Thread: hi all

Dear Storm,

I have 4 cats -- 2 neutered Toms, and two spayed pretty girls. and I have a feral feeding station out in the jungle which I maintain. Cats are wonderful, aren't they.

Oh, don't get a Nova Dreamer. There was recently a Thread in which everyone expressed deep buyer's remorse for being silly enough to waste their money on such a flimsy piece of trash. I couldn't wait to get one either, and now I don't even know where its collecting dust. They are uncomfortable, and they fire off during your none REM cycles which only wakes you up to no purpose, and then if they do begin to fire off during REM, all that will happen is that the Dream will incorporate Light in some reasonable way in order to disquise its significance. Anybody who has practice Lucid Dreaming long enough knows that Reality Checking and Dream Checklists are the way to go -- one has the most Lucid Dreams by simply Willing to have Lucid Dreams. Also, it seems that there needs to be a certain almost tangible increase in the Level of Consciousness Energy -- when a Dream intensifies in color and vividness, it seems that one become Lucid even without much of a reality check. With nothing seeming out of the ordinary at all one simply realizes that one is dreaming. No Nova Dreamer can do that for you.

But it will get you into a Giant and very Unexclusive Club of people who have grown to regret the foolishness of having bought an expensive piece of crap to strap on their face before going to sleep.

Leo-thanks for the advice about the NovaDreamer. i didnt see the thread where ppl were talking about being disatisfied with it, but i see your point... i'll probably give it a miss then...and the price-i mean if it were 100 bucks or so it might make sense and be worth trying, but 500 dollars (or whatever it is now) is a LOT of money. i do believe that youre right that its best to try to learn how to have them naturally.

i have a digital wristwatch that i set to go off every hour, and i was doing reality checks every time it beeped, until i realized that that was kind of pointless because even when i wear it to bed, i dont hear the beep, so whats the use? so now i try to do reality checks at random times throughout the day. i still might try one of the homemade signaling devices tho-i read about one that was a strobe light attached to a timer...one thing is, if i fall asleep with the tv on, the dialogue always gets incorporated into my dream (fell asleep with the Shield on the other day and had dreams of cops ) so maybe a cd where i say "im dreaming" might work...

i think thats awesome that you have a feral feeding station that you maintain. you mentioned that its in the jungle-do you mean the woods by your house? my kitty Wonton is neutered as well-he was actually a stray that my bf and i found a couple years ago-we were going to go straight home but decided on the spur of the moment to get some wonton noodle soup, and when we parked and got out, there was this skinny tabby cat meowing his head off for help, follwing ppl up and down the street. i couldnt leave him there, so i picked him up and we brought him home. i fully intended to give him some food and then bring him to the shelter the next morning, but....when we got home, i fed him, ate my dinner, made sure he was ok, and went to sit down crosslegged on my bed. the next thing i knew, this kitty jumped up on the bed, came and got on my lap, curled up, and went to sleep. it was then that i knew that this was my kitty and there was no way i could go give him to the shelter and leave him to an unknown fate. i named him Wonton and he turned out to be the most loving kitty i've ever had...he's sleeping in my lap as i'm typing this

its late here and im going to go to bed in a few mins, i think i'm going to try to WILD (i've come pretty close to being able to do it-i seem to slip into dreams pretty quickly when i go to sleep, much earlier than the 90 mins they say to wait...) can i ask how you learned to have lucid dreams-whats worked for you?