A few thoughts on Lucid Dreaming

[SeaWeedFire]

I'm very new to lucid dreaming and have only succeded two or three times. Everytime they were DILD's. In the dream, I just spontaneously had a thought: "I'm dreaming." and from that point I could do many things that one can't do in the real world, but there were still some restrictions on what I could do. A little problem I had all of the times are that I often lose the lucidity after a while, like the last time, just after I obtained lucidity, I thought: "I have to go to school!" and then I thought: "Why not fly there?". Said and done. I had a pretty hard time getting up in the air, but once up, I took off with incredible speed towards school. So fast in fact, that I totally missed school by several kilometres! Then, when I turned around and started flying back again, I suddenly lost control and fell to the ground. After that, the dream ended and I woke up. I have never tried to practice dream recalling, and those three times that I remember experiencing lucid dreaming, I was just lucky because I woke up just after the dream. Now, I don't want to start talking to myself before sleep, because my parents sleep in the room next to mine, so they might be a little concerned if they hear me repeating a sentence 20 times , and by the same reason, I can't have an alarm clock going off every hour-and-a-half, because my parents would wake up too. I'll just have to hope that I have a lucid dream right before I wake up in the morning, or that I develop som uber skills to remember all of my dreams without having to wake up and write them down So, I just found out about this site, and how to train one self to control dreams, and I hope that I can achieve something. I just thought I'd mention some dream signs and other interesting things of mine. Several dream signs that I have had are that I see myself in third person, a dream sign that I've hade since I was about 5 years old, and which reoccur in almost all of my dreams. Another dream sign I've had is that I'm doing completely impossible things like breathing underwater, which I did in a particular dream when the entire town I was in sunk, and I had to breathe underwater to survive. I can also remember that I often find myself in places that are places I know and recognize, but they look nothing like what they do in real life. A little "problem" I've had is that I can never see a dream clearly, exactly EVERY dream I've ever had has been all hazy and blurred, so I can't get all the excitement from the dreams, which has become quite a roadblock for me when it comes to lucid dreaming, somewhere deep inside my mind I think: "Why bother trying to control the dreams when I can't see them clearly?" Well, I think that is all from me for now, some thoughts on lucid dreaming. Goodbye to you all and have a nice night in control! ~SeaWeedFire

[gyerenfeli]

I have never tried to practice dream recalling, and those three times that I remember experiencing lucid dreaming, I was just lucky because I woke up just after the dream. Now, I don't want to start talking to myself before sleep, because my parents sleep in the room next to mine, so they might be a little concerned if they hear me repeating a sentence 20 times , and by the same reason, I can't have an alarm clock going off every hour-and-a-half, because my parents would wake up too. I have a similar problem, only it's my husband in bed next to me. Of course, my husband just started a night job, so most nights now, I only have to be careful about waking up my baby. My suggestion is to keep a dream journal next to your bed so when you do wake up, if you remember anything about your dreams, you can write them down. Also, I find that talking to myself in my head works just as well as saying things out loud. I only have had one lucid dream that I remember and it faded very fast, but it helps with recall. I've read suggestions about the clarity of dreams to state things like "clarity now" or something similar to help with blurry dreams, but I've never tried it myself.

[SeaWeedFire]

I'm trying to remind myself all the time to fix a dream journal, but I always forget it. As for dream clarity, I think it's just because I haven't had a totally lucid dream yet. I've just been partly lucid.