Saving a Lucid Dream for Future Use?

**Vballplayer1941** · 12-06-2010 02:45 PM

Hello everybody! I recently finished reading a novel called "Pawn's Dream" by Eric Nylund. In it, the main character has lucid dreams every night that are incredibly realistic and in-depth and maintain a continuous flow as if he was actually living a second life in there. Early in the story it is revealed that it is an actual parallel universe.

However, disregarding the fanciful nature of the novel, I find the idea of having a second, continuous life in a lucid dream to be intriguing. Has anyone attempted this? Are there any suggestions on how to approach this?

I have very little experience with lucid dreams, but I am wondering if perhaps one could induce the mental behavior with a metaphor. For example, perhaps one could bring up a 'save screen' (like in a video game) at the end of lucid dream to save it. Then, at a later time, one could bring up the 'load screen' and resume the previous dream where it had left off.

I realize that this seems somewhat unlikely, but the mind has time and again proven itself to be capable of amazing things, and I am always looking for new ways for it to astound me. Thank you for your help!

**Wristblade56** · 12-06-2010 03:46 PM

I think what you're talking about is serial dreamig. basically, continuing a dream every night. and it is possible from what i've heard. although the dream probrobly won't begin as a continuation, you could most likely do that little 'loading' routine, or something similar. i've been thinking about doing this myself, collecting objects (such as a chaos emerald from sonic the hedgehog) and hanging onto them, although in the next LD i have i usually don't remember it. i'll let you know if i have any success.

**Puffin** · 12-06-2010 05:10 PM

Yeah, I believe it's called serial dreaming. I had a set of three dreams that continued a story almost perfectly, and at the end of the third dream, the story concluded. It's definitely possible in a lucid dream if you have good control, and probably easier to induce than in a regular dream.