Thread: Hello Everyone

Originally Posted by Gwendolyn

I hope that you learn a lot from us, and I am sure we'll learn from you, since you have such a good background in psychology and hypnosis. [/b]

Originally Posted by Gwendolyn

Oh, you have to stick around forever and let me pick your brain all the time. I am very interested in a scientific and psychological approach to lucid dreaming and dream control. [/b]

Thanks, I've learned so much already! I'm not sure what insight I can bring but I'm quite good at pulling disparate info together and when I'm interested, and now I'm *very* interested, I will dig right into it. I'm pretty empirical with a sprinkling of qualitative thrown in; I'm certainly not at the "new age" end of the spectrum of these phenomena that's for sure (although that's not to diss anyone approaching it from that direction - we're all just a floating point of view). I've also got a pretty nailed down self-hypnosis routine that I find helpful as a bit of a generic toolkit.

Originally Posted by Gwendolyn

I've managed an LD three times and I can't materialize anything. . . when I try to exert control everything goes all wonky and my furniture starts stacking itself, and my clothes start turning random colors. . . and then I find my pants have somehow gone missing. So. . . kudos! [/b]

I've just been reading some of your progress through your diary and what you've managed is a level of consistency which is what I want next (I hope I'm not being too unrealistic or greedy). It's good to see that through working at it you can get reproducable results... it gives me hope I can get it going.

Anyhow - I'm off to bed for a bit of SH and (hopefully) recreational dreaming

Originally Posted by buckie

I've just been reading some of your progress through your diary and what you've managed is a level of consistency which is what I want next (I hope I'm not being too unrealistic or greedy). It's good to see that through working at it you can get reproducable results... it gives me hope I can get it going.

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Thanks. That really cheered up my day. You must be a very good psychologist.


oooo . . . maybe you could give me a little advice on how to deal with my therapist. I don't want her to think I'm delussional when I tell her about this whole lucid dreaming thing.

Originally Posted by Jimmie

oooo . . . maybe you could give me a little advice on how to deal with my therapist. I don't want her to think I'm delussional when I tell her about this whole lucid dreaming thing.[/b]

IANAProfessional and I obviously don't know you personally so I'm not for flinging advice around willy-nilly on an internet forum(&#33, but if you want to show her that it's not something odd/dangerous/damaging/culty you've gotten into you could point her to something like this and I'd bet she'll be interested in your underlying motivations for doing it but you seem clear about those - people certainly seem to use it to manage bad dreams/nightmares etc... Just a thought.