Thread: Is it really that importante!?

It's pretty important, but it can be done without.

oh really carmine. how many lucids have you had now?

Get on IRC fgt

*blinks*

Wut.

I don't keep a journal and still experience some lucid dreams. It can be done.

I have had lucids while not keeping a journal, but I certainly have had more while keeping a journal. The key elements for me to increase LDs are dream recall, reality checks, and adequate sleep. I really don't think that the actual actions of keeping a dream journal and doing reality checks are factors in and of themselves, but they keep dreaming at the forefront of my waking and sleeping mind. Without them, the idea of lucid dreaming would get run out by the business of life.

With limited time, you might want to try something like this:

-Use a notebook next to bed to journal key elements from dreams (just notes and phrases).

-Draw a "D" or some other meaningful letter or symbol on you hand. Every time you see it or somebody notices it, do a reality check. I currently have a "T" on my hand to remind me to do reality checks when I come in contact with any transportation (a dreamsign). I also do a reality check any time I re-notice the "T" or when somebody else notices it.

This is the time crunch plan that I have had success with. In all, the journal and reality checks take no more that 10 minutes of the day, but you will still have lucid dreaming on your mind throughout the rest.

Anyway, just me 2 cents. Good luck.

Originally Posted by JustinS

The key elements for me to increase LDs are dream recall, reality checks, and adequate sleep. I really don't think that the actual actions of keeping a dream journal and doing reality checks are factors in and of themselves, but they keep dreaming at the forefront of my waking and sleeping mind. Without them, the idea of lucid dreaming would get run out by the business of life.

With alot of emphasis on keeping dreaming at the forefront of your mind. That's a pretty damned good way of explaining it while keeping it simple, which is what you want to do anyways.

Think of it like keeping your toe in a doorway that normally automatically shuts itself when you wake up. What is inside the doorway are the memories of your dreams, and you want to keep them sort of refreshed in your head all day by letting them kind of stream out of the crack in that door.

Metaphorical I know, but it's another angle. I am personally too lazy to keep a dream journal as of late, but by constantly taking the time to think about my dreams when I wake up, and letting those memories float through my head throughout the day I keep up a "shortform" of recall and it still keeps that awareness rolling. Like above though, the more attention you place on your dreams the more you'll take control etc.