My experience

[jupiter]

Hi guys. I am from Rome, Italy, and I am new in this forum. I heard of Lucid Dreaming by chance, doing a private search on internet about a subject of a movie. I am really interested in the "world of dreams". I recalled I used to be a lucid dreamer when I was a child and teen. As many young people, I used to dream a lot... Now, with the frantic modern life, there are few hours to sleep and to dream I often did the same dreams and, as any child, many of them were nightmares, usually a set recurring dreams. When I entered my teen age, I started to realize that I was dreaming because the nightmares were often the same... So this was the first step to control them! I developed some techniques to wake up when a dream turned into a nightmare: jumping out from a window and falling made me wake up, but when I "learned to fly", I bounced and it didn't worked any more and I was scared... what if I was a sleepwalker? The best technique was to lie down on the floor and do a "mental effort", similar to the one you do when you are looking a far object and you focus close, blurring the view... And this was my preferred teleport to the reality. I often experienced a sleep paralysis after I woke up... and it was like a struggle againts the enemy of the dream, sometimes he won and I falled again into the nightmare, but often I opened my eyes and I realized I was in my room... I also used my acquired lucid-dreaming skil to force dreams on my first loves... Now I can say I lost the skill and my dreams are often spliters of thoughts that vanish few minutes after I have opened my eyes.. I hope to find some answers in this discussions... Bye jupiter

[Clairity]

jupiter, I'm glad you decided to join us! You might want to review the Newbie Zone Guide for helpful information about this site: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=36723 You might also want to check out the Tutorials forum which contains information on the various lucid dreaming techniques: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...splay.php?f=25 If you should have any questions, please ask and we'll do our best to get you answers. Now that you found us .. may your return to lucid dreaming begin. Oh, and welcome to Dream Views!

[dreamscaper22]

to dreamviews, got a question? feel free to ask almost anyone... because anyone might have an opinion that will steer you in the right direction

[Wavefunction]

to the forum, Jupiter! It's great to hear that you have had previous experience with lucid dreaming, I'm sure it will come in handy. Clairity posted all of the essential links, so I'll just be seeing you around the forum!