Hey, dreamers.

So, today, my mind came up with what I think is a great way to become lucid a lot more often. While walking home from school, I was thinking about all of the crazy things that I have written in my Dream Journal and how it's crazy that I've only been lucid 5 times. Then, out of nowhere, the technique occurred to me:

Dream Journal (DJ) Mindset

Most people go through this cycle when they experience non-lucid dreams:
1. Dream
2. Awake
3. Jot down what happened in dream(s) in Dream Journal

If you Dream Journal often, you too have probably asked yourself once in a while something like,"How on Earth did I not become lucid in that situation?!" So, if you have the mental capability to see how preposterous your situation was and realize that that predicament would only happen in a dream, exactly why is it that you are only able to realize how ridiculous it was only after you are no longer in the situation and while you are Dream Journal-ing after the fact? I'm glad you asked!

Earlier this year, while I was taking my Tuesday 10:00 AM Painting class, I was painting apples. For the apples, I used red, orange, and yellow paint. After the painting class was over, I went about my life like normal. I arrived home at around 7:00 PM like usual. While I was going through my normal routine of washing my hands...it happened. That terrible realization happened. I looked in the bathroom mirror in front of me and saw that I had red, orange, and yellow paint on my goatee for the ENTIRE DAY since 10:00 AM. I had paint on my facial hair for NINE WHOLE HOURS and had NO IDEA the ENTIRE TIME!!!

Imagine as though us living in our dreams is like us living in Waking Life and that us Dream Journal-ing is like us holding a mirror in front of ourselves. We can all go an entire day with paint on our faces. But, it is only until we look at our reflection that we can realize how ridiculous we look. The reason that we never realize how crazy our Dream-situation is only until we start Dream Journal-ing it is because when we are Dream Journal-ing, we are no longer in that situation, but looking at it from the outside. Our Dream Journals act as mirrors. Which brings me to the technique that I came up with:

Dream Journal (DJ) Mindset

The Dream Journal Mindset is basically what it's name implies. You have the mindset of Dream Journal-ing what's happening to you or what you are observing right now as if you are actually writing it in your Dream Journal. Imagine that you are going to wake up in the next ten seconds and write down the dream that you are in right now. What would you write in your Dream Journal? Whatever you would write is what you should be mentally Dream-Journal-ing to yourself right now. Don't wait until you wake up to write in your Dream Journal and realize that this was a dream. Hold up the mirror to your face NOW and start Dream Journal-ing NOW so that you can realize if this is a dream or not. At any moment, you can wake up and before you know it, you'll be recording what's been happening to you in your Dream Journal. You want to record your lucid dreams in your Dream Journal, anyway, right? So, Dream Journal it NOW!


If anyone (especially the pro Lucid Dreamers) has any questions, comments, or suggestion pertaining to this mindset, I'm more than open to them.