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[MinatureCookie]

Heya guys, I was pointed here by a friend. Just thought I'd drop a note by here. I've been trying to lucid-dream for a week or two now... I've got my dream recall up from like one a month to two a night, which I personally think is pretty good. I've also been managing to wake up after dreams, for long enough to mentally register the dream... I'm just too tired to actually write it down in my journal most times, so still a lot of room for improvement However on the lucid dreaming front, I seem to be doing rather poor... I actually consciously register in my dream-mind "What? That clock said 8 weeks before, now it says 2 hours? That's not realistically possible... Ah well, back to flying this hot-air-balloon-bungie across the Arctic!" so I never actually gain lucidity... Anyone else like this? Any advice? I'm a Game Designer (sorta...), so I was hoping to use Lucid Dreams as a way of progressing ideas for games. Remembering my dreams alone has really helped Anyway, this post seems to have become somewhat of an essay, and seems to have lost all topic - so I'll wrap it up now, Cheers, Stephen

[yankeesfan28]

What do you do to remember your dreams? I don't seem to remember my dreams that well. Oh and BTW Welcome to the board.

[Robot_Butler]

It sounds like you are on your way. Keep trying to increase your dream recall. The more dreams you remember, the more you will be able to recognize when you are dreaming. If you are getting impatient, try doing a Wake Back To Bed a few times a week. http://dreamviews.com/community/showthread.php?t=64626 Including it in your weekly routine will greatly increase your chances of becoming lucid.

[Dre4m3r]

Just remember that lucid dreaming takes a lot of time, patience, practice, and experimenting. There is no telling how long it will take you. Just remember to stick with it. Read as many tutorials as you can on these forums. There are a lot of good lucid dreamers that have a lot of good advice to give. I would suggest that you first read about recall as this will be the most important part for lucid dreaming. You don't want to have an amazing lucid dream and then not remember anything about it when you wake up. Next I would suggest for you is reality checking. Really getting into your reality checks will help you become lucid when you do it in a dream. There are tons of resources on these forums. Use them wisely and good luck!

[MinatureCookie]

@yankeesfan28 - I really just use a dream diary, and the more I wrote down all of my dreams, the more I began to remember them. @Robot_Butler - Thank you How many dreams should I be able to recall per night, generally do you think? But yeah - my mate said about the Wake Back To Bed... I'm just trying to clear up my schedule a bit so I don't end up having the waking in the middle of the night leaving me insufferably tired @Dre4m3r - I will try and read as many tutorials as possible I've been trying to do a load of reality checks, I had the 'A's on my hands and checking under doorways and stuff... But it occured to me recently, in 99% of my dreams, I will never look at my hands, nor will I be inside and have to go under a doorway... I really need to get the "That's weird... Am I awake?" check going, but I always forget to as I'm distracted by the weird thing Try, try, try I suppose

[Darkmatters]

Hey MC, sounds like you're doing great! I have the same thing all the time, with the almost lucid thing. It's amazing how many times I'll be dreaming along, and actually think something like "Well, in 'these things' you're lucky if things stay the way they were after you turn your back..." Doh! So close! If I could only go from "these things" to KNOWING they're dreams!!!! But thus far it eludes me. Warrior on man!! Oh, and when you say you wake up and register dreams, are you putting them into words? I find as long as I do that then I can remember them even after waking up and falling back asleep several times. But you do have to put them into words like a story. as if you're telling them to a friend. Then write them down later in the day. In fact, Im off to scribble in my DJ now....

[MinatureCookie]

I have a little notepad to the side of me that I write it all down in. It's mildly hidden in case someone should happen to stat reading "And then I realised the insects were trying to break down the door, so I gathered the last remaining humans to push against the door"... Writing it first person could probably end up in me being put away I imagine