Hi! a thread of greetings and gut-spillage

[ZmillA]

I've been lurking here since about wensday or thursday. I have been interested in dreams and the surreal-ish things that go along with them for quite awhile now, and before coming here I would always wonder about things like what I now know to be called "false awakenings" and just the nature of entering and exiting dreams. Before coming here, after I would wake up from a particularly interesting dream I would always lie in bed and think about it, and would continue to look back on it throughout the day. In fact I can remember many many vivid dreams that I have had over the 19 years of my life and since coming here more have croped back up. Ugh, its so tempting to just start typing out all of my dream related life history but I will spare all of you that. If anyone wanted to hear more of my revelations perhaps i'll start a journal or something on here. Anyways, it was the movie "Waking life" that I recently watched that brought me to this site. I think I was searching for meta and surreal movies on imdb, I tend to go on little binges for that kind of stuff from time to time. I almost gave up on the movie, I found the first half to be somewhat dare I say, pretentious, but im so glad I stuck with it. Once it got to all the lucid dreaming stuff I was really into it. I thought to myself "Hey! I want to know more about this, this is what im all about" So I went on google and searched for how to experience lucid dreams, low and behold up pops Dreamviews. (Nice banner btw, as soon as I saw it I knew I was home) So I started reading, and the more I read the more excited I got. "You mean I CAN experience this stuff?! " Boy was I excited. To wrap things up, I've been reading the forums and printing out techniques and doing RCs probrably more than I should be, but thats a whole nother discussion. I haven't achieved any LDs yet, but I definetly feel that Im refining my form and getting closer and closer everytime. Just knowing more about sleep cycles and stages along with keeping a dream journal was brough t me a large increase in dreams and the vividness of them. I've been pulling in 2-3 everynight since last week, last night I had 4 but only remembered 3 (with a little more persistance I could have cracked that missing one but I was more determined to record the earlier one that I remembered) In conclusion im very excited about what the future has in store for my dream life and am glad to have come to this site. Out of all the many of forums I have been apart of this is definetly the most friendly. Maybe its because your all so sleepy all the time I had much more to say but perhaps I'll save it for the appropriate threads.

[joshbotch]

GREETINGS!! wow! 3 dreams a night! you are well on your way. i also do way too many RC's, my wife laughs at me everytime she see's me pinch my nose and try to breathe!

[ZmillA]

Thanks for the encouragement. So far 95% have been from when I first do the WBTB thing and I fully get out of bed. Before getting into this subject I would assume that once I woke up in the morning thats it, im done with sleep and dreaming. Sometimes I would remember one dream sometimes I would remember no dreams. I didnt know that I can still squeeze out a couple more dreams after I think "im done". And what has happened is that those dreams have been some of the most vivid, and I find that I wake up not asking myself what did I dream about, if i dreamt about anything, but rather the dream is still right on my mind and I instead think to myself that the dream IS over.

[halcyon]

Hey, welcome! I'm new here too. I ususally find I pinch my nose too many times too.