Hello From Jersey

Hi my name is Steve and I'm from New Jersey.

I used to be really into Lucid Dreaming when I was younger, mostly in my teens. I still do it every once and a while but I haven't practiced it on a regular basis in a while. I have a profound dream every once and a while. I know they're profound because they stay with me for a while when I wake, but I don't journal them or anything...

I originally taught myself to do it to combat nightmares. I guess the thing that caught my attention in my dreams was that nothing would die. Like for instance if I saw a spider or something and I went to step on it, it wouldn't die. Pretty soon I could make them go away.

I've kind of done it all. I used to be pretty good at sustaining the conscious state in a dream. I used to be able to change my clothes with a thought, go anywhere, any period of time, the whole 9 yards. That was all well and good but for the most part I preferred to try and find meaning in where I was and what was going on around me.

Lately I found that I don't really remember the bulk of my dreams. I think job stress and other things in my life have interrupted much of it, but I'd like to make an effort to get back to what I had.

well good to meet you all and I look forward to reading everyone's posts. I hope to really learn a lot.

Hey Steve :) Welcome to the forum!

I started out LDing the same as you, by escaping nightmares when I was younger. But lucid dreams seem to be fewer and farther in between as you get older, since we are busier and have more on our minds.

It's great you've got experience with lucid dream control. But I think you should really work on your recall first. Because what's the point of an LD if you don't remember it when you wake up? You should start keeping a dream journal. Write down anything and everything you can remember. And refer to the dream recall tutorial for more info.

Please feel free to post any questions or experiences you may have. Good luck and have fun! :D

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Hey Steve :) Welcome to the forum!

I started out LDing the same as you, by escaping nightmares when I was younger. But lucid dreams seem to be fewer and farther in between as you get older, since we are busier and have more on our minds.

It's great you've got experience with lucid dream control. But I think you should really work on your recall first. Because what's the point of an LD if you don't remember it when you wake up? You should start keeping a dream journal. Write down anything and everything you can remember. And refer to the dream recall tutorial for more info.

Please feel free to post any questions or experiences you may have. Good luck and have fun! :D
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I agree completely. Recall is something I do need to work on and I'll get a notepad and paper and leave it on my nightstand just in case. I never did that before because my dreaming was so much more vivid when I was younger, or at least that was my interpretation.

For me right now I think that I'm just not in a restful state when I sleep and it's causing me some trouble trying to remember dreams. I still have one or two here and there and they're profound. I had one a month or so ago that stayed with me for quite a while and I was lucid in this dream. I dreamt that I was in what I thought to be an animal hospital of some kind. I remembered the decor and the surroundings as I walked around. It appeared to be night time because nobody was around. The place was empty. I didn't make any effort to change anything because I wanted to know why I was there. Well a couple weeks later I went with my girlfriend to an animal shelter to adopt a dog. I felt unbelievable deja vu while I was there. I finally realized this was where I was in the dream.

It's nice having a built-in holodeck in your mind but when you experience things like this you realize that your dreams are much more important and they help you find meaning in things that perhaps your subconscious is trying to tell you.

Thank you again for your response and I look forward to reading all the interesting posts in here...