The problem with summer

[strychnine]

So a week or two into summer for the past few summers, I can't stop having difficult dreams (not nightmares or anything) about being in school. It's not even that bad things happen in them besides being at school, it's just that it's like my brain knows what day it is, because I always say out loud in the dream "You can't have me in school in the middle of summer, I'm leaving". Or something like that. But I rarely do. It's very stressful to me, I wake up almost as stressed as actually being in school and it's ruining my summers. You think it'd be easy to train yourself that you're not supposed to be in school, and if you are, you're dreaming. It's not. I've yet to realize I'm in a dream when one of these happens. "Neuro Sleep" has helped me have more fun and vivid dreams (not necessarily lucid) in the past, so I might try that tonight. But I doubt that will continue to work for the rest of summer. Any tips to at least stop dreaming about being in school?

[swiggityswag]

You could try incubating specific dreams that you would like to have. There's a good tutorial for it here: http://www.dreamviews.com/general-dr...-tutorial.html

[Deelo]

Im in the same exact position as you....all of the dreams I've been having lately have been set in my school. It's really frustrating because I keep telling myself before I go to bed that I'm not in school anymore and that Im on summer break. I thought that it would be easier for me to get lucid for having school dreams but it turns out to be even worse because in my dreams set in school, I actually feel like I'm in school as well.

[Mercurial]

I think the incubating dream tutorial would be helpful for you too. I would, (and this is just my own opinion) use these dreams as a dream sign. Mentally prepare that when you go to sleep - that if you dream that you are in school - Bam! I know that I am dreaming. You could then turn the dream - into a lucid one. Maybe shift the dream. I know that it may be stressful for you - it's just that re-occuring dreams are a great chance to become lucid too. I have dreams where I am at school & late for an exam, can't find the exam room- I know that I am dreaming so I use this to propel me into a LD. Anyway thought I'd share that. If you are too stressed about these dreams, no biggie. I would try the incubating dream tutorial.

[n00bf0rlyf3]

Holy crap, I'm on my second week of summer and all of my dreams recently are about my school. Best thing we can do is to just do a RC and become aware whenever we see the school so we become lucid.

[MasterMind]

Whenever you are experiencing fear of something, what's going to make it worse is to resist it. I guess you are not afraid afraid of dreaming that you are in school, but you don't want it to happen so in a way it is a fear of an experience. When I started out with lucid dreaming and was still in school, all I wanted was to experience weird dreams that would make it easier to realize that I was dreaming. Or atleast experience some cool non-lucid adventure since my dreams were more vivid. But I all dreamt about was my boring school... So I was just like you annoyed that I dreamt about my school. Although since I was also focused on dream sign practise I thought well why not just use a mantra that says "I am in my school and I am dreaming!", the first night I was actually dreaming of my school and got a short lucid dream. But the next nights. SCHOOL GONE! And I have never dreamt about my school since then. I used to think that what my conscious mind thinks is totally reversed by my subconscious mind, although now I know that the reason I never dreamt about my school again was because it was a fear and I resisted it and therefore I got that experience to learn to control that fear. And when I accepted the idea but at the same time intended that I wanted to be aware of my school dream but also after that not really have school dreams, but have cool adventures instead, this intent with fear erased made that possible. So whenever you experience something annoying or some fear, don't resist it because the problem doesn't really lie in the object of bothersome or fear, it's actually in the feeling of bother and fear itself. Like a person who are afraid of walking into a room with a small spider inside, is the problem really the spider or the fear itself? So try to just accept it, and when you do, it will no longer be a problem and hence not bother you. Just like thoughts in meditaiton, scratches during WILD, dryspells in lucid dreaming practise, girls rejecting you when you do pick up etc.