Thread: dreams are 5 seconds

kill your brother

You're telling me you don't want to keep a dream journal because "your brother will make fun of you for having a diary?"

You need to grow up. Who cares what other people think about you?

Originally Posted by AmazeO XD

You're telling me you don't want to keep a dream journal because "your brother will make fun of you for having a diary?"

You need to grow up. Who cares what other people think about you?

A couple friends found out about mine...It wasn't pleasant.

it appears that your brother is preventing you from doing wat you want. no alarm, no diary? just start ur journal who cares.. if you really are that paranoid then hide it / only use an electronic diary. for the alarm, if you stop it quick enough he will fall asleep again damn quickly if he doesnt have to get up. dont be so concerned about ur brother lol

Express yourself with some dignity, having a dream journal is an important step.

As a beginner it will help you dramatically to contemplate in waking life if you are dreaming. The perfect environment is what you're trying to create, be as awake as you can be, and start building up dream signs and scenarios.
Everything can be a dream sign, just be aware and affirm the feeling that you are dreaming, and it will come to happen when you are asleep.

Also start going into sleep without chasing drifting thoughts, just the relaxing and tired feeling.

Avoid complacency with efforts and awareness in waking life, but don't take it too seriously, it's to set up the perfect setting for lucid dreaming and shouldn't affect what you do normally already - otherwise lucid dreams will not be what you wanted them to.

Good luck.

Originally Posted by Tarsier

kill your brother

I wouldn't definitely NOT do that

For your Dream Journal, just go ahead and start one. Ignore your brother in this case or you could just start an online one, like so many here do. It'll keep you writing in it and you'll have people reading it, which will make you put in more effort in describing the dream. Also, why are you so worried if he makes fun of you? My family thought it was funny that I was keeping a DJ, but, meh, it doesn't really bother me. Just make sure to put a lock on it if he's the type that will open it and read it even if you said it's private

You can start an online dream journal here, or a private one here. Or you can just create a MS Word document, and set a password so that nobody can open it but you. And if your brother annoys you, kick 'im in tha nuts. That always helps.

Originally Posted by yellowlight

You can start an online dream journal here, or a private one here. Or you can just create a MS Word document, and set a password so that nobody can open it but you. And if your brother annoys you, kick 'im in tha nuts. That always helps.

Hah! But yes, I agree with this in all ways. :]

Originally Posted by idonthaveaalarmornotebook

most of the times dreams last like 5 seconds then i wake up and its 6 am.... time for school . How do I lucidity. Truth is I cant have a stop watch because the alarm wil wake up my older brother and if i have a dream journal my older brother will make fun of me for having a diary. Is there any other way of ataining lucidity and how do i make dreams last longer.

Well, depends if you sleep in a seperate room to him or not, but I find the best way is to simply not tell anyone about your dream diary. And even if your brother, or anyone else come to that, makes fun of you, you can ignore it with the knowledge that he simply doesn't and cannot understand, and you're superior because you're more open-minded about these things ;P

If you don't want anyone to find out, then try to learn the method of attaining LDs called WILD. Look up how to do it in this forum. That should help you.

Originally Posted by Tarsier

kill your brother

Actually seems like a good idea. Straight and to the point.
But why care what your brother thinks of you. He says "Little girly keeps a diary!" Don't show weakness. If you show that you don't care, he'll stop criticizing you. As for an alarm, it's not really needed, but things might be a bit harder without one.