lucid dream

I used to be really into lucid dreaming, but I found it tiresome, trying and trying without result. I managed it once or twice, but with limited lucidity. I’m still really fascinated by dreams and experience outside of time and space… I think I’m ready to get back at it again.

woo last nights dream was so cool! i figured out a lot of things… for example, spoons have something to do with triggering lucidity for me. i picked up a spoon while waiting for something and stuck it in my mouth—not exactly the safest thing to do, i know—but i started seeing all sorts of crazy colors and cartoony things. when i “came down” i seemed to know everything was a dream.

also, i realized the trick to flying! at least, i did when i woke up. i tried three times in my dream—the first time i swam through the air, kind of clumsily, but hey i’m a first timer. the second time i stayed up shorter. the third time i just jumped off and fell straight down. i think that if you focus and think hard about it, it works better. i can’t wait to try it again in my next dream.

i know i won’t be able to with all the stress i’ll have. i’ll have to put this one off for a while. :(

I feel really rushed to complete this goal. I know that once I start up with school again I’ll be too stressed to pursue it, but I also know that rushing oneself never works either. I’m not gonna give up though… doing RCs all the time would still be beneficial even if I don’t have time to journal.

check this shit out—I think I’ve started DAYDREAMING inside my dreams. Not even joking. A couple nights back I had a dream that I snuck out with an old flame. We were driving around and flirting and playing pranks on people (really wierd stuff!), but then we had to go home. I got in trouble with my brother blah blah blah… anyway, in the dream, I started about what I would have done differently and I saw it happen… The same thing happened last night… I dreamt I was watching TV and the channels changed to what I wanted to see without touching a remote….

Was this a lucid dream, or was I daydreaming?

I expected to “wake up” inside it but I never recall becoming aware of dreaming. I just… changed things. And it wasn’t nearly as vivid as I thought it’d be if it WERE an LD.

Any expierenced lucid dreamers out there understand this at all?
(Either way, I’m totally stoked)

I’m having daily dream recall now which I know is an important step, but where do you go from here? I feel stuck. :(

Dreaming is such a strange phenomenon. I’ve come to believe in the dream state as a different place we go to when we sleep… and it’s exciting, at night, laying there with my eyes closed, imagining myself being transported to somewhere new and unpredictable…

I was complaining to my friend about how I couldn’t for the life of me remember any dreams lately, and voila, I remembered a dream this morning (or at least part of one)!! Funny thing is it was about the show Scrubs… which isn’t really surprising since I watched the whole season in a matter of days last week. :-P

i’ve had 0 dream recall since i’ve been home! it’s so disappointing. i was really making headway. but i think i’m going to start using the WBTB method (waking up at the end of a rem cycle, concentrating hard on LD for an hour, going back to sleep for a rem cycle) since I can sleep in now.

is coming a lot easier to me now that summer is here—i’m a lot more relaxed, and at camp i was so tired at the end of each day i had no problem sleeping. i remember about two dreams a night, on average—very exciting! if another week goes by with continued, and hopefully increased, dream recall, i’m going to charge ahead and start trying to actually lucid dream!

my dream journal is packed with every last detail i can remember—it puts a lot of urgency into it, which I’m told helps the subconscious pick up on wanting to remember your dream—and plus it’s motivating! instead of saying “aw, that’s all i remember!” one steps back and says, “wow, i remembered a whole lot!”