Your welcome WaspNestEscape,
Since I'm new here it is nice to have my opinion appreciated. What are my thoughts on enjoyable practices? Well I'd say its fun to actually write down any and every LD goal you have. This could be fun and productive. I've got some goals of mine I wrote down in college 25 years ago! This would also be a good idea just to crystalize what it is YOU find interesting and fun. For example, I have many hedonistic goals I wish to go for first. But I also have some non-hedonistic goals. So all together I have goals AND a rough sequence of when I intend to achieve them. Over-riding all of these is my long-term goal of being able to LD any time I set my mind on it.
Here's another idea you might find fun. It's time consuming though so you may or may not agree. If you do agree and succeed with it, you will treasure the success because of your effort investment. Here it is:
Plot and incubate a desired LD. Make it EPIC and think of it as a movie that you are producing to be the end all, be all blockbuster movie of all time. The more detail the better. Also, the more activity you put into it the better. For example, I plotted and incubated my first LD. My intention was to get out of bed from my dream, go to the sliding glass door on my dorm room and fly out of the 7th floor room over the adjacent river that ran thru downtown Tampa, Florida. To prepare for this intense visual, I went to the highest building across the river, went to the top floor, and took a panoramic series of pictures of my dorm and the river as it went out to Tampa Bay. I then got hard copies made of the pictures and taped them together as a collage. (this was 1986.) I stared at that collage and visualized my flight out of my dorm room. It's no surprise that when I succeeded the first time the LD ended because of extreme excitement! The view and experience just blew my mind! So my efforts worked and I cherish the memories to this day. My second and third LD's built on the same incubated dream goal.
So as you can see, this takes an investment in time and effort. If you don't wish to do this, I understand. But if you do, it is a well accepted strategy. If you do, it helps with induction because of course you are immersing your conscious thoughts on a single topic. This topic will hopefully spill over into your subconscious dream thoughts. You would then set a goal of recognizing features of the plot as a dream sign to realize your situation and become lucid. When that happens, you will be challenged to not get too excited as I did. Because it will be like receiving your own personalized Disneyland/Fantasy Island.
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