Originally Posted by
Finnegan
Yes, I am a natural at both lucid dreaming and this, I have been using both of them as long as I can remember, and they greatly contributed to my choice of professionalizing as an artist. I have some professional experience many art forms and this ability definitely gives me an extra edge. I do commissioned paintings, as well as recreationally and sketch my imagination quite a bit, it has been amazing in improving my ability to reproduce my imagination, helping with creating original styles and ideas. I spent a few years as a street illusionist, my experience of this gave me the inspiration and motivation to method act that I actually had the powers I was showcasing, as well as quickly calculate the angles require to hold the illusion. After that I preformed as a improvisational comedian and method actor, and It would allow me to imagine myself in the characters world, to improve the realism of the setting. I'm currently going to university to learn novel writing, which I've chosen because I want to compose virtual orchestras of my dreams. Lately I've been writing song lyrics for a band (One of the members is on this site and we're urging the vocalist to join too), and quite a bit of love poems, my verse is mostly about fantastically surreal scenes that I would not have realized without my long time efforts with the LDD.
Haha, I listen to Beethoven a lot, he is a huge inspiration for me.
Just like their sleeping cousin, it takes motivation and effort starting out, though I'm sure it is possible to do without being a savant. That is why I've started this thread; so we can work on creating techniques useful for achieving this.