First time to a dream forum - pleased to meet you all

[Akashicpasses]

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.*

[Pfunk]

I too am new to the LD forums. Im 27 and have had LDs since i was very small. I tend to have one dreams that always returns of me falling for the entire dream and then when i hit i wake up. Gonna try some meditating and music tonight. I know when i set myself up for lucid dreams they tend to be quite vivid. One night i tried listening to some monestarian monk chant and ended up with quite an evil nightmare. Its quite interesting to me to think how music tends to control my dreams.

[Akashicpasses]

Yikes! Poor you! (with the monestrian monk chant). Though I can imagine myself getting nightmares with that music too. Not that it's meant in that way - but the images monestrian monk chants conjure up in my waking mind are sinister enough to definately scare me into dreams I think that's because there's a real sense of being comfortable with being alone in those chants. Comfortable with the sound of your own voice. And i'm not