Hiya,

I'm 24, and have seen a dramatic resurgance in my dreams since my late teens. I used to have some very scary nightmares (at age 19, some of the themes were death, dismemberment etc. of myself) which would terrify me initially. However, by the time I was around 21, I had begun to realize in some aspect or other that I was dreaming and could not die in the dreams, which made the nightmares more tolerable, even if they did not stop.

Nowadays, my dreams are a lot more 'pleasant' - that is to say, they use more everyday conflicts (the occasional angry wild animal, or reflections back to high school, or religious images) as themes. I read some of the posts here on lucid dreaming with great interest - I definately would like to work at acheiving completely lucid dreams. Like I mentioned initially, I have had moments of clarity in dreams before that I was dreaming, but never - I think - within the whole dream, and certainly not enough to willingly direct where I was going.

And... one more thing... these days it seems when I am scared in dreams, yet know that I am dreaming - I have lost the ability to fly. I just jump up and fall down. Another reason why I want to LD (I'd very much like to fly again )

Anyway, looking forward to meeting you all on the forum and thanks for taking the time to read this.

*Akashicpasses.*