Introduction for TygrHawk

[TygrHawk]

Hello everyone! I just joined this forum, and thought I would do the introduction thing. I am (almost) 44 years old, and I have been at least partially aware of my capability for lucid dreaming since I was fairly young -- maybe 10 or 11. Of course, at that time I had no idea what it was called, or that other people might have experienced it. My first lucid dream happened when I was having a nightmare about being chased by some kind of monster. At some point during the dream I thought to myself "this has to be a dream, and if I can just make myself wake up then I'll be OK". I did manage to wake myself up, and after that I was never scared of things in my dreams. I soon found out that it could be enjoyable to experience things in my dreams that would be dangerous or scary in real life. After I got older, I discovered that I could exert some degree of control over my dreams. This thrilled me no end, and eventually I found out about the term "lucid dreaming", and started searching for more information, which led me here. I'm hoping to learn how to do it on a more consistent basis, and to have more control over what goes on in my dreams. The concept of "dream sharing" is also interesting to me, although I'm not sure that I believe it's anything more than wishful thinking, despite a couple of experiences I've had that made me think otherwise at the time. Two things that have been recurring themes in a lot of my dreams and have thus become "dream signs" to me are: being naked in a public place without anyone caring, and the ability to fly. I find that when I have a lucid dream, I can always fly at will, however I have not mastered maneuvering in the air yet. If any of you remember the TV Show "Greatest American Hero", you'll know what I mean. Well, I guess that's it for now. I'm looking forward to reading about all your experiences and sharing some of my own. Happy dreaming!

[Amethyst Star]

Hey Tygr! Glad to see you here! It's always nice to have another natural around the place and I hope that you will find DV as wonderful as I have. Please don't hesitate to pose any questions, but also feel free to search around as there is so much information already here. Also, you're welcome to PM me or any of the other Dream Guides or moderators and we can try to help you out. Thanks for coming and I hope to see you around! -Amé (Lucky ppl and their dream signs....bah! )