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[Hampusj]

Hi!! I guess I should mention I´m a newbie at this but I have been trying this lucid dreaming buisness for some time. I was very confused about what it meant having a lucid dream until a few nights ago when I finally managed to fall back into a dream I was having. I was following some person before I woke up and during my morning routine of feeding the cats the dream was still very vivid in my head as if I was on a mission so I went back to bed and only had to close my eyes to get back into the thin alleway of some dusty town. It seems like it could have been an old egyptian or west asian town with old stone buildings and tons of people. Falling back into the dream I got a lot more out of the people around, so much more real, having conversations not paying attention to me. So I continue following this person from before which became a multiple ammount of people from my past but ends up blurry when he or she saw me. He\she lead me to a basement where i tried staying focused on the surroundings and what i was doing but eventually a small fuzzy hamster made me loose focus and drift out again. This egyptian, eastern eropean town comes back to me a lot, some times with fully "living" people and other times it´s full of dead alive ones. The feeling of the town is always the same aswell as the colours. This is not the first time I have had such a dream, there has been many of them in the past but they have not been lucid as this. Many of them involve people who shifts shapes and faces and on two occasions the "shapeshifting" person has grabbed hold of my spine through my belly sending shocks into my body. It felt like electrical bursts and as longs as he\ she held it I could not get away or wake up which i normally have no problem doing once i notice it´s a dream. Upon the subject of people; I meet so many strange people in my dreams and it´s almost always when i meet someone else in a dream that i notice i am dreaming. Sometimes it is as if they are helping me. One of them taught me to shape the landscape infront of me. He told me I could do it and i did. But many times I meet my parents that simply are NOT my parents (cause that would be too sweet to be able to talk to them in my dreams) because they just act really wierd. It´s been so many that I am certain that I keep being visited by someone or some people that want different things from me. I don´t think it just a simple case of paranoia. But the dreams never did feel as intense as they did the other day for the few minutes i followed this "test subject" that might just have tricked me with the hamster. I´ve read tons of stuff that are meant to help out in trying to stay lucid but it jsut seems i´m a bit of a drifter. If there´s anyone that has some good advice on how to stay in control i´d much appreciate it. I´m a little bit tired of being "tossed" around so much in my sleep. I´ve read that one shouldn´t fix ones gaze on anything but keep drifting with it... and for some reason i always end up in places with no lightswitches or clocks or electrical appliances at all. I keep a journal which has helped a lot to remembering my dreams a little better but it doesn´t help me much in my dreams so far. This is a great forum, read some posts but so far I don´t have much to add as help myself but I am happy to see so many dreamers!

[Maria92]

Hi, and to Dream Views! Congrats on your lucids! Keep up the good work.

[Serenity]

Wow! Do you keep a dream journal yet? If not, you should. That way, since this town is recurring to you, perhaps you could set yourself some goals into figuring this place out? I always think that recurring dreams are often trying to teach us something important. I have a house on an acreage that recurs in my dreams. Usually my dream guide (DG) is there with me, so I know what it's all about. Maybe the next time you're in this town, try to summon your DG to help you? Anyways, to DV!

[Hampusj]

Thanx for the welcome and advice! I do keep a dreamjournal and so far i can only guess to what kind of place it is... Often than not there are zombies or dead people walking around but they are friendly, i saw from the few times i´ve interracted with them... I never end up on the same streets or alleys but the feeling of the place is always the same. I´ll set up some goals on getting to know it better! A dream guide would help! Are these dream guides the same ones as Carlos Castaneda wrote about in his books?? I managed to meet one temporarily that wanted to teach me shape the landscape. This was cool, i wasn´t lucid dreaming but i noticed this guy coming into my work place, this resturant i used to work at and he grabs my arm and pulls me out of it all, once outside we run, everybody from work starts chasing us. As soon as we stop, people are getting closer, he starts shaping the landscape and tells me to try. I managed doing very little before the people from work interrupted, yelling at the mysterious guy asking him what he was doing. But he turns to me and says "because im good at it", and i wake up. I have been thinking if he could have been a dream guide of sorts. And I have tried thinking about him going back to sleep to see if maybe he´d pop up again... But no dice. How would i go about doing this? I really do need some guidance as I sleep! Please excuse the long answers but i get excited about this.

[Serenity]

I'm not sure how one goes about finding their dream guide! Mine found me As it was, I've known my dream guide long before I came to DV, so... that one I can't really help with. From what I have seen others do in past posts... is I guess when you're lucid you can ask or request that your dream guide appears. Some people aren't good at summoning characters, so another option is to say, spin and they'll be there/open a door and they'll be on the other side/turn a corner and they'll be walking towards you. That's all I got