Great job on the lucids! :D
Lmao @ the nude satanic performance!! That IS very odd. :lol:
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Great job on the lucids! :D
Lmao @ the nude satanic performance!! That IS very odd. :lol:
That's really cool. I've been hearing more and more about this strong imagery at bedtime. When my head hits the pillow at the end of the evening, I'm asleep literally within seconds. I have probably never experienced any form of HI when first falling asleep for the night.
I know that Xanous has mentioned that this happens to him, and here is TruMotion describing something similar: http://www.dreamviews.com/f151/trumo...8/#post1945860. I'm very curious to find out what you guys learn to do with this.
Also, it sounds like you are getting lucid with very little sleep. I must say, this is kinda inspiring. I have a shot at LDs if I can get more than eight hours, but really bad odds of lucidity if I get less than seven. Is there a secret to succeeding on the parent schedule? :)
I don't know about succeeding on the parent schedule...it feels more like existing some days, particularly this one.
I go to bed late. I wake up early. Most days like today I wake up and when the kids leave for school I go back to bed. That's when I most often become lucid but I doubt it's just the schedule alone. My dreams have been my domain since I was young without any guiding factor. I think I just pay better attention these days.
I know I'm good with awareness and that helps.
I know I'm often very tired with an erratic sleep schedule and that helps.
I have good recall and that helps.
The thing is...I didn't become this way with the effort to lucid dream. My mind has always just been the way it is. My sleep schedule likely only helps the effort and even that is a product of enjoying my adult-time after the kids go to bed but being responsible enough to sacrifice my own rest for their needs. It's not a purposeful effort to achieve better dreams. It's just how my life is right now.
Still, on the days I do get plenty of rest (as in the summer during school vacation) I think varying the sleep schedule does help produce quality lucids. On the days when sleep is a luxury easy to indulge in I find it's good to sacrifice a day or two. The payoff is a better chance at a lucid dream and a greater likelihood of a lengthy LD.
Thanks, great food for thought. Whenever my sleep schedule goes through these inevitable shake-ups, I tend to view it as a bad thing. You would not believe how sorry for myself I feel when I go for days seemingly unable to get the 8 hours of sleep I'm always trying to get my hands on. :D
In other words, when I get 8+ hours and become lucid, I give the credit to the 8+ hours. I don't think to credit any REM rebound I might be getting because of the previous X number of nights when I didn't get such great sleep.
Keeping this in mind will probably help me feel less agitated on those late, late nights when I know there's 0% chance of decent sleep. :)
This happens to me a lot, especially if I'm just exhausted or if I've been drinking or smoking when I go to bed. I've noticed that I can actually dream for a few seconds without falling asleep with it if I don't stay focused enough and something wakes me up. Not long ago while lying in bed I suddenly found myself standing in a void holding my cell phone, and this neon text started floating in waves through the air until it started crawling up the side of my phone's screen and positioned itself neatly in place for a text message. I snapped out of it because I was laughing too hard. Good stuff. :D I tend to wake up from something much more than I actually slip into the dreams.
Yes, I remember this thread. :rolleyes:
Alright so here's the latest...
I recently found a box of pictures in my mom's storage unti that I thought were gone forever. The box contains pictures I took between age 9 and 20 or so. I found pictures of Yosemite, Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens, random pics of California and Texas, and so many family pictures that I'm glad are not lost.
But that's not all...
As I was going through the pictures I saw scenes of places I've been that have shown up in my dreams. When I had the dreams I merely assumed the images were a mix of various places I've been with a slight twist added but it turns out most of the images were fairly true to the places I had been and forgotten. It was an inspiring feeling to know the images are still in my mind and made enough of an impression to enter my dreams 25 years later.
Not long ago I had a really sweet lucid dream that I did not do justice in my dream journal. It had a great level of control that I only glossed over in my DJ entry. The experience was nice but what was really pleasing was the complex level of detail as though I was experiencing the abilities in real-time. I honestly can't do it justice.
I'm hoping the pictures and other stuff I found will enter my future dreams and inspire more LDs.
Oh wow that's really cool. I have "places" that I seem to visit over and over in my dreams. That makes me wonder. hhhmmm.
Ohh wow that's pretty cool! I'm gonna go and look in the attic now, maybe I'll find some stuff too.. Hahaha
Great stuff, melanieb. It's wonderful that you were able to get reconnected with these memories.
There's something comforting about the idea that we don't just leave these old parts of ourselves behind. Instead, they just become building blocks for tomorrow's dreams. A nice thought for all of us who are actually taking the time to pay attention to our dreams. :)
I'm still reconnecting with old memories. Places are still showing up from long ago.
Last night I had a couple of lucid moments in different dreams. In the first one I was asked by a concierge at the Luxor hotel in Las Vegas to write something nice in a guest survey book but I was mad at him for being smug about possessing some of my things. I tried to think of something along the lines of how cheap I thought the place was but instead I wrote, "Thank you for the oxygen." It was really difficult to write oxygen but I managed it.
I only wish it had been the TOTM.
In my last dream of the night I became lucid when, as Elijah Wood, I was peeing in a bathroom and it wouldn't give me any relief. I realized it was because I needed to pee in real life and that it would never stop as long as my bladder was full. I woke myself from that dream because I didn't want to keep peeing but it was fun to pee on the toilet motors.
:O
Yeah...toilet motors. They needed degreasing. I peed on them.
*sigh*
You will probably be astonished to know that your post gave me comfort.
I have long feared that if I imagine I'm going to the bathroom in a dream, life will imitate art, and I will have a great deal of unpleasant explaining to do to my wife when I wake up. :panic:
Knowing that one can simply turn into Elijah Wood and pee forever without consequence is something of a load off of my mind. :D
Awesome dream Melanieb!
I have peeing dreams all the time. Its that same thing where I pee but there is no relief. Sometimes it even feels good like I am really peeing but when Im done its like I never peed. yeah, interesting... :P
So, ne peeing dreams lately but last night I became lucid after a woman tried to steal my Tom Robbins novel (account in my DJ) and I not only saw the book she was taking very clearly but I easily listed several of his other titles. The act of being that coherent brought me to lucidity and I was surprised I could manage to be that clear in a dream.
It was neat.
I'm still dreaming about DreamViews members. Last night it was OpheliaBlue. I had one the other day with several DV members in it but I forgot the details.
AH well, on to more dreaming! :)
My recall has been rather up and down lately. Unlike last year when I would go back to sleep after my daughter went to school, this year I stay awake and lose out on that last REM period where I always got my most vivid dreams.
I tried hard this morning to hold on to my dream but my daughter being ill quickly put that out of my mind. I know this will become easier when my sleep schedule is more compatible with their schooling.
For now...I'm still trying. At least I had some brief lucidity yesterday. Wrote about the lucid somersault in my DJ.
Pleasant dreams everyone!
So I was looking forward to some good sleep last night. You know, the weekend, no alarm needed in the morning, all good things.
Unfortunately, right when I should have been having epic-dreaming time, considering how much I've been deproved of sleep lately, I was awakened by my friend calling me to get my son up to the meeting place for a Scout adventure. I hadn't planned on being awake but I had to jump up and get us dressed, fed and on the move very quickly.
This meant I lost any dream I may have been having when I woke up. :(
I did recall some of an earlier dream and I put it in my DJ. I had other dreams that I was able to recall when I woke up at 5:30AM but when the phone rang I even forgot about those dreams.
Ah well, tonight is another night. :)
So last night I had a little more sleep, and I was fairly close to lucidity, but it didn't really happen. Honestly I found myself lucky to have decent recall and I even forgot some of that. I still had enough for 2 DJ entries and that at least makes me happy.
I think all the stress I've had the last couple months has really shows itself in my dreaming lately. I'm trying to get so much off my mind so I can enjoy sleep and dreams. Sleep is such a killer of imagination.
I am going to make some more attempts at the TOTM.
Basic Task i - Pull a prank on a Dream Character.
Basic Task ii - Taste the first object you find in the dream and describe its flavor.
Advanced Task i - Find a lump of coal, and crush it into a diamond with your hands.
Advanced Task ii - Draw what happens next in the dream...in the dream.
I've actually been trying to think about the lump of coal task each night. I think the more I keep this in mind the likelier it is that a good LD will happen soon.
Ya know, it might sound strange, but stretching before bed helps a lot with sleep. Releasing the muscle tension before sleep would probably do a lot to get the mind in that silent state.
And of course, I would recommend any kind of mindfulness, meditation, or yoga; even five minutes of focused relaxation helps.
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I appreciate the advice, and I know it well. I stretch all the time, especially when I sleep in a bad position and end up with crazy headaches. Don't worry, my mental stress is just a normal part of being a busy parent. My stresses are reduced now. :)
SO, an update:
I recently had a couple of nifty lucids that had unexpected content. In one I was singing and that triggered lucidity, an unusual thing for me to do in a public place. But even better was my control and influence over at least a dozen people at once.
I've been working for a while on the DreamWorld Academy, the lucid dreaming castles built entirely in the world of dreams. What I mean is that I've been working on getting that section of the forum back up and running. Well, I spent enough time reading and thinking about it that last night I had a castle dream that fits in. I was pretty pleased, even if it wasn't really lucid. I will add it today to the visits thread.
I haven't written my dreams in a few days but I have been keeping some in my mind. I'm going to go write them down. :)
So I continue to dream about my former employer...the most major recurring dream sign I have, and yet it fails half the time to trigger lucidity.
The other night I had a lengthy dream about a former coworker that I loathed, and in the dream I recalled a lot of things about how I used to work with her, while I was working with her in the dream, and I knew I must be dreaming yet the knowledge only made me comfortable in continuing to work with her because it was a dream and would end soon.
I need to work on that.
I did make a very good WILD attempt the other night, and while I came very close I was more concerned about getting sleep and eventually allowed rest to become my priority. Honestly I WILD better in the living room than in bed but I wanted to try anyway. I knew I had a good shot at it considering how tired I was and how well the white-noise of the air conditioner was drowning out other noises and thoughts.
Still...despite having really good conditions...I didn't get there and gave up, in all likelihood too soon. I knew I had to get up early to get the kiddos to school so I consoled myself that I would at least be rested.
But tomorrow night....I think I'll try again. I believe the A/C really will help me. The cold snuggle in the bed and the white noise seems to be a perfect combination.
More soon!