Thread: oneiroer's workbook

One more poem then back to the homework in this class. That's enough goofing off for me... I need to get back into remembering my dreams!

I forgot my dreams.
A dreamer's block,
if you will.

My desire returns.

I focus.
I meditate.

Will I dream tonight? Today?

I do believe!
I will see, hear, smell, taste, feel,
the dream world once more.

I will experience it again and again.
No more will I neglect it.

It's here.
Waiting to be explored.

Originally Posted by oneiroer

One more poem then back to the homework in this class. That's enough goofing off for me... I need to get back into remembering my dreams!

Nice, man! That's how you get that inspiration back! Do you ever read any of these poems or recite them in your head during your WBTB time? The thoughts you express in here are precisely the sort of things you'd want to have going through your head when you're preparing to LD.

Maybe leave off the first 3 lines just in case your subconscious gets confused. LOL. Seriously, though, it's great that you're focusing your desire for an LD into art like this. I don't do much besides drone in my own head about how badly I want to LD. This is a much more interesting form of expression.

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Nice, man! That's how you get that inspiration back! Do you ever read any of these poems or recite them in your head during your WBTB time? The thoughts you express in here are precisely the sort of things you'd want to have going through your head when you're preparing to LD.

Maybe leave off the first 3 lines just in case your subconscious gets confused. LOL. Seriously, though, it's great that you're focusing your desire for an LD into art like this. I don't do much besides drone in my own head about how badly I want to LD. This is a much more interesting form of expression.

Thanks! No but I think I'll start tonight! Ok, thanks again!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Originally Posted by oneiroer

I forgot my dreams.
A dreamer's block,
if you will.

My desire returns.

I focus.
I meditate.

Will I dream tonight? Today?

I do believe!
I will see, hear, smell, taste, feel,
the dream world once more.

I will experience it again and again.
No more will I neglect it.

It's here.
Waiting to be explored.

Ah! I really like this!

Glad you do Xanous! Thanks!