A Newbie seeking help...

[Sifr]

Hey, its been a long time since I've been here and I thought I'd reaquaint myself here again properly. So I'm Si and I'm British (how about that?) I've been experiencing lucid dreams on and off since I was a kid (so not that many years ago) and I've been trying for years to have them on a more regular basis without success... My lucid dreams are rather bizarre. Most of them are fully lucid and I'm able to have fun trying flight, phasing, but in a few of the dreams although I'm not fully aware I'm dreaming I still retain control over the dreamworld and I'm able to loop the dream until I can get whatever it was I was doing right... lol On occasion, as opposed to having a dream a'la the Matrix where you become a Neo of the dream, I realise that the reality I'm in is fake but I choose to hide it from the "Others" that I meet in the dream as if that would protect them somehow... almost as if, to use the Matrix again as an example, more of an Agent instead. Strange huh? Is there any advice anyone can give me or tips to how to get into a routine to make LD more common? I hear that a dream journal helps and I've many journals dotted where I attempted to do this before but forgot to add things in and then forgot I was doing it all together Anyways, thanks in advance for any help people can give me and a big hello to anyone in the UK! lol --Si

[TygrHawk]

Do you currently employ any methods to help induce your LDs, or do they just happen spontaneously? There is a lot of good information in the Tutorials section, with descriptions of many different methods. Everybody is different, so you need to find what will work best for you.

[Sifr]

I've tried before inducing lucid dreams with limited success, the majority are spontaneous when I managed to nitpick the dream and achieve Gnosis within it. Dream signs I've had work once or twice for me and I've also experienced where I'm neither dreaming nor awake and fully aware of being fully aware of my physical self and my mental avatar in my head? I'm not sure if that answers you're question though?

[eXistenZ]

Hi Sifr, Welcome from a newbie (I definitely have less dreams and LDs than you...) My lucid dreams are rather bizarre. Most of them are fully lucid and I'm able to have fun trying flight, phasing, but in a few of the dreams although I'm not fully aware I'm dreaming I still retain control over the dreamworld and I'm able to loop the dream until I can get whatever it was I was doing right... lol[/b] Control and lucidity are slightly different concepts: you can be lucid in a dream where nothing is under your direct control; on the contrary, you can have control and power in dreams without being lucidly aware that you're dreaming. But often when one becomes aware that s/he's in a dream, s/he gets the control over the dream. On occasion, as opposed to having a dream a'la the Matrix where you become a Neo of the dream, I realise that the reality I'm in is fake but I choose to hide it from the \"Others\" that I meet in the dream as if that would protect them somehow... almost as if, to use the Matrix again as an example, more of an Agent instead. Strange huh?[/b] If I understand well, you recognize that you're in a dream and refrain from doing anything. That shows that control and lucidity are different. Focus on reality checks, rather than control, to verify whether you're dreaming or not. Is there any advice anyone can give me or tips to how to get into a routine to make LD more common? I hear that a dream journal helps and I've many journals dotted where I attempted to do this before but forgot to add things in and then forgot I was doing it all together [/b] The most useful advice is to keep your routine with your dream journal. Put it just beside your bed, or even under the alarm clock, and you'll likely increase the probability to rememeber to put entries in the journal. Keep dreaming eXistenZ