Originally posted by Burns
After you collect several dreams in your DJ, you can start noticing patterns of dream signs or characters.
Yeah, I'm going to read and digest the tutorials over the next few weeks. I've already skimmed through them - and in fact misunderstood the idea of the "dream sign". Here's what I wrote in the journal after the pivotal dream:

"I thought about a dream sign I'd want to encounter in the next dream: an oversized metallic key, levitating. Key: opens doors, unlocks potentialities, reveals secrets. Levitating: reminds me to do a reality check after collecting the key. The check: start to levitate.

The key is just a sign, a kind of scepter: I do not need to find a locked door! All I need to do is get the key, start to levitate and once up, begin to spin around. Gently at first (rising consciousness), quicker later on (changing the dreamscape)."

So, instead of treating the dream signs as indigenous elements, here I am trying to design an object that I can jam into my future dreams!

I guess I'm really interested in the "control" aspect of LD!