Hello, and greetings everyone. I am new on this site, and I would like to say it is very interesting and informative. I have had lucid experiences before, but not with any consistency (in fact, only a few times total). I have started keeping a so called "dream journal", and have found that it helps tremendously with dream recall. Now I can wake up in the morning, and remember every last detail from a dream (actually, I can remember three or four distinctly separate dreams a night, on average). I have not yet attained lucidity, but have attained a somewhat altered state of consiousness during dreams. I am semi-aware of being in a state of unconsiousness, and oxymoronic as it sounds, but cannot yet become fully lucid. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, I have tried to share the web site with some people, and they have just dismissed it as some new-age bullshit, pardon my French. I have tried just even talking about it with people, and they think that it is ... yeah. Is there anyway that I can try to explain it to people without them becoming so skeptical about it? And what is OBE and Astral Projections, and why do some people on this forum dismiss it as nonsense? And as far as dream-sharing goes, is it possible? If it were possible for more than one person to "connect" in one dream, wouldn't that suggest some sort of telekinesis (sp?) or "spiritual world" in which people can connect thoughts?