Thread: oneiroer's workbook

I had a couple of lucid dreams recently where I was at least aware I was dreaming.

Dream one my girlfriend was there I was talking to her about someone. I also saw my pastor in this dream. There seemed to be quite a few people I knew from ordinary life in this dream.
Dream 2 my friend and I were going to another friend's place and realized he didn't live there anymore so we had to go find him. In real life this person really did move before I had this dream.

These 2 dreams happened after I hung out with some friends where I actually had a dream which I forget but I was sleeping on the floor there and laying on my back and when I got up my body was still asleep. I guess that's the third time now that my body was still asleep after waking up. I really should probably do something with that paralysis huh.

Another poem... Hope you guys like it.

Let me be your guide
Take you by the hand
In your dream
And through mine
We share this moment
In our dreams
Two souls
En route at great verocitys
"Is this real?" you ask
"Yes" I answer
Our souls soar through this city
As we`re drawing closer to our journey`s end
Our destiny starts to unfold
Then I see you no more
You have woken up
I wake up
And my heart is broken

It's time to get serious about lucid dreaming again for me. Here's my progress on lesson 1's homework.

1 Check
2 Check
3 Record the times that you naturally go to bed and wake-up, and list it in your workbook.
4 Do reality checks whenever you experience something weird throughout the day, and list it in your workbook.
5 Check
6 Nighttime routine
-Meditate (gonna start out with simple meditating with my breath...), then go to sleep on my back (I'm going to start all this tomorrow night)
7 check
8 Start posting snippets from your dreams in the Dream Snippets Edit: check
Thread to get feedback on your dreams!
-Going to do this very soon
9 Start practicing awareness from Lesson III
-I've done this a little bit gotta work on it more soon
10 Working on this very soon

Thought I'd post what I'd like to do in my next lucid dream. I want to at least start a conversation with a dream character and say hello and hopefully get a response.

Great update, oneiroer! Congratulations on those lucid dreams!

I highly encourage the goal of talking to a dream character. Depending on the DC you choose, they'll often have some clever/interesting/funny/absurd things to say to you. Let us know how it goes!

Thanks CanisLucidus! Appreciate it. I will! I'm a little annoyed but I'm over it now. I think I was beginning to be lucid this morning. I stayed over at a friends place and woke up to kids being loud. Oh well, they're kids.

Edit: I wonder what a dream character that I know in waking life would say if I talked to them.

It's a nap kinda day for me. I became lucid but got excited and didn't get to do what I wanted to do which was say hello. I was somewhere I didn't recognize but I was behind someone in a wheelchair and they had no foot. I should have said hello... Any tips for staying calm, and not getting too excited when I become lucid? Edit: I also had another dream where I might have been a ghost. The feeling sucked.

Hmmm. I think over time you will get used to having lucid dreams and the excitement will level out. But for now... have you tried meditation? It seems to help me be more focused and keep my emotions in check.

Thanks Xanous. I've tried it a little bit. I meditated a little last night but I will meditate more. Thanks again Xanous!

I looked at all my dreams in my dream journal on here and found three dream signs. I updated my first post but I will say what they are here too.
-Friends
-My girlfriend
-Places I've never been to before.

Updated my reality checks I will perform starting immediately. They are:
-Look in a mirror.
-Look at the the time.
-Read a sentence twice when I'm reading.

Edit: Instead of looking at the time I will try to push my hand through an object.

I like your idea of looking into mirrors for a reality check, as well as rereading sentences. The reason why is because, even in my most lucid moments, mirror reflections and text can appear odd on first (and even more so on second) glance.

So can the time. I can understand why you would rather test the hand-through-object. It's a nice combination to have reality checks that involve many senses: something you see, something you feel, etc. The more senses you incorporate into your daily reality checks, the more you increase your daily awareness into something that can be transferred to your dreams. Don't forget your dream signs in these practices.

Thanks OpheliaBlue! Glad you like my reality checks. But I have a question. What do you mean by this?

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Don't forget your dream signs in these practices.

Originally Posted by oneiroer

Thanks OpheliaBlue! Glad you like my reality checks. But I have a question. What do you mean by this?

I think she means that you should remember to do these reality checks when you encounter a dream sign like do rc's when you're around your gf and friends, or if you're in a place unfamiliar to you, etc. good luck!

Originally Posted by oneiroer

It's a nap kinda day for me. I became lucid but got excited and didn't get to do what I wanted to do which was say hello. I was somewhere I didn't recognize but I was behind someone in a wheelchair and they had no foot. I should have said hello... Any tips for staying calm, and not getting too excited when I become lucid? Edit: I also had another dream where I might have been a ghost. The feeling sucked.

As Xanous said, calmness will in large part come with practice. We all deal with excitement, though, so don't feel bad! I still hit "micro-lucids" like this where I become lucid, can't believe it, and instantly wake up. Don't stress too much about it. Instead, if you can, try to use it as an opportunity to DEILD.

When you become lucid, try to cultivate a mindset of quiet, happy confidence. One thing that I find helps me is to calmly talk myself through things in the dream once it begins. In a calm voice, I like to repeat things like, "I am having a really stable lucid dream" or "This is my lucid dream." or simply, "I'm having a lucid dream."

Then, calmly interact with your environment. Study its detail, marvel at its realism, and feel free to do things like rub your hands together and gently probe your dream body. Try to calmly bring yourself into the scene.

Oh!! I totally forgot to say... congratulations on the lucid dream!

Thanks CanisLucidus and paigeyemps! I don't know if anyone cares about this but today I purchased a rock-like thing and on it it has a cross at the top and it says Dream at the bottom. I'm going to look at it regularly to think about dreaming more or something like that... I also purchased some vitamin b 6 today. Hopefully both of those will help me remember my dreams. I'm also seriously writing in my journal a lot. I think it's helping me with my thoughts and maybe it will help clear my mind to help me sleep better. Sometimes I have insomnia where I'm thinking like crazy and can't get to sleep. I also meditated a little bit but I'm going to work on it more.

Oh that's awesome! The more inspiration the better. And i agree, journalling wholeheartedly really helps out with putting you in the right mindset. Happy dreaming ~

Originally Posted by oneiroer

Thanks CanisLucidus and paigeyemps! I don't know if anyone cares about this but today I purchased a rock-like thing and on it it has a cross at the top and it says Dream at the bottom. I'm going to look at it regularly to think about dreaming more or something like that... I also purchased some vitamin b 6 today. Hopefully both of those will help me remember my dreams. I'm also seriously writing in my journal a lot. I think it's helping me with my thoughts and maybe it will help clear my mind to help me sleep better. Sometimes I have insomnia where I'm thinking like crazy and can't get to sleep. I also meditated a little bit but I'm going to work on it more.

Nice, oneiroer! Your cross sounds like it'll make an excellent symbol to remind you of dreaming.

B6 is good stuff, at least for me! I'd recommend spacing it out and keeping dosages modest -- a little bit goes a long way and some people seem to grow a bit tolerant when they supplement with B6 too frequently. Personally, I like to combine it with apple juice pre-bed. (Just be sure to brush those teeth if you drink juice! ) FWIW, my longest, most vivid dream of all time came after I took some pre-bed B6.

The journal sounds perfect for you. As you mentioned, clearing the mind is very important. And the habits you are building by forcing your mind to recall your day should help train your dream recall.

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Nice, oneiroer! Your cross sounds like it'll make an excellent symbol to remind you of dreaming.

B6 is good stuff, at least for me! I'd recommend spacing it out and keeping dosages modest -- a little bit goes a long way and some people seem to grow a bit tolerant when they supplement with B6 too frequently. Personally, I like to combine it with apple juice pre-bed. (Just be sure to brush those teeth if you drink juice! ) FWIW, my longest, most vivid dream of all time came after I took some pre-bed B6.

The journal sounds perfect for you. As you mentioned, clearing the mind is very important. And the habits you are building by forcing your mind to recall your day should help train your dream recall.

Thanks CanisLucidus! And thanks for reminding me to brush my teeth, I need to do that more often...

Originally Posted by oneiroer

Thanks CanisLucidus! And thanks for reminding me to brush my teeth, I need to do that more often...

LOL. You're welcome. I feel like a big nag even mentioning that but I'd feel really bad if an oneironaut gets cavities from not properly managing their pre-bed apple juice.

I had a very short lucid dream recently where I thought I was having an out of body sort of experience. I was somewhere what could have been my apartment, and I started flying down through my or the room's floor but as soon as I started to transition through the floor I decided to stop and wake up...

Awesome, oneiroer!! What made you decide to halt your phase through the floor? Were you worried that you'd forget the dream? Or did the whole sensation make you feel uncomfortable?

If you get in this situation again, give the phase a try! The floor's not really there, after all, so nothing is there to stop you from going right through.

Good luck, man! Glad to see you getting lucid!

Thanks CanisLucidus! I did feel uncomfortable. Alright, next time I'll give it a try.

Originally Posted by oneiroer

Thanks CanisLucidus! I did feel uncomfortable. Alright, next time I'll give it a try.

No problem. I get what you mean. It's weird the first time you try anything new in an LD that you hadn't preplanned. But now that you've experienced it once and had more time to think about it, your mind will be that little bit more prepared.

The main thing to remember that everything you see is under your control. If you decide something doesn't exist at all, then it doesn't. It's your world -- you're the king.

Good luck!

I had a couple of dreams the other night. One was a weird Back to the Future type dream. Don't really remember what happened but at the time it was interesting...

Also had a dream that felt really weird. It was like bam I'm in a dream all of a sudden, but I didn't like the last one too much because I didn't feel like I was in control at all...

It seems like when I don't try to have a dream lately I just have lucid dreams... I think I was putting too much effort into trying to have lucid dreams.