Frustrating...

[Mortalis]

Hi everyone, just wanted to ask about somthing.

I have been keeping a dream diary for about a week, and at first I was only able to recall fractions of my dreams. Now I can remember a very long and detailed dream, and or a couple dreams per night.

The only thing is, when I wake up and write my dream down, there are countless dream signs that I completely miss. For example, last night I dreamt of mixing califlower seeds in hot water(who knows why...) anyways, I had to split up the seeds into six buckets of water, and when I would pour the seeds into the bucket they would come out the bottom...completely dry. Then I would turn over the bucket and it wouldnt have a bottom, but the water was suspended in the bucket. I questioned how this was possible in the dream, but then eventually just accepted it and moved on...

I guess my question is, is there a way to make myself not accept things like this? I always think they are pretty strange but then I guess I just think that there must be some way that its possible..I dont see how I can make process from this point.

[wasup]

That's a good sign. Within a short period of time you will be questioning it more and eventualyl become lucid.

[Mortalis]

Oh, great, I cant wait. It seems that now that I'm into lucid dreaming I can't wait to sleep, and my days seem like I'm just waiting to get to bed. Cool in a way but bad in a way to.

[wasup]

Same here in the begginging.

[Timotheus]

Originally posted by Mortalis
Oh, great, I cant wait. *It seems that now that I'm into lucid dreaming I can't wait to sleep, and my days seem like I'm just waiting to get to bed. *Cool in a way but bad in a way to.

I know that feeling quite well :wink:
But really, there is absolutely no reason to be frustrated.

If you managed to gain such a high level of dream recall in just one week, you can be very proud of yourself.

When you have recorded at least a dozen of dreams (I know I am citing LaBerge now...), try to find reappearing dreamsigns (everybody has them) and keep watching for them.

BTW, if you haven't LaBerge's book yet (Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming), it's definitely worth looking at it.

How does your interest in LD comes from ? Have you had occasional LDs before ?

[Mortalis]

I just ordered the book at borders today, it will be in in a week. My original interest in lucid dreaming came after a several dream period when I kept having reoccuring nightmares. I told a friend and he told me that he had the same problem until he found out about lucid dreaming, he said that knowing he was dreaming helped him conquer his nightmares. Anyways I started looking into it for only that reason, but then I saw that there was much more that was possible with lucid dreaming and really got into it. And now here I am..trying to do it myself.

[icedawg]

Originally posted by Mortalis
I guess my question is, is there a way to make myself not accept things like this? I always think they are pretty strange but then I guess I just think that there must be some way that its possible..I dont see how I can make process from this point.

Whenever something strange happens in real life--or not even strange, but simply not something that happens every day, such as a light bulb burning out--perform a reality check. In doing so you'll (hopefully) train yourself to do the same whenever you dream about something odd. Although determining your personal dream signs is an admiral goal, honing in on exact, tangible signs is not necessary and will often prove futile anyway, because they may not be all that common in your dreams; instead, look for the much more general and common ones, like mechanical/electronic failure, etc.

[Mortalis]

Thanks alot for the advice Icedawg, I'll start doing more reality checks in real life...somthing I hadn't really been doing too much at all. :embarrassed:

[icedawg]

Originally posted by Mortalis
Thanks alot for the advice Icedawg, I'll start doing more reality checks in real life...somthing I hadn't really been doing too much at all. :embarrassed:

No problem. Random reality checks are always good, but sometimes it also helps to have a bunch of cues that remind you to perform a reality check (such as each time you look at a clock, every time you see a TV, whenever you come home, whenever you turn on a light, etc.)

[GestaltAlteration]

I,too, am having problems with reaching the level of a lucid dream. I have alot of dreams in common, some are of school some of girls etc etc. However I still dont feel like im getting close to a lucid dream because it still seems too much like im just sittign back and watching bound to stay part of the dream and not break the rules. I'm trying to to reality checks more but they are hard to do sometimes since my life is relativly dull. Anyone have any advice that I could use to boost preformance? On a good news scale I'm having a dream every night now.

[jill1978]

I read in one of the articles on lucidity.com that our dreaming mind is alittle slower or niaver than than the waking mind so I guess that's why the buckets without bottoms seem perfectly normal. Even in my lucid dreams I'm not completely there if you know what I mean.