Cities in the Astral

I'm fascinated by your experiment with non-lucidity, sivason. I so very, very rarely have lucidity of any kind during nREM that I can't completely relate to what this must be like.

You mentioned that you felt like you could use some rest. Does spending so much of the night in lucidity and semi-lucidity drain you in any way? Do you feel like you've lost something important without NLDs or are you mostly just looking to have the experience again of really believing in the illusion?

Good luck with regaining your NLDs!

Tide pools

I bet that at future date science will shout from the roof tops that they have found a powerful treatment or cure forom some organism that lives in Tide Pools.

It can be tiring, but that is not my recent motivation. By tiring, I mean that some of the stuff that takes place in your head at night is very repaticous and weird. nREM is full of vague and tiring things, that are hardly worth observing if you just would like to be unconcious. Even getting lucid in REM can be a drain if you have had a hard 13 hour work shift and are about to start another. But that is not it.

My reason for trying to recover non-lucids is to get more interaction from my sub-concious mind. In the first 1000 or so LDs you are not in control so much that you miss this. Plenty of wild unplanned things happen. However a large portion of my LDs are almost 100% under my control after 2.5 decades of serious dream yoga. I have learned to prevent thoughts from even surfacing that may disrail my goals. Can you see how that level of rigidity would take some wonderful element out of dreaming? I seem to have gone too far in the direction of rigid control. I am sure I can correct this and find a good balance between the 2 things.

It's cool to hear these travel reports of places I've never visited. (Or more accurately, places I fail to recall visiting.) Some of the nREM dreaming sounds almost like the experience of a fever dream, although I'm sure these are nowhere near as unpleasant and weird as a fever dream.

I can definitely imagine that I'd miss the feeling of dream spontaneity. I'd say that the vast majority of what I experience in a lucid dream is out of my direct control. In fact, I don't think that I'd be able to come up with enough conscious mental power to direct the dozens of things that are doing on at once in an active dream.

It sounds like a great goal! And a good reminder that no matter how experienced a person becomes at LD, there's always more to learn. Best of luck in your quest!

well, thank you! maybe i need some algae or seaweed.

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Brown seaweed extract
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Dreams are even weirder than most of us think. Cool stuff.