What are people looking to gain from learning to Lucid Dream? I'm curious what the responses would be, though I'm guessing it could be anything from 'because I want to bang chicks all night long, lolz!!!1!!!!!!111!!!' through 'flying, woo!' to 'I wish to transcend these ephemeral chains and soar above the limitations of this frail world with my soulmate at my side.'

What do people want out of this?

For myself, I'm trying to unleash my creativity, and because I've always liked the idea of it, ever since lying in bed listening to Bono singing 'She's going to dream up the world she wants to live in, she's going to dream out loud' on Zooropa.

I'm not long into this- I started a dream journal on monday, but I think I might be making progress. This morning I woke after a dream where I did something irresponsible that left someone dependent upon me on her own, and got frightened, but then went 'oh, hang on, this is a dream, she'll be ok!'

It'd be interesting to hear what other people's first steps have been...