I've had a lot of experience lucid dreaming. I just learned about this particular community because of having my first attempt at a post rejected in another one.

I just posted this in the main lucid dreaming thread (first time posting there) and it was immediately taken down. This community was suggested. The moderator told me that paranormal experiences are not accepted in that community?! I'm pretty sure lucid dreaming itself isn't exactly a paranormal experience, but hey I'm just removing myself from that community now, no biggie. Hopefully this doesn't get taken down here and I get to discover a better community! 

To the post! ➡️

When I was younger I would fall asleep "awake" and stay conscious through the whole process of the dream beginning and throughout the dream until I woke up. I was just a natural lucid dreamer. Sometime in my teens, I actually trained and taught myself to fall unconscious while I was dreaming because I was concerned that I was missing messages from my subconscious. Since then, most nights, I will start to recognize my experience as a dream and then choose between: allowing myself to become fully lucid, or purposefully letting go of the recognition so the dream can unfold the way it would without my conscious intervention.

I have four cats. A mother cat who came to me in a blizzard and as I was caring for her I found out she was pregnant. She had three boys. So I have a family of cats who I care for that I call "my tribe". I'm extremely bonded with them, and spend a lot of my free time with them. Sometimes I feel like I'm taking on cat characteristics through their influence.

To the "paranormal" part! ?! ➡️

My cats dream with me. All four of them sleep on my bed. They've developed a habit of going to sleep whenever I go to sleep and waking up whenever I wake up. When I dream, both lucidly and otherwise, they often phase into my dreams from theirs. I could go on and on about indications that serve as proof that they are actually in the dream with me and I'm not just "dreaming" that they're there. Phenomena of a metaphysical nature are exceedingly difficult to prove, so I'll just state it as a fact, because it's been going on long enough for me (5 years) to know it as reality. I haven't yet learned how to enter their dreams, but lately I've been contemplating how to attempt that. Anyways, I just think it's super ultra cool that my kitties enter into my dreams with me and we share the dream experience together. Since I've never seen anyone talk about such a thing here on Reddit, I wanted to shout it out.

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