New Lucid Dreamer Adoption

I stumbled over an old post from an "Adoption Program" forum and thought that it was a pretty cool idea.

Unfortunately it seems that the forum is no longer in activity. It appears as if quite a few new people have joined in the short time since I have been a member of DV and I thought it might be a good experience for newer Lucid Dreamers to have someone to go to 1 on 1 for advice and what have you. Obviously it depends on if experienced Lucid Dreamers are willing to take on a role of mentor for a newer person.

Yes there are the DV academy courses which have been a fantastic resource for knowledge and encouragement for myself and many others, but maybe it would be fun to have a more personal 1 on 1 experience with someone willing to teach.

Personally, I have a pretty high motivation but I have a problem with wanting to "try one of every flavor" which results in inconsistency. Lucid dreaming is a personal experience to the point where almost everyone has a slightly different opinion on what approach to take with different techniques, etc.. which often causes me to switch things up frequently. It would be nice to have a single person to go to with questions and concerns to receive consistent advice.

It could also be a fun experience for the person in the mentor role as well, I often find that when I teach someone a certain topic it helps me understand it more on a different level. I'm sure there are some experienced LDers out there who could take some satisfaction from personally helping someone become a solid Lucid Dreamer - not to mention bragging rights if they turn out to be quite good at it ;)

Anyway just an idea I had, if there are any New/Experienced LDers interested please post and leave a few words explaining what you are looking for.

I can start: I would like to find someone that could help me focus the large amount of information I have learned into a structured plan that I can stick with in order to stay consistent.

I've always thought the adoption/mentorship was an awesome idea. A short while ago, I took up a couple of lucid apprentices but they sorta disappeared from the forum. D:

Its something that I wouldn't mind doing again, although I don't have quite as much free time as I used to, I would still give it a try. Besides, I'm almost always on the DV Chat if I'm off work :P

It's totally cool to help someone one-on-one or unofficially adopt someone if you wish. This is part of why we put so much emphasis on the DreamViews Academy. The DVA really does allow you to ferret out one method and get one-on-one feedback through your workbook and the chats. We've tried to make the DVA smooth and easy to fit into for this reason.

Additionally once people get comfortable with lucid dreaming there is now an upper-level course which is very much one-on-one.

If anyone around here would like to instruct PennyRoyal directly, please do, but I would suggest only accepting advice from experienced lucid dreamers with multiple LDs under their belt.


As for the old Adoption Program, I believe it was disbanded due to abuse. We try to remove the element of chaos but somehow it still pops up every now and then. ;)

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Originally Posted by melanieb

I would suggest only accepting advice from experienced lucid dreamers with multiple LDs under their belt.

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Hmm, why? I just gave advice to someone on WILD. While I used to DILD many times years ago, but this time I only have been successful once and it was with WILD. Now I made sure to mention that I only have had one successful WILD thus far, but that's one more than the person I was giving advice to. So are you saying they should not listen to me? Of course, if someone more experienced comes along and gives them better advice, I agree they should listen to that more experienced LDer more, but I think my advice on WILD is valid. Also I have read a lot: while advice based on things one has read as opposed to on personal experience is different, and ideally should be denoted as such, but it can still be very valuable advice if I have learned something that someone else has not yet.

JoannaB, you seem to give good advice from what I have seen, but I think the idea is that it would not be a good idea for a novice to officially mentor someone when you barely have had any experience yourself. I think that is a good rule of thumb for any area of expertise. Giving advice is fine, I would think, especially since you made your experience level clear to them.

That I can wholeheartedly agree with. I am definitely not planning to mentor anyone. :)