Thread: Steph´s Workbook

I had a little lucid dream last night!
With scaring a girl by partial bear-mutation (unconsciously) and I got ignored by not so interesting plants.
Veery happy - that was quite a long dry period.
Finally A Little Lucid Dream - Scaring A Girl To Tears - Unwilling Plants - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views


And I have something more to share - thanks to Mismagius posting a link to Hyu's DJ, I believe I finally understand the biggest riddle of my LDing journey:

Originally Posted by Hyu

This is important.
If you want to experience an entire world or setting (Hogwarts, Middle-Earth...), never try to create it right in front of you.
There will be inconsistencies, DCs will go out of character, forget what they're supposed to do...
In my experience, it just doesn't work right.
Instead try to go there.
Don't create Hogwarts, instead go to the real Hogwarts.

I do this by leaving my dream bubble (just a bubble containing my current dream), and going to an entirely new place.
Doing so I have an easier time believing that I am in a real place, and not in a dream controlled by my own sub-conscious,
which renders dreams much more realistic.

I have mentioned it again and again - my very first LD was so extraordinarily realistic and stable and I consciously tested all senses and the surroundings with never a shred of doubt about the tangibility of it all.
Completely like being teleported to another world.
It never was like this again.

Now I think I know what it was - I got there by following Castaneda's lessons, and I wanted to believe in the woo, so when I got lucid, I really seriously thought, I am in an actual different realm.
A supernatural world, but a real and consistent one, and not a dream.
And so that's what it felt like. Total immersion.

Oh - if only I could get that on purpose - no wishy-washy changy things and this horrible stability problem of mine.
That dream back then was so stable, that I had to really force myself into waking intensely - and at first it didn't work, even.