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Yeah I've contact with lots 'finns' over the border due Ingress game. And last time I was there was in June this year when I cycled Haparanda/Tornio - Oulu and back, and I remember I was unsure about the internet back then, but it worked great the prepaid sim I had

Finland mentioned! * All finns celebrate *

I was very worried about internet not working there

We're not that savages haha

Some kind of labyrinth? I hope for your sake David Bowie wasn't there.

I had a dream (didn't bother to write it though) about a huge wall clock in my living room. It was almost as big as the wall. Usually I'll double take at something like that and become lucid, but the second or third time I looked at it, it was smaller so I won't on about my business.

Yeah, it was this thread she linked me to that I read about it, a list of what can be written into the dream journal I've near my bed ( http://www.dreamviews.com/dild-gab/1...ods-dilds.html ).
No idea if it will work better the more you write it, maybe will. But I think it was great for me to write it up so it really gets out in mind, maybe I should even speak it up. As I did it right after the first wakeup and recall, and then went to bed straight after written it down and I really had nothing else in my mind than lucid dream, it might been one of the reasons for me becoming aware.

Yeah, I don't know why I'm not very excited about it in the dreams now. I think it was the previous dream, neither there I was excited, not so excited that it caused me to drop off the awareness. I think it just fades away over the first few lucid dreams, atleast it seems so for me. I do though find lucid dreaming very interesting and something I would love to do so often as possible.

Ah alright, thanks for the tips


Previous year I'd 4 lucid dreams, that's an 1 LD's every 3rd month in average. This year I hope to increase it. Hoping for atleast 10 lucid dreams this year. As I got nothing doing these days (no job and no studying, yet), I will put more effort into lucid dreaming.
I'm atm applying for an basic military education, if I get in, I will be busy in 3 months and might not have time to keep a dream journal and write in it every morning etc but else I guess doing being aware of the surroundings (which I guess would be excellent in the education), like the All Day Awareness technique, will be great and lead to more chances to get lucid.

Thanks and goodluck to you too

Oh nice tip from gab there! Thanks for sharing that. I should try some time spending my entire WBTB writing "I'm dreaming" hundreds of times until I fall over from fatigue. (Hopefully into a lucid dream. )

I hear you on the excitement. That's probably harder to get over than the fear IMO. At least with fear you know it's irrational and that LD is 100% safe. With the excitement, though... come on, let's be honest, lucid dreaming is a seriously exciting idea. With MILD, I found that when I visualized myself becoming lucid, it was helpful to picture myself calmly but aggressively interacting with the dream environment, unsurprised by what was happening.

The honest truth, though, is that there are still situations where excitement gets the best of me. Sometimes I have to salvage those with DEILD or some variant of DEILD. Hey, if you get one of those dreams where it starts to fade out, one idea that has worked well for Xanous and myself is to just start doing some very physical activity that is evocative or familiar. For Xanous, he imagines riding a bike. Since I'm in the spirit of the Task of the Year, I start swinging a Roman sword (a gladius) around everywhere. We've found that this extends the dream and may give you time to imagine a new scene forming. This has saved my bacon in several of my recent dreams, so could be worth a shot if you get that fading problem again!

Good luck on the next LD! Won't be long now.

Thank you !
Though, I think reason due I became aware was that I was thinking of another dream when I was pushing the buttons in the elevator, and that somehow made me wonder if this would be a dream. Might also just been because of yesterday I tried do some reality checks during day and I performed MILD/DILD when going to bed, and the first time I woke up after 8am, I wrote down "I'm dreaming" and also wrote a thanks for the dreamrecall (I got that tips from gab yesterday, as she linked me to a post she made before and I read some of it). And that maybe helped it a lot to make me more aware and get in the thoughts of that I'm dreaming.


Yeah, I really never been afraid before. My previous lucid dreams has been that I've become very hyper and lost all control and dream faded out or that I haven't had any much control at all. But I never really been afraid of it. But well, this time I did get quite afraid and I'll take your advices

Congratulations on the lucid! Great work picking up on the "malfunctioning electronics" dreamsign. I get this one all the time and I almost always miss it!

I then started to wonder if I am breathing, that what if my body just stops breath. So I tried to breath but I didn't feel any air. I got worried and thought I might just try wake up.

LOL. Don't you hate when your brain plays these mind games with itself? In one of my early lucids, a DC tried to convince me that all circulation had been cut off to my legs and that if I didn't wake up soon they were going to have to amputate.

The best advice I can give there is to occasionally reflect on how profoundly safe of an activity lucid dreaming really is. We have the freedom to do any crazy thing that we can imagine but our physical selves are always in perfect safety. It's a very cool thing. If you occasionally spend some time thinking about this, it should help soften some of that anxiety.

Anyway, nice job!

I've had 2 dreams of being in a spaceship with aliens. First one im in a cilinder shaped room looking like the dark walls go on forever but it was still a wall, on the floor looked like lights in a movie theater and there was a metal chair in the middle of the room, I get up and in the room there was a ramp and a barlooking hand rail. To the right theres an open door with glass walls with a reptilian gazing out into outerspace. Second dream im looking through the wall/celing of the ship so I could see the ship in one look and its bright so everything was seen, there were hallway and one big looking room with 3 levels and stairs, the dream was a type of astral travel in spirit form.

Nice recall!

Thanks

That's some pretty good dream recall! So many and pretty long too.

I think it's a good idea to write down dream fragments. The more you recall, the better you get at remembering your dreams--I think.