Fist LD experience in years

[The Spangled Drongo]

Hello all. I was inspired to join this forum because the other night I had a lucid dream for the first time in about 10 years. It was very brief - just a flash of lucidity really, but better than nothing. It's night time. I'm walking down an alleyway and I come to two sets of big gates. Both are open but as I go through them I wonder if they are going to shut on me suddenly. I come to another road and look both ways. I decide to go to the right. I have the feeling I am somewhere in Sydney. Further along the road I can see a busy street that I sort of recognise. It reminds me of dream cityscapes I've been to before. As I walk along the road towards the busy street I notice that there is rubble strewn across the road in front of me. That's when I realise I'm dreaming. I look at the light reflecting off the polished surfaces of some of the broken stones on the road in front of me. I have a big surge of excitement and try to keep myself calm. This works for a few seconds but then I lose the focus. The context of this (without going into the gruesome details) is that I'm in the initial stages of a marriage breakup. The imagery in the dream seems to point to at least part of me moving away from a feeling of being locked in (or at least the fear of it) and walking through the rubble of the relationship towards something new.

[Seeker]

Welcome to Dreamviews Mate! Sorry to hear about your marriage though. I'm sure you already understand the possibilities of lucid dreaming to help you through this bad time in your life, but, please feel free to hang out with us and post some. We'll be glad to help in any way we can.

[The Spangled Drongo]

Hello Seeker. Thanks for the welcome. I think the subject of the dream does have something to do with current events in my life. I'm generally fairly cautious ascribing "meanings" to dreams I guess but it certainly seemed topical. On the other hand I've just come out of a long period in which I couldn't remember any dreams at all so I may not the such a good judge of these things. It's quite amazing actually. For years I couldn't remember a thing and then about 6 weeks ago they just started again. Generally I recall two or three dreams a night now, which is great. Some of them are real epics too. They have a whole story line and seems to have a sort of built-in history and everything. Anyway, I'm hoping this first dream is a sign of things to come.