Well I joined Mancon's class and saw this one, thought I should try it too. Think I'll keep my focus on these two for now.
My goal is to become Lucid more often. With my next Lucid Dream I just want to fly. Once I am becoming Lucid more regularly and have become a proficient flier I want to work on having OBEs more often. You can travel between a Lucid flying dream and an OBE very easily, or so I have read. Ultimately I want to regularity be able to both become Lucid and have OBEs depending on whichever I choose. My long-term goal is to have developed enough dream control to find, enter and interact with the Academy, and to find, use and travel through one of the portals into another world in my OBE.
To start with I'm going to develop stronger awareness skills in waking life. I'm already a very observant person, I just need to train and strengthen this aspect of myself to aid me in recognizing when I am dreaming.
Lately I've just been too tired or something to wake myself up in my dreams. I know I have overcome my block (I had a four week Lucid Dream block) but for some reason I just have a tendency to not make any effort to become Lucid. It's almost as though I know I can become Lucid, that in some part of me I know I am dreaming, but the effort of making myself Lucid is too much for some reason. I can't really explain it, I hope I can get some help here.
Other than my natural awareness I have two other useful skills. I can put my body to sleep using twitches, leaving my mind awake - It's just ridiculously easy for me to do. I am also great and working with mental movies and mental imagery. If you were to tell me to close my eyes and describe the inside and outside of my house I could so so easily and with great detail.
I try to exercise 4 times a week, in the evening usually. I perform Qi Gong with Matthew Coehn's Fire and Water as well as ISO Abs with Scott Helvenston and something I call Bodyweight Set 1 based off Matt Furey's bodyweight exercises. I was using Scott Peterson's isometrics but have since stopped. I will be adding meditation to my list of daily activities and some Creative Visualization work.
I guess that about covers my details. The only other things is that I'm an extremely open-minded Christian and I'm writing a book on dreams I'm about halfway finished with. I should have it submitted by the middle of next month.
I also feel that any change I make should not be forced, it should be something that flows. I'm trying this new approach to working on myself and developing desired skills. An example is strengthening my awareness. That flows with my natural state, but RCing through the day would not flow, it would have to be forced. This concept is hard to explain, but I truly believe it is the best way to affect any desired change in yourself. Flowing takes more time, like water on stone, but the end result is smooth, natural, strong. Force implies resistance, like a chisel on stone. The end result is rougher, unnatural, and weaker.
So please post any suggestions or help you have for me to help me with my Lucid Dreaming problem. I will adopt those that flow and keep you informed of my progress. In the meantime I will start working on the lessons of this class.
Thanks!
DreamBliss
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