My desire to be known as Elder Prince rather than using my real name dates back to my teenage period when I discovered that my vocation would be that of an artist and creator. Naturally every skill that I learned converged into game creation :)

Why a pseudonym?

There are many reasons why artists use a pseudonym: distinctiveness, privacy, gender disguise, marketing presentation, etc.

Well, for me there’s an additional explanation.

The name Elder Prince makes me feel different, special. When I’m suiting this fictive persona my creativity and inspiration are greater. That said, I wouldn’t feel capable to attain that same inspirational degree with my real name associated with my creations. Elder Prince is like some sort of magical avatar to me. It’s powerful. That’s strange how a person’s name (fictive or real) can give a sense of purpose  :D

In the legal system, operating under an artist pseudonym has certain particularities. Preserving confidentiality is one of the advantages. It’s well known that a successful artist can gather a very large crowd of fans during his/her career. There are also haters in the crowd, unfortunately. If the topic of a creation is controversial or likely to stir up emotions, this can endanger the life of the artist. Believe me, no one want to make his or her legal address available to furious stalkers. It happened to Stephen King!

That’s why, here in Québec, the government adopted a very special exemption in their Law to solve this issue. An artist operating under a pseudonym isn’t enslaved to register to the “Enterprise Registrar’, thus the artist’s name can remain hidden from the mass in order to preserve his or her anonymity.

In term of story design alone Dream Venturos represents an intense amount of time and energy.

I am performing a lot of research into various aspects of dreaming  in order to increase the realistic and scientific appeal of the series.

I am chiefly interested in the subject of lucid dreaming.

Lucid dreams may sound implausible but this discipline is proven scientifically. It’s the result of pure scientific driven Stanford research with solid proof and probability of occurrences lead by Stephen Laberge, Ph.D, with the findings of other dream researchers around the world.

I recommend two great books by Stephen Laberge himself and Howard Rheingold:

_____Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

_____Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life

Laberge claims that sleepers can consciously influence the outcome of their dreams like in waking life. He teaches how to maintain a dream journal, build a catalog of dream signs and gradually induce lucid dreams. It’s possible to have lucid dreams at will! It’s absolutely fascinating! And it’s science! Woohoo!

Indeed Stephen is a scientist doing science; therefore his purpose in his books wasn’t to give a spiritual and philosophical meaning to his work – he did it a little though.

Other writers succeed very well with this approach:

_____The Art Of Dreaming, by Carlos Castaneda

_____The Dreaming Universe by Fred Alan Wolf

As for myself I haven’t succeeded to reach a lucid state in my dreams yet. I started to maintain a dream journal and I hope to have at least one lucid dream by the end of the year. If something positive happens I’m going to share it with you of course! However my primary goal behind this interest is to build a solid framework for Dream Venturos ^^

I would feel very honored to hear your stories if any of you, dear readers, have already experienced or still experience lucid dreams.

Thanks for reading!