Hi all,

My name is SpiceRack...at least that's my trail name when I am hiking. (My friends and family call me JJ).

I am casually interested in my dreams, mostly as a conduit to greater insight into my psyche and consciousness, which is my primary interest in life. I am into Eastern philosophical approaches to living and generally curious about spirituality and philosophy (ontology, metaphysics, relativism).

I have had two lucid dreams in my life. These two dreams occurred in two consecutive nights in which I had just moved to a foreign country where I knew I would be living for at least a year. In each I was lucid for only a few moments before I became terrified about this prospect and forced myself awake (by yelling loudly). In the second dream, I had a false awakening after a moment of lucidity achieved by looking in a mirror in the dream and not recognizing my face. I then woke up in my dream, believed I was awake in reality, realized this was not where I went to sleep and then did the yelling force-awake thing again. This experience was exhilarating and scary.

I have a few questions about lucid dreaming upon which some of you more experienced dreamers may be able to shed some light:

Because I have lucid dreamed 'naturally', does this increase my prospects for hoping to induce lucid dreams?

A friend of mine has a friend who claims to have learned a method for recording dreams on paper throughout the night without waking fully which gave him access to read about some of his deeply disturbing dreams of a sexual and violent nature once he awoke fully in the morning. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this? Is this plausible? Had anyone ever had any patterns or impulses revealed through dream recording of which they were previously unaware. (The friend of my friend was so disturbed he discontinued the practice and destroyed his journal).

Has the experience of lucid dreaming had an impact on your waking life? Have you felt changed in your awareness, consciousness, mood, etc?


I have more questions about methods and what to read but I imagine there are existing threads on this subject to read.

Thanks for reading my questions. I am glad to join your community.

Cheers,

SR