Thread: Tips & tricks for new dreamers!

Hey there,

Great idea! Some extra tricks I use:

a) Find something of value in your dreams each night. I keep two dream journals. One to write down all dreams and practice recall, and one just for 'fun' dreams. Each morning, I grab one or two dreams and write them down in greater detail. They can be lucid dreams, or just very intense dreams. Maybe the dream made me laugh, or was quite an adventure. This helps keeps me grounded in dreaming, and not become too focused on 'lucid dreaming' only.

b) Analyse dreams for various elements. Don't just ask yourself 'was this a lucid dream or not?', but look for other things too. Was it a vivid dream? Did dream signs appear? Was there some sort of dream control? Was there some of your dream goal in the dream? Were there recurring elements? Was it a particularly fun or emotional dream? Becoming familiar with your dreams is, I believe, an important step on the path to an overal higher dream awareness.

c) Use the day to teach yourself to slow down. I use a form of intention training for reality checks, not based on time, but on events. And the harder the event, the better it is for a reality check. For instance, it's easy to tell myself to do a reality check when I'm walking home or when I'm in the shower, because I'll be thinking about dreams at the time anyways. It's quite another to remember to do a reality check when I'm in the middle of a work meeting, or engrossed in a really good movie or game. So each day, I try to identify a mix of activities, some easy, some hard, and tell myself the intention to do reality checks when these activities occur, to train myself to be able to break the flow even during moments of high distraction.

-Redrivertears-