Originally posted by Xeroer


Anyways, I'm very eager to learn to become lucid, although I don't want to really do much of the reality checks, since when I dream, I don't think I would ever remember to do one.. I am completely powerless in dreams. I just wake up and remember doing it.

Some questions though.. How do you think my attempt was last night? Was it anything close? I really think its going to be a hard battle for me to attain lucidity.

Another thing I was wondering, about the whole shared dreaming thing, do the other people actually see what you do in a dream? I mean, I'm quite the sceptic, although I don't doubt anything I haven't tried. And I have heard it has been proven to be real by science, as a form of telepathy. I find it extremely interested.

Thanks for any comments/suggestions/answers.
Yea I’m not that keen on reality checks much either, the reason why is after analysing my dreams I notice I don't do any mundane tasks such as check the time or turn on the lights to rooms. For a while in real life I began to jump around everywhere and because to me it was fun, I began doing allot of it in dreams, this got me lucid sometimes and was the closest thing I was doing to a reality check. Maybe try doing something as your reality check with an emotion attached to it. It will probably make it much more significant to you than checking the time and in turn start turning up in your dreams.

I first started getting really interested in dreams about this time last year and have gone through dry patches where I have let my dreams go like any normal person would who had never heard of lucid dreaming. But with in that one year I have only had a handful of times where I have gone straight from waking state to dreaming, so when you say you lie down with your TV on timer I know that personally would not work for me. Are you limited in the time you have, as in do you have school or work commitments? I would stick to the WBTB technique, also I have recently found if I go to sleep at 1 AM get up at 7 AM, go to school, come back at 11 AM start to relax and meditate I then sometimes slip into dreams and awake a short time later still in a meditative state on my back, these could potentially turn into WILDS if I can start to recognize I’m dreaming. I also recommend you get some vitamin B6 you might of heard of it but it makes your dreams allot more clearer and detailed, you can get a container at any chemist in Australia for around $5.00, but stick with 100 mg - 150 mg a few times a week, taking it every night you will build up a tolerance and it will loose its effects.

About the whole shared dreaming thing, it's a bit of an iffy subject if you ask me, I think it would take enormous skill to do and I don't think that skill could come from practicing dream related exercises alone. Have you done much relaxation or meditation, if you have broadband try downloading the Gateway Series by the Monroe Institute, it gets you in some pretty relaxed states, if you don't have broadband I don't mind burning the first section of the Series (There are five in the series), but you would have to supply the blank CD and pay postage each way.

Good Luck