Thread: Hello Everyone. :)

Hello everyone. My name is Justin, and I am a 25 year old guy from upstate New York.

As you can probably tell from my user name I am a big fan of the Dune novels.

Well I've been fascinated with lucid dreaming ever since my friend in highschool described his lucid dreams to me. He first became lucid during a dream when he realized "this can't be real, why can't I remember what happened yesterday." Well he created his own cue - every hour on the hour he would reach into his pocket, pull out a penny, and look at both sides of put it back. He would think about what happened the day before and if he could remember, he concluded he was awake. He did this for about a month until he started to have more lucid dreams.

The reason I want to lucid dream may sound like a really silly one. I've recently developed a massive crush on someone who doesn't even exist. lol It sounds really really silly but I have a bit of a boyhood crush on Neytiri from the movie avatar. Now I'm not aiming for outright sexual dreams per se. But I have a very busy schedule IRL which doesn't afford me a lot of time to spend with people. I guess I'm looking for a little company.

I also want to relive a dream I had a couple of times a few months ago. It was so beautiful the only way I could describe it was the Elysian Fields.

Anyway, I plan to use the penny method (I'm going to use an old wheat penny) and will spend about 10 minutes a day studying pictures of Neytiri until I can recall her in detail in my mind.

So that's my plan. I'd appreciate it if some more experienced dreamers would give me some feedback on this. If I'm being completely puerile and misusing the whole lucid dreaming thing and should just put these idea away let me know now. I'd hate to screw my synapses up or something.

Thank you all.