Thread: Hello Everyone, Deciding to give Lucid dreaming another try

Hi everyone, just found the site and skimmed through a good portion of the information. Didn't have to read all of it in detail since a lot of it I have read in other places in the past.

I guess I'll introduce myself first, my name is Corbin and I'm a student at DeVry University, taking all my classes online. I have previously read about and attempted to lucid dream on several occations but have never been able to keep up with a dream journal for more than about a week. I also never had a forum with others to talk with either, so I've decided that this might be help me to stay on task since I am very interested in the subject.

One reason I am so interested is because I used to lucid dream as a child almost every single night. Sorry if I'm a little long winded, but I might as well describe my lucid history right here. There are two seperate lucid instances I remember from my childhood. The funny thing is that I have a pretty bad memory and only really remember bits and peices from my childhood but these two instances are still vivid in my mind to this day:

The first instance is from when I was very young. I used to have a nightmare very regularly. It was the same nightmare and it happended over and over again. I was in my house upstairs and although I never saw it I knew there was some sort of dragon/monster/creature of some sort downstairs. There were all sorts of little animals there with me and they were all scared. In all the times I had the dream I never once went downstairs to see, it was too terrifying (I had to have been probably like 5 at the time, although I think it went on for a couple years). Every single time I had this dream I knew I was dreaming but I could not wake up and it was terrifying.

The second instance happended as I got slightly older. It was sometime around elementary school and it was for a good portion of my childhood until I got slightly older. What happend was that I used to be able to see anyone in my dreams I wanted to. At the time I had a crush on a girl at my school so of course I always wanted to see her in my dreams. What I would do to make this happen was that I would simply knock on a door and someone would answer, I would ask "If Katie was home" and she would come to the door. The funny thing is that I eventually learned that it didn't even need to be a door to a house, and had different occurances of this that I can't remember except one involving knocking on a coffin I think.

Aside from these two instances there were also several other small occurances around this point in my life that I would simply just know I was dreaming, and I also remember just thinking it was quite normal at the time since I was a child. I remember trying to explain the "door knocking" phenomenon to my friends, telling them that they could do it to, but they were never able to.

As I got older these simply went away. And it wasn't until some time later that I began researching lucid dreams and become aware that my childhood was full of them.

Lately I have been having pretty interesting and vivid dreams and have decided to give lucid dreaming another try. Sorry if that was a little long, but I'm off to set up a dream journal and then to bed and the wonderful world of dreams, goodnight all.

~Corbin

Welcome Corbin!! :yumdumdoodledum:

DeVry! I remember them!

I'm glad you decided to give lucid dreaming another shot, it has made my life far more interesting.

Seems like alot of people have their first experiences as kids...kids seem to have more 'mind over matter'...in fact i had small experiences with flying as a kid....

Welcome!

Well hey welcome to the forums. Glad to see you've reignited your intrest in lucid dreaming! Good luck with it, the experience is always worth it no matter what age you are.

welcome! hey cool ur goin to devry, my brother is going back to DeVry pretty soon (he dropped out cause he wanted more computer classes and less of those worthless english + math classes)

Welcome to the forum Corbin!

Originally posted by IAmCorbin
Sorry if that was a little long

Don't worry about it.

Thanks for the welcome everyone

~Corbin

WELCOME CORBIN!!!!

It is great that you have some background experience from your childhood, and you will soon be able to use your LD knowledge once again. Good luck, and I hope that you can learn what you need here...

P.S. I have to try that door knocking strategy, I don't see why it wouldn't work...genious!!!

Hi, I'm Andrew... Tried lucid dreaming before off this site but just faded out of trying it. Great technicque knocking on the door!

Hey Andrew! Don't give up lucid dreaming!