Thread: Tell me what you would tell yourself if you had to start it all over!

Originally Posted by bemistaken

Brandon,

Let's also add (if not stated already) to PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THE NAME OF YOUR DREAM CHARACTERS!!! Last night I ask my DC what was his name. He stated, "My name is Brandon...Brandon Boss...and yours?" I thought he was trying to get smart with me by saying his last name was BOSS...WTF!!!!!

Good advice. Now that you mention it, my DCs who aren't "real people" tend to have weird borderline unpronounceable names.

What I would tell myself though is not to put so much stress on myself to reality check and such. It makes the whole process too much like work... I'm not saying there's anything wrong with those methods and I still do it from time to time, but when it start to feel like a chore something is probably wrong. I've had more success over the past month with putting my mind toward dreaming and lucidity as I fall back asleep during the night, than all the reality checking I did over the past few months. I naturally wake up a lot and I haven't been timing it or really trying to get my mind working but sometimes I will check my phone, email, message board replies, etc (edit to add: jot down my dreams or at least notes) and then go back to sleep and "try" to WILD which I'm really horrible at, but it has seemed to help my DILD. Best results have happened on my days off or when I go to bed early, after about 6-8 hours of sleep.

Also watch out for celebrities? Recently David Duchovny, Lamorne Morris, Neil Patrick Harris, Cobie Smulders, and Britney Spears have appeared in my dreams. I also remember seeing Reginald VelJohnson and one of the Olsen twins in dreams a long time ago. Funny how I never seem to grasp how odd that is until I wake up.