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[xRavenx]

Hello everyone. My name is Daniel and I live in Florida. I am currently a freshman in college. I stumbled onto this site yesterday after finally searching for "How to control dreams" on Google. I've been meaning to find something in that general area for about 2 weeks now. I do not believe I've ever had a Lucid Dream before (or at least none that I can remember) and I've always wanted to have one. Many of my dreams are quite strange but none really scare me at all. I always awake asking myself things like "What happens next?" or "What did I just dream?". Experience: I don't know if my DR is any good because I only remember 2-3 dreams a night (varies from time to time based on whether or not I'm comfortable or stressed out as well as how strong the dream was). I currently don't believe I've had any LDs but I would love to have one. For some reason I occasionally have dreams that I'm not in at all but I can see everything kind of like a movie and I sometimes really want to explore that. My strongest dream so far was when I was 8 or 9 and it had some creepy music playing I guess as background music or something and I saw what looked to be like a tornado made completely of fire/lava coming at me very slowly but I somehow ended up in a car with my mom and sister kind of going to a shelter to escape the tornado even though it was basically stationary. (Weird right? xD) Well in any case, that's my dream life in a nutshell and I am really looking forward to advancing myself in dreaming as well as possibly achieving my first LD. Oh and btw: if anyone can provide an explanation/definition for the dreams I described as me being able to see everything like a movie but not being in it I would greatly appreciate it.

[spockman]

Hello everyone. My name is Daniel and I live in Florida. I am currently a freshman in college. I stumbled onto this site yesterday after finally searching for "How to control dreams" on Google. I've been meaning to find something in that general area for about 2 weeks now. I do not believe I've ever had a Lucid Dream before (or at least none that I can remember) and I've always wanted to have one. Many of my dreams are quite strange but none really scare me at all. I always awake asking myself things like "What happens next?" or "What did I just dream?". Experience: I don't know if my DR is any good because I only remember 2-3 dreams a night (varies from time to time based on whether or not I'm comfortable or stressed out as well as how strong the dream was). I currently don't believe I've had any LDs but I would love to have one. For some reason I occasionally have dreams that I'm not in at all but I can see everything kind of like a movie and I sometimes really want to explore that. My strongest dream so far was when I was 8 or 9 and it had some creepy music playing I guess as background music or something and I saw what looked to be like a tornado made completely of fire/lava coming at me very slowly but I somehow ended up in a car with my mom and sister kind of going to a shelter to escape the tornado even though it was basically stationary. (Weird right? xD) Well in any case, that's my dream life in a nutshell and I am really looking forward to advancing myself in dreaming as well as possibly achieving my first LD. Oh and btw: if anyone can provide an explanation/definition for the dreams I described as me being able to see everything like a movie but not being in it I would greatly appreciate it. Well Raven, glad to see you researched this topic that clearly interested you! And it looks like your DR, (2-3 a night,) is well above average. (That is a pretty strong level of recall, so you know.) You already try and remember your dreams upon awakening, so that is good. Take it one step farther and record what you remember in a dream journal. I am sure you will see even better dream recall. As far as third person dreams, yeah, lots of people have them. We have active dreams and inactive dreams. An inactive dream is just a scene playing out. In an active dream we take control of an avatar. But remember- a dream is a realm of your thoughts and nothing else. So even in an active dream you are no more your avatar than you are the setting. All the dreamscape is your mind equally. You have no dream eyes to see things you are simply percieving your abstract world! If you understand that, things fall into place better. Kind of a matrix/zen thing. At any rate, I hope you stick around. Learn, share, hopefully get to a point where you can share your knowledge, too.

[Kordan]

Welcome to DV! We're always glad to have new, enthusiastic members. I came across DV kind of like you (looking up "consious dreaming" or "dream control" or something on google). Take a look at the tutorial section of the forum. It has all sorts of good information that you'll be able to use. If you have not started one yet, start a dream journal! You can start a DJ thread in the Dream Journal section, or you can start one on your own at home. And movie dreams are common. A little while ago I started doing reality checks whenever I saw a movie, but I stopped for some reason... Again, welcome! Glad to have you as part of the community. Don't hesitate to post any questions that you may have. We're more than willing to answer them.

[xRavenx]

Well Raven, glad to see you researched this topic that clearly interested you! And it looks like your DR, (2-3 a night,) is well above average. (That is a pretty strong level of recall, so you know.) You already try and remember your dreams upon awakening, so that is good. Take it one step farther and record what you remember in a dream journal. I am sure you will see even better dream recall. As far as third person dreams, yeah, lots of people have them. We have active dreams and inactive dreams. An inactive dream is just a scene playing out. In an active dream we take control of an avatar. But remember- a dream is a realm of your thoughts and nothing else. So even in an active dream you are no more your avatar than you are the setting. All the dreamscape is your mind equally. You have no dream eyes to see things you are simply percieving your abstract world! If you understand that, things fall into place better. Kind of a matrix/zen thing. At any rate, I hope you stick around. Learn, share, hopefully get to a point where you can share your knowledge, too. Ahh thanks for clearing that up Spockman Also I did start my first Dream Journal last night and recorded my dreams in it and it definitely helped my recall as I am still able to remember almost everything in the dreams I had from last night which is pretty cool because I have never been able to do that before Thanks again for the info and I will definitely stick around for a long time. My friend also just joined after I talked about Lucid Dreaming with him so we're going to try this out together I think.

[Oros]

Awsome dude! You got pretty good dream recall for being a neewbie. =D I've had those dreams too were i'm not in the dream at all, it's just like a movie. I've even had dreams where i was in the movie and i saw myself in 3rd person. Lucid Dreaming can be the best thing you have ever done, so keep trying to have a Lucid

[xRavenx]

Yeah I've had those dreams too where I see myself in 3rd person and it's weird because sometimes I can switch from 1st person to 3rd person again and again. Also I didn't know that a DR of 2-3 was good at all lol xD I thought it was really low but I guess I was wrong. At any rate, I really hope that I can achieve a lucid. The dream journal definitely showed results from last night as I could remember a lot more than usual so I'm hoping that it'll help me get an LD although I highly doubt it'll last more than maybe a few seconds from me realizing I'm having an LD because chances are I'll get really excited and end up waking myself up xD.