Lokoloi

I define Omnilucidity as the ability to achieve a lucid dream either every night, or whenever desired. While there are people born with this ability, I once theorized a way it could be obtained rather simply, so long as the person could get into a dream at least once. It went something like this:



1. Create a dream character, preferably while awake.
The dream character can be anyone or anything you want them to be. The point is that when they appear in your dream, lucidity will soon follow. You do it while awake so you don't have to come up with it on the spot while dreaming. Also, you can draw them or give them some backstory or whatever.

2. Get into a Lucid Dream.
The hard part. All you need is one success, however, if done properly.

3.Summon and activate the Dream Character
This one's a bit hard to explain so I'll give an example. My character is a talking red nine tailed fox named "Francesca". (Didn't think about the Kurama similarity until now) I summon her and after greetings, I tell her this: "Every night from now on, find me in my dreams. Explain to me that I am in a dream until I become lucid. In other words, guide me to lucidity." As long as I believe in her, she will not fail me.

And that's the plan. Why do I bring this up today? You can probably guess where this is going.

Last night, I had two lucid dreams, the first of which was uneventful. I went back into another one, failing my WILD by losing consciousness. This plot had me in chains, about to get executed by an Egyptian king. I'm sitting here, crying and trying to explain to him that he's got the wrong guy. Just then, out of no where, some blue entity walks up to me. Imagine the generic astral projection blue guy because that's basically what he looked like. He grabbed both of my hands, and then yanked me out of my physical dream body, instantly turning me lucid. I couldn't believe what was happening! I was in shock, but he knew I was questioning whether or not I was in a dream and pointed to my hand. I looked at it and half of it was just... not there. That confirmed it for me, and I began to pop off. I looked back up to celebrate, but he was gone. I didn't get to make the most of it because of just how shocked I was.

So, it didn't happen the way I planned, but it worked nonetheless. You see, I've had this theory in my head and have been working towards it for a long time now, about 2 years or more. Perhaps thinking about it so much got it to my subconscious and just triggered some form of it automatically. A dream character showed up in my dream for the sole purpose of making me lucid. Now the only thing to see is whether he comes back tonight. I hope. I believe. If he does, that means I never have to do a technique again! Good riddance.

For some reason I got the idea to moving slow rhythmic patterns to coax hypnagogia. For some reason, it worked, although I think I might have already been in hypnagogia, so maybe this was part of the dream or something? Anyway once I got inside the dream I took a deep breath, and asked the dream to give me clarity, vividity, and stability.

I figured I'd try to expedite the process and try a less conventional method of stabilization: smashing everything in your immediate vicinity. The logic behind this is that you're engaging your whole body to do it. I grabbed my walking stick and swung at my tv, but it didn't break. I swung at it several more times and still nothing. So I then swung at my beloved PC and still, nothing. It was a tower dangling precariously off the desk, yet when I swung at it with full force, it didn't even move! Perhaps the dream has to be stable enough to simulate destruction.

So did it work to stabilize a dream? No, not well. The dream was pretty good for a bit, but I lost the plot and started smashing stuff over and over. I focused more on actually trying to break the stuff then what I was doing it for. I then lost lucidity in the dream ended. The reason why I think the dream was as stable as it was is because I asked it to become that at the beginning. So next time, I'll try more simple methods of stabilization like rubbing my hands together, licking things, touching the environment, and perhaps stretching.

Rubbing my hands together and stimulating my sense of touch in general has not been successful for me historically, but then again, it could be my fault. I notice that all the times I tried to do it, I never had my heart in it. So, I'll try the stuff that i've heard people say works before I start trying to reinvent the wheel.

Still, I'm just glad to have a consistent technique after 2 years of trying. Hell, at this rate, I might not even need the omnilucidity tech.

Of course, I'm still gonna test it.

Got another lucid last night. It's been a minute but it was because I had a hard time getting back to sleep after a while. Not sure what caused it but I guess it's over now.

Anyway, it was uneventful. I have a new mindset when I go into my dreams now; y'know the standard "I have all the time I need" stuff. The dream ended immediately though.

I used the same tech from the last two entries. I added a goalpost to make it easier for me to do.

1st, as I fall asleep, focus on what I can physically see. I've noticed that when I enter hypnagogia, the imagery is very clear if I pay enough attention; as in, it's quite easy to tell the exact moment. So, if I see the swirlies and whatnot, it's a great sign.

2nd, I now try to imagine a red flame. Usually it turns into something else, but the goal is to focus on visualizations period. Once I can see them in front of me rather than my minds eye, then I know it's time. It kinda feels like VR now that I think of it.

It started in my room. I got up and snapped my fingers. I was expecting to turn the light on, but it didn't. My snaps were also really weak. I was like, "Fine i'll just use the light switch." It didn't work either. So I sat back down on the bed and took two deep breaths. I then said something like "I'm in control." Then, it was real hard to focus out of no where like my memory got thanos snapped or something. Not long after, I awoke.

I'm not jumping to any conclusions about what happened last night. In my experience, it's a one stop shop to mental blocks. Instead, I just need to find out how I can increase dream duration.

Now that I'm thinking about it, stabilizing the dream probably wouldn't have hurt.

I got another lucid. This time I entered, I went into the same place I fell asleep in.

The first thing I did was shout "Stability and Clarity" and the effect actually work for a little. It was a contrazoom effect.

I went outside and it had just heavily snowed but I wasn't cold. For a brief moment, I was fully in the dream. I then tried summoning but it didn't work. I then woke up.


What I learned is that I have to take it slow. I have to do more work stabilizing and clarifying at first. This is exciting.

If I find that after stabilizing I still can't summon anything then I'll just ask a nearby dream character. They're all just your subconscious, so I figure if I have any mental blocks then that'll be the easiest way to find out what they are.

Now I just need stabilization techniques.
Shouting Clarity and Stability worked for a little bit, but it wasn't enough. I also tried rubbing my hands together, but in truth, I didn't focus on it.

I could try shouting repeatedly because I did only do it once.
I also want to stimulate my sense of taste. Maybe I should lick the first thing I see when I get into the dream.
Rubbing my hands together could work, but I'd have to focus more and do it with more intent.
I could also try breathing deeply. I wonder what that does to the dream.

So about that contrazoom effect-

I wasn't expecting my "Dream stabilization animation" to look like that. I'd always thought it was a shockwave of color and vibrancy entering the environment around you. I wonder if it's the same for other people or if everyone has their own unique animation.

I'm confident I can get into another Lucid. Every time before this, when I got success, I'd try to replicate exactly what I did but it would never work. This is the same technique from the last entry and it worked just as smoothly as the first time; it was free. Now that I actually have a technique that I can replicate for success, my next stop is stabilizing the dream. Once I do that, it'll be time for my plan to really get in motion...

After taking Wellbutrin for about a week, I woke up in the middle of the night because my hair was itchy. Because of the Wellbutrin, My dreams had already been vivid up to that point. I had speculated that if I were to wake up in the middle of the night while on Wellbutrin, it would basically guarantee a lucid dream, and this was the time to test that out.

I'm not sure why but I just knew what to do. I was always confused as to what people meant when they talked about the wild transition but I did it. Here's what happened.

I was in hypnagogia, but I didn't really pay attention specifically to what I was seeing. Every now and then, I would try visualizing something, and if I saw it in my mind's eye then I knew I wasn't where I needed to be yet. If I visualize something and saw it with my own eyes, then I knew that's where I needed to be. To enter the dream, I visualized myself moving forward into it. Now, I'm not trying to visualize anything specific, just kind of paying attention to what my brain is visualizing at the time, but I'm pretty sure that I can just visualize myself either moving into the dream or touching something in the visualization and that'll work. In this case, It was kind of like a picture frame. It was a picture of a back seat of a car. I just visualized myself moving into the dream, and I was there.

It was kind of a Grand theft Auto transition where it showed a couple of cinematic shots of a car, specifically the back seat, and then boom, I was in the back seat. Now, I noticed that it was night time, and that we were heading to a house surrounded by cornfields and immediately, I was flailing in the back seat trying to get out of the dream. But then I remembered that I was lucid, and that nothing bad would happen to me. So I let the dream play out.

When we get there, I get out of the car and I guess this white lady that was driving it was my mom. She was very tall and wore a really long red coat. I asked her what we were there for and she was like "We live here, and we fight dragons." I was like "Dragons?"

As we went into the house, a Bluetooth speaker was playing and it was incredibly loud, like, ear rape loud. As I go to turn it off, I just want to go to my room. I go in there, and it's just a bed and two mirrors. In my head I was like, "Oh well people say to look at a mirror in your dreams." So I did, and it was just a little distorted, like a funhouse mirror. As I looked at my hands to stabilize a dream, I looked one last time back at the mirror, and when I blinked I woke up.

Second best lucid I've ever had.

To sum up, the most important thing I learned from this is:

While in hypnagogia, visualize.
Mind's eye = not yet
Actual eyes = go time