in front of them. Then I lost what little control I had and the dream went on of its own accord. The other time I was on my balcony looking at the city skyline when I thought, "That's funny, that doesn't look like Brisbane (I'm from Brisbane Australia by the way), I must be dreaming!" Now this is very odd for me to notice, as I usually can't tell Brisbane from a ditch: in fact once I had a dream that the Brisbane skyline was being struck by huge bolts of lightning, with buildings exploding everywhere, and THAT didn't trigger Lucidity. Anyway, after realising I was dreaming I tried spinning around to stabilise it but too late: everything dissolved into a swirl of colours and I woke up. I think that's what happend, as I said my recall isn't great...

Well, I've probably said WAY more in introducing myself that I was supposed to, sorry. I'm wondering, does anyone know if it is possible to dream about Lucid dreaming? I mean if you follow that train of thought, how does anyone ever know if they are truly in control of a dream? Any comments would be appreciated.

Oh also, I have a friend (who I will try to get to join this forum) who has the strange ability to have dreams that continue on in sequence night after night. His longest standing dream has lasted for several months and has tracked the developement of an Island civilization. He's never in control of the dream, but sometimes by deciding before sleeping what he wants to happen, he can slightly influence the dream. Has anyone ever heard of something like this? Is there a way to have sequencing dreams if it doesn't come to you naturally?

Thank you for having me on your forum, I'm very excited to be here.

Penatus.