Seeker's Cousin, checking in...

Hello folks. Seeker and I are first cousins, and we've been corresponding by email a bit, and he mentioned this site. I checked it out, and said, "Yeah, I do that."

So after a little poking and prodding, here I am. I work 40 hours a week and I'm also a full time college student and a mom, so you probably won't get to see a lot of me, but I'll try to check in when I can.

I don't remember my first lucid dreams. I know for certain I was having them by the time I was 13. My level of control varies a great deal, from just being able to control myself, to being able to control other 'actors', to being able to completely stop the dream in progress and go to a new dream. As far as I know, I have never been in anyone else's dream, although I have sometimes wondered about my little brother, who is autistic and non-verbal, and who I often felt like I shared dreams with when I was a teenager.

I was a very stressed-out teenager, and one of my ways to try to rest well was to meditate my way into the kind of dream I wanted. Sometimes these turned out to be lucid, but just as often not. Regardless, they were always more pleasant. I have also been known to have nightmares in which I am aware I'm dreaming, but I am unable to gain any control. They are horrible and I've found the only way I can escape these is to get enough air in my lungs to scream, and then I start screaming in reality and my terrified husband has to wake me up. Sometimes this takes awhile.

So, Seeker told me trying to meditate your way into a dream is a WILD - so I just woke up from my lovely Saturday afternoon nap, where I tried this. It worked, I got the dream I wanted, and I was even lucid and controlling the course of events for a good half of the dream, but then a new element got introduced and my control slipped away and I was just dreaming again.

So there you go. We're anedoctal evidence that the ability to have lucid dreams may be genetic. (or not.) Personally, I think we've got some Cherokee ancestry helping us out with this, but that's just a family rumor.

Hey Lintra!

If you're Seeker's cousin, you're already part of the community! aha ;) :cheers:

Hey, welcome to the forums. :mrgreen:

Hi there, welcome to dreamviews! :)

Hello! welcome :mrgreen:
Seeker told me that he had been talking to you about DV's and stuff :)
I hope we'll be able to teach you a thing or two about LD's and enrich your dreams! :)

:D :D :smitten: :D :D Glad you are here! You are the first person I know in real life that has signed on. I was beginning to get discouraged, so many invitations, so many strange looks :eek:

Oooh! I'd forgotten about the Cherokee ancestry! Could be!

Anyway, this has been a weird week. My cousin sent me her new e-mail address, so I sent her my new one from here at dreamviews and asked her to check us out.

She came back with a reply kind of like. "Oh yeah, I've been doing that since puberty".

I'VE KNOWN THIS PERSON FOREVER and never suspected she was a natural lucid dreamer! :mrgreen: Think of all the wasted years.

Oh well, welcome Cuz! We've had a few discussions about Autism, or the "Dream People" as some cultures refer to them. I've often wondered if your brother is a dreamer from some other reality on an extended visit here with us!

Welcome to the boards!!!

It's cool that Seeker has natural LDers in his family as well...I wonder if LDing really has anything to do with genes, at least the natural ability I mean. Anyway, I am glad you will be joining us from time to time and we hope to learn a thing or two from you, as I am sure you shall do the same from us...

Make yourself at home!

Great to have another addition to the forum, welcome Lintra

As long as you don't wander off into the sensless banter parts of Dreamviews, you'll be fine ;)

pssss.....can you tell us of any embaressing things that have happened to Seeker, *nudge* hehe any secrets :P

Heya Lintra

Welcome, sit back and enjoy. There is lots of knowldege in this place as well as many laughs. I hope you have fun.

Peace sensi.