Thread: Remaining mindful once becoming lucid

Originally Posted by ThreeCat

Thank you, Sensei. I do need more awareness, and I think that may be the only way--working from here to there, so to speak, and slowing down. I am practicing this little bit at a time. More of recognizing that I am not aware, and then coming back to awareness. Do you have a daily anchor for awareness? I have experimented with keeping my awareness on my core and my third eye, and when I do this, I feel more aware. However, doing this throughout the day is challenging.

I mean in particular losing mindfulness once becoming lucid--getting pulled from one distraction to the next. Not losing lucidity--I know I am dreaming, and plan to get back to business very soon, but there is this fun thing to do over here, and a fun thing to do over here, and so forth. Just getting pulled along as opposed to remaining in control of myself.

I am interested in how you remain aware throughout the day--any tips?

mostly, I would recommend working on dream recall. Two main types of awareness:
General dream awareness
amount of yourself in the dream. You know the difference between a dream where you are "there" vs "kinda drunk". The more "there" you are, the more you make the decisions. Even if you are a space pirate, you are making the decisions.

State awareness
This is the amount of aware you are of the state of dream of waking. The more you spend time thinking about dreams, or the more licked you have, you will raise your state awareness.

If you are missing GDA, you will always forget goals and you will have "fake lucids" (which are still lucids). If you are missing state awareness, you will have really awesome epic dreams, but not become lucid. In terms of keeping your excitement up, make sure to work more on GDA, it will result inbetter lucids. The number one thing to keep up is sleep schedule. I have written a thread in how to maximize both.
http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-sign...m-journal.html

Thank you so much, guys. I managed to keep my head this morning--became lucid when I realized one of my good friends was in a class I teach--sort of gave things away! I then stopped, because I became very excited, and remembered your words, sisyphus! I stabilized the dream. I then remembered I was out to accomplish some tasks, and ended up remembering a place I had wanted to visit from a previous dream. I enlisted the help of a DC to get there. Really appreciate the assistance!

EDIT: Didn't actually manage to get to the hidden place--dream ended before that could happen. However, felt like a victory to get a DC's help, as I have never before gotten assistance like that!

Originally Posted by ThreeCat

Thank you so much, guys. I managed to keep my head this morning--became lucid when I realized one of my good friends was in a class I teach--sort of gave things away! I then stopped, because I became very excited, and remembered your words, sisyphus! I stabilized the dream. I then remembered I was out to accomplish some tasks, and ended up remembering a place I had wanted to visit from a previous dream. I enlisted the help of a DC to get there. Really appreciate the assistance!

EDIT: Didn't actually manage to get to the hidden place--dream ended before that could happen. However, felt like a victory to get a DC's help, as I have never before gotten assistance like that!

Did the DC actually help? Sometimes they say that they will help and don't. Dream Characters are jerks at times.

Originally Posted by Sensei

Did the DC actually help? Sometimes they say that they will help and don't. Dream Characters are jerks at times.

I think so. I knew that the room was on the 4th floor of this building. I talked to one DC and she refused to help me (she is my friend in WL, lol). I then found another DC I do not know in WL and explained to him my situation. He said he did not mind helping me--he knew where the room was and had a key to unlock 4th floor. So we went up there and had a fun conversation on the way. He made a funny joke, too! We did not get to the secret room, though. I feel like something really important was in there!

What I wonder is whether I really remember this info from a previous dream, or if I got caught up in dream logic/dream story without realizing it. What do you guys think?