Thread: the lucid progress log of cygnus

(updated jan. 31 - lucid count; newer things in green)

you will find some of my lucid dreams here...
i try to only record the more interesting, readable ones.
below is an index with goals and links, and below that an explanation of my methods.

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--> current status: i'm really just working on stabilization and don't have much to record here.


number of days per month with a LD / individual LDs (separated by waking & recording)

oct. 09: 12 / 19
nov. 09: 16 / 25
dec. 09: 20 / 37
jan. 10: 18 / 40

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here are some of my accomplishments in dreams before the start of this log:

- breathe underwater
- fly
- walk through walls
- allow speeding traffic to pass though me
- telekinesis
- make people lucid
- communicate with an animal
- visit the starship voyager
- swing from the branches of a tree


dates shown in blue link to a dream in which a goal was completed, or where there was a reference to it.


my accomplishments after the start of this log:

- tibetan sound healing (partial) 9/30
- instant teleportation 10/8; 11/4
- use a computer interface like that on the starship enterprise 12/3
- walk on water

current favorite dream: 9/30
dream with highest level of lucidity: 11/4


here are some of the things i plan to do in the future (from my notes):

1. consistently develop the association between going to a place with water in dreams and lucidity. once lucid, look at your hands and rub them together, then sustain the sight of the water, the shore, and the land behind you. focus on all of your senses. then connect with the four environmental directions - water to the west, earth to the north, air to the east, and fire to the south. become able to sustain fine details in this location so that it remains a home base and place of power supportive of high lucidity. repeat to yourself that you will be lucid beginning there every day.

2. condition your dream body and dreaming attention. work on your chakras/general energy work and create music to aid in doing this 10/22. do tibetan sound healing 9/30. use sub-harmonic frequencies to induce an altered state 12/4


3. dream characters: have a conversation with someone. make them lucid. go to a place with a lot of hot girls and talk to them without touching any (reducing grasping/impulses) 11/2. turn malevolent dc’s into friends or neutralize them non-violently 11/2.

4. female dream guides:

- the woman i perceive as my dream tantric sex teacher. 10/22

- tatsurya. 10/18

5. play music, instruments, summon sounds...

6. experiment with controlling the weather. watch a lightning storm.

7. burn karma - allow past experiences/emotions to self-liberate. reduce grasping and aversion. experience non-duality.


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methods:

(this is what i decided to stick with since late sept. 09)

sort of a summary...

i grew up close to the beach. i have had many cool dreams where i was at a beach, looking at big waves, or at another place with water. my first remembered lucid dream occurred when i was 7 or so and took place in the ocean, where i was swimming and breathing underwater. not long after i rediscovered lucid dreaming and joined this site when i was 19, i had an immensely real lucid dream where i was floating offshore at a beach i'm very familiar with. it was like i was transported bodily into the water. so, i consider the beach to be my place of power in dreams.

i call what i do 'self-programming.' i use water itself to help me become lucid (as a reinforced, stable dream sign). when i pour a glass of water, use the sink, take a shower, see a pool, lake or the beach, i try to connect with the element of water. the mantra i use is "in my dreams i will see water. i will realize i'm dreaming and look at my hands to stabilize." a few times a day i watch the video i made (mantra in text over a sequence of images of water locations, video...), meditate/visualize, and write my intentions on a white board.

i also do some of the tibetan dream yoga day practice: i try to recognize all phenomena as dream-like and illusory, and say to myself that i am dreaming, this is a dream body and i am looking at a dream computer, and so on.

before bed i review the day as if recalling a dream. i repeat my mantra each time i fall asleep. i almost always wake up naturally at around 3 am, and then turn a night light on, watch my video on my ipod, and go back to sleep.