I think this is a great idea, keeping a dream journal. Online. I mean, I've tried in the past to keep one, but the different entries can only be found in the myriad of spiral notebooks that clutter my home. I can at least find my computer.
I stumbled across this forum by accident, looking for information on isochronic tones - how to create them or (if I were to be so lucky) find free downloads.
Lucid dreaming has been an interest of mind for many years. Once you experience one, you just don't forget it. The content you may forget, the overwhelming feeling of experiencing one is not.
Over the past two years, I may have had two or three lucid dreams - where I was fully aware that I was dreaming and could examine the contents of it while still asleep. More often - but not frequent enough - I have very visual dreams.
Recentlly I have been listening to several (not at the same time!) of the Kelly Howell recordings, designed to be listened to upon going to sleep. They are designed I think primarily with binaural beats, in the theta and delta range and are quite effective in getting me into a deep and very restful sleep.
I've downloaded a variety of binaural and some isochronic and isochronic/binaural blends. On one occasion last week, I was sampling several I had downloaded before going to bed, and I had a remarkable dream - very vivid, and after awaking I not only could remember it, but also recalled a dream from several years ago as vividly as if I had just had it. The only problem is I'm not sure which one of the downloads I listened to resulted in this effect. So far, the ones I've listened to haven't produced quite the vividness I desire.
I've also decided to order the galantine from dreamins. I've had some success with a variety of supplements and teas, but have never properly documented my use of them. That is one of my reasons to start this journal. It will - hopefully - make me more accountable to my exact methods in creating both lucid and vivid dreams.
Another interest I have is being able to strengthen my visualization ability. I seem to have a block in visualizing. How visual is visualizing? Is it simply recalling a past memory, or is it more than that? For example, one of my fondest childhood memories is in my grandmother's front yard. When I think of it I can recall, from my memory the smell of the lilac bush, the flowers, the butterflies - in exacting detail. I can even recall the exact colors of the flowers and the leaves, and I can see (recall) the yellow and black pattern on the yellow swallowtails. Now I don't actually "see" it, but in my mind I can recall it. Is this visualization?
Now, the next item I think is somehow connected is imagination. There too I have a block - which doesn't bode well as an artist! Creating new visions, never before seen - is imagination, right? What I have found useful, to some degree is writing out an outline of the sequence of a visual I want to produce, and attempting to create the visual in my mind.
And how is both wakeful visualization and imagination connected to dreaming? That is the foundation for exploring more deeply lucid dreaming. In a lucid dream, you do "see" the visual, and can even question and explore it. I want to be able to do that while "day-dreaming". Is that even possible?
I am also hoping that some of the audio downloads create new neural connections that carry over into my waking creative outlets. As well as some of the supplements that I intend to try.
Anyway, that's where I am in this moment of time.
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