Has anyone else tried this?

[whoisjoss]

I've lucid dreamed about two or three times in my life, all coincidental and with no train, and I've recently become really eager to experience this again. I've been keeping a dream journal and realized - more so then before - my dreams are all very similar; I even have settings that I go to all the bloody time (like this one city that looks the same every time). I was wondering if perhaps drawing the scenes/people I meet and go to along with documenting the dream would further instigate a lucid dream. Many scenarios in my dreams are so consistent that it's making me really irate I won't just notice it I'm dreaming!! Does anyone have any ideas on this concept of drawing, or any other techniques to recognizing when you're dreaming if your dreams are all really similar?

[snakeops]

I've had one (very short) lucid dream in my life. This is how I became interested in the concept of it. Recently I've been keeping a dream journal, and I've been remembering my dreams in far much more detail than ever before. I like to draw what I see, it helps keep the thought fresh in my mind. I have yet to have another LD but I think drawing what you see will help you recall your dreams more often, even possibly helping you realize the dream state and become lucid. My best advice to you, if you do something in your waking life that is in your dreams constantly, do reality checks and ask yourself if you're dreaming. You're more likely to do this in your dream and become lucid.

[Alnitak]

I think drawing your dreams would definitely help out. Especially in recalling your dreams. The more details the better, and you could always look at your drawings at random times and tell yourself "when I see this place, I will know that I'm dreaming."

[Ezpata]

I certainly don't see how it would hurt. Good on you for coming up with an original idea!

[Raetin]

Those similarities are called dream signs and you could use those once you recognize them to belong lucid. Think that every time I see this city, I'll become lucid or something like that. Also drawing your dreams will help.

[lawilahd]

This type of thing is called a dream sign, like raetin mentioned. If you keep performing reality checks when you go to this area in real life, and then you visit it in a dream, it increases the chances of you becoming lucid when you revisit the area in your dream. Once i dreamt I was forced to drive my dads 18 wheeler truck and was on a bridge at nightime, driving it to seattle, even though I have no experience doing this whatsoever. In the dream I even suspected that I was dreaming and tried to RC and it worked but i still didn't become lucid which made me angry and happy at the same time when I awoke, but I told myself that next time something similar happened, I would become lucid. A couple weeks later I had a similar dream and this time I nose pinch RC'ed, it worked and I just jumped out of the moving truck and started running around cars on the highway.

[MrZhume]

I love drawing characters and places I see in a dream. I can't say that this has helped me lucid dream but it certainly helps me to visualise my dreams.

[Prancingwolf]

I do that from time to time. Just today I drew something I saw in a dream that I should have recognized while I was dreaming, but meh, whatever. It was a green congiac glass with a tealight candle inside and filled with water. The candle was buring too. It's good to draw.