Washed-up lucid dreamer

**Coglapse** · 07-29-2011 02:18 AM

Hello,

So it's been a while since my last lucid dream. Maybe even a year or two. There was a time where I would have the most intense nightlong lucid dreams almost every night. I remember the dreams where I wasn't trying to have sex with everything that crossed my path (i had a problem with that) were very profound. It was almost as if I had two separate lives; one of waking and sleeping. Among other things, I really miss the flying.

Well, I want to bring that part of me back in a new way. Back then, I was a much more "spiritual" person, and I meditated a lot. So my goal is to kickstart my lucid dreaming life by meditating again, coming here and practicing. Though, I have abandoned spirituality for the most part, my aim is to approach meditation from a a more secular stance rooted in my own eclectic psycholigcal philosophy. A lots happened since my days as a lucid dreamer, and it's going to be a challenge getting back into it.

My motivation for starting again is to work on myself. I beleive that lucid dreaming may have some beneficial effects if done right. It holds the key to the unconscious mind, or something... Anyway, I'll be doing my best to keep a journal on here and be active. I don't know quite where to start, but I have this book "Inner Work' by Robert Adams that I dug out of my collection and I intend to start reading it soon... And if anyone has any tips I would love to hear them... Take care

EK

**Bobblehat** · 07-29-2011 09:17 AM

Can you give details about your "eclectic psychological philosophy."? Why? I'm just generally interested in things like that. Maybe if you feel it's off-topic then pm me.

**Coglapse** · 07-29-2011 09:32 AM

oh it's nothing set in stone, or written down, or complete... just my tendencies, like using evolutionary psychology to anlyze my experience, panpsychist leanings, secularist, open to jungian ideas, etc... i'm getting into the philsoophy of psychology and philosophy of mind, so peopple who interest me right now are jerry fodor, david eagleman, dennett, pinker, and so forth... i used to be more into buddhism, taois, advaita vedanta, a couple years ago but I think one reaches a philoosphical dead end there at some point. they're good for reaching inner states for a lot of people, and maybe even get enlightened if such a thing truly exists, but my mind can't settle on the philosophy for some reason. My vague hope is to ground the complex inner states in a modern psychological paradigm, if that makes any sense.