Working with creativity to increase chances of lucidity

[martakartus]

We've all heard that people who are more creative find it easier to lucid dream. It's easy to see why. In my case, though, I'm more of a logical person, but I'm quite convinced there are ways to stimulate the right side of the brain to become more creative, such as drawing or writing. I thought probably working with the dream journal would be a good idea: drawing dreamscapes or writing short stories out of dreams (lucid or non-lucid). Do you guys do any of this, or anything of the sort to stimulate your creative side? I'm looking for ideas

[ThreeCat]

This is an interesting idea. I'm not sure how it would work, but maybe even writing some poetry or writing a very short story. Using your dreams as inspiration may lead to a dream about what you have written, which is--I think--the goal of this exercise? I wouldn't worry about planning it all out, since that is more left-brained activity, and you're trying to be spontaneously creative. Just sketch a scene, write a few lines to go along with it, and maybe arrange it in your room somewhere where you can see and think about it as you fall asleep. Let us know what happens!

[martakartus]

Yeah, the idea was to get the plot out of a dream and create a story from it, or something like that. Writing a story from scratch would be even better, but since I'm not that creative, I guess this would be a good start. I'll see how it goes, I was just wondering if anyone else had thought of something like this.

[NyxCC]

You could try doing short visualization sessions. This helps a lot for dream incubation, stability in lds and dream control if you practice it frequently.