Hi all.

I've been looking through the forums for the past couple of days and checking out the info. Hopefully I'll have the acronyms and slang down soon.

I'm 28 years old (as of 2 days ago) and I couldn't tell you how many lucid dreams I've had in my life. LD is something I've done since I was about 4-5 years old. It started when I was having nightmares, and my dad told me that if I was having a scary dream, to just call on him and that he'd come beat up the monsters. I have pretty great dream control as well as recall.

If I'm "practicing", I will usually have several LD a week. I don't keep a dream journal because I have 2 kids under 2 years old, so there's really no time to write this stuff down, although I'd love to.

My main issue with LD right now is that it's begun to annoy me to do it, because it happens so often. I have been having them so much that I feel exhausted upon waking, because I feel like I've been up all night long. The other thing, is that when I'm having a LD, the first thing I seem to do is grab the first DC I can get my hands on and have sex with them. :blush:

I'm not like this IRL--like, I'm not some kind of perv or anything. In my waking life, I tell myself that I *will not* have sex during my next LD, but once I'm in a LD state, I say to myself, "I *know* I said I didn't want to do this the next time I LD... but... I-don't-care! I want to now!"

As for what I've done (other than sex, obviously) while LD:

-Flying
-diving in and out of water like a dolphin, only zooming wayy up into the air and wayy below the water and breathing underwater
-messing with light switches
-attempting to find out if I'm doing any astral.. projection is it? You know, seeing if I am going out of body by doing checks around the bedroom. So far it's only proven to me that I'm not.
-creating people (although not generally successfully)
-creating objects (again, not generally successfully)
-testing the area around me (once I took a rough rock and told myself that if I put it in my mouth it would be smooth, but it wasn't)
-hypnotizing myself and attempting to use a mantra to get rid of a phobia that I have (hasn't worked).

I'm sure there's lots more, but I won't go into everything (although feel free to ask me.) I guess I'm just getting really bored with LD and I'm looking for something new and fun to try that will pique my interest again.

A few months ago I learned about the thing (I can't remember what you guys call it) where you're drifting off and you kind of LD... so I experimented with it. The few times it's happened in the last couple months (I think it's happened to me 3 times) I'm in that state and it's just blackness. And that's it. So it kind of makes me feel like, "What's the point in doing this? I can't even dream experiment..."

Okay since this is a novel I'll shut up now. I'd love any input on any of this. Thanks again! This is a terrific resource!!