You can lucid dream! Congratulations! But are you learning to be a "dream warrior"?

**snaysler** · 07-25-2013 03:55 PM

Hey everybody! I'm snaysler, and I don't post very often on here but I had one thing I wanted to talk about. Now I know most of you have experienced a lucid dream, many of you on a regular basis. But I wonder...what do you use your lucid-time to do? Just float around admiring the vivid detail of the environment? Fulfill your sexual fantasy? Fly in the sky? These things are all pretty neat. In the lucid dream state, we are all like wizards, aren't we? But unfortunately we don't have our Grimoire, our book of magic. We have all this potential, but nobody really knows what kinds of things we are capable of doing in this state. We have to figure out all the tricks on our own and write our own book of what can be done.

I learn a new lesson every time a have a lucid dream. Months ago, I learned how to control the state and remain unemotional so as not to destroy the state. Weeks ago, I learned to face my fears and understand that I HAVE THE POWER in my dreams, so any threat should be humbled by and afraid of ME. Everyone learns how to fly pretty quickly, this is usually the first response to have a lucid dream for the first time. Fly into the sky going "weeeeeeee!" and then you wake up because you get too excited or whatnot. Last night I learned a new one (excerpt from my dream journal):

As I woke from my slumber, I remained still with my eyes closed, watching the surprisingly vivid hypnogogic imagery build up. Eventually, the hypnagogic imagery seemed to display some environment, some place. As it did so, I focused on this imagery and allowed it to fill in with greater and greater detail. Once it did so, I was not just seeing this environment, I was in it. No break in consciousness between being awake and entering this LD state. The dream was remarkably stable today. If I’m not mistaken, it lasted for at least 15 minutes, which is a very long time for any dream to last. Last time, I learned to face my fears. This time I learned a much neater ability; one that I’ve always failed to achieve in the past. Teleportation. I found that by quickly spinning around in place I would become disoriented from my surroundings, and then if during this process I was thinking intently about what the view would look like from somewhere else, the thought would become reality and there I was living in that viewpoint in my new destination. I tried this technique multiple times, but only locally. I would look over at a location not thirty feet away from me and would imagine a viewpoint from that location and spin there. It worked every time. I did notice, however, that the less focused I was on the image of what I thought the new perspective would look like, the more of a tendency there was for something to “change”. One instance of this was a car in the viewpoint that I didn’t give enough attention and after I spun closer its front and back wheels were suddenly really out of proportion.

Every time I LD I add a new bit of knowledge of what I can do in the LD state. I'm shaping a new personality and set of abilities for when I'm in a lucid dream. I'm creating my dream warrior!

If you don't already, remember to use your lucid time to learn new ways to use your lucid time.

Anybody else have any interesting things that we can add to the Grimoire of lucid dreaming?

**splodeymissile** · 07-25-2013 11:06 PM

My last lucid dream (that lasted any decent length of time), consisted of me fighting toe-to-toe with a genie (Jafar, specifically), so I'm on my way to becoming a literal dream warrior.

**Shalashaska** · 07-26-2013 04:28 AM

I never even thought about keeping my eyes closed for good and staying focused as I awake from a LD. I usually just keep them closed long enough to think about everything I just did in the dream, and then write it down. Great advice man. I'll definitely try that next time. Also as to the Grimoire you're referring to, I'm gonna get me a new notebook tomorrow and start something like this of my own.

**snaysler** · 07-29-2013 01:59 AM

Originally Posted by Shalashaska

I never even thought about keeping my eyes closed for good and staying focused as I awake from a LD. I usually just keep them closed long enough to think about everything I just did in the dream, and then write it down. Great advice man. I'll definitely try that next time. Also as to the Grimoire you're referring to, I'm gonna get me a new notebook tomorrow and start something like this of my own.

Well that's great that you are starting your own grimoire my friend. But the problem is that unless you share what you have learned, the information is lost on your grave and doesn't benefit the growth and learning of mankind. What I propose is that we create a public, open grimoire of lucid dreaming. That is, a guide to what you can do in the lucid dream state, and what things you can use your lucid time to accomplish, and more importantly, how. I believe that we are capable of incredible feats in the lucid state, but that none of us really know it yet. Here and there, this secret becomes apparent to lucky individuals but unless we compile a compendium of lucid dreaming knowledge it will not benefit others. I will start a new thread in which others can share their two cents on the lucid state, and I will begin to analyze and compile contributions to create a lucid dreaming bible. Will you please contribute your findings? It's like a full scale social input experiment

**Shalashaska** · 07-29-2013 09:39 AM

Originally Posted by snaysler

Well that's great that you are starting your own grimoire my friend. But the problem is that unless you share what you have learned, the information is lost on your grave and doesn't benefit the growth and learning of mankind. What I propose is that we create a public, open grimoire of lucid dreaming. That is, a guide to what you can do in the lucid dream state, and what things you can use your lucid time to accomplish, and more importantly, how. I believe that we are capable of incredible feats in the lucid state, but that none of us really know it yet. Here and there, this secret becomes apparent to lucky individuals but unless we compile a compendium of lucid dreaming knowledge it will not benefit others. I will start a new thread in which others can share their two cents on the lucid state, and I will begin to analyze and compile contributions to create a lucid dreaming bible. Will you please contribute your findings? It's like a full scale social input experiment

Yeah sure I will contribute. Maybe one of us can get an Executive Account sometime and just have our own board for the Grimoire?