The coolest things about dreaming/LD'ing?

I recently talked to a friend of mine about lucid dreaming and I got very excited telling about the experiences I've had in the past. Excited to the point that I'm gonna try and put up some effort towards it again. Guess I'll start getting my sleep schedule in order and place my dream journal next to my bed again.

In the spirit of my recent burst of excitement about LD'ing, I wanted to gather a list of all the coolest things about lucid dreaming you guys can think of!

Oh and anyone got an idea for how to remember dreams better when you wake up to an alarm in the morning?

Best thing about LDing for me is freedom. I don't have to do exactly what dreams tell me to (no matter how much free choice I have in a dream, it is still chains).

Don't wake up to an alarm. :P wake up with intent. It is much better. The best way to remember a dream is to wake up from it. If you wake up to an alarm, you lose the first few seconds that you could be trying to remember the dream, which could be vital. I wake up 4+ times a night with no alarm.

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Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

Don't wake up to an alarm. :P wake up with intent. It is much better. The best way to remember a dream is to wake up from it. If you wake up to an alarm, you lose the first few seconds that you could be trying to remember the dream, which could be vital. I wake up 4+ times a night with no alarm.

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Thanks for the input! Though I already considered this and I'll probably shoot for it in the future since it's pretty much ideal. But I see two problems with it right now.
1) I can't trust it since I haven't practiced it and I my absence in school is already too high
2) I wanna take baby steps this time, cause last time I burned out

Maybe it'll be the next step after sleep schedule and DJ'ing becomes routine :-)

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Originally Posted by Bansheet

Thanks for the input! Though I already considered this and I'll probably shoot for it in the future since it's pretty much ideal. But I see two problems with it right now.
1) I can't trust it since I haven't practiced it and I my absence in school is already too high
2) I wanna take baby steps this time, cause last time I burned out

Maybe it'll be the next step after sleep schedule and DJ'ing becomes routine :-)

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I think you misunderstood: waking up from intent does not mean you can't set an alarm, it's just that you make sure to wake up before the alarm goes off. I have an alarm set for 6:30 am just in case, but I am almost always awake by then already.

I have an alarm set as well. it is a fallback. 5 minutes after my last awakening.

My favorite recall nights are ones when I wake up intensionally after every sleep cycle, so every 1.5 or 2hrs, and I recall, write dream, go to sleep again. Of course for that I need to have strong intent and be well rested, but when I do, it's awesome for dream recall.

Actually, even when I am not in top form, intending to wake up for recall does help. I remember when I first came to DV, I had not had almost any dream recall at all for a long time, and then with wake up with intent weirdly enough the first dreams to remember were not my morning dreams but my late night dreams. I would not wake up after every sleep cycle then, just after the first one, and those were short dreams, but kind of cool, made me think of the dream equivalent of haiku: short poetry but intreguing. Actually I am right now in a week long dry spell, so tonight I will go to bed intending to remember my first dream of the night. We will see how that goes.

On the OP question...

• You are able to experience more during your lifetime by having significant experiences while normally "just sleeping"
• You can do virtually anything you want
• Some liken it to being a super hero, playing God/being omnipotent
• You can have mind blowing experiences
• I recently flew up above the earth and looked back at it and it was a truly wonderful, tear-jerker experience (a recent goal of mine...other goals below)
• Plan to travel to different places in the world including top of the Eiffel Tower
• Plan to travel to my minds version of back in time...all different eras...roaring 20's would be neat, Native Americans back in the days of plentiful buffalo, etc
• Plan to freeze dream characters in time with a magic pocket watch like on an old twilight zone episode from 1963 (watched as a re-run)
• Plan to travel to my minds vision of the future
• Do some advanced mental workouts
• Come up with ideas for an invention
• Work on my creative side
• And more carnal desires

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