Yeah, I'm often incredibly irrational. I haven't figured out what makes me more rational, usually it's whether the fact that I'm actually in bed clicks. That only happens sometimes, and often I wake up after that realization. |
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I've had about four or five lucid dreams now, but a few of those times, after the dream is over, I've noticed that even though I realized I was in a dream, I wasn't able to act rationally or really carry out with things like I planned before I went to sleep. Is there anything I can do to help myself think more clearly? Sometimes I feel like I'm in a bit of auto-drive, even if I have noticed I'm in a dream. |
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Yeah, I'm often incredibly irrational. I haven't figured out what makes me more rational, usually it's whether the fact that I'm actually in bed clicks. That only happens sometimes, and often I wake up after that realization. |
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A Night Away.
I think there are different levels of lucidity. Remember, when dreaming your brain isn't in full-functioning mode - your working memory is disabled so a lot of common sense logic goes out the window. The more lucid you become, I believe, the more this part of the brain awakens and the more rational you can become. The thing that makes it difficult at first is that when you are just beginning to become lucid and you reactivate this part of the brain completely you wake up, or you stay in the dream and don't reactivate it fully so you're lucid - but not completely and thus irrational to some extent. This is just what makes the most sense to me, my 'theory' on it. But the more lucid dreams you have and more you learn to control it the more rational/lucid you'll become. Like everything, practice makes perfect. |
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My favorite technique is my favorite because it eliminates this problem. In my more successfully crafted dreams there is no seam between wakefulness and sleep. There is no transition. Because of this I am completely and fully aware, and ... AWAKE ... but INSIDE a dream. |
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---o--- my DCs say I'm dreamy.
I think you're right that practice makes perfect: I've slowly been having more lucid dreams as time goes on. And for the most part, I'm getting a little bit more rational. During my most recent lucid, I was able to summon my dream guide, but I must've gotten too relaxed during our conversation, because the dream slipped away from me a bit into the conversation. Even though it ended before I got to the good part, I at least was able to calm down and think(though not perfectly.) I think my biggest issue at this time is trying to remember to stabilize enough in the dream. |
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