Thread: Hey everybody!

Hello everybody! I'm new here.

Well... my name's Stephen, and I want to become a lucid dreamer. (Sounds like an AA meeting... "Hiii Stephennn." )

About Me:
I'm 16 years old and a junior in high school from Texas. My friends call me a hippie. Because of my taste in... everything. Most of the music I listen to is from the 60's, but I'm not musically ignorant or seclusive. I listen to music from all different times and styles. Everything from jazz, blues, folk, rock, reggae, classical, and most of their combinations and forms, and know a lot about music history. It is my passion more than anything. Some of my favorite bands are The Beatles, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Steely Dan, The Who, Bob Dylan, Cream, among many others. I love music that is able to share a message or idea such as John Lennon or Jim Morrison, and I love music that is just amazingly talented such as Clapton or SRV. I play guitar, and plan on learning to play lots of other instruments going from the fiddle to the sitar. I have many views on many things and am very deep and think a lot, but if you meet me, you probably wouldn't think that until you got to know me well because I usually just have lots of fun and am hyper. I love tea. I'm agnostic I guess if I were something because I refuse to live a life by somebody elses means that demands me do certain things to gain eternity. I believe that everybody is different and that they need to find they're own path to enlightenment, whatever that may be. I think that the Bible, Koran, Tora, etc. have many great things in them, and that one could learn much from them. I have read a lot of all of them. But they were written by men, no matter what your preacher tells you, a man wrote those words down. Men make mistakes, are emotional, jealous, self riteous, etc. that could cause those words to be slightly off maybe. Nothing's perfect, so you shouldn't be told to do something that somebody else made up that has been translated through a million dialects that could have been a insane guy. I don't like the whole concept. Be happy, be peace, believe in something, live, be friends, love, help others, be helped, but don't manipulate others.

Enough of my ranting. I just love talking about different controversies and my opinions.

And it may seem hard to believe sometimes, but I don't do drugs.

So that's a little insight on me I guess.

About me and dreams:

To my knowledge, I have had at least one lucid dream that I recall.

It was either two or three years ago at my grandma's Christmas party, we were all sitting there talking, and we somehow started talking about dreams.

My dad said something about "controlling dreams". He said that sometimes he'll be laying in bed and just roll over and fall out, and right before he hits the ground, he slows down and gently floats to the ground, and finds out that he's dreaming. We kept talking about random stuff then.

Well that night, that exact thing happened in my dream. Laying in bed, fall out, float, lucidity. I remember walking through my house to get to the front door, but it was locked, so I just walked through it. (From reading all about lucid dreaming, I think I had some great control for the first time) Then I remember deciding to fly, so I flew my town around for a bit and into outer space. And I remember a horse. But nothing about it. And that's about it that I remember here a couple years later.

Well, I recently watched the movie Waking Life. It's about lucid dreaming somewhat and a pretty cool movie. This sparked my recent interest.

I've read pretty much as much as I could get from the internet on lucid dreaming, and pretty much every other bit of dreaming. I go through wikipedia pages absorbing information like crazy every now and then. Yesterday while writing my english paper I went somehow from Rembrandt to lobotomy with a million pages in between. :

So I have yet to get a dream journal because I keep forgetting. I plan on printing a card to put in my pocket with some sentence on it. I'm thinking, "This could make perfect sense sometimes. Try looking away and back. Peace."

I want to be a lucid dreamer.

If you guys have any tips, comments, questions, I'm always open!

Thanks for reading this lengthy post.
If you didn't read it all, I understand. I probably wouldn't either if I were you.

Peace.