Well - this is sort of all i have on my lucid dreaming, how it started, when it started, where I've progressed to, why I've joined this site. Here goes.
I've always had a very active imagination - something which is extremely irritating when trying to get to sleep since new thoughts keep popping into my head. When I was younger I always used to imagine everything that was happening throughout the house. What was on tv, who was talking in the kitchen, whether my dog had gone to sleep yet, even things like who was driving past the house, where they were going, what might be on their car radio.
When I did start slipping into my dream state I would begin to imagine really odd things - usually creepy or freightening. A lion padding up the stairs, shrinking to one tenth my normal size, drowning in my covers. Eventually I'd fall completely to sleep, and usually completely into a nightmare. As you can imagine this didn't help me when I wanted to get to sleep, since I knew what awaited me once I was there. As a result I developed a minor case of insomnia, being unable to fall asleep until very early the next morning and only managing to get about 4 hours sleep at a time as a result of having to get up the next morning.
By the age of 7 I was starting to get more sleep but was still suffering from nightmares. Then, during the summer I started having one nightmare over and over again. First time it was normal, then a few nights later I had it again, and after a few nights I had it again, and again, and again.
This is how it went:
It began with me just sat in the kitchen. Then the lion which I had imagined so many times making its way up the stairs would stalk into the room. I would jump up, climb out the window and run down the street with the lion in hot pursuit always just a few paces behind me. In the distance I would notice Big Bird (from Sesame St [I was 7!]0. He/she/it would wave at me to follow him/her/it down an alleyway. Safe? Not at all. Big Bird - the friendly children's character would then proceed to swallow me whole and I would get the feeling of falling (you know that sort of extreme butterflies in the stomach?). I would fall for about a minute and then just wake up.
Scary huh? Anyway - the point is that this dream became a regular occurance, always as scary (to me) as it was the first time. Bummer, not a lot I could do right? After all it was a dream, not something I could control and I had no idea of the existence of lucid dreams. Then one night I had the dream again, only when Big Bird tried to swallow me I fought back. Admittedly it was only a few punches and kicks and I was still swallowed in the end but what the hell, I had just broken a cycle. The next time I had the dream I boke the cycle again. This time I spoke to BB. "Why don't we just be friends?" I asked - I guess it was just my idea of how to resolve a fight I didn't want to get into when I was younger, but it worked... I didn't get eaten...at least not until the lion caught up with me.
You can see where this is going right? I had the "just be friends" dream 3 more times each time a little different. The next time was much different. This time I was aware that I was dreaming as soon as I first caught sight of the lion - afterall it isn't the most common of wildlife in the vale of York. I still ran but while I ran down the street I felt more like I was underwater, and if I was underwater that meant that I could swim upwards. I tried it. Sure enough when I brought my arms sharply down and kicked off from the floor I shot up into the air leaving a very puzzeled lion behind me.
I was having my first lucid dream. At first I was unsteady in the air which I still had to swim about in. I also still had the unpleasant feeling of butterflies whenever I was "flying" but that dissappeared over time.
The more nightmares I had the more I overcame - breaking out of them each time and improving my abilities each time. Eventually my dreams outweighed my nightmares and by the age of 11 I had suffered my last nightmare. My lucid dreams where still random and I couldn't always wake up into one.
That changed with time too.
The last time I remember not being in control of one of my dreams was almost two years ago. Now I can snap out of my dream state and into the lucid state after just a few minutes of dreaming.
I am now at the point of styling my actions within lucidity: ie. I am currently finetuning just what I look like when I'm doing things eg. I am aiming to make my flight more to do with telekinesis - to give the appearance of me pushing myself from buildings without touching them, perhaps while the spot on the building crackes and fragments under the force I exert.
To date I have mastered not only flight and telekinesis but also, pyro/hydro-kinesis, remote viewing, teleportation, creation of objects from "sculpting them from air", walking through walls (with and without having to blast through them), invisibility, growing/shrinking in size, time control (freezing and slowmotion only :( ) and even - perhaps most amusingly - how to play a good game of pool (yes sometimes I do just like to just go out with my mates and play pool in my dreams [yes the skills I develope in my dreams seem to transfer to my real life]).
Well that was just about everything I think I needed to introduce myself.
For those of you who did read it all - well done and I hope I can not only further develope my skills here but also help with the developement of other peoples.
Any questions just ask.
OH! P.S. - I'm hoping to turn my dream state alter-ego into a comic during the summer. Maybe I'll post a couple of frames/graphics on the site.
Lemon out :content:
