A dreamy hello...

[RCLefty]

Hi, everyone. This is my first time posting, and to introduce myself, I can think of nothing better than to share how I first became aquainted with Lucid dreaming. It began when I was quite young, with my first remembered experience of a flying dream. I was already quite good at remembering dreams after they happened. I don't know how flying usually occurs for you all, but it was a rather odd thing for me. I was in a hallway, I think it was at school, and I suddenly realized that if I hopped into the air, and then made a sort of bicycle-kicking motion with my legs into thin air, I could gradually increase my altitude, and then, if I stopped kicking, I could sort of glide back down at a slight angle to the ground. I particularly enjoyed gliding in a sort of downward spiral until I reached good old terra firma. I did not realize I was dreaming, but thought I had accidentally discovered how to fly, and all of the other kids in school (at least i think it was school) were quite impressed by this. When I woke up, I was dissapointed to find that it had been a dream, but it gave me a great litmus test for future dreams. I had a similar experince discovering that I could breath underwater, which I have also used since as a test, but I think that had much more to do with the fact that my body wasn't really underwater than with the psychology of dreams. Like before, I thought at first that I had discovered the trick to breathing underwater. (I was convinced, until i woke up, that the trick was keeping your face down and taking shallow breaths. I definitely DO NOT recommend trying that out at the community center pool! ) Much later in life, just a few years ago, it was a flying lucid dream that really brought home for me the depth of reality in the dream world. I don't recall how this paricular dream became lucid, but I decided to leave where I was and fly, not so much for the raw fun of flying, as for the fact that it's a great way to change the scenery in a dream. As I was first taking off, I looked down at the trees, gently swaying in the breeze, and I could see every leaf moving independantly and see each blade of grass and feel the cold wind on my arms. ( I was wearing a short-sleeved shirt in this dream.) I could see ahead of me the skyline of a city that I had willed to be there, (it was where I intended to go) and the detail, and depth of sensory experience, it took my breath away. I really don't remember what happened after that, as I have had many lucid experinces before and since, any more than I can remember everything that happened in any particular waking day, but just that brief moment of really experinceing the reality of it all was very profound. Does anyone have a similar story?

[Amethyst Star]

Welcome to Dream Views, Mr. Lefty I do remember the very first flying dream I had, and ironically it was probably due to the fact that my sister and I slept in the same room (as young girls) and she listened to the radio while she slept. It was at the time when the song "I believe I can fly" was popular. I vividly recall that after I had retreived a pair of goggles from a (scum-filled) pool that I thought had somehow enchanted me, I was flying around doing my own rendition of that song. And yes, there were people watching me but I don't recall what their reactions were. I've had many flying dreams since then, though for some reason they tapered off once I begun to learn about LDs. As for breathing under water, I experienced that again just a couple of nights ago. I find it a facinating experience! I started by taking small breaths through my nose, as if to suck in the tiny amount blocking the water coming in, but then I began to breathe more normally. Anyway, those are only a couple of my experiences. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask. You can also talk to any of us Dream Guides (the people in green), or other moderators. We'd love to help you become more lucid! Sweet dreams! -Amé

[RCLefty]

Music can do wierd things when you're asleep, eh? I remember a dream I had (shortly after Jurassic Park had first hit the box office) where i was in some sort combination middle school/shopping mall/ giant "rube goldberg" device hunting crazed velociraptors with a shotgun, when all of the sudden a gang of them burst into the room I was in and started singing country music. after a few seconds of watching this spectacle with some confusion, i woke up to discover that my alarm clock radio had come on, and it was on a country station. (I used to listen to country when i was a kid. please don't hate me! )

[Amethyst Star]

Originally posted by RCLefty (I used to listen to country when i was a kid. please don't hate me! ) It sounds like you grew out of it, so we'll keep you on. ...or at least I will. -Amé

[RCLefty]

It sounds like you grew out of it, so we'll keep you on. ...or at least I will.[/b] Very glad to hear it. You're a peach. In my defense, I couldn't help it. My family moved to Arkansas when I was four years old. We lived there for seven years. There were churches in that place where nobody wore shoes. And white people as far as the eye could see. For years, I actually thought the confederate flag was sort of interchangable with the American flag. I went to a public school, and they actually spanked kids there. My father was stationed there in the Air Force. I didn't realize until after we left what a dim view my parents had taken of it. It was all my sister and I knew as kids, and there were good times, and friends, and parties, just like anywhere else. Our folks actually did a very good job of insulating us from the more disagreeable aspects of that way of life. Unless we had pizza, we always used silverware! Nowadays, my taste in music leans more toward Jazz, Folk, Funk and Oldies (espescially British ones.) Although, I must say, I'll never forget the sight of a half-dozen or so six foot dinosaurs line dancing to Billy Ray Cyrus. Very odd.

[RCLefty]

Hey! Guess what, I'm back! Just when I had started getting into this whole thing, I got shipped out for Basic Training, and by the time I was "released" into Tech School, my time on this forum had been forgotten. But, I'm gonna try and stick around again, now!

[Lucidbulbs]

Hey! Guess what, I'm back! Just when I had started getting into this whole thing, I got shipped out for Basic Training, and by the time I was "released" into Tech School, my time on this forum had been forgotten. But, I'm gonna try and stick around again, now! Well, welcome back then! I hope this time you can stick around and enjoy the dreaminess with all of us!

[RCLefty]

I really hope so. I've been all over the country over the last couple of years, and I don't think I'd even thought about this place since I left Indiana. But I've always been really interested in Lucid Dreaming, and as soon as I remembered (spontaneously) this forum, I came running back.