Thread: Bharmo's Workbook

Originally Posted by dreambh

Thank you CannisLucidus!!
I've read half through your workbook, and it's really inspiring. Can't wait to experience a lucid flying with war cry and epic soundtrack
That dream of yours and now mine made me wonder how much tv and movies mold our dream schemata. How different are our dreams from those of pre-tv people?

Thanks, that's very nice of you to say! And I definitely think that the media we consume has a big influence on our dream content.

In fact, I went through a "boring dream content" phase and I appealed for help to people that were having more interesting dream content at the time (like NewArtemis, RareCola, and others.) One piece of advice that really worked was to consume more interesting media. Watch more interesting TV, play more video games, and just allow yourself to play and get into fiction. The impact on dream content was very significant, so I've got to believe that media influences us in all kinds of ways.

I do hope that our ancestors got soundtracks, though, because those are awesome.

Originally Posted by dreambh

I'm obviously very happy about it, but there are a few things I'm wondering about:
1- Had nothing to do with what I had planned/incubated. I try to incubate first stabilizing the dream and then remembering a goal (right now: hugging someone) at night-time routine and in many daytime RCs, but those didn't show up at all at the dream. I have to improve these routines, I guess, or maybe that happened because of the low-level lucidity.
2- Low-level lucidity. From the very beginning I was so distracted with the dream plot, I did not even RC. I didn't feel like making real decisions most of the time. And my lucidity was wearing down progressively to the point that, well, a scene change blew it all up and ended the dream. Tricky subconscious!!
3- Short lucidity. That is not very important for me, right now high-level lucidity is what concerns me most.
4- Because of how I felt in the dream (low lucidity/conciousness) I cannot count my goal of flying as done, I don't know, I don't feel like I consciously did it, but more like I watched me doing it.

Any suggestions, specially on increasing lucidity?

As I said in the DJ entry, great dream! Dream incubation is something I'm working on but it's very hit or miss for me. It's kind of a work in progress, but I know that some people are very good at this, particularly when they incubate pre-nap or during a WBTB. (My mother can actually do this.) I wish that I had better tips, but this is a skill I'm still trying to build!

As for increasing lucidity, I'm a big fan of soaking in the details of the dream scene as much as possible. Hit a good nose pinch RC, the shock of which tends to focus your mind. Then start touching the dream scene, look at your hands, marvel at the detail, and challenge your brain to produce as much detail as possible. This usually increases vividness for me and sometimes gets my brain working a bit better.