Hi everyone, just found this site a couple of days ago. I have been having LDs since childhood (though I didn't know what they were until recently) and shared dreams since the mid 'sixties. I am not able to LD when I want, it just happens sometimes (c. 3-4 times per month), though I shall be trying out the techniques given here and hope to improve on this. My interest in dreaming came about from my research into psychic/paranormal phenomena, which I have been involved in for over 30 years - I believe that [some] dreams are a result of the mind accessing the 'astral plane' and I've been looking for a way to do this in a controlled manner. It may be achieved through drugs, but this is risky and generally illegal - I was very interested to read a post from I H8 Reality (in the Research forum) about using electrical stimulation, though he will probably need to use a current source and bipolar pulses (I could draw a schematic - I'm an electronic engineer by trade) or he will get polarisation of the electrodes. Possibly a better solution would be to use TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation).

I was also interested in a post by WakingNomad (in the Beyond Dreaming forum) about the idea of having a shared LD with 3 or more people, or even the whole world. It seems one way to get 'shared dreams' is to synchronise brainwaves - this is fairly easy to achieve if the other person is in the same room, but rather more difficult if they're 1000km away, though the Internet plus a GPS time reference might be able to achieve this. Just an idea to kick around - perhaps we (the Dreamviews community) could start a project to look into this, if there's sufficient interest.