keep it by the bed and write every dream as soon as you wake up. i think i’d been doing it 2 weeks when i started lucid dreaming.
LD especially complements flying dreams.
when you stop the journal, you’ll LD less.
just GOOGLE the words you know in quotes, along with the word LYRICS like this:
“i love you peggy sue” lyrics
i may not figure out why i do the negative things i do, but spending time thinking about them should help reduce them
it’s a great technique – pick a pupil and look at it. at conversational distance, especially over a meal, your focal point includes only one eye of your friend and if you’re paying attention, one pupil. most people switch from one pupil to the other intermittently during a conversation, and faster when agitated.
picking a pupil and focusing on it will create the impression that you are paying close attention (even when you’re not! ;-) and that you are confident (again, even when you’re not).
try it.
i used to view every wrong turn as a possible opening to a shortcut. bad strategy! most wrong turns are just that, and the search for the short cut becomes long indeed. whereas by simply turning around immediately after learning of the wrong turn usually results in very little time lost at all.
there’s a saying recorded in the talmud: there two paths to pumbedisa, the long and short or the short and long.
the long path is straight and reliable and thus short. the short path is treacherous and will usually result in a longer journey.
and if you really want a short cut, study the map first. overall time is the same including the research, but you’ll benefit next trip!
great adventure – it’s all above the tree line, dry dry dry powder, and the people are just as sweet as can be
by the bedside and write down your dreams as soon as you wake up for a few weeks. that’s what i did in college, and the lucid dreams came. also a great pratice to ask yourself the dream’s message as soon as you wake up. answering the message question later won’t have nearly the same impact.
it doesn’t cost much (use hotels.com). the kids are a few blocks away if there’s an energency, you purchase as new outfit together for the evening, you dress up, have a few drinks, and have a wonderful night. breakfast in bed, late check out and get back to the kids with smiles on your faces. that’s a great gift for your lady and yourself.
it doesn’t cost much (use hotels.com). the kids are a few blocks away if there’s an energency, you purchase as new outfit together for the evening, you dress up, have a few drinks, and have a wonderful night. breakfast in bed, late check out and get back to the kids with smiles on your faces. that’s a great gift for your lady and yourself.
on the way out of the lavatory from a mom who needed to change a diaper. and a couple of jealous looks from people in nearby seats.
about the early hours, the pizza and the traffic. then one day you wake up and realize it’s been sunny for 270 days straight, you like driving and you live in a house with a yard around the corner from a deli, and then you chill out.
BUT, i do feel like a lot more kids have allergies nowadays than when i was a kid. is that LA or modern times?
but i think i’ll check out a few more zeitgeists before i get back to work
after 15 f@#%ing years! and it would have taken another 20 if i had not been fortunate with a recent project. the day i wrote that check was the best day in my life, with the exception of my wedding day and the births of my kids.
but i confess it was easy because i was born in a spanish speaking country. still, i left at a young age, and i have to work on it to keep it up.
i have my black belt, but i tore my ACL three years ago and stopped going. i had the surgery three months ago, and when i finish rehab, i’m getting back on the mat.
what i want to do is write a great screenplay. i’ve done it before (and plan to make that one someday – period dramas are a bitch to set up). i’ve almost done it, and i did set that one up, directed it, and had it released in 50 theaters. it played for 8 weeks. (i’ve also written 7 others, and i taught screenwriting at the college level.)
this time, i’m going slower. i outlined for six months, then pasted my scene-by-scene outline into final draft.
on day 1, i slam out a line-by-line outline of scene 1 (think of them as candidates for lines of dialogue and action in your first draft – write them fast).
on day 2, i write scene 1 and slam out scene 2.
on day 3, i rewrite scene 1 (and leave it at that until the 1st draft is done), write scene 2, ans slam out scene 3.
on day 4, i rewrite scene 2, write scene 3, and slam out scene 4. and so on.
when i reach short scenes, i’ll slam out 2, and pass them through the cycle together.
good luck!
