My Personal Journey: A Day by Day Account on My Lucid Dreaming Abilities

[Andromeda155]

Hey guys. I just joined the site today, and it is awesome. There is such a wealth of information here that I spent about 3 hours reading and soaking it all in. Anyways, the basis of this post is to keep a record of training myself to lucid dream over time. Here is goes! Day 1 I discover DreamViews.com and look into everything I can over lucid dreaming. I start taking note of if I am or am not dreaming and start doing a reality check every 30 minutes or so by trying to blow through my nose while it is pinched. I've taken a spiral notebook and set it up a Dream Journal that will keep track of my dreams every day. Before I sleep tonight, I will repeat the mantra 'I will wake up after every dream.' Here's to training my mind!

[dakotahnok]

Hello and welcome to DV! I hope you have many happy LD's!!

[Serenity]

Welcome, Andromeda Since you're keeping a journal (record) of your experiences, you may want to look into the Dreamviews Blogs that we have. They have lots of utilities that may help you track your progress better than the thread can. The blogs are here: Dreamviews Lucid Dreaming Community & Resource - Recent DJ Posts - Dream Journals In them, you can label things like notes (like today's entry is), normal dreams, lucid dreams... you can create tags to help you recognize dream signs, too For now, though, I'm going to move this thread to the Lucid Experiences forum, since undoubtedly, this thread will be a record of your experiences

[Andromeda155]

Thanks guys!

[guessadoodle]

Hello hello, and welcome to DV. I'm rather new in terms of lucid dreaming too. May your lucid dreaming experiences be enjoyable.

[Andromeda155]

Day 2 Unfortunately I was not able to wake myself after a dream last night. I don't remember falling asleep with the thought of 'Waking up after a dream' in my mind, so I'll try again tonight. I did remember shards of about three dreams, but nothing large and no signs that I know of (just a lot of buildings, a grassy plain, and flying in a orb-like machine). I'm still conditioning myself to ask periodically if I am dreaming, count my fingers, blow into my nose while it is pinched, etc. I'm just now realizing how long conditioning myself might take .

[Nufeather1]

welcome to dream views! I suggest if you are into mantras to check into the method MILD, and also search up some of stephen laberge's work it may help you! also sometimes good concentration and determination help to dream or lucid dream, just before you go to sleep I suggest you slate your mind and let your concentration take over, but dont stress yourself. good luck! I hope you have many lucids!

[Andromeda155]

I do have a quick question about something I've been seeing around. What is a dream guide?

[Serenity]

I'm a dream guide! Actually, a dream guide, while dreaming is under a lot of debate. For me, it's a person (mine is named Danny) that I can call for and he appears. Often, he teaches me things, and is able to help me out with goals that are a bit hard for me to do. I think of my dream guide on a spiritual level.

[Andromeda155]

Great! It sounds so interesting. Finding all of this stuff out about our subconscious is so amazing to me. Now we can start to figure out what the other 90% of our brain does while the other 10% is hard at work!

[Andromeda155]

Day Three I successfully woke up after a dream last night and recorded it into a Dream Journal. The Reality Checks are still a part of my daily routine.

[Andromeda155]

Day Four Only got about 4 hours of sleep, so I was pretty tired when I woke up and couldn't remember any dreams. Still conditioning myself.

[Andromeda155]

Day Five I had three dreams last night and remembered all of them. I recorded them in my dream journal. Still conditioning myself with Reality Checks.

[Serenity]

Nice work!! What's your current RC philosophy?

[Andromeda155]

Try to make a specific RC a part of my daily routine, like every thirty minutes or so do one. Should I try to improve on that?

[Serenity]

It depends... what I mean by philosophy is... reality checks shouldn't become habitual. You would be doing yourself a great disservice, if they did. 1 hour or 30 minutes is fine, but what I'm prying you for is how you're currently performing your reality checks

[Andromeda155]

Oh! Well like I'll walk through a doorway and try to breathe through my nose while it's pinched and say something like, "Am I dreaming?" out loud, and proceed to look around and answer "No."

[Serenity]

Definitely a good start. I have a follow up suggestion for you to try First of all, why is your answer a no? Really think about this one, because in a dream, you may automatically tell yourself, "This feels to real to be dreaming." Which is a big old boooo! We don't want that. One of the best techniques is a memory game. Look at what you're wearing. Do you remember putting your clothes on in the morning? What were you doing that led you to this doorway? What were you doing 5 minutes ago? So, you truly are awake at this moment... The next follow up is to imagine what you would do if you actually were in a dream at this moment. It's good to ingrain a routine into your mind that would see yourself performing the reality check (pinch nose, try breathing), it passes (you can breathe!) and stabilizing the dream (rub your hands together, view your dream space, interact with something, like touching one of the walls, or an object). As you build this up day to day, the chances are greater that it'll carry over into your LD. It's very important to take a moment to keep your cool and stabilize. Not stabilizing won't wreck the dream (I always forget to, lol!), but I truly believe it helps prolong the life of the dream and will make controlling it a bit easier.

[Andromeda155]

Thanks. Day Six I had three dreams, but remember the details of two. I transcribed them into my DreamViews Dream Journal for anyone interested.

[Ethereal]

Hey Andromeda, this is a genuinely important part of lucid dreaming. Keep this up, it will help you to no end. And Serenity, thank you for your words. I've been at this for two years now, but clearly voiced, vivid advice is like a splash of fresh water.

[Raspberry]

Hey and welcome to DV! I look forward to reading your thread And I tend to RC whenever something weird happens. DJs really help a lot so keep writing in it!

[Andromeda155]

Days Seven and Eight Visited my cousin at Texas A&M over the weekend, so between partying and hanging out, there wasn't much time for sleep. When I did sleep it was for only around 3-4 hours each.

[PercyLucid]

I was about to offer help but I think Serenity got the lead. All I can say from here, follow Serenity's advice. She is awesome, she has extended knowledge and she always loves to help! If you would like to ask something and she is not available, I will love to help out! Just drop me an PM. I hope you had fun with your cousin!!! Welcome to DV

[Andromeda155]

Thanks Percy, I'm looking forward to your MILD class next week as well. I'm one of the students

[PercyLucid]

Good Looking forward to it!