Is this a gift???

[Artixknight]

I've been a dreamer all of my life. Every night I have a dream, I long for the nights I can deep sleep without any dreams. I don't need a dream journal to remember my dreams, I usually wake up after a dream and forget- and at some random point of the day, I remember every detail of it. My dreams are extremely frightening, more than half of them are nightmares or just really horrible dreams. At this point of time, I can remind that I am dreaming and just "walk out" of my dreams; I wake myself up. I have remembered dreams dating back to when I was a little child... Around 3 years old. I recall about 5 dreams a day from my childhood, and I am almost convinced that I'm close to remembering all of my major dreams. (I've recalled about 30 in the past few weeks.) My family has chastised me for clinging on to my dreams, but I use them as inspiration for art, stories, and something to think about over the day during school. When I first learned about lucid dreaming about a month back, I knew that this would be an easy task for me. However, I was so used to walking out of my dreams, that I didn't know how this would work out. I tried to lucid dream the first night, and I had two dreams in which I gained lucidity. The first dream I got too excited that I was willing people and objects away, I even made the sun come up to put a little light in the dream. I soon lost control, and found the dream becoming "hazy" and confusing. So, I woke myself up to try and fall back to sleep again. When I fell back asleep, I became lucid, but quickly lost focus and just went a long with the dream. Since then, I haven't tried to do it again. I think I'll try it again tonight... if I can even sleep with all of this stress Eh, worth a shot though. So, I hope to get some good advice from this site and share some of my dreams

[Moonbeam]

to DreamViews, Artixknight! That's really cool how you have always been so aware of your dreams, and how you were able to get lucid so quickly. Nobody here will chastise you for hanging on to your dreams, that's for sure! Keep practicing, it will get better. I think you will make progress very quickly--you've got a really good head start. Good luck!

[Clairity]

Artixknight, I consider lucid dreaming a gift and I'm glad you decided to join us! Your awareness and excellent recall can only help you with lucid dreaming. 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 may also want to check out the Tutorials forum which contains information on the various lucid dreaming techniques and other helpful information: 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. Welcome to Dream Views!