Thread: 3 Days in a row... What am I doing wrong??

Why did something so vivid become so ordinary after I woke up???

I woke up, opened up my MacBook Pro, and started typing out my dream. It was then that I noticed that this awesome moment was slowly becoming more and more like ordinary dreams. Foggy, foggy, foggy. In fact, I couldn't remember some of the things I did

First of all, congrats on your first lucid! Quite the achievement!

When I recall a dream, I don't write it down right away. When I wake up, I try to lay as still as possible with my eyes closed. I then go through the whole dream in my head to move it from my dream memory to my short-term memory. This is a lot easier to do if you don't move around or open your eyes. If you start thinking of anything else you'll get side-tracked. Just try to lay still and think through your dream without falling asleep. In this way you'll manifest your dreams into your real memory. It's also a lot easier to remember details this way. If you find that there is something you don't remember, go through the dream over and over again in your head. In some cases a new fragment will come to you and you'll remember even more!

Usually when I have a good lucid dream it puts a big smile on my face for a 1-3 days.

Good luck!

Originally Posted by XeL

First of all, congrats on your first lucid! Quite the achievement!

When I recall a dream, I don't write it down right away. When I wake up, I try to lay as still as possible with my eyes closed. I then go through the whole dream in my head to move it from my dream memory to my short-term memory. This is a lot easier to do if you don't move around or open your eyes. If you start thinking of anything else you'll get side-tracked. Just try to lay still and think through your dream without falling asleep. In this way you'll manifest your dreams into your real memory. It's also a lot easier to remember details this way. If you find that there is something you don't remember, go through the dream over and over again in your head. In some cases a new fragment will come to you and you'll remember even more!

Usually when I have a good lucid dream it puts a big smile on my face for a 1-3 days.

Good luck!

Thanks XeL!
About keeping your eyes closed:

The way I woke from today's lucid dream kind of made this impossible. If I remember correctly, at the end of my dream I ended up blinking, and when I opened my eyes from this "blink," I opened my "waking" eyes. (Physical eyes)
It was very strange. One second, A giant door is swinging open in my direction, then literally after the blink of an eye, I'm staring at my ceiling at 7:30AM.

Perhaps I should intentionally end a dream after a certain amount of events lapse. That way I can know that I'm about to awaken, which would help me stay still and keep my eyes closed. I think I read somewhere a month or so ago that going to sleep in the dream will wake you?

Also, I was so excited to get into action after my reality check that I forgot to do some important stabilizing steps out of this book I'm reading. The book tells you to look at your hands in detail (which I did) and to begin to touch as many objects as you can to get the dreamworld as concrete as possible. (This, i did not do for it never crossed my mind.)

The world around me (as far as I remember) seemed very, very lifelike when it came to detail, but it did not seem as stable as I would have wanted it. It started in my house, and when I walked into a certain room, everything was scaled up in size, including the door that was swinging open towards me before I woke up.

So in short, I knew that I was dreaming (for sure), and I was able to control my own actions, but I had a hard time controlling the environment.

I'm not too worried about it, though. I remember Stephen LaBerge saying in an interview that Dream Control and Lucidity were two different concepts, but with Lucidity, Dream Control becomes POSSIBLE.

With practice, I suppose.

Thanks for the advice. I'll be sure to follow it.

Hoping for another Lucid dream tonight,

LD