The new guy

Hello! I'm new into the lucid dreaming business, but after reading a few articles about it on stumble upon, I grew more and more interested in it. So I decided to poke around for some kind of meeting place where lucid dreaming experts met and talked about how they did it/what it was like and lo and behold! Here I am. I plan on reading everything I can and making good use of posting dream journals (once I have a dream I can actually remember anyways ._.) with the eventual goal of being able to consistently have lucid dreams on choice.

On a side note, I thought of an idea for a book that's kind of based on lucid dreaming where basically the main character is a person that a dreamer created in a lucid dream, and his entire society and life are all just a part of the dreamers lucid dream that he visits every night. It's a loose idea now but what do you think? If you heard about a book like that do you think you'd buy it or do you suppose it'd be lame?

I love asking questions and getting feedback on stuff, but I tend to ramble on a bit so be sure and yell at me if I end up with too big of a text wall.

Also: Anyone who can figure out how my username relates to dreaming wins the entire freaking internet. 'Cause it's a stretch. :) Hint: Baku.

Hi. (I'm a bit buzzed so excuse any bad typing and word phrasing)
If you're having trouble remembering your dreams, make sure you read up on techniques to do that better. Basically, as soon as you wake up, grab onto any trailing dream thought you might have. Sometimes, it first seems like you barely remember anything. Maybe you remember a vague emotion or a dull image. But after thinking about it for a while, bits of the dream will start coming back to you, and sometimes by the end you'll have remembered multiple long dreams.

I can imagine a short, maybe 200 pages or so story like the one you describe might be okay, but I can imagine it turning out brilliant or terrible depending on how it's done. I imagine it would have to take place in a sort of surreal, hypothetical universe that you aren't supposed to take seriously, the purpose of the book being a metaphor for something else. It seems like that to me because, in real life, dream characters are in our minds, and don't have minds of their own. Or it could be like a science fiction story, I guess. Anyway, what's important to me in a book is the details, not the plot itself. So whether I liked a book like that or not would depend on the details, how it was done.

welcome! (i may be a new member of these forums, but not to lucid dreaming)

that's an interesting movie idea. a dream character becoming "lucid" in his fake constructed environment. sounds the truman show crossed with inception. keep working on that, you might have something.

this probably isn't right, but i thought maybe "zenlick" was an analogy for attaining lucidity. zenlicking would mean trying to get a "taste" of enlightment, and that's sort of like becoming lucid in a dream, because things become clear... i know it's a strech

Well that's a cool idea, but not how I made my name. :D

And thanks for all the advice, Dianeva!!