Pornocrates's Workbook

**Pornocrates** · 02-01-2020 12:28 AM

Heya !

It's been a while (that's an understatement) !
Insomnia and really high anxiety levels kept me away from lucid dreaming but I was still really into exploring the mind ! I tried a lot of things in between, hypnosis for instance !
I might keep on exploring this phenomenon and maybe use it for LDs, I met a hypnotherapist who told me self-hypnosis was great for lucid dreaming.

Oh and I've been using herbal supplements for different things and since I use Valerian root to deal with my insomnia I noticed it gave me incredibly vivid dreams (and nightmares brrr), it sure has a great potential for lucidity.
Also CBD which helps relaxing a lot !

I don't know yet if I'll be able to commit to this workbook but I really miss the LDing world and community !

Hope you guys are doing alright !

**FryingMan** · 02-01-2020 06:07 AM

Hi Pornocrates, and welcome back! We all encounter life circumstances sometimes that cause us to rebalance our goals and efforts. Best of luck to you on your journey!

For insomnia (something I suffer from in the LD middle-of-the-night practices), I recommend looking in to best "sleep hygiene" practices, and studying different relaxation techniques. I was able to make significant improvements to my ability to fall back asleep when I studiously worked on releasing mental and physical tension, and stopped "trying to fall asleep" but just emphasized total relaxation and being completely content with whatever happens. Our bodies and minds know how to fall asleep -- we just need to get out of the way!

**Pornocrates** · 02-10-2020 12:59 PM

Thanks for you message FryingMan !
I'm working on these things, but I'm trying to make my life a happy one before anything else. Lucid Dreaming was a form of escapism for a long time, now I want it to be part of my growing process !

I had a lucid dream last night, a really vivid one too. It doesn't make much sense that I had one this particular night, I went to bed around 4 AM and woke up a 11 and it happened during the 4 first hours !
No induction technique, no day review, no affirmation whatsoever...
And yet, I felt really conscious. I wandered but didn't really know what to do. I thought I would wake up right away but I was really calm and I did a nose RC, so I just walked and wondered why it was so stable !

**FryingMan** · 02-11-2020 03:21 AM

Congrats! Lucid dreams do pop up out of the blue sometimes. The point of practice is to make them much more frequent and reliable.

It's very good to use dreaming for positive purposes

. It's quite OK to just have fun, but it's also valuable to do more meaningful practices, like dream yoga for example.