Thread: oneiroer's workbook

I just got up from a dream where a edit: female dream character told me I just wanted sex...Makes me wonder if dream characters can give me knowledge if I talk to them. I felt uncomfortable saying that but I don't remember if that was my intention or not. I'm going to try talking to dream characters when I meet them. I also went on a little journey by dreaming in levels like I've read before in a book. I got to level 2 I think and at one point I felt like my body was being pushed/taken somewhere. I remember a freeway and looking down from it. I wanted to go to the future and realized I could go anywhere in time but I was lost on how to do it. I also wanted to see myself in the future and see if my gf and I were doing ok. Pretty interesting dream, I thought. Edit: there was also an obe sort of class going on and i didn't think my gf would be into that sort of thing but she showed up and said yeah I would, or something similar. A lot seemed to happened in that dream or dreams. Edit: Sometimes my dreams make me confused... like this one had a bunch of ideas and when I woke up I thought I might still be dreaming, but I was awake...

Originally Posted by oneiroer

Sometimes my dreams make me confused... like this one had a bunch of ideas and when I woke up I thought I might still be dreaming, but I was awake...

Hah that IS weird. Like the opposite of a false awakening

As far as the freeway dream, I wonder if you could have used it, or a car let's say, to act as a time machine. I like to use whatever objects are around me to do my bidding in a lucid dream. Like for example, I wanted to go to a prehistoric ocean, and all I had summoned was a present day lake. So I found an inflatable raft that was already on the lake, and got inside, and imagined it was a tiny submarine. I pushed imaginary buttons on the side with a made up combination, all the while thinking of going to a prehistoric ocean and it worked.

There are simpler versions of this technique of course, but I find it's handy to just use objects already around me to get what I want. Some dreamers can do everything they want in a lucid by just thinking it, but I'm not quite there yet!

Originally Posted by oneiroer

I just got up from a dream where a edit: female dream character told me I just wanted sex...Makes me wonder if dream characters can give me knowledge if I talk to them. I felt uncomfortable saying that but I don't remember if that was my intention or not. I'm going to try talking to dream characters when I meet them.

At the very least, it's great fun asking DCs questions. I can honestly say that I've rarely failed to get an interesting reply, particularly if I pick the right DC. When you're lucid, you will run into certain dream characters that seem really, really fleshed out and just sort of there. Like they're highly intelligent inhabitants of the dream space rather than simple automatons.

Robert Waggoner recommends trying to ask the dream itself a question. When I tried this, I failed to get a response. I did have good luck finding an interesting DC and asking her to "tell me something important". It was a really cool experience, actually. Here's how it went down for me: The Dinosaur Petting Zoo - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Oh, and as for the DC that accused you of just wanting That Thing? Don't worry about this. During dreams (especially non-lucid dreams), much of your prefrontal cortex is inactive. This leaves your inhibitions and judgment severely impaired.

Originally Posted by oneiroer

there was also an obe sort of class going on and i didn't think my gf would be into that sort of thing but she showed up and said yeah I would, or something similar. A lot seemed to happened in that dream or dreams. Edit: Sometimes my dreams make me confused... like this one had a bunch of ideas and when I woke up I thought I might still be dreaming, but I was awake...

Sounds like a really cool night of dreaming! I especially like that OBE class. Maybe your girlfriend will take an interest in dreaming after all. I've had no luck at all with my wife. But to my great surprise my 3-year-old son has taken a tremendous interest in dreams and has (as best I can tell) even had a handful of lucids! So you just never know with this stuff.