Thread: Old dude from Thailand

I'm an older dude who is retired and currently lives in Thailand with my Thai wife and son.

I started formal practice of Lucid Dreaming a week ago using the MILD technique. This looks to be where I need to be at the moment. I just signed up for this forum.

First - I'm pretty old. And with age comes memory decline. But some of that decline can be offset via "Use It Or Lose It" so beginning to make Lucid Dreaming and ultimately Dream Yoga part of my life, just like meditation, will help as I'm forced to remember.

Second - I'm been a practicing Buddhist meditator for over 40 years. So my quest into lucid dreaming is ultimately a quest to utilize LD into a practice of Dream Yoga.

Third - I've had spontaneous LD all of my life, just not too frequently - perhaps a half a dozen or so a year - and I've never had LD goals nor a framework with which to approach Lucid Dreaming. So I've dealt with lucid dream as well as sleep paralysis before. I'm familiar with this dreamscape but I'm never before tried to manipulate it and use it for self-development.


Which brings me to my first week of LD practice. The wall that I've run into right off the bat is Dream Recall. However, I've found the sub-forum which addresses issues with dream recall and dream signs. For the first couple of days I could remember my dreams and journal them, but the last three day are like my subconsciousness 'knows' I'm trying to hack it and is now hiding my dreams to thwart my efforts. But out of the last seven days I've only come up completely empty once. I can usually catch my very last dream in snippets and then roll back chronologically to pick up detail. I'm my journal I write down key dream impression with single words or short phrase as well as specific dream signs before attempting to flesh out all of the details of the dream.

Anyway, at the moment dream recall seem to be the area that needs focus.

As far as technique? I'm using MILD, an alarm set to do at least 10 reality checks per day plus if I'm in a unique environment I also will do reality checks.
I'm journaling using RedNoteBook for Linux and have made a spreadsheet to record dream signs as they occur and also those I remember from the past.

So? "Onward Ho!"