You all gave me so many ideas that I wanted to somehow cram everything into one mutli purpose scale. But alas, due to my forgetfullness, I'd never be able to easily recall all the excellent info provided here.
I have, however, spent the weekend trying to work out a rating scale that would work for me. (I think) I'll have to test if first, of course. Stealing ideas from the above provided information, here's what I came up with. A, hopefully, simple way to rate and keep a running record of LD awareness and/or control. Of course, I realize that certain aspects of different levels may happen concurrently in one dream. Still trying to figure a way to work around that.
Lucid Dream Ratings
Level 1
Lucid but immediately awaken or have no dream control - loss of lucidity upon realization
Level 2
Lucid but with very restricted dream control - lucidity lasts a few seconds to few minutes of the dream.
Level 3
Major dream control of self and the environment in the dream - lucidity lasts for half or more of the dream
Level 4
Level 3 control plus the ability to conjour dream characters and manipulate them - lucidity lasts for most of the dream
Level 5
Absolute godlike control from the beginning of the dream to the end - complete lucidity
Regarding Lucid Tasks
I also wanted to work the lucid tasks into this somehow, and simply decided upon a + system. It's merely placing the appropriate + rating after the Lucid Dream Rating.
+ (one + signifies the monthly basic lucid task was accomplished in said LD)
++ (two +'s signifies that the monthly advanced lucid task was accomplished in said LD)
+++ (three +'s signifies that both lucid tasks were achieved in the same LD)
eg, I post a LD, and after the title of that LD I write (( Level 4 ++))
Simply implies, at a glance, that my LD was a level 4 dream and in this dream I accomplished the advanced lucid task.
Lucid Ability
I was wondering if keeping a weekly average of LD ratings might be useful.
LA/W (lucid abitlity per week) = the average of all the lucid dream ratings from the previous week.
This way, if one wanted, they could perhaps keep a chart to record their LA/W. It'd be a way to quickly see any significant increases or decreases in one's lucid dreaming abilities.
Or, a variant on this, track LD ratings per month instead of per week.
LA/M (lucid ablility per month)
Either way, there'd be actual statistics to basically track a peron's lucid dream abilities or awareness. These statistics could be used as for one's own purposes or could be compared to the abilities of others for whatever reasons.
Wow. That took longer to explain than I thought it would. As you can tell, I had quite the thoghtful weekend. Anyway, any advice or other ideas to improve upon this little work of madness that sprang forth from my mind? Too complicated? Not complicated enough? Just plain crazy? Any and all comments or advice would be greatly appreciated.
And thanks to everyone for your previous imput. I wouldn't have put my brain to use this weekend if not for you all.
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