Hello from Sweden/Norway

**powy** · 12-05-2012 12:28 AM

Hello everyone!

My name is Martin, I'm from Sweden but been living in Norway since 2008.
I had my first lucid dream 2 years ago after watching walking life and a couple of youtube videos about lucid dreaming.
I managed to levitate over my bed for awhile and then slowly float into the living-room before I woke up.
After that I read more about it and got really interested in learning more, but my work and living conditions made it hard so I didn't make any more progress back then.

Since then I've had many dreams where I've known its a dream but not been able to affect them without waking up. One thing I've noticed since my first lucid dream is that I don't get scared of nightmares anymore.
I've had many nightmarish dreams after that where I know its a dream and if I don't try to affect them and just tag along they ofter take a turn down some ridiculously crazy road anyway. or is it me taking then there without knowing it?

I quit my job 1 month ago and its much calmer at home so now I'm ready to learn and make some progress

The best thing is I'm not going to work for at least 6 months and I have 2 months at home before I'm of to India so I will have much time for dreaming

I've poked around here on the forum and listen to the Dreamviews podcast and found its full of awesome tips and guides. Looking forward to learn from you all

And sorry for my bad english

**~~MasterMind~~** · 12-05-2012 07:59 AM

Hello powy and welcome to the forum!

I am Swedish as well!

There are many reasons to why people tend to wake up instantly form their lucid dream, but the important thing is to not blame yourself and get frustrated by it, because sometimes there's actually nothing you can do about it. One reason is that you get too excited and that usually make you jolt awake, although this can be fixed by doing it over and over until it just doesn't excite you anymore.
Sort of like if you were gonig to play a virtual extreme graphic video game, at first you would be like WOAH! But after repetetive time of using it, you'll be like nahh what ever I want something new...

But if you know that you aren't super excited but still wake up each time, then it can simply the fact that the lucid dream is in the early morning which will make your aminrgic system (a system of the brain that governs critical thinking) rise on it's own, however this system consist of the substance and chemicals that makes you alert as well, so it is actually very hard to stay asleep by then.

To solve this one need to practise the art of awareness focusing, sort of like meditation, you focus your awareness on the dream with your own will, instead of letting it go automatically because of the cholinergic system. It's a bit complicated to explain but if you see dreaming as a drug, instead of taking the drug to dream (("hallucinate")) you switch your focus to the dream yourself.
When you can control this completley people like to refer to it as astral projection or OBE, because you are by then controling the whole experience with intent and can induce at any time.
This is very advanced so ignore it if it sounds too out there.. xD

But well you sort of have to find a way to focus your awareness if you want to stay in the dream and in order to learn that, meditation and getting calm is a good practise for that.

I hope you enjoy your stay and that you have sweet dreams now when your home is calm.

**Matte87** · 12-05-2012 03:38 PM

Welcome to DV fellow Viking

I learned how to lucid dream as a kid when I had alot of nightmares. They were my dream sign and whenever I got scared I realised I was dreaming.

If you've got any questions in Swedish, don't hesitate to send either me or MasterMind a PM.

**powy** · 12-05-2012 03:42 PM

Hey MasterMind

Thank you for your awesome reply. Awareness training will be a big focus now for sure.
Astral projection sounds amazing :O A good long term goal for sure

**powy** · 12-05-2012 03:52 PM

Hey Matte87 and thank you

I'm sure I will have some questions for you fellow Vikings in Swedish in the future

Had any lucid viking dreams maybe?

**Sivason** · 12-12-2012 04:06 AM

Welcome to Dream Views! This is the place to be for anyone wanting to learn how to lucid dream. There is no quick answer to your question, but the Dream guide team is here to help you navigate the forum and answer questions. We all have 3 green stars above our avatar. Click on our user name and you can then select private message if you have a question, or you can start new threads. Don't worry about starting threads that have been started before, just try it out, if it ends up in the wrong place one of us can move it for you.

One thing you can do in a post is place a link to another thread. I have done this below. You can click on the colored words to see the new thread. Start with this extra basic one, it will help you read the acronyms in other posts, Help With Acronyms For Complete Beginners

After that one the very first thing you should do is check out basic tutorials. This one covers most of the terms you will see members using in much more depth, so start here, http://www.dreamviews.com/f20/beginn...eaming-124786/

Also be sure to check out the DVA Dream Views Acadamy, click on this link to get there, DV Academy.

Matte , our Dream Guide team leader runs a general lucid dreaming class, and you can join in contests where you gain points for dreams you have. General Lucid Dreaming (Matte87)

Gab , another Dream Guide runs a class that is very valuable to beginners on MILD/DILD, which is by far the best method to start with. DILD (Hukif and gab)

Finally as far as the DVA stuff goes, there is a class on introduction to lucid dreaming. This is a great place if you are just starting out and need a little personal help. Intro Class (OpheliaBlue, RareCola, CanisLucidus, Chimpertainment, Xanous)

Now, on the lighter side, you may be excited to learn to fly! Here is a thread where people explain how they went about learning to fly, http://www.dreamviews.com/f14/can-u-...u-learn-40468/

Then just for a laugh here is a thread where people list all the things they want to do in an LD. It is mostly light hearted and supposed to be funny, http://www.dreamviews.com/f11/1000-t...-dream-104556/

Have fun and good luck with your dreaming!