This is my first post here so I would like to start by saying that I am happy to be a part of this group and I hope that it will help me achieve my dreaming goals. And that as I learn I will be able to share what I learn with others and help them achieve their goals.

OK let’s start with what I think is holding me back and ask for any advice on over coming it. When I first started trying to have lucid dreams I had a lot of internal turmoil over if I could have lucid dreams and if I should have them. I was afraid that it was not natural and that doing so could be harmful to me. But I kept trying like some part of me needed to have them. I have overcome all of the conscious doubt but I still have have only limited success.

The lucid dreams that I have had seem to come only after a lot of hard work and lots and lots of pratice and then only one or two at best. the rest come of there own accord and I am not sure what brings them on. When I have them I seem to have good control and have even found ways to extend the dreams. I have flown in my dreams, I have past through solid objects, and I stopped an 18-wheeler in its tracks. I have to say that I did have a moment of thinking to myself “I hope this is a dream or this is really going to hurt”. So what could it be that i am not doing. I keep a dream journal. I know my dream signs. And I have great dream recall when I deside to remember them.

I love my dream life and I am amazed with how creative my mind can be. When I was about 14 I had a nightmare about animals escaping the Zoo and I woke panicked and afraid but then I thought that it was incredible that I could face something so frightening and not have a scratch on me. At that moment I decided that I liked nightmares and I have not had one since. I have had dreams that others would call nightmares but I find them to be some of the most interesting dreams. I have been shot in dreams; I have been stabbed, and blown up. I’ve died and been reborn. I’ve died and been born into the family of the dead. I hit bottom after falling off a cliff. And while I love all of these dreams the only problem is that none of them where lucid. And don’t take what I’ve said wrong I like all my dreams not just the nightmares.

I know that this post is kind of rambling but that’s just because I’m excited and glad to finely have a place to learn and grow in my dream life. Thank you in advance for any help and advice you can offer me.