Thread: Steph´s Workbook

Yay, that sounds like a really nice long ld! Sometime soon you might be giving us tips on dream control. That fierce look was actually quite good. The thing with dreams is you kind of never know for sure how things will turn out, except by practice. Sometimes things change easily, sometimes they become more stable and vivid like in your case. If you could notice and remember the distinct feel that comes with each dream control task, that might facilitate repeating the process in the future. I also liked how you made some sort of (secret) interaction with known people and were in the proper mood to do so.

It makes me really happy to read about your lds and fun adventures. I have to say I am still learning every day by either lding or by reading other people's fantastic entries. Really like this process and this site where there are so many enthusiastic dreamers. Glad to have you here! Sweet dreams.

Originally Posted by NyxCC

Yay, that sounds like a really nice long ld! Sometime soon you might be giving us tips on dream control. That fierce look was actually quite good. The thing with dreams is you kind of never know for sure how things will turn out, except by practice. Sometimes things change easily, sometimes they become more stable and vivid like in your case. If you could notice and remember the distinct feel that comes with each dream control task, that might facilitate repeating the process in the future. I also liked how you made some sort of (secret) interaction with known people and were in the proper mood to do so.

Thank youhuu!
I am really fascinated by what Sivason has to say about the visual field - not to let it get buried:

Originally Posted by Sivason

The first thing you need to do is learn to stop thinking of the visual field in a dream as solid or conforming to even the most basic principles of real life.

To do this you start with simply attempting to rend or smudge the visual field.
Start with an idea that you are looking at a chalk board.
Put your fingers on a table top or wall and watch very closely. Feel as if it is a painting, not real.

Now draw your fingers slowly down it and expect the visuals to get mangled and blurred like they would if you did this to a fresh oil painting.

As soon as you can do this with your hand, practice doing this to an object simply by moving your hand slowly in front of the object.
At this point you are not trying to reshape it, you just want to blur it or warp it.

You are convincing your brain that this is just graphics like a painting that is still wet.

Now move to doing this simply by visualizing the blurring effect.
As soon as you can look at a candle and cause it to blur and melt simply by this method, it is only a short step to what you are after.

You cause the object to blur and distort, then you see in your imagination/minds eye the new object form.

This is genial - and I am sure, I can do it with practice.
To make something appear, while you do not "know" what your dream has hidden, where you want it to be, seems to come rather easy for me. But I always need this component of an undefined and esp. unobserved space, from where something/somebody comes.

So I follow the rules of reality - just with the twist of self-convincing/strongly expecting.
That does not feel like true creative freedom.

But to really grasp by experience - not only theory - what a dream actually is - namely patterns in your brain - fully manipulatable with respective skill - that is something extremely desirable!
Also sounds very advanced - but to blur views and imagine images into the blurring - I sometimes do that in real life.
For example - I have a sort of stone floor - it´s called and is - wood-concrete.
Normally people put carpets on top - but I really like it - and it ages, stains - has a lot of pattern-inspiration.
I sometimes draw on it with pencil and might then transfer it somewhere else - it´s fun inspiration.

I have this photograph - it looks pretty even there - but it is not so everywhere - I rather chose an even patch:

Originally Posted by NyxCC

It makes me really happy to read about your lds and fun adventures. I have to say I am still learning every day by either lding or by reading other people's fantastic entries. Really like this process and this site where there are so many enthusiastic dreamers. Glad to have you here! Sweet dreams.

Thank you once more - and I agree to the fullest - the people on this site are amazing, insightful and really motivated to help along - with whatever concern, actually!