Me too!!! At least I think.... I'm hoping some input here will help me figure out if I truly did. It happened early this morning. Reading this post awhile back and doing some research on a lucid dreaming site prompted me to try and find him.

I used to post here a bit awhile back, but it's been some time. Here's my quick LD history: Had my first two as a small child trying to wake myself up out of a nightmare. With age they have steadily increased from once every few years, to a few times a year, to a few times a month, to a few times a week. Sometimes I slip straight into them fully aware of everything going on in waking life. I hear the television, the birds outside, my cat. It's pretty crazy.

Usually I dream about people I know. That or I am alone. I used to fly and fly and fly. For some reason, I can barley do that anymore. Only in the last year have I began to have random Dream Characters in my dreams. A few years back I had a one night series of really intense dreams about a statuesque light skinned African American man with piercing eyes and dreadlocks. He held my hand and carried me throughout many different dream scenarios. I felt like he was a guide of sorts even before knowing about dream guides.

At 8AM this morning the phone woke me up. I watched TV for about an hour then literally felt myself slipping off into a lucid dream...

I was in my bedroom but my closets had mirror doors. I always try to walk through mirrors but rarely am successful. This time I clearly stated "My foot will step through this mirror". After a few failed attempts I firmly repeated the statement. Off went my foot through the mirror. I was then able to peel up the edges where the hole was and step through. However it was all blackness. In fear of losing lucidity I stepped back out.

Now I took the frustrating turn that many of my LD's take. I got obsessed with the idea of sex. I hate that this subject almost always takes over. I turn into this crazy nympho attacking anyone and everyone I see. Well...not *everyone*. Children and family members have appeared when I'm in this frenzy and that either halts it, or I make them disappear. Obviously I'm looking for something I don't have in waking life right now. There's too much info for y'all! :)

So after awhile all the crazy sexual energy dies. I go back to the mirror look at myself and ask out loud if I have a dream guide. Nothing happens. I ask again. I clearly state I would like to meet my dream guide. I remember reading that if you can create a door and voice this statement, usually when you open the door, they will be there. I cannot create a door, so I attempt to walk through the mirror again. This time I can't penetrate it, but it does flip up and over allowing me in. I walk in only to find myself in a closet. I speak again for my guide.

Nothing. Then I hear voices. I leave the closet and am now in a classroom. There is a teacher and a little boy. The little boy is African American with dreadlocks. I ask him his name and he says "Jimmy". He runs over to a very dark skinned, dark eyed adult version of himself. I ask the adult his name. "Jimmy" he says. "Are you my dream guide?" Jimmy gets this look in his eyes and throws his hands up as if to say "Yep. You got me." We lock eyes for a long long time.
Finally I say, "This could be bad. They should have sent a female. You know how I get in my dreams." I laugh and think to myself "I can't believe I am flirting with my dream guide..." I grab both of his hands and push into him as though I am going to kiss and/or seduce him. At the same time I catch myself and pull back, he's laughing and shaking his head in an "I'd like to do this, but it's not right" sort of way. We stare at each other a bit longer and I am about to ask more questions when I awaken.

I went back through my dream journal this morning. I found an entry from 2006 about sitting next to a man with this description on a bus and feeling very close and attracted to him. I could not find the original entry of the dream I mentioned earlier.

What I'm wondering is if I conjured him up myself. In doing this dream guide research, I remembered the original dream and thought maybe that was my dream guide. Upon sleeping, I had the image of that man in my head.

Can they change appearance? The first 2 men were light skinned, light eyed. The man last night was dark skinned and dark eyed. Also the lighter skinned man was bigger and more statuesque.

I woke up feeling powerful and energized. I was also embarrassed. If he really is my dream guide is it really bad that I tried to jump his bones and barley restrained myself??? :)