Thread: Training

Don't wait, start now. On weekdays I have to be up by 4am and I also go to bed later than I should. Weekends are my golden time for dreaming because I can sleep in. Within three weeks of first looking at this site I had my first and best LD. Dream journal is a pain, but necessary if you have poor recall like me. At least with you being a student, you probably don't have to worry about waking your spouse at 4am by turning on a light to write your notes! Even though you'll have more fodder for your journal on weekends, you'll still occasionally come up with some dreams to note during the week.

Yes, just weekends would work fine. It would be best if you did it every day, but sometimes you can't. When I was in college, I wrote down a few words when I got up and then journalled later in the day. Those few words helped me remember what I had dreamed about.

OK, thanks, I guess I'll start.

dude, Lucid dreaming take almost no time.
The thing that might take some time is the RCing during the day (like 2 seconds)
and the DJ writing (some minutes)
Start it now

Get up five minutes earlier, write down your dreams. 2/7 days of the week is too inconsistent. It is hard, but you have to really want it. I get up at 5:30 half the time out of necessity; I am a college freshman with 6 classes, pulling above a B in all of them. I still find the time. If I'm super pressed for time, I write a few key points and take my journal with me, filling out the rest as soon as I have a spare moment.

Five minutes. That's all. But where could a student get an extra five minutes a day? You could: plan out your outfit ahead of time, don't waste time text messaging, do homework on the way to school (unless you drive), or spend five minutes less on the internet.

If you are really pushed for time, record your dreams in audio. You can get dressed and record dreams at the same time! =D

Also, the amount of sleep is not as important as the quality and consistency of that sleep. Try to get up at the same time every day, at least. On weekends, try to adjust at 90 minute intervals (Get up at 6:20, record dreams, then go back to bed for 90 minutes).

Good luck! I know you can do it!

I feel like I don't dream during the week...
Maybe I just never noticed?
I'll see what happens Monday morning.

Originally Posted by Musturd

I feel like I don't dream during the week...
Maybe I just never noticed?
I'll see what happens Monday morning.

You dream multiple times per night, every night. Everyone does, but most never pay attention!

I slept 13 hours last night, and I remembered having 6 or 7 different dreams. I woke up to record one and then went back to sleep and recorded another one, but I forgot the others.
It's weird, I never noticed that I dream this much.

If you sleep that much you probably had 15 dreams. Normally, you will have 5, but if you sleep in all of that extra sleep in REM sleep, so you are dreaming the whole time.

cool

Hello.

Hi

Originally Posted by Musturd

I am really interested in the idea of lucid dreaming, but I feel that I don't really have enough time to start the training. I have to wake up for school at 6:20 every morning, and most of the time I have to do homework until 11:00 or 12:00. I do have time on weekends, however. I was just wondering if keeping a dream journal during the weekends would benefit me at all. Don't I need a longer amount of sleep each night? Should I start keeping a dream journal now? Should I wait until a vacation or the summer?

Thanks for your help.

I know how you feel. I have an unstable sleep cycle too (even on weekends).

If you tell yourself before you go to bed and repeat in your mind that you will remember your dreams, you really will. I used to not remember my dreams at all, then the first day I started doing that I woke up automatically after every dream and wrote it down. Still no lucid yet tho...

Too bad it takes time. I haven't been lucid in months.