Thread: neuralswarm's Workbook

I've had three lucid dreams in the past two nights.

Yesterday night I had a long one, somehow I forgot a lot of what happened at the beginning. Basically I went lucid because I tell my friend This is how you know I'm a wizard, otherwise I wouldn't be able to do this. I place my hands near my shoes and have faith and they light up on fire. I try to smother it with my hands and it's still burning so I run to the tub and turn it on and extinguish the flames. I am lucid and go out on the balcony. We're on a huge wooden platform a few hundred feet in the air, like a building of some kind. Beneath are beautiful rolling hills and a house way at the bottom. It's amazing. I'm on the edge of the balcony and I notice water flowing over from the tub. During this whole time I don't feel rushed. My dreamPhone has not been working, and I know it's a dream so I see what it's like to smash it over and over against the corner wood of the balcony. It gets cracks but it's as if it's made out of plastic and never shatters or breaks. I was angry at it because every key I hit it chooses a small area of the screen and continues on randomly. I'm watching the balcony race toward the ground and I think that the dream is going to collapse and suddenly it does. I wake. The ending was really the best part, I don't remember a lot before that, but I remember it being a long lucid dream. I need to do hypnosis on dream recall and remembering. But I had another lucid dream, woohoo. This almost could be considered semi-lucid because I was still entangled with the plot of the dream somewhat, but I knew I was dreaming so I'm calling it lucid.

Last night I had a cool one with dream control. I did a dream incubation mantra "I want to have a lucid dream and be happy with my family.", and I do feel happier. I'm in a forest, don't remember how I got there. I'm lucid because I have been thinking about using hypnosis to induce lucid dreaming. My sister walks by, her hair is ruffled. She walks deeper in the forest. I find a blue racquetball in my hand. I throw it into the forest and command it to come closer and closer. It's not being pulled, it's still flying away, so I start commanding it to go further and further. My sister walks over and picks it up. I say Throw me the ball. As she's doing so I'm snapping my fingers, changing the color of her shirt from white to blue to green to yellow to orange. It doesn't flip colors but rather gradually shifts. I remember to keep consciously keep my eyes open, concentrating and concentrating even though it's uncomfortable. As long as I don't try to close them they stay open and the dream continues. My sister throws the ball back to me. We're in a kind of field now. I catch the ball, throw it at her and then bring it back toward me without it hitting her, as if it flies around her and it's magnetically attracted to my hand. We tossed the ball a few times and I controlled its flight through the air. As she was about to throw it I will it to appear in my hand and it vanishes from hers and appears in mine. I wake.

The other lucid dream from last night I went to sleep with the mantra of "I want to lucid dream about being confident." I become lucid because I am talking to someone about lucidity. I'm watching cars come at me and I see one about to run me over, a blue SUV bearing down right on my location. It's just about to run me over as it spins and I can see through the side window. I wake. I try to spin my dream body at the very end as I watch my vision fade down into a smaller and smaller circle. However I feel myself move in bed so I stop. I tried again the technique of keeping your eyes open consciously. I need to do more hypnosis on wanting to record dreams, at least lucid dreams because it's so important otherwise they're forgotten entirely except for the fact that you dreamed. If you want to lucid dream you have to make a choice once you wake up whether to keep dreaming or whether to record and find it harder to go back to sleep afterward.


So I guess my question is, how do I want to record my dreams more? I feel tired a lot of the time after I wake and feel somewhat unmotivated to record. It's fun, but my attitude needs work. Any tips?

Originally Posted by neuralswarm

So I guess my question is, how do I want to record my dreams more? I feel tired a lot of the time after I wake and feel somewhat unmotivated to record. It's fun, but my attitude needs work. Any tips?

I get too tired and lazy too. Have you tried just making brief notes and writing the details later? Also, its important to remember that the more dreams you write, the better recall you have, and the better recall you have, the more you will get lucid. That motivates me!

Thanks for your thoughts, Xanous. I think I need to do more hypnosis on myself and think through the problem.

Usually I audio record the dreams and transcribe them to a text file on my computer that syncs with my phone, so I can read them during a wake-back-to-bed and get in the mindset of lucid dreaming.

I've been traveling lately so it's hard to sleep properly anyway. We'll see how the new year turns out, I'm looking forward to it!