Thread: Doom?

I don't think I can reduce my computer time. And I usually sleep from 2 AM to 12 PM, just lately its been hard.

I think you just have to intregrate awareness excericeses and other LD stuff with you using the comp. And I mean if you get up to ten hours of sleep daily there souldn't really be a problem. You just have to dedicate yourself and don't get discouraged if your results have been worse latly, dryspells and stuff happens to everyone. Just remind yourself why you are doing this in the first place.

K, gonna try hard tomorrow to get stuff done.

Originally Posted by Kraftwerk

W-wh-what? I don't get this... I have INTENSELY vivid dreams almost every night, and I'm on the Computer a heck of a lot.

This!

I'm on a computer pretty much my whole day. From wake up, to work, to home... I'm on a computer. Doesn't affect me at all.

But... what about when you are falling asleep? Is there something constantly on your mind? I find that it affects my ability to dream at all if I'm thinking random thoughts while falling asleep. Especially if I'm worried about something.

Or... how about a mantra. Just tell yourself as you are falling asleep that you'll have a dream tonight. Not a lucid dream. Just... a dream in general.

My own experience again... but whenever I'm having issues with recall, I always know in the morning whether I've forgotten a dream, or whether I had a random-thought dream. I don't know if anyone else gets this, but once I get a few mornings of that nagging feeling that I've HAD dreams, but I can't recall them, I bump up the mantra.

"I will remember my dreams."

I work on recall for about a week. Once that's back in working order, I bump up the mantra again.

Mostly, at this point, I work on a visualization I want. Lately, it's tied to the task of the month, because I want to complete one, damn it! Using that visualization, I imagine myself becoming lucid, and panning it out from there.

I totally stole this from Naiya, but only because it works <3 She is my DILD guru

I really need vividness. That is one of my major problems. I think meditation before bed would help that. I will try it for a while.

Perhaps you just don't recall your dreams as well as you might and therefore they seem to be lacking in vividness?

I find boosting your recall helps me with vividness, but this is because I think almost all dreams are as vivid as waking life but we just don't remeber them that well. It is like childhood memories, you have a basic understandig of them and you remeber events and smells and stuff, yet they are somewhat vague cause they occured so long ago and the experience has fadded. Dreams are just harder to remeber for some reason than your waking life and therefore they seem less vivid.

Meditation could help with recall I guess but I lack experience of meditation so I don't really know.