Thread: Hello, world!

Hey everyone, I stumbled upon this site while researching lucid dreaming last night and I thought I'd register. I've had dreams in the past where I realized that I was dreaming, but I didn't really do anything in them (low-level lucid, I guess?), but I really became interested in them a couple weeks ago when I inadvertently caused myself to have one.

It started with a Friday that seemed to last an absurdly long time - I started off the day by taking 13, 50mg Dramamine pills along with some friends, and spent the rest of the day smoking weed. As a side note, let me say: I thought this experience was pretty cool, but I have a natural positive view on all forms of drug experiences and often feel better after trying things than my friends do. Smoking weed while on Dramamine (which many people find uncomfortable by itself) won't increase the few psychedelic visuals of it, but it will push the delirium into maximum overdrive. Unless you're well experienced with these types of drugs, I have to recommend that you not try this combination. Anyway (sorry for ranting), by the time it was late at night, I was becoming fairly worn out with thinking I was in several absurd situations and jolting back to reality every 5 minutes, so I decided to go to bed, and throughout the night I had several extremely real-feeling dreams (not lucid, though). At the end of my last dream, I noticed that something seemed to be off, but I awoke before I came to the realization that I was dreaming (and in a strange way, too; I came to awareness already sitting up in my bed).

This is what really caused it. The next couple days I became interested in the dreams and began telling everyone how real they felt, and decided to look up lucid dreaming a bit. I didn't actually do anything to attempt to have one, but after a few days of thinking of very little else, I guess it makes sense that I would have one. In my dream I was doing something in front of my house when I spontaneously realized that I was dreaming. I was excited, but the whole world began to fade around me and I freaked out; I started trying to get back into the motion of things, snapping my fingers loudly (which I can't do in real life), and talking to myself to remind myself what was going on in the dream, and walking up to where my house had been. Luckily, the dream started to come back after all this. I went straight into my house and to my bathroom to look in the mirror. I noticed some random person in my house on the way there and just glanced over them, but he was gone when I stopped and did a double take. I had always been interested in the idea of transforming yourself, so I looked in the mirror and raised my arms out to the side (in a very over dramatic way) and just thought "Change!" without really thinking of what I would change into. At this point I saw myself kind of burst outwards into paint-like bubbles of the colors that had comprised me (skin, clothing, etc.), and they reformed and shifted around and I became a girl I had known in high school (in freshman year at college, now). Not really concerned with who I had become, but more just the fact that I had managed to make something happen, I became very excited...and woke up, of course.

So now I'm here to learn how to make this happen again, only with better control of it! And I hope I can meet some cool people while I'm here