Re: Plan of Action during the Pandemic

[Summerlander]

How is everybody using their lucid dreaming practice during this pandemic? I have recently come up with a plan of action consisting of three steps: 1. Visit the world of Minecraft by plunging into the telly screen while my son plays the game. 2. Visit and explore Saturn's moon Titan and fly towards the Milky Way galaxy centre. 3. Summon Dean, a wise 'cave caretaker' I met in a previous lucid dream. Here is the first lucid dream I had since writing down this plan: Date: 17/12/2020 Method of entry: dream consciousness Bedtime: 1am Awakening: 6.45am Return to bed: 7am Awakening: 8.25am Attempt: successful Phase experience: Libby and Beano REM sleep having returned to bed around 7am is characterised by vivid dreaming displaying cues about the illusory nature of my experience: moving house during a pandemic (never); smoking (I quit months ago); being excited about finding a couple of bags of cannabis on the floor (I'm done with its recreational use); organising a housewarming (out of my mind in a silly dream state). I go to bed (mattress on the floor) with my wife in this strange new house. I hear footsteps and my youngest son opens the bedroom door to say he's not feeling well and needs a day off school. 'What's the matter?' I say while I get up to examine him. 'My back hurts', he replies. His back reveals a strange bruise and I send him back to bed. Beyond the room, I see my eldest son go to the kitchen to make himself breakfast. At the end of the hallway (abode now resembling the one in waking life), Kayci, his girlfriend, has the front door open and she's having a cigarette. I walk towards the entrance to look at the morning view outside, expecting to see the spacious, public lawn which is shared by many neighbours but typically deserted at dawn, only to discover my false awakening situation. I'm shocked to find a vast park replete with people noisily congregating, and the colossal industrial buildings in the background clearly defying the logic of being remote from commercial areas and living by a river in waking life. 'Is this a lucid dream?' I ask Kayci. 'Yes.' I push my right hand through the door jamb and watch my limb being engulfed up to my elbow by the wood with barely any resistance. I notice my former neighbour Libby in the bustling park, beckoning to me in her typically risqué manner whenever she had a reefer to share. As her mischievously grinning form wiggles her long index fingernail, I realise the risk of being lured into an ordinary dream state. I run through the crowd in the opposite direction to beckoning Libby, desperately trying to remember the plan of action I had only just written down prior to bedtime. I frantically run and leap, annoyed that I can't remember one single step of the plan, and partially disturbed at the prospect of a premature collapse of the phase state. I could ask Libby for mnemonic clues, but she vanished, and a demented life-size Beano-like character is chasing me around this crazy playground. I find him very distracting and I feel like it would be impossible to reason with him. I wake up, content and slightly annoyed, with white noise petering out in my head. I make notes to remind myself to rehearse the plan of action in imagination prior to the next attempt and that in lucid dreams, control is attainable. The Libby and Beano simulations would have bent to my will. ---Looking back now, I wonder if 'Beano' was actually a representation of the memory of the first step in my plan of action (visiting Minecraft). What I found distracting might have been, quite literally, the memory 'coming to me'. In hindsight, Beano looked like something out of Minecraft. I think I made a mistake by inadvertently avoiding what I really wanted.

[Hilary]

I'd like to visit Titan as well. It's a suggestion in the tasks of the month thread, now, btw. Great job getting lucid.

[Summerlander]

I'd like to visit Titan as well. It's a suggestion in the tasks of the month thread, now, btw. Great job getting lucid. Thank you. I literally just rejoined after years of absence. Because I like astronomy, I thought Titan would be a great destination in my sleep. I've even painted a Titanian landscape with Saturn in the sky. (You'll find it on my Instagram account: arlindo_visual_art)

[Summerlander]

And strangely enough, I ended up posting twice. LoL

[Eonnn]

We have so much time on our hands now, especially with the christmas period so it's the best time for it. Although, I hear minecraft can take many hours even years off your life people do figuratively get stuck inside that game if you know what I mean, haha Also, flying to the galactic centre might take a while... guess it depends how fast you can fly? would have to be much faster than the speed of light so you might as well just teleport instead. It might take some of the fun out of it but flying at such a speed is pretty much teleporting anyway. I'd suggest summoning Dean Winchester instead, might be easier too since summoning is common magical practice in the world of Supernatural, he is also a bit of a caveman.

[Summerlander]

If Minecraft gets me stuck in there then it'll be convenient! Effortless prolongation of the lucid dream state. Hehehe! I have piloted and crashed a spaceship on an alien planet in a recent lucid dream. Rather than teleport, I think I might use a little flying saucer like the one in The Explorers---if I can manage to materialise it out of thin air! Or I'll just be a lucid, god-like runt mouse-trailing across cosmic dream-space! LOL!

[Eonnn]

If Minecraft gets me stuck in there then it'll be convenient! Effortless prolongation of the lucid dream state. Hehehe! I have piloted and crashed a spaceship on an alien planet in a recent lucid dream. Rather than teleport, I think I might use a little flying saucer like the one in The Explorers---if I can manage to materialise it out of thin air! Or I'll just be a lucid, god-like runt mouse-trailing across cosmic dream-space! LOL! Actually, now you mention prolongation of the dream state, time moves a little differently in dreams so entirely reasonable to presume you could stay there forever, in just one nights sleep. Speaking of which, I mentioned on this forum long time ago the inception process which has high success rate for me at least. When you become lucid, fall asleep in it! sounds counter-intuitive but acts as a buffer dream so when you wake up from 2nd layer, you are back in the first dream! Go 3 or 4 levels deep if you're keen, but I found lucidity wandering at deeper levels. would always return to previous layer first so at level 4, you return to level 3 unless you completely lose lucidity. You're welcome, and enjoy P.S. what about the flying saucer in The Navigator? and what are we going to do today Pinky?

[Summerlander]

The Navigator is a classic. Hehehe! That little spaceship is cute. I might purchase it from that kid and be on my interstellar way. I loved Inception (Leo is a known lucid dreamer) and loved how it was humouristically portrayed in an episode of Rick 'n' Morty . Good stuff. Falling on your back can potentially prolong the lucid dream state as it heightens vestibular sensations and proprioception, and falling through the ground is commonly reported. (Came across this in LaBergeian literature.)

[Eonnn]

The Navigator is a classic. Hehehe! That little spaceship is cute. I might purchase it from that kid and be on my interstellar way. I loved Inception (Leo is a known lucid dreamer) and loved how it was humouristically portrayed in an episode of Rick 'n' Morty . Good stuff. Falling on your back can potentially prolong the lucid dream state as it heightens vestibular sensations and proprioception, and falling through the ground is commonly reported. (Came across this in LaBergeian literature.) I suggest it, because it pretty much flew itself and was super fast and advanced! Another option might be Doctor Who's tardis, a little less aesthetically pleasing but has added benefit of time travel and being bigger on the inside. You could possibly use his psionic screwdriver and ID badge to make the aliens do whatever you want, just hope the darleks don't come an exterminate you! ....potential schema there for ya to contend with later, sorry. I re-watched inception a couple weeks ago as I only ever watched it one time, too busy watching re-runs of the matrix I guess haha joking (or am I?). It was amazing how many details I forgot about, was quite a lot to process first time round, like they used inception in the movie itself when making it so they could fit more in, if you watch past the credits the totem tips over and stops. You're going to have to watch it now to see if that's true or not hehehehe actually what happens the kid comes out to him and says "There is no totem" and then you see it's not the totem that stops, but your mind bending. I might re-watch the movie waking life, love that one.

[Summerlander]

You must be joking about Inception, mate! No way! LOL! Waking Life is simply phenomenal. I can't get enough of that one. It feels like the protagonist is stuck in his own Jacob's Ladder scenario as he tries to wake up from this ongoing, seemingly never-ending dream. A dying dream ...