Greetings, everybody!:)
I am a writer from Sweden, and I have been experimenting with lucid dreams for about half a year (but never posted on any lucid dreaming forum before).
I think Lucid dreaming could be an awesome way to try out scenarious and create environments (and imagining "being" your characters, awesome:D).
Anyway, since most of my works have a kind of dreamlike quality to them already. I have gotten it into my head to write something where lucid dreaming and dreams play a major role. However, I want to make it fairly realistic in the desription on how to achieve it (even if there is some mumbo jumbo thrown in for story purposes), and so I came here in order to learn more about it.
This seems like a serious site and forum to learn about this...and the members seem nice!:P
So I hope you will excuse all my question...I am not here to "steal" anyones story but rather to gather inspiration and further my own knowledge of dreams...
What else? Oh, I guess I should tell you all about my own experiences with lucid dreams. I have had lucid dreams a couple of times before I even knew what it was, but didn´t know that I could control them. Shortly after that I began to research it and kept a dreamjournal.
After that I have experienced both lucid dreams, false awakenings (recognising them) and sleep paralysis. WILDs seem to work best for me, even if I often wake up by "pulling out" once paralysis sets in or once the lucid dream starts.
Something I would like to try out in a dream is to grow into a giant. This mainly because I haven´t seen it suggested anywhere else, and I think it would be cool to see if you lose you reference (and lucidity) high up or if the feeling of your feet and the rest of the body is still "there", so to speak.
I take it easy with dreams, seeing them as a sort of adventure. Even being paralysed was quite an experience...even if I thank God that I wasn´t more scared than I was.
I am actually more interested in being good at dream recall and making dreams more realistic... I also keep paintings of my dreamsigns which I draw when I have the time, in addition to my journal (haven´t seen this anywhere else, either).
That is all I guess, see you all around!:D
