I shall not Lurk any further...
Greetings.
My name is Kailden Jera and I have been Lurking this forums over the past couple of months.
I used to be an avid follower of the mantra "if it exists, it can thus be explained" and I generally dismissed everything people said or believed unless science proved it. I even went down to point of once saying that dreams were "pointless and futile" and that "I didn't had them". After someone like me "brews" the building blocks of life in a test tube, people tend to become very skeptical when it comes to unexplained new things.
This was until I found this site... Because my view on how things work change long before I made this first post.
While I was absorbing random knowledge form the Wikipedia, I found an interesting article about Dreams, and a link to another article mentioning Lucid Dreaming. After reading the article, I was intrigued by the scientific breakthroughs made by the man called Stephen LaBerge and his scientific effort and the community supporting him (this site for instance).
I was immediately attracted by his discoveries and decided to make experiments based on that data. At first all my efforts were in vain, as my dreams (or lack of them) were still the same black seams of darkness I have ever had in all my life. And then, as I quited my attempts to dream lucidly, I had a dream and I was able to recall it after I wake up. To my shock and surprise, this was the "first real dream" I had after 16 years of dreamless nights (taking into account I can't remember anything before I was 4).
At first the dreams were short, unclear and colorless. But as I insisted on my attempts they became more vivid, colorful and elaborate. I started my own dream journal in which I place all the significant dreams I have (though it's a bit sloppy and unorganized) as several times suggested on this site. Though so far any grasp of lucidity or dream control is non-existent, I still believe that practice makes perfect.
Now I want to achieve the "next level" as someone here said, and as such I wish to join this community and learn from it. More than I would ever be able than just Lurking around. My goals now, as I write this message, is to broad by knowledge about dreams and achieve spontaneous lucidity in them even though I don't know if it's even possible.
And that's basically it.
