Thread: New Member Introduction from Leo

Hi Leo, I'm new to DV too - just joined 3 days ago.

I'm also a writer/soon-to-be-author (hopefully), I've had a few of my poems published but I'm currently working on my first novel. As you figured, it would be helpful to actually put yourself in the fictional settings of your stories, that's also one of the things that motivated me. You can just search for your characters in your LDs and get to know them more! This stuff is genius.

I began dream journaling last summer when I was advised by some people that dreams would give me good material for my novel. However my non-lucid dreams (not that I was having any lucids back then) were mostly mundane (and still are), revolving around my everyday activities. So eventually I lost interest in writing them down only to start again recently when I discovered lucid dreaming was not so out of reach.

As for the people telling you that just being aware in dreams is not a "real" lucid dream, they are real lucids because the definition of a lucid dream is simply to be aware you are dreaming. Controlling it is a different matter. In fact most of the dreams in my LD count in the sidebar were hardly controlled! I'm very desperate to learn to stabilise my dreams properly before I set off on my adventures. The higher the clarity of the dream, the clearer your mind is too so you can think right. If you're familiar with the WILD (Wake Induced Lucid Dream) technique I think that's the best way to become lucid since you get in the dreamworld consciously from being awake. Unfortunately, I have a whole load of other problems that are preventing me a lot from doing what I want to do.
And congratulations on finding the recurring element (or dreamsign) in your dreams. I was also able to make a decision on mine last month. However as soon as I found this out, I haven't recalled a dream with the dreamsign since!

Anyway, I wish you the best of luck in conquering the dreamworld.

Regards,

BlueWalls