Carolyns workbook

Reality Checks:
- how old am I in the dream?
- pressure in knees/hips
- desire for a cigarette

Dream Signs:
- Boshuda signs
- my children
- no desire for cigarette

Short-Term Goals:
- learn the LD lingo
- raise my vibration level for healing
- reconnect with my Self

Long-Term Goals:
- find and heal my source of fear/break down fear based walls that cause the feeling of paralysis
- to teach while traversing various wavelengths during sleep
- to visit parallel universes while awake/meditation

Lucid/Dream Recall History:
- keeping a journal, not just on dreams i remember, but on emotions/experiences that go on while awake that might affect my dream state.

Current Technique:
No technique. Just happens as needed/when I'm called.

As I'm glancing over the workbooks, I just wanted to say - thank you for this education, it is not a common occurrence to find a collective spirit that is interested in this realm of learning. Yet, it's vial in my opinion, to healthy living, especially in such a world..... second - to people needing clear signs that you are dreaming vs awake. Make sure when you choose "Reality checks" that you are looking for signs that absolutely show you that you are not still asleep (that is, you think woke up, but whoops, you were only dreaming you woke up because it turns out you were actively dreaming on a deeper level than where your subconscious mind was finding rest). Same concept - when choosing "Dream Signs" to see if you are still dreaming make sure you're looking for things that show you that you are still asleep. Either way, these are identification markers to help you maintain awareness. Great tools for learning.

Welcome Carolyn/blackbirdrising! Good to have you in the class!

If I understand correctly, it sounds like you've already experienced some lucid dreams. That's great. Also, nice job on your dream journaling practices. I like that you're also including details in the journal on other waking life factors that can influence your dream life. This is something that I simply don't pay enough attention to in my own journaling, and it's a very good idea.

Can you educate me on what a Boshuda sign is?

Hi Canis. I've been doing this all my life, never took a class or "learned" how. It just seems to happen - more intensely when my hormone levels are high (puberty and mensing, a little older either ovulating or pregnant, nursing, and now peri menopausal). When I will be lucid is always predictable, in a natural cycle. By the time I was in my thirties, I knew when I could expect the sleep paralysis, the OBE's, the "visits" and the astral "classes". That was my thing, teaching in a dream environment, to small groups of people, usually women but sometimes children. I know when its time to teach a class, I dream within a dream and then I'm there. Its always either in a classroom - with chalkboard and desks, the whole nine yards, or its in an theater like auditorium, cafeteria, or gymnasium. I taught astral defense (which is all about recognizing fear), flying (which is all about releasing fear) and singing/music (which is all about raising energy).

Boshuda is just the name of a dragon that I first "met" when I was 29, in a dream. If I see the mountains ripple, or green grass ripple, I know I'm still dreaming.

Hi and :welcome:

It looks like we could learn a lot from YOU. I like how you want to use lucid dreaming for healing. I find this intriguing but I have not explored this yet. Please post all your successes!

Welcome BlackBirdRising!

Would that be a Crow or Raven by chance? Those are some great birds. Lookin forward to reading some more of your dreams!

good luck! :)

I chose that name because I'm recently divorced, recovering after two decades of abuse. Learning that it's Ok to be myself, and that love isn't supposed to be one-sided, it doesn't have to hurt. Music has been a big part of my healing and moving forward. I find a lot of truth in that little song "Blackbird" by Paul McCartney :)

Hello Carolyn, welcome to the Intro Class! :D

Thanks paige! I'm re-awakening again. It feels much more calm now. I think thats got a lot to do with finding this site, having access to read this material, and just knowing that its not just me lol. I'm one of those weird naturals! My partner is a natural WBTB'er who actually would give his right arm to not dream, because its always a nightmare, never a break from nightmares, every night for the past 20 years. He's 41, and he knows when the nightmares began, now that we've been reunited after 20 years apart, he's been changing emotionally, letting go of some anger and guilt. Healing in progress! <3 There's no such thing as coincidence, and finding this site was no accident for either of us.

Well I'm glad you two found us then! So how goes the dreaming lately?

Its answering some questions, since its coming without the fear/chaos that was once attached to it. I've been interpreting dreams for 25 years now, studying symbolism in the many forms, and I want to expand that into an actual career, something that would actually give me an income. Over the last few days, I came here originally to help my partner with his nightmares, and hoping to help him with his desire to become lucid (more lucid, he is barely aware sometimes when he is dreaming, that he is in fact dreaming but cant change anything yet). And then I discovered that his pattern of sleeping was linked to his intense memory of dreams (he is a natural WBTB), based on the educational material I found here. Then when I was on facebook today, I asked the question "What song reminds you of me?" as a status update, and out of the blue, someone who hasn't spoken to me in ages said "Dream weaver!" I was like....girl you have no idea how timely that was. :D And then I spoke to my Mom today, and she was reinterating my desire to turn dream work into something tangible. And I happened to mention my partners sleeping problem, and we talked about my sleep paralysis and how thats been passed down to my children. And it hit me. Polysomnography. Sleep study. DUH.

Haha Dream Weaver! You should make that your user title :P

You know, there's some stuff on this forum that help people turn nightmares into opportunities for a lucid dream. Actually, Chimpertainment has alot of experience with this. Maybe your partner would like to join DV? If not, I'm sure you could find alot of resources here to help him out yourself.

Anyway, here's a link that you might find helpful: Nightmare Tutorial - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Also here's a general nightmare subforum: Nightmares and Recurring Dreams . Might require a little reading and sorting through all the threads haha.

Hey BlackbirdRising, wise words; im glad you let yourself be guided here. It is known that wisdom can come from suffering. Personally, I think that is because of the natural tendency to reach inward in times of outward chaos. As it turns out, the world is full of chaos, which also turn out to be opportunities to gain wisdom. In short, you are smart to make a bad situation into a learning experience. :)

I share the aspiration of eventually making a living doing something involving dreams and the related mythological material. To me, dreams are an unparalleled opportunity to communicate with the majority party in this conscious/unconscious system we have going on in our minds. That would seem to me the one thing most societies lack: an appreciation for the unconscious mind.

In other news...OpheliaBlue is right, I have and have had a fair share of negative material in my dreams. Their emotional impact tends to fluctuate, but I have a different outlook on the experience nowadays. Along with some exercises I use, the nightmares I do have are relatively benign. I would be happy to share my experience and some tips if you like. Any time I can share with someone who has had the same experience is awesome.

write back! ;)