Thread: My Introduction

I would like to take a few minutes to introduce myself to the community but I'm not really sure where to post this. This is a pretty big forum and I haven't had a chance to explore much of it yet due to being unable to stop reading a lot of threads here.

So yea I just recently joined and this place looks pretty awesome. I've never participated in a forum like this so most of this stuff is pretty new to me. I am about to turn 21 and I've almost always had mostly lucid dreams ever since I can remember. My ability to remember dreams is pretty good too. As far as long term memory goes I can still remember a few dreams I found interesting as far back as when I was still 4 years old. For short term memory.. I feel like their might be some parts of a dream that happened before the main dream began that I don't remember, but almost every single night I have a pretty long dream that I can remember when I wake up. Most of the time as soon as I wake up I immediately analyze my dream and think about it for a while and then if I find anything I did interesting I will think about it most of the day and then I will probably reflect on it regularly every few months or so for a while and then after that can pretty much remember it for the rest of my life. If I don't find it interesting then I will reflect on other dreams and forget about the one I didn't care about. I've never used a journal but i've still managed to keep many dreams in my memory.

Most of my life I've been a pretty antisocial loner and done a lot of gaming and programming. I've always prefered to hang out with only a very few close friends and not anyone else. After I turned 15 I dropped out of highschool because I hated being taught the same thing over and over when it only takes me 1 time and a little reflecting to remember it. So I ended up immediatly taking my GED and going to community college. I did ok in college for 3 years in which I became a lot more social and although I still prefer having a few close friends I now have alot more good friends and actually care to meet people I find interesting.

What really changed me is when I turned 18 I randomly decided for no real good reason other than to challenge myself to join the navy. Physically I wasn't in the best conditioned. I have never really worked out much before then and I couldn't run very far or fast, ect. Anyways, basic training lasts 2 months and I made it through about a week before I started getting really bad sick. Despite being sick I did not complain much more then after week 2 going to medcall to get some cheap meds and I continued doing both the physical and mental challenge of basic training until week 7. That is when my petty officer made the call and decided I needed to be pulled back to a special division they have for injured people to recover and people who didn't pass the final PFA to train their asses off. I was in there where I no longer had to do much physical work and for 2 weeks my condition only worsened. After that I admit that after seeing my division graduate without me I gave up a little inside. It felt like despite everything I failed to graduate because of being sick even though I was still managing to barely keep up. It slowly hit me that in my current condition I would be unable to graduate. Even though I never tried to leave.. at that point all I could think about was getting my body to heal. I had less physical work to do so all the overworking I did to my body finally caught up to me and I was finally being felt fully.

After that I ended up spending a total of 3 months in my 2 month basic training before finally getting a medical discharge. It took my body around 5-6 months to start feeling normal again. After that I took a good long break and was basically just a bum for a year. About 4 months ago I started my own training to get my body into better shape. I plan on gradually making the training harder for about 8 more months just to get into good shape. Then later on I plan on getting into the local MMA scene and I think im going to become a pretty good fighter after a lot of hard work.

I've been a part of a psion group for a long time and that has really helped me work on my mental skills. Both in the real world and in the dream world.
One of the things i'm best at doing both while awake and asleep is basically just raw ability to overide my senses. Meaning I can fool my brain into feeling, seeing, hearing, smelling, and tasting things that aren't there. From what I have read in the forums so far it seems like people here are already familiar with this on some level. When dreaming this is pretty easy to do with pretty much any lucid dream and with practice you can drastically increase realism over time. You can sense things pretty well in normal dreams too but only while lucid can you really be in control of and wield your senses to experience whatever you want.

Where am I going with this? With a good bit of practice you can overide your senses while you are awake. While awake I can fairly easily overide all of my senses and basically leave reality. I see what I want to see, feel what I want to feel, ect.

Another thing I'm good at is kind of like having insane processing power. I can create and maintain thousands of very complex objects that can all be doing seperate things without losing much detail. I can also split my conciousness many times into seperate bodies that work as a single entity and receive simultaineous sensory imput from all of them while maintaining a detailed environment.

Thats just a couple of base things I've worked on. I would go on into more detail here but this intro is getting kind of long so I need to start wrapping this up.

I basically got to this level on my own through practice and trial and error on my own mixed with some stuff I learned while part of a psion group. I'm pretty sure I could help someone else get to where you can control your senses while either dreaming or awake a lot faster than it took me though so I plan on posting some guides on here and if anyone is interested in them then I'll stick around and teach what I know while also learning whatever the community has to offer. I am very interested in the information here and find it cool that other people are really into lucid dreaming as well.

As a last note. I would like to apologize about the long intoduction and I'm going to try to keep the guides I post on here a bit more interesting. ^_^ I just felt like posting something that would let anyone interested know a little more about me.

I'm reaally enjoying being here and have been reading a LOT.