Here is a little write up from the first lecture:


A LD is a dream that you were aware that you are dreaming
It doesn’t necessarily mean that you have control over the dream
Awareness is a personal thing

Ed Kelog’s scale 1-5
1)I realize that I dream, but continue to follow the dream "script"; no conscious choice.
2)I still follow the dream script (knowing that I dream), but I can make minor choices in
keeping with dream reality.
3)I have the choice of following the dream script or not, can make major choices based on
awareness of my potentialities in the dream state.
4)I'm fully aware that I dream and of the location and state of my physical body; also
remember most knowledge from waking life, at least as it relates to goals that I had set for my lucid dreams.
5)I'm aware of myself as an integrated whole, at least on a level with how I would
be during a waking focus. Thinking, feeling, creating aspects of self are working as a unified whole.

I’m usually a 4, when I become lucid the dream plot usually stops and the DC’s dissapear until I want to find them, I’m not sure that I’ve experienced a 1-3?

Perhaps I have also written off 1’s as normal dreams? but I don’t really think so

Then you gave examples of your experiences of the Kelog scale, while everyone talked about other stuff

Brief talk about WILDS

Then you went on to dream content:

day residue - easy to understand

schemas - I battled to understand this, is it like just the ultimate setting with it’s own laws and rules - I don’t really get this, my dreams tend to be set in places from my past
Can dreaming about the past, like the house I grew up in and my home town be a scheme? I know it’s a dream sign but it’s really hard to recognize

faulty logic - self explanatory

false memories - like creating backstories for events and characters - like someone who’s your friend but you’ve never met them

strong emotions - the one I’ve experienced is uncontrollable rage, once it starts I can't stop it and it’s usually for little unimportant things - because of ID

ego = creates conscious awareness, it analyses what is going on and mediates between the
superego = creates mental boundaries, keeping you from doing things that are socially
id = is purely instinctual and runs off of emotion and primal needs.

attention - can this be why my stabilization techniques don’t work I usually grab something and rub the hell out of it, like a stone or door or something but in doing so Iguess I forget about everything else.