Drawings of Lucid Dreams

[dreamlyn]

Hi I just wanted to share my blog I have started on my lucid dreams with drawings of what I see the in the lucid state. I am an artist and I have been having lucid dreams gosh since I was 4 years old. I got into art because of the lucid dreams and because I thought maybe the art would help me deal with my nightmare lucid dreams. I have trouble breaking out of the lucid state so I remember a lot of what I see. I lucid dream almost every night and more than once per night. I've tried everything to reduce the frequent lucid dreams basically because I want to feel rested but do not ever rarely feel rested. My main reasons for posting my dreams and the dream art was to experiement and share the scenes from the lucid state. When I draw scenes from luicd dreams I do them quickly and use a gesteral form of drawing. I do not look directly at the drawing in the begining stage of drawing the dream. I have found if I concentrate on the paper in front of me I can't grasp the look and feel of the dream. When I begin to draw out the dream I concentrate on the dream until I can almost relive it awake and then I sort of draw the sketch from my peripheral sight. I do not erase anything. I leave all the lines. I do begin sketching very softly. I draw the lucid scenes from the dreams as soon as I wake up from the dream and when I still feel that dreamy sensation. Only the lucid dreams or dream characters I have seen more than once are more detailed. All the dreams that I have posted on this site are scanned so all the softer lines are washed out by the scanning process. But believe me they are there and the sketches are full of lines and scribbles. Also the scenes I have posted are only part of the scenes I have seen in the lucid state. I only post part of it in wonder if anyone will say hey I saw that too in a lucid state. If they did and if it is the same scene then our complete drawings should match in some way. But that is just my curious mind hoping I can find proof for myself that we do share another reality. Any how here is the sight http://www.myspace.com/dreamlynn

[sablewind]

I just saw your lucid dream art on your site. Really interesting. I have a few questions When you say you don't look at the paper directly when you draw the dream. Where do you look? Is it like a contour drawing you are creating? Were you always able to draw your dreams or did you have to practice it over time? Lastly you know you can post the images here in this thread. Don't know how to do it but seen it done.

[dreamlyn]

Thanks for checking it out. About your questions. Yeah when I do draw the dreams I do use contour lines. It's closest to the technique in art classes where they tell you to look only at the subject and not the paper. When you look at your drawing it looks like a mess but only you the artist understands it. Well that's how I start the dream drawings. What I do when I am lucid instead of doing a lucid check like looking at my hands or quesitons myself I go rapidly to the nearest object or person and look at them as long as long as can before I wake up so I can draw them. I could tell right away when I am dreaming because how things feel in the dream state. About if I was always able to do this? No not at all when I began drawing my dreams I started out with scribbles and shapes and diagrams of what I saw. The more I practice drawing from live subjects the better I got at drawing the dreams. I would like to know how to post the drawing here but don't know how yet. Thanks for letting me know. :-)

[Robot_Butler]

I spend 10 hours a day drawing, so I often find myself drawing in my dreams. I LOVE drawing while lucid. I get the strangest results, and it feels amazing. Sometimes I get so focused on what I'm drawing, that I will move into the drawing while I'm creating it, and sort of draw it from the inside out. You have any good experiences sketching while you're lucid?

[dreamlyn]

That is so cool that you go into the drawing. I have tried to draw in a lucid dream and the lines just wiggle around. I really can't create the drawing like I do in my waking life. It's like the lines wiggle and the scene moves a bit and then I see a drawing there. Then more wiggles. I also notice the direction of what I try to draw flip flops. It's like when I try to draw in a lucid state that it shifts from an ordinary dream where I am not aware to being aware so I really get no where with it. What is it like when you actually draw in the lucid state? Do you have drawing from your dreams?

[TalkingHead]

I spend 10 hours a day drawing, so I often find myself drawing in my dreams. I LOVE drawing while lucid. I get the strangest results, and it feels amazing. Sometimes I get so focused on what I'm drawing, that I will move into the drawing while I'm creating it, and sort of draw it from the inside out. You have any good experiences sketching while you're lucid? 10 hours a day! I wish I could concentrate like that. I start spacing out after drawing/painting for 45 minutes!

[TalkingHead]

And great artwork by the way. You're lucky to be so creative!

[dreamlyn]

Thanks for saying so. :-) When you say you start spacing out after drawing/painting for 45 minutes is it like a feeling where at one point you step back and realize gosh look at what I am doing like if your in a lucid state and realize what is going on? Do you have a website? Would like to see your art.

[Robot_Butler]

Dreamlyn, I like how you describe drawing in a dream. That's a good description of what happens to me also. It's almost like I am putting lines down on paper, but the drawing is making itself. Whenever I focus on a detail, or 'zoom in' my attention, I start to lose my place in the dream, and get displaced. Sometimes I end up in the drawing, sometimes I end up watching the drawing like a movie. I almost always lose lucidity when I get too specific or give too much attention to what I'm doing. I get too distracted from the dream world around me.

[TalkingHead]

Thanks for saying so. :-) When you say you start spacing out after drawing/painting for 45 minutes is it like a feeling where at one point you step back and realize gosh look at what I am doing like if your in a lucid state and realize what is going on? Do you have a website? Would like to see your art. I'm afraid not.. at times I can get really involved.. but that feeling never lasts for too long and after about an hour or so I feel like if I keep painting I'm going to start making mistakes because my concentration is waining.

[TalkingHead]

Oh.. I just posted some artwork under the title "buildings and clouds" in the "Artists corner" forum. Thanks for the interest!

[dreamlyn]

Oh cool you posted artwork. Where is the artists corner forum? I can't find it. Don't know my way too well around here since they did all the changes.

[TalkingHead]

Yea it is a little hidden. In the forum section first look for "The Lounge" Then there is a category in their called "Off-Topic Discussion", Then there is a sub-forum within that called "Artists Corner"