Quote Originally Posted by Jacob46719 View Post
so what are you proposing?
Well, I’m sure each dreamer has their own ways. The basic idea though is to take an active interest in your dreams, even the non-lucid ones.

As for myself, I take a fairly broad approach to dreaming. I figured the main reason I got into lucid dream was to have fun and have great dream experiences. So it didn’t make sense for me to only pay attention to lucid dreams, when there’s plenty of regular dreams that are quite fun and great to remember as well.

To that end, I keep two dream journals. One regular that I keep next to my bed to write down dreams during the night, and another digital one that I open in the morning during breakfast. In this last one, I tend to take one of two dreams each night that I remember fondly and write them down in greater detail. Obviously, lucid dreams are great contenders for this, but just as often this will be a regular dream that was particularly memorable, adventurous, intense, or emotional.

Additional, to keep track of my process, I developed my own ‘scoring system’ on two different scales. One of these scales is ‘dream awareness’, which corresponds more or less with what lucid dreaming (though takes less of an all-or-nothing approach). The other is ‘dream experience’. A particularly intense, fantastic, or vivid dream would score high on ‘dream experience’, whereas a dream in which I’m aware of dreaming, use dream control, and notice recurring elements would score high on ‘dream awareness’.

When looking at my progress, I value both scales. A night in which I have a high ‘dream awareness’ is valuable, but a night in which I have a high ‘dream experience’ is valuable to me as well. That way, I try to keep track of all aspects of my dreams. At the same time it feels to me that the more attention I pay to seperate elements, the more they grow, but as they grow they strengthen each other, creating an overall richer, more interesting, more memorable and more aware dream-life (with plenty of lucidity thrown in the mix).

But as I said, that’s just my approach

And sorry to derail the original question a little bit.

-Redrivertears-