Hey!

I've been hanging around for about a week, just lurking, and reading about how so many people want so badly to have a lucid dream, and even experience sleep paralysis.

Myself, I've been having lucid dreams since I was about 9 years old, even before I knew what a lucid dream was.
As a child, I also used to sleepwalk to the point where our family dog, a Newfoundland named Tuxedo, learned how to send me right back to bed.

I finally grew out of sleepwalking, but for some reason sleep paralysis has always been with with me.
For me, sleep paralysis is a very frequent ordeal, and has been more of a disorder than anything.
I tend to hallucinate during these experiences, and they mostly occur when I have been sleep deprived, or I'm under a lot of stress.
Fortunately, they are not as disturbing as they were before I learned more about them, and how to wake up from one.

As for lucid dreams... I do it every night. I wish everyone could have this experience, it's incredibly fun, and fulfilling.
I don't know why it's so easy for me, but lucid dreams have always been a big part of my life.
I have epic dreams. I can wake up, go to the bathroom, and go back to bed, and resume my dream where I left off. That is, if I want to.
Now I feel like I'm bragging. I'm sorry, I'm not trying to.
I'm a writer and I use a lot of my dreams as fodder.

However, I don't put much stock into dream analysis, and, I don't really care what my dreams have to tell me; for me, they're pretty much self explanatory. Most of the time they're not telling me anything I don't already know anyway.

I just like to let my dreams entertain me. For instance last night I punched out Sarah Palin.......I'm not kidding. I know it sounds like I am, but I'm not.
I do it all the time, not just to Sarah Palin, ....lots of people. Bosses, antagonists.....It's a wonderful thing. Truly.

I don't know what I could possibly contribute to this board as far as techniques, or anything for that matter, but I know I've never been able to talk to many people about lucid dreaming.
It's just nice to find a forum on the subject, and I know I've already learned a lot from the many posts I've read here.

Sooo....anyway, I've had a little too much wine tonight, and it's time to tune in to Conan, so I'll say just goodnight, and sweet dreams.
Until the morrow.