Hi,

I have been lurking these forums for a few days, so i thought i should register and introduce myself. I have always been able to lucid dream, though have only recently been using some techniques, such as reality checks to help me trigger a lucid dream, from a normal dream. This way my lucid dreams are now about 2 a week. I tend to use looking at my hands, which in a dream will stretch and grow additional fingers.

I have another life in my dreams, a whole town to live in and people I know and interact with on a regular basis. I can remember everything, and things remain in a sort of stasis till i return most of the time, though other times I lucid dream and years have passed and i have been away. I enjoy this a lot, and it is a sweet alternative to real life, though that isn't too bad!

I just wanted to see if there was anyone else out there like me as I feel rather alone in the real world without anyone to compare notes with.

I have used my lucids to control horrible personal nightmares, which has helped a lot, but I do still have nightmares about more general disasters, which I am mostly unable to lucid myself out of, and they often repeat themselves many times in one night. Even if i do lucid out of the nightmare, it creeps back in, till it has completed.

Anyway, this forum is interested reading, and im thinking of adding to my skills to enable me to lucid my regulary and visit the other place more regular.

I am having issues with time at the moment, in my lucids its very slow, i can dream a whole 24 hours in one 8 hour sleep, but the real world seems to be flying past at a fast rate!