Thread: CanisLucidus' Workbook

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Whatever it is you are doing to address this, it obviously works. You had about 50 million DEILDs on your September Task of the Month, all through a bunch of either frightening or emotional dream content. That's the level I want to get to.

Maybe I just don't fight hard enough. Eventually I just sort of found myself much more awake than asleep, as if the dream finally had enough of me and booted me out.

A lot of this must have to do with mindset. How do you get a handle on your excitement/emotions/fear/whatever so that you can let yourself just get sucked back in?

Oh geez. I am not sure am I qualified to answer that right now due to this infuriating dry spell. I have actually been struggling with this myself lately but it might actually do me good to think this over. So keeping a clear mind helps. I know that doing meditation during the day helps a lot. I have been having a hard time finding the time for this. Actually most of the time I take a few minutes at bed time to meditate. This is actually a great way to fall asleep so keep that in mind.

I usually am able to invoke the same calm feeling I get during meditation when I am lucid. When you are on the verge like that, you really have to detach your emotions and balance between not caring and wanting it. Then at some point you feel like you are stable or 'locked in' and it gets easier. I have to keep a check on it though or my emotions will get the best of me and I destabilize. But then again, you have to have some level of excitement or you fall non lucid. So basically its a balancing act.

Edit: Epiphany!