Hello dreamers....can you use colors?
Salutations all..... as everyone says it is nice to find a forum filled with such activity about things we all love....I can already tell there is much to learn from you all. I have been interested in, and attempting to work with, lucid dreaming for some time now..... though I have never truly dedicated myself to practicing, and I know this is why I have had limited lucid experiences.... only one actually. I have learned most of what I know from what I see being referred to around here as a natural dreamer. He learned to control his dreams as a child to fend off nightmares...and has retained lucidity in his adult life. When talking with him we have never used any of the, jargon, for lack of a better word, that I see here... so I have been trying to match my definitions of things with the way they are termed here but have a question....
In WILD .... I think this was in the tutorial, but maybe somewhere else on the site... I read that you will start to see patterns much like if you pressed your fingertip on you eyelid.... and that you are to stay aware of the patterns but not focus on only them.... so as to help maintain that conscious state into the dream. My friend once described to me how he went into a lucid dream, and he talked about those same patterns and colors that you see when you close your eyes... but he would control them, make them into different shapes, or objects... and it was the concentration on those patterns that enabled him to be lucid. Do you think what he is doing is not WILD, but just one of the many individual ways to dream lucidly.... ?
And second, are there ways to teach children to lucid dream?