Everyone Read: Forming a Dreamer Profile
I want as many people to see this as possible, I may even post this at ld4all. I want to try to form a profile of people who can lucid dream very well. Like maybe they are doing something that they didn't realize had any connection to their dreams. Let's start with some basic information. I'll fill it out with my info and you can copy the form and replace it with your own. If something is to personal or you dont want others to know, you are not obligated to answer everything. This is just out of curiosity is not in anyway scientific. My hypothesis is that diet or exericse may effect it as well as types of interests such as people who are more math oriented versus creative people like artists and writers. I really hope to examine the profiles of those who are veterans to lucid dreaming. Hopefully we can all learn something and try different things.
To clear some things up. For "Average Dream Time" put the time that it feels like you spent in your dream. Obviously it isn't going to be the same as real time, but you can tell when it "feels like" you've spent 10 seconds or 10 minutes in a dream. Also, even if you are still a beginner, I still value your input. Finding connections between beginners and moderate dreamers is just as important as the experts.
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Race: White (American)
Political Standpoint: Moderate Conservative
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual/Straight
Average Sleep Time: 8-10 hours during the night
Sleeping Disorders: Depression used to cause me to sleep 16 hours
Medication/Vitamins: 150mg Welbutrin Daily
Mathmatical Ability: Very good at math and computers
Creativity: Horrible artist and I don't play any instraments or do any writing
Mental Activity Level: Still in school and do programming
Physical Activity Level: Almost never exercise
Spoken Languages: English, but I am enrolled in a Spanish class in high school
Stress Level: Fairly low
Friendships: small number of friends whom I am close too
Time spent socializing: maybe a couple hours over the course of a day
Normal Dream Recall: Once every week or two
Lucid Dream Recall: every couple of months
Average Dream Time: Between my short and long ones, maybe 2-3 minutes overall
Diet: pretty bad, lot of fast food and soda
Prefered Genre of Music: Rock
Time Spent Listening to Music: a couple hours daily
Wierd Habbits: Not really. Examples of this would be biting your nails or popping your fingers. I do that stuff, but not often enough to call it a habbit.
Primary reason for LDing: Mostly fun but maybe to see if my subconscience can solve my waking life problems
Favorite Color: Blue
Normal Mood: Content. Not really happy or sad, kind of middle of the road.
Mood of Others Around you: family is angry more often and friends are more social
Caffeine Intake: I drink a lot of soda
Rank: Beginner (rank your self on dream control, recall, and vividness)
Other: feel free to add any other categories I missed.
Re: Everyone Read: Forming a Dreamer Profile
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Race: White (British)
Political Standpoint: Just generally very idealistic
Sexual Orientation: I don't know yet
Average Sleep Time: 8-10 hours night time (occasionally 1-2 hours daytime nap)
Sleeping Disorders: None.
Medication/Vitamins: None.
Mathmatical Ability: Very poor mental arithmetic. Otherwise slow but competent. Managed half an A-level in the subject.
Creativity: Main hobby is daydreaming, the purpose of which is to inspire some creative writing or drawing. Written several novels in varying stages of completion. Have tried my hand at many instruments, mainly violin.
Mental Activity Level: Doing Biology at university - 5 hours per day tops, 1 hour min for weekday.
Physical Activity Level: None whatsoever.
Spoken Languages: English. Have briefly and ineffectually studied French, German and Mandarin Chinese.
Stress Level: Moderate. Can be very high.
Friendships: A few general friendships with workmates. Otherwise none. In the past I have often had just one close friend.
Time spent socializing: Rarely any more than an hour a day.
Normal Dream Recall: Nightly, provided I want to. I can usually recall 2 to 5 dreams pretty accurately.
Lucid Dream Recall: One vaguely lucid dream every two weeks or so, I guess. The more lucid I am, the better my recall, so I always remember lucids.
Average Dream Time: 5 to 20 minutes in dream time.
Diet: Poor. Mealtimes irregular (even lacking altogether) and not enough fruit and veg. Bit of Liquorice Allsorts addiction at present, too.
Prefered Genre of Music: Everything from Enya to Muse and back again, provided it's tuneful. So I hate rap and most modern pop stuff.
Time Spent Listening to Music: Er... lots. 4 hours a day average.
Wierd Habbits: None, besides continual daydreaming, perhaps.
Primary reason for LDing: I'm sort of a natural (or was, anyway). I rely on dreams for inspiration and I use LDing to develop particularly interesting dreams.
Favorite Color: Amethyst
Normal Mood: Not the world's happiest person. Surly and lonely, but then my friends say I'm lively and witty. Go figure.
Mood of Others Around you: Hmm... At 9:15 on a morning, somewhat lethargic and hung-over.
Caffeine Intake: None.
Rank: Then: Lucid Knight or thereabouts. Now: Student (back to basics - sigh)