Thread: Booney's Workbook

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

Booney! Welcome back, I have missed you

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Hey, welcome back, Booney! Good to see you around these parts again.

Hi guys, it's nice to be back. The community here always welcomes you with a feeling like I've never been gone.

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

You can practice more awareness by delving into your reality checks and reality check on yourself reality checking (haha). Know your mantras by heart, don't slack off on journaling too! The journaling is probably as much help as practicing awareness itself, in this situation. Personally i think it's because your dj is how you get to familiarize yourself with how your dream world works, and once you really read your journal and understand how things happen in your dreams, you are at a better mindset to be lucid and react accordingly.

Hope this helps! See you around

I think this is the main issue I had in the last few dreams. The loss of familiarity I had with my dreams, so restarting my journal is the best step to start with. Tricky how such basic tools for lucid dreaming are forgotten, thanks for reminding me!

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

What an excellent question. *My best guess on this is that like most things that happen in dreams, it's a product of some fear of expectation that you have. Perhaps in some earlier dream you had the sense that dreams were an alien environment and that you were somehow unwelcome.

This may have led to an attack, which of course feeds into ideas you've picked up from reading about other peoples' experiences. Combine that with any self-doubt about whether your conscious mind is welcome in your dreamworld, and I think that you have the recipe for a situation like this.

My advice would be to remain almost in denial of what's happening. Your dreams are your domain, and these attackers don't have an ounce of strength that they don't borrow from you. If you ignore them or channel their energy in some other direction, they'll have nothing. As they approach, try to imagine them just passing right by you. **Imagine that they know what you know -- that this is your world, and only your rules apply.

*** Hey man, would you mind if we pulled this question in for an episode of the Q&A podcast? I'd dig hearing all the hosts' thoughts on something like this.

Anyway, hope to see you around!

* I agree, the sudden realization made me grasp into my most recent memories about the subject which were other experiences of fellow beginner.
And about sense of being in an alien/unwelcome enivironment. This made me think about another thing.
These dreams in which I get attacked all have the same point of view, which is through the eyes of someone else, or sometimes it feels like I'm a bystander in the whole of the dream. So a big part of the focus from the DCs to the dreamer could be explained with the dreamers sudden self awareness.
I guess it's like when you feel uncomfertable on the beach when you're changing clothes, the self awareness and the feeling that everyone is looking at you. In a dream that feeling will become your reality.

** Another way to deal with it could be to ignore them all together. Accept their presence and don't think nothing of it. Just like beach example.

*** Go right ahead, I'd love to hear what others have to say about this. Be sure to let me know when it's up

Originally Posted by Booney

* I agree, the sudden realization made me grasp into my most recent memories about the subject which were other experiences of fellow beginner.
And about sense of being in an alien/unwelcome enivironment. This made me think about another thing.
These dreams in which I get attacked all have the same point of view, which is through the eyes of someone else, or sometimes it feels like I'm a bystander in the whole of the dream. So a big part of the focus from the DCs to the dreamer could be explained with the dreamers sudden self awareness.
I guess it's like when you feel uncomfertable on the beach when you're changing clothes, the self awareness and the feeling that everyone is looking at you. In a dream that feeling will become your reality.

** Another way to deal with it could be to ignore them all together. Accept their presence and don't think nothing of it. Just like beach example.

Exactly! The beach scene is a great example. Okay, yeah, some people are going to be looking at you, granted. But unless you insist on looking at these people, all of the horror and embarrassment you feel comes from within. And in a dream, there is no other audience! Just you.

In dreams, brushing off problems and just ignoring them is great advice. Without your energy, they simply can't gather strength and overtake you. It takes practice to actually follow this advice, but it really does work.

Let us know how it all goes for you!

Originally Posted by Booney

*** Go right ahead, I'd love to hear what others have to say about this. Be sure to let me know when it's up

Sounds great, will do!