Thread: How to make sense of a jumbled mess of dreams?

Originally Posted by sisyphus

I would suggest two things. First, before going to bed each night, settle on one specific lucid task. If you wake up at any time in the middle of the night, remind yourself of it then too. It could be very narrow (summon a sandwich and eat it) or open-ended (fly to the moon and explore). But it should be specific enough that you can recall it and act on it when you become lucid. You might not always remember it and, if you drift in and out of lucidity, you might forget and re-remember it many times, but it is best to have that anchor to bring your focus and attention back to. A stabilization routine is a good choice for the task, either to do alone, or as a precursor to another task.

Second, the fragmented dreamscenes may be a result of your sleep environment. Light, noise, or any other sensation can disrupt dreams subtly. Maybe not enough to wake you up, but enough to nudge the dream off in a different direction or to seemingly restart in a new scene. So consider if there is anything you can do to lessen external stimuli. For someone with a typical sleep schedule, these tend to happen toward the very end of sleep, near waking (sun rising, birds chirping, car traffic increasing, partner moving, etc).

I had thought that as well with the fragmented sleep causing rapidly cycling of dreamscenes. I am such a light sleeper that I will wake up multiple times, some I don't even know I am awake. This morning no lucidity but in the last hour of sleep, I had seriously like 14 different dreams. Of course when I awoke it was so jumbled. I have an issue where I will try to describe my dreams to people but find I can't. I can see images and know internally what the dream is about but if I try to explain it, it doesn't make any sense at all. I have three kids 4 and under so yes there are a lot of interruptions to my sleep that can't be controlled right now. lol Also I live in a place where there is DST and the sun now is coming up at 5am instead of 7 am so that is a huge difference, that I think is contributing.

Most times I fly when becoming lucid. That always seems to be more lucid go too. So I think I could benefit from very specific lucid anchors. Since this dry spell, I seem to focus more on being lucid than what I would do if I am lucid, so maybe setting the anchors would promote lucidity in general. Thanks!