Thread: oneiroer's workbook

Oneiroer (I am terrified that I am going to misspell your name, LOL), I love the way that you're integrating art into your lucid dreaming practice.

Bringing in art and poetry like this should help you establish a tangible, emotional connection between your waking life and your dream life. Transforming your desires into concrete works of art seems like a very powerful way to focus intent. And intent is so important to lucid dreaming practice.

I think that this combination of daily awareness practice and focusing your intent by creating artwork is awesome. Keep up the great work!

Thank you very much CanisLucidus!

I have some more art in the works. I keep messing up but I'll post it when I'm done. It's going to read DREAM and I'm probably going to hang it up by my bed and look at it before going to sleep so hopefully that will help with my recall a bit. Not only is it going to read DREAM but it's gonna be tribal style if not all the way tribal tribal-ish.

I changed my idea on the picture. Instead: The picture is suppose to be a hidden D for dreams instead of North. There's a compass in the middle with clouds around it and 4 suns at the corners of the drawing.

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One more I just drew.

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Just got up from a nap and had another pretty long dream. I dreamed I was being held captive by 2 of my friends. They seemed mean. Well I got out of the dark room I was in somehow and I practiced fighting. I was in the air like I might have been floating and it took a little bit of practice to make my hand go forward. After the dream I woke up in sleep paralysis, or my body was still asleep. Do you guys want me to continue posting my dreams here or should I just put them in my journal here?

Hey oneiroer! It's your workbook, so you're welcome to handle it however you like. The Dream Journal system is great for organized, extended discussion (since you can tie a thread of comment/conversation to a particular dream), but your DJ/workbook, your rules.

Whatever you choose, please keep that artwork coming. That is very cool stuff.

After the dream I woke up in sleep paralysis, or my body was still asleep.

Oh wow! What was the sensation like? Were you able to do much of anything? Did you experience any hypnagogic imagery?

I know that you're primarily a DILD guy (as am I), but this could be a great time to attempt a WILD or some sort of "out-of-body experience" style of exit to experience a lucid dream. Unfortunately, I have only experienced fake "sleep paralysis" in-dream, so I can't give you a go-to set of tricks for this particular situation. Could be something for you to think about, though, especially if this is something which happens to you consistently.

Ok thank you CanisLucidus.

I didn't think of doing anything when my body was still asleep and I didn't see any HI. I just got up. I'll have to try what you said as I'm interested in having OBEs. This is the second time I've had a lucid dream and my body was still asleep when I woke up.

Just thought I'd say that an easy way to start an OBE while in sleep paralysis is to pretend or visualize yourself tugging on a rope to exit your body.. Or so I'v heard never actually done this, but uhh seems logical..

Something I wrote tonight.

I'm Aware
________

I relax my body
I'm tired
I fall asleep

I'm aware
All of a sudden
I'm again somewhere unknown
I've created a place in my own mind

What am I going to do now that
I'm aware

I rise
I go somewhere else
Its hard for me to move

But it takes a few attempts
And I'm airborne

A new piece of art.

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This one is called Third Eye.

thirdeye.jpg

These are great works! Gah now I'm a bit more motivated to write up some poems or do some artwork about my dreams. Not that i'm good at it but meh x3

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

These are great works! Gah now I'm a bit more motivated to write up some poems or do some artwork about my dreams. Not that i'm good at it but meh x3

Who cares if your art isn't the best, I encourage you to post some art and/or poetry!
I don't think my art is really good but I still do it anyway because I love to sketch.

Thank you very much paigeyemps!

3 more sketches hope you guys enjoy.

Nightmare: What started out as a heart turned out to be kinda a psychotic nightmare...
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Dreaming Tree
dreamingtree.jpg

Time To Lucid Dream
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I'll color the non color ones if you guys want me to. I'm kinda lazy otherwise...

One more dream related art
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I have a pretty strong desire to be a tattoo artist... So I'm going to concentrate on my 'Get inspiration for my art and music' goal. Maybe I can incubate a lucid dream where I'm painting, or sketching.

Another poem I just wrote. Hope it's not too weird and hope you enjoy

Ghosts
All around me
I'm not in a nightmare

They called me
I'm here
I wonder what they want

I see my physical body
Laying
I'm outside my body!

I talk to the dead
They give advise for my new ability
To journey beyond
The physical

I fly in delight
Anywhere I want to go

The journey begins

Nice, i was actually gonna recommend posting some of your poems on the Artists' Corner, but I see you've been doing that already!

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

Nice, i was actually gonna recommend posting some of your poems on the Artists' Corner, but I see you've been doing that already!

Thanks paigeyemps maybe I'll post my dream related poetry there.

Another poem I'm working on. I might be done what do you think?

Lust... Destroys my heart...
Temptation... Visions impure...
Greed... A seeming never ending war..
For my soul.
My soul breaks free...
My passions rise like a pheonix....
In the heart of the war...
For my soul...
A kingdom long forgotten...
Burns from the pheonix' fire.
I'm well above the war.
For my soul...

The kingdom part is related to a dream I had sometime ago where I was above a burning city of some sort... Should I keep working on this...?

Originally Posted by oneiroer

Another poem I'm working on. I might be done what do you think?
...
The kingdom part is related to a dream I had sometime ago where I was above a burning city of some sort... Should I keep working on this...?

It's great that you are producing so much actual dream-inspired art. This is one of those long-term lucid goals that still eludes me.

This poem stands on its own very well as a finished work, but if you find yourself inspired to continue on, go for it! If a dream comes along that inspires you to add stanzas, follow it wherever it leads you. That's something that's cool about dreams -- they'll push you in directions your conscious mind may have never taken you.

How has dream recall been for you lately?

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

It's great that you are producing so much actual dream-inspired art. This is one of those long-term lucid goals that still eludes me.

This poem stands on its own very well as a finished work, but if you find yourself inspired to continue on, go for it! If a dream comes along that inspires you to add stanzas, follow it wherever it leads you. That's something that's cool about dreams -- they'll push you in directions your conscious mind may have never taken you.

How has dream recall been for you lately?

Thanks! My dream recall hasn't been very good lately, but when I remember to ask myself what I dreamed about I usually remember. I think I'll start telling myself that when I wake up I will remember to ask myself what I dreamed. Any suggestions besides using a dream journal to remember my dreams? I already use my dream journal, but sadly I'm not having much success in writing in it.

Edit: And when I do remember sometimes my dreams are kind of hard to describe especially when I just wake up... Like I had a dream where I was being guided around by the girl from the Adam's family or she kinda looked like her...in this forest like place. There were trees and a house I think.

For dream recall, the first step is to commit to always writing down everything you can, even if nothing more than a fragment or a fleeting emotional residue. It's okay if it doesn't make sense right away! Just patiently write down everything you can remember. Try to rewind time forward and backward from the moments you can remember.

If you keep at this, you will improve at it. Recalling dreams is in large part a skill, one that you will build via lots and lots of practice and strong intent.

Journaling Tips
I gave PennyRoyal a few tips on journaling recently that I think may help you:

"For journaling, a good practice is to make a commitment that you must produce something for your DJ every night. As soon as you wake up, just relax and hold as still as you can. A collection of spectral thoughts will try to flee in every direction. Any image, memory, or sensation that you can recall is good. When you latch onto any lingering feeling or scene, however dim or abstract, focus on it. Try to remember what you were doing when you saw this/felt this way/did this. Go gently backward in time until you can go no further. Then go gently forward in time from the memory. Just slowly reeeel it in like a fish. It's there! You're just building your skill at landing these things as they fight and struggle with you. If in the end all you get is a feeling of "confusion" or "infinity" or "wealth", write that down. Refuse to leave that page blank. Fight for every scrap and your mind will follow your example."

Daytime Practices
Another area you can pay attention to is your daytime recall. Building up your ability to recall your daytime life will help you recall your dream life. Here are some thoughts I had on that, and a description of what has worked for me:

"The final area is daytime practices. When my recall is a little low, I work on my daytime recall. I do this by stopping throughout the day and mentally rewinding my experiences thus far in the day. I replay everything at super speed as a daydream until I go at least as far as the last time that I performed this exercise. Your mind works fast, so this should only take seconds. I recommend doing this every couple of hours. This means that by the end of the day, you should be able to recall just about the entirety of your day. This practice gets the mind used to paying attention to the world around you and automatically filing the details away. After all, you've been quizzing it the entire day! This is a fun little practice (IMO) and in total takes no more than 1-2 minutes total out of your day.

If this isn't strong enough medicine, you can start a daytime journal where you write down everything you did that day. (This is an idea that Mastermind describes here: http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-sign...reams-try.html This is a really burdensome practice, but it works. When I used to get really down in the dumps on recall, a day or two of this would always work. It's labor intensive though!"

I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions.