Hey everybody! I'm snaysler, and I don't post very often on here but I had one thing I wanted to talk about. Now I know most of you have experienced a lucid dream, many of you on a regular basis. But I wonder...what do you use your lucid-time to do? Just float around admiring the vivid detail of the environment? Fulfill your sexual fantasy? Fly in the sky? These things are all pretty neat. In the lucid dream state, we are all like wizards, aren't we? But unfortunately we don't have our Grimoire, our book of magic. We have all this potential, but nobody really knows what kinds of things we are capable of doing in this state. We have to figure out all the tricks on our own and write our own book of what can be done.

I learn a new lesson every time a have a lucid dream. Months ago, I learned how to control the state and remain unemotional so as not to destroy the state. Weeks ago, I learned to face my fears and understand that I HAVE THE POWER in my dreams, so any threat should be humbled by and afraid of ME. Everyone learns how to fly pretty quickly, this is usually the first response to have a lucid dream for the first time. Fly into the sky going "weeeeeeee!" and then you wake up because you get too excited or whatnot. Last night I learned a new one (excerpt from my dream journal):

As I woke from my slumber, I remained still with my eyes closed, watching the surprisingly vivid hypnogogic imagery build up. Eventually, the hypnagogic imagery seemed to display some environment, some place. As it did so, I focused on this imagery and allowed it to fill in with greater and greater detail. Once it did so, I was not just seeing this environment, I was in it. No break in consciousness between being awake and entering this LD state. The dream was remarkably stable today. If I’m not mistaken, it lasted for at least 15 minutes, which is a very long time for any dream to last. Last time, I learned to face my fears. This time I learned a much neater ability; one that I’ve always failed to achieve in the past. Teleportation. I found that by quickly spinning around in place I would become disoriented from my surroundings, and then if during this process I was thinking intently about what the view would look like from somewhere else, the thought would become reality and there I was living in that viewpoint in my new destination. I tried this technique multiple times, but only locally. I would look over at a location not thirty feet away from me and would imagine a viewpoint from that location and spin there. It worked every time. I did notice, however, that the less focused I was on the image of what I thought the new perspective would look like, the more of a tendency there was for something to “change”. One instance of this was a car in the viewpoint that I didn’t give enough attention and after I spun closer its front and back wheels were suddenly really out of proportion.

Every time I LD I add a new bit of knowledge of what I can do in the LD state. I'm shaping a new personality and set of abilities for when I'm in a lucid dream. I'm creating my dream warrior!

If you don't already, remember to use your lucid time to learn new ways to use your lucid time.

Anybody else have any interesting things that we can add to the Grimoire of lucid dreaming?