Need ideas to induce dream elements

[Box77]

I was wondering about the way dream interpretation works and if is it posible to go backwards, I mean, from interpretation to dreaming.

[SteadyState]

I believe what you're talking about is dream incubation. Basically, what you want to do is think up a dream scenario you'd like to have and then experience it when you fall asleep? I used to do this a lot before I would actually get lucid dreams. What I would do is write down an elaborate scenario with all the characters, settings and plot of the dream and then I would read over it a few times before going to bed. I'd even draw small pictures to go with it sometimes. If I didn't have a dream about the same scenario that I wrote down, my dreams would often be close and I'd have a lot of the same characters and settings appear. Give it a try, let me know how it goes! Sweet dreams

[juroara]

I've had some success with starting simple. I created my own dream sign! It only worked for that one night though . In this case I choose something that would be noticeable and out of place. So I decided that I would see an orange tree in my bedroom. I even drew the orange tree and stared at my drawing for several minutes before sleeping. Well I didn't see the orange tree in my bedroom in my dream. But it was outside my window! And since none of the trees here change colors - it stuck out nicely.

[Box77]

How did you get to choose a topic in particular? For people interested in the subject, there are interesting threads about dream incubation in the forum. I think this one How does "natural" Dream Incubation work? gives a good perspective about the subject, and this one Dream Incubation, wow it actually works! is kind of complement for the first one. Now I would like to share with you what I'm working on about lucid dreaming right now: The point of my research by now is to find out if It´s possible for me to predict what topic I am going to dream the next night by looking on the events of my recent day. In other words, to realize what´s going to be somehow naturally incubated in my next dreams and if is it really possible for me to strengthen some of theese topics by thinking more on them during my days, then I will look to increase more the frequency of my lucid dreams. I think it is an essential problem for me: To choose a topic. If I choose a topic almost (if not) absolutely unrelated to previous experiences it could be a little bit hard for me to get there. On the other hand, if I evaluate my previous experiences and pick up a topic from there, it should be easier to get dreams on the subject and may be drive them to more specific points: i.e. last night, before going to bed, I built an artificial scenario regarding a particular topic which I was giving a think from time to time during the previous day. But just before going to bed, I had a mail from my wife telling me about more realistic topics which suck my thoughts while I was falling asleep. This lead me to give them a longer time to think against my artificial set up, consecuently my dreams related to a kind of mixture of both situations, giving more importance to the "real part". May be 90% against 10%. Well, these are just premature conclutions and I must go on with my evaluations. As I said, my very first problem is to pick-up a proper topic to have success with in lesser trials due to time is my worse enemy (It wasn't when I was in my 20's). For that, I was thinking about a way to constantly allow me to think about the subject during my day without interfering with my ordinary life and at the same time give me the chance to have more enjoyable dreams, lucids or not. I found the following options from both my experiences and your suggestions. They are still under observation, I didn't find a reliable way for me yet: 1- Ancient memories>One night while I was staring at my HH´s, suddenly a very old memory jumped out to my mind. It was a toy which just disapeared, I used to play with it with not much interest. It was a vehicle from the 80´s star wars movies. Long story how it got to my hands but it is important to say that it was not what I espected my aunty will bring up. In its last days of physical existence in my life, I started to play with it and there´s my last memory for it, holding it in my hands with an improvised driver. After that, I never looked for it, never miss it until a couple of weeks ago may be, when this happenned. Then I realized that such an old memory would be useful somehow. While I was thinking about it I fell asleep. It´s important for me to point out that I didn´t think about this toy during the previous day at all. That night I dreamed about it, I was able to see it again and hold it in my hands, really nice pleasure, I just thought "there you are!!" 2- Broken dreams>Second thing that recently happened was a broken REM stage and a dream which its most interesting part was about to start: I´m in this beautiful Haunted Catacomb made Museum, and after having a short but amazing adventure in the first room, I ask everybody to go for the next room, I wait to be the last one to move. Suddenly my daughter wakes me up, it´s time to wake up and it´s imposible for me to stay one more minute to DEILD, then day goes on. I´m impressed with the easyness I was able to recall the dream feeling that day although I don´t remember any dream about that place next nights... for my sad. I think there was something missing. 3- Sex drive>Due to the above experience, some days after, I picked up a dream I was having just before waking up that day. It wasn´t much more interesting than just sex. It was blurry anyways, but sex feelings for me are easier to recall if I haven´t conclude them. I was thinking from time to time in what I was doing in that dream, and as sex is one of the most publicized things around, there were allways a trigger. That night I dreamed about sex, but it was cut: In the dream, while I was starting to have fun with my wife, my dad came up to the room and started to shout out louder about the things I haven´t done for the house, my responsabilites. I wasn´t able to understand a single word of what he was babbling loud. I just understood him by his corporal expresions, "you have to put all theese things here, there and so". Same night, a couple of dreams after, sex again this time no-one bothers but a blurry dream. Finally everything goes mad when my wife goes out to a date with her girlfriend and she doesn´t want me to come. 4- Sticky Music>Last night I was dreaming about some songs which stick in the mind and it´s a little bit difficult to rid out of them. We are talking about it with my wife and she puts to playback more songs about this kind of music, then the dream turns into a frequent nightmare aparently unrelated to the songs. Today, while I was thinking about music, I remembered the dream while one of those songs started to playback in my mind. I decided to put it to playback for real. This night I will see how it goes and update it for tomorrow if I can. I've been hearing that song along while I'm writing this although playback has stopped a couple of hours ago. 5- "Unfrequent" dreams>I don´t know if it works but I think if I pick up any dream which has strong emotional weight it would be easier to visualize this scenario during day as well. For this, I will pick up an unfrequent dream (I think it's kind of frequent anyways) which I have just remembered a couple of days ago, but I think there must be some particular psychological matters on the meaning of it due to it's kind of confortably symbolic and as it uses to happen from very long time to time, I don´t have the most remote idea in how I could incubate thoughts about it during day since I don´t know what triggers it. I can just think about the feeling but it seems to be not enough, due to it hasn't happen again. I know next time it happens, I will have very high possibilities to become lucid. 6- Recent ordinary dreams>Another option that jumps out to my mind is to pick up any recent ordinary dream to visualize it during day because of I think the more recent it is, the more support with reality. In this particular case, the dream has not been broke. 7- Creative stories>This option is for the fact that I can pick up a topic I would really like to dream about, not necesarily previously dreamed. I don´t know exactly how to build a consistent story from it. Anyway, I would like to give it a try too. 8- Random elements>Then I thought it could be kind of symbolic to pick up a random element and same as above, build a story, short or not, about it, then see what happens. 9- Enviroment Checking>To finish this project, I decided to evaluate the enviroment where I sleep and later on dream, to find frequent external inputs, specially sounds. By now, what I found is that there are certain common things which happen in both reality and my dreams at same time, I mean they both happen at the same time but they aren´t necesarily interpreted by the same sense they get in. I could use this things to build some kind of concient-schemata which could build some base for further dreams to happen the next night, I don't know yet. I have: dogs, the train, sirens, cars, slapping doors, drunk people, etc. Night isn´t absolutely silent here, so, I can use this tool too. Thanks in advance if there are more suggestions or comments. If not, I will let you know how is it going. People interested in join this proyect, you are gladly wellcome!

[Box77]

I will continue my home-made evaluations on point number 4 since it seems to fix a little bit more in my requirements. Points 1 and 2 have a random behaviour, I think there should be some events from time to time and it will be pointed out every now and then. Point 3, I´m not looking for sex oriented dreams by now. I will let you know if there´s something about. Day X-1 (Sunday) -Last night resume- Ok, as I suposed but didn´t have the time to write about it last night, it was obvious that somehow, the act of me writing down this project would get into my dreams too. This point in addition to I was awake more than usual got the following results: Dream Recall was very low. What I can remember is being in this huge mall where I´m setting up kind of virtual traps taking "screenshots" of different views of the aisles there, I´m doing something with the side bars but it´s blurry at this point. The voice in off (I´m hearing it again since a very long time) is telling me that I´m not going to have any success. I go on with my sets I stop thinking in what I could get but to make a good work anyways. Day starts This day, I have more time to go along with the music incubation. Although I was tired more of the day, I played back some songs in the morning till I started to playback the same song during the afternoon, at a very low volume to not bother my ears. I´m still playing it back with the following sets: 1-Volume level -----------------------Very low, headphones not in the head. 2-Amount of songs---------------------One. 3-Type of music-----------------------Epic Heavy Metal. 4-Preference--------------------------Like it, I use to practice guitar with this song. 5-Time of exposure--------------------More than 4 hours. 6-Device used to playback-------------PC. 7-My espectations---------------------Regular. Inforcing topics: I think there´re some posibilities to have some REM rebound for tonight. I will dream about something related to this project again, and as my wife called tonight, may be she will get into the dream as well. My daughter was bringing some behaviour problems. I thought about the dogs from the neighborhood for a while in the afternoon. There were people celebrating on someone else´s work and I thought about inequality. I don´t know if the song will get into the dream, but I´m aware from time to time when I realize it is there. There was a soccer game which results are significant for the opposite team, I didn´t care too much to know about the results. I won´t connect to the web today to avoid any other incubation. As before going to bed activity, I dedicate to hear the song in my mind once I turned off the PC. I ensured to cut the song while it was still playing. Day X-2 (Monday) -Last night resume- Once in bed, while I was hearing the song in my mind, It wasn´t any difficult to follow it. While it was happennig, I started to pay attention on my thoughts. And inmediately remembered about what happenned the first night: An Acustic Hypnagogic Hallucination which brought my mind back and I paid attention on my surroundings while enjoying that feeling. I remembered that it wasn´t recorded yet and put a pin here to remember. While I was thinking this, I realized that I had stopped hearing the song. Then I started again and this time I started to make connections for this song. It went on playing while I made the following connections: Song-->CD-->Who took it-->He has one more of my CD's-->I don´t want to make more connections there since I´m not interested at all in this DC-->Time I got the CD-->Who gave it to me-->boring DC-->Time it Happenned-->Ex-girlfriend-->Where she studied-->Friends there-->fell asleep. The first dream regarded to the "Where she studied" connection: I´m standing on a huge class (where she...) with some students there. Actually we are the only group there. I´m setting a table to place a scale model there. I can see the drawings for it. It´s not the final work. It´s for revision. I see a friend of mine there who used to be very hillarious. I´m glad to see him again. There´s something wrong here. I don´t know what is it, I just want to leave this place, anyways I ended up with her. I clap in the back to this friend of mine showing him I´m glad to see him again. I´m leaving right now. I wake up. I ensure I´m awake and it´s not a FA. Now, I´m hearing another song in my mind, one I was playing back randomly in the morning. It belongs to the dream used as example in Option "4-Sticky Music". I´m amazed while I go to sleep again confortably hearing it. I dream then with this old DC related to my wife. His telling me by drawing something she told me a couple of weeks ago. This dream switches to a cellebration day where lot of dances are performed in the street. People get drunk here and there. I´m in one of those groups. I see some strugle, then I look to join another group. Basically I´m just looking for somebody interesting to have a nice conversation with. More drunk people, I get back to the first group. Same here. I jump back to the room with my wife, and remember the old man telling me something. I explain her what he told me but I cannot draw as well as he did. I don´t remember the way he drew it but what he told me. Then got back to the second group. This time I see some dancers dressed in a way that I think could have some success. A Little girl opens a door. She recognizes me and calls me to get in. I get in and the feeling for dancing is bigger now. I stand on a side and see a DC mixture of two waking life old ladies. We see each other without interest. Dream switches to a more symbolic level, which by now is the one I will use to evaluate option 6 I think. Day starts Question: Is it posible for the mechanism which builds schemata to be the same system used if we build a more concient schemata? I mean, if I find connections between elements while I´m awake, Am I doing somehow the same procedure while I´m finding those connections while dreaming? I played back the same song from 4-Sticky Music during all day, there was external influence for a couple of hours may be. I brought my daughter to a paint exposition to take some data to dream about. Late in the night, I got back to write this again. I think I´m incubating theese factors right now. The sets for the song for today were: 1-Volume level -----------------------Low through speakers. 2-Amount of songs---------------------One. 3-Type of music-----------------------Bollywood. 4-Preference--------------------------Accept it, my wife sent it to me. 5-Time of exposure--------------------More than 6 hours. 6-Device used to playback-------------PC. 7-My espectations---------------------More than regular. Inforcing topics: I would like to stick on this song topic for some days, now it´s playing back in my mind. May be the stuff related to this project won´t last too much neither. I think I´m gonna dream more about my wife. There are some chances to realize she has not come yet. My daughter was bothering before going to bed. I had a call from my mother, she got sick and told me about the climate there. It has snowed near and freezing time has come. We talk on the phone, which could be showed somehow by isolating the cold behind something. I don´t know if there were good works at the exposition although there were some I liked. My daughter was able to recognize some of the figures, animals, people in some of the paints. She later prefered to stare at a window which shows the street. I laugh because she prefered a more dinamic "paint". Then we have a walk into this ancient construction. Got back home while I was speaking with an old lady. No interesting mails, no posts, I suposed it too. Another song has incubated without my intention due to the film my daughter saw before sleeping. But right now the previous one has started again, I´m going to bed right now. Day X-3 (Tuesday) -Last night resume- When I woke up from the first cycle, the song which I didn´t want to incubate from the film we saw with my daughter, was already sounding inside my head. I even remember some fragments where I see the main characters dancing and so. As I figured out about the chances to realize my wife has not come yet, I didn´t dream about her at all! I think it could be something showing exactly that she is not here yet. Anyway, first I´m walking upwards on a dry water flow path, reflecting about my childhood preferences for soccer games. I reach a place where it started to rain. Then, I dreamt about family. It´s important for me to point out that the boring DC I mentioned the previous night, appeared this time, what shows me that somehow, writing this project is an incubating method as well. Day starts Today is an important day due to my wife arrives in the night. We must set up home to wellcome her and my younger daughter. I didn´t have much time to incubate music, although there was a small time I was able to practice guitar. I had a phone call asking for a job. Then we went to the airport to wellcome her. We got back home, and everything was about family. I didn´t have time to write down anything and while falling asleep, I just thought that as it is imposible for me to make a proper incubating system, my expectations are far from my thoughts, I could focus on my sex drive. Anyway, here are the sets for the small time I dedicated to music incubating system: 1-Volume level -----------------------Headphones in the head. 2-Amount of songs---------------------One. 3-Type of music-----------------------Epic Heavy Metal. 4-Preference--------------------------Like it, while practicing. 5-Time of exposure--------------------Less than an hour. 6-Device used to playback-------------PC. 7-My espectations---------------------Very low. Inforcing topics:There were no more inforcing topics than my thoughts about my wife´s new clothing. Day X-4 (Wednesday) -Last night resume- As I was not able to recall much more from the song and didn´t have the chance to make a proper incubating system for today, I just focused on my sex drive when I saw my wife from a time. We were too tired to do anything. House was a chaos, and night wasn´t quite enough due to the young ladies. Then I fell asleep. Dream Recall was very low too. I just can remember being in some kind of empty underground slaughter house which was flooded some days ago but now it´s all dried. I knew about this due to we ask some people there, I don´t remember what for. I found an old friend of mine who was my first guitar teacher. We were looking for my cousin whose cell number I look for in my cellphone which battery is low. I´m not able to get the number in spite of my efforts. There was something else about him, but I cannot remember more, I just can get flash feelings but not complete pictures. Does anyone knows how to recall from those feelings? I think they could get incubated too and may be have the chance to dream about it. Day starts Today is a more organizing day. I had to show my wife what I taught to our daughter. Then I went for the job, and got back with all the requirements except for one thing which I will get for tomorrow. Day was quiet in general, no songs in my way to get the job. Although there was visual detail. An ancient memory jumped out while I was waiting to cross the street. I saw a huge truck which reminded an old toy. This time it was a more enjoyable toy for me. May be it will get into the dreams. I bought a couple of beers for us although It lookslike we wont have them for tonight. In the afternoon, I practiced guitar again then I put some random music to playback. The practicing song is still sounding in my head by now. The sets for it: 1-Volume level -----------------------Headphones in the head. 2-Amount of songs---------------------One. 3-Type of music-----------------------Epic Heavy Metal. 4-Preference--------------------------Like it, while practicing. 5-Time of exposure--------------------Less than an hour. 6-Device used to playback-------------PC. 7-My espectations---------------------Regular. Inforcing topics: The toy and the song, I think there must be something related to them. As we were not able to have a proper conversation with my wife, I could be dreaming something about this lack of communication (I remember the song of RATT) when I had the cassette cover but not the tape-->It was the only song I knew from them for a time-->I had a quest for this tape-->Those were my just Heavy Metal times-->Everything around was Heavy Metal!-->I remember an old jean jacket without sleeves I found somewhere-->It was my "uniform" during my highschool. This time, I´m making the connections before going to bed. I don´t know what will come to my mind there. Day X-5 (Thrusday) -Last night resume- After turning off the PC. I recieved a call which stopped my thoughts about the incubation for a while. After that I realized that some organizations for bed time must be done. My sleep was interrupted, I had bad cycles, I just can remember low dreams: My mother was too apathic that she didn´t want to talk too much. She told me something about a spider when I´m preparing some fast food for myself. We are in an old known house. I ask her to repeat what she said. No more words from her side. She looks bored. As "spider" was the only thing I was able to understand, I start to look for a spider somewhere. I find it on a window which is on the side of a ladder. The spider is pretty small. It doesn´t surprise me, I go on with my sandwich. The next dream I was able to remember: We are in a Mall again, but this time, with my family. There are giving toys for the children who come in, but the toys must be given back after the visit finishes. I have a small soldier in my hand. It´s my daughter's toy. I take a shopping car and go for them while thinking "Hope they don´t get confused". After that, there is a military guy who was playing some war games and he let his empty bag inside a bathroom. I can examine that bag for a while, then I find a known small knife. I think to myself "usefull". Then I get to an icecream shop. There´s a known person whose DC appears for the first time. There´s something about my wish to have a nice icecream. I wake up and life goes on. Day starts I have to do some procedure for today and finish a work for tomorrow. Work is in stand-by. Procedure went wrong. Headache started during night. There is no music incubation for today but random music if there was something. The sets for the music: 1-Volume level -----------------------None. 2-Amount of songs---------------------None. 3-Type of music-----------------------None. 4-Preference--------------------------None. 5-Time of exposure--------------------None. 6-Device used to playback-------------None. 7-My espectations---------------------None. Inforcing topics: I just want to sleep well. Day X-6 (Friday) -Last night resume- I woke up in the middle of the night. Then I was able to remember some dreams which I cannot remember right now. I think it is posible to remember them in another dream. Early in the morning I dreamed about attending a metal concert with some friends of mine, there´s a recently frequent DC. Then I´m in front of my PC doing something around DV, when I change the "User name" title to "User Box" It sounds interesting and I like it. I can see my avatar in the screen. Then I wake up and days goes on. Day starts Ordinary life as well. I had a small time to practice some guitar, same track. Random music was played during day. I still have a headache. I go for a walk in the afternoon. I wasn´t able to focus in anything but ordinary life. Before bed I organize some schedules. I go to sleep just wanting to sleep. The sets for the song were 1-Volume level -----------------------Headphones in the head. 2-Amount of songs---------------------One. 3-Type of music-----------------------Epic Heavy Metal. 4-Preference--------------------------Like it, while practicing. 5-Time of exposure--------------------Less than an hour. 6-Device used to playback-------------PC. 7-My espectations---------------------None. Inforcing topics: I just want to sleep well. Day X-7 (Saturday) -Last night resume- I didn´t think about any topic in particular, I just let my mind flow. First I dreamed about something that called my attention for a while in the afternoon. It started from the question Could it be usefull? In the dream I had both the time and space to check it and finally know it is not. Then some lunch with this newly frequent DC's cousin. There is some problem here with unknown DC´s. Then I go to a College Campus to find my wife. I don´t find her here and another experience from the previous day gets into the dream: While I was having a walk, deliverately I walked to an obviously closed path, then I had to get back on my steps. I did something similar when I was looking for my wife. After that, I am wearing an analog watch in my right hand. I see the time, there´s something strange in all of this but cannot tell what (I don´t wear any hand watch since a very long time). All I can think is it´s too late. Then I decide to go out from the Campus. I walk through the insane pavilion. I get 3 of them following me. I focus on misleading the leader. They don´t even know they are following someone. Day starts The sets for the songs were: 1-Volume level -----------------------Headphones in the head + speakers. 2-Amount of songs---------------------Three. 3-Type of music-----------------------Heavy Metal. 4-Preference--------------------------Like them, while practicing. 5-Time of exposure--------------------Some more than an hour. 6-Device used to playback-------------PC. 7-My espectations---------------------None. Inforcing topics: While I was updating the above text, a DC jumped to my mind. It triggered a dreamscape where I woke up from the bed for the first time. I was staring at an urban house when I realized I was laying on bed yet. I decided to wake up to see what happens. LD! I´m focusing on the insane pavilion and its particular DC which triggered the above experience. Now I´m remembering a LD where I saw a straw man which starts to burn while I think it. Once I stop thinking it gets back to its original position, standing against a wall. I was very exited those times as I can remember it. It´s nice to remember that surrounding dreamscape feeling. I wont let it go. I know it´s what I was looking for. LD feeling this time. Day X-8 (Sunday) -Last night resume- Before going to bed, unregular behavior took me out from my Lucid Dreaming toughts. My sleep cycles were interrupted out of REM stage. I just can remember doing something very interesting in my dreams. I have very low recall this time. I just can remember a short dream where I´m taking some shortcuts. Day starts Ordinary life + some abstract feelings from the latest dream when looked to recall more from time to time. Practiced for a while then interrupted. The sets for the song this time: 1-Volume level -----------------------Headphones in the head + speakers. 2-Amount of songs---------------------One. 3-Type of music-----------------------Epic Heavy Metal. 4-Preference--------------------------Like it, while practicing. 5-Time of exposure--------------------Less than an hour. 6-Device used to playback-------------PC. 7-My espectations---------------------None. Inforcing topics: There was a time when I didn´t played the cover. In stead of that I was practicing more technical stuff. There´re some espectations for a new toy. We played with the kids during the afternoon. I'm focusing in the LD feelings I got yesterday. Specially on the surround feeling. Sight and Hearing.

[Box77]

Day X-9 (Monday) -Last night resume- After going to bed, I thought for a while about some LDs I had. I was a little bit stressed by my kids who sometimes screw things up. I had some responsible thoughts then fell asleep. I can remember a dream where we are cellebrating my cousin´s birthday or something like that. Then the dream switches to a known room. A DC appears. I used him as dreamsign a couple of times, this time I didn´t. There´s something strange but I don´t realize what is it yet. His real part has passed away many years ago. He´s pissed off due to his stuff has been moved. I think: "Obviously, because of it has been so many years before you come back again". We don´t understand each other so I decide to go on with the new Journey I´m about to start with my daughter through a tunel underneath this DC's wife´s bed. Then I get back to my cousin´s first house. I´m in a park in front of it. He opens the door and I ask him about the party. It has finished some time ago, it has gone hell. I see a weird truck in the front door. It has a known local company's colours, but this time, it shows some fire patterns. I woke up with a song which was randomly played some days ago. I remember hearing that song during part of the dream. Day starts Ordinary life again. This time I was paying more attention every time I heard the song in my mind. I put it to play back some time in the morning. This time I let the reproduction list go on. Then I practice guitar again. I´m able to get the hole song this time. As life around has stabilized somehow, I´m going on with this system to start paying attention every time I hear any song in my mind. There was some sex expectative during the afternoon. While music playback the sets for the songs were: 1-Volume level -----------------------Headphones in the head + speakers. 2-Amount of songs---------------------More than one. 3-Type of music-----------------------Heavy Metal for practicing and Gothic for playing back. 4-Preference--------------------------Like them. 5-Time of exposure--------------------More than an hour. 6-Device used to playback-------------PC. 7-My expectations---------------------Regular. Inforcing topics: During day, I focused on hearing some songs in my head. I started to pay more attention on my surroundings every time it happenned. It wasn´t too much during day. Before going to bed, there were sex thoughts. Day X-10 (Tuesday) -Last night resume- I just focused in my sex thoughts altough nothing happenned. I dreamed about school times, then some designing stuff, sex and finally working as a barman. I woke up hearing another song played around a week ago. I started to focus on having a lucid dream before having more night problems. Ordinary life took over. -Revision- I can see it´s possible for me to get the topics which are going to be incubated in dreams before going to bed. It´s needed to have a proper time to think about them. I think the accuracy depends on the time spent on it. Music incubation is posible, it seems to work better when there´s some random behaviour. I would like to test if it could be used as a trigger to have lucid dreams. Playing a particular song didn´t clearly get for me, it´s better if I let it a more random behaviour.Interruptions are one negative factor which tends to deviate the direction of my previous thoughts. Growing a family isn´t favorable to have a specific pattern. So, I think I´m gonna test option 5 too. Day starts Today I will focus on a particular symbolic dream I had. For this, I think I´m gonna incorporate the previous experiences to trigger my awareness on the dream feeling in particular: Every time I hear any song (in my head or not) I will focus on the feelings from this dream. A consequence for this could be paying more attention on my surroundings. I´m focusing in dreaming about this scenario above all. So, if I get lucid, it has to be in this dream. The sets for the music this time: 1-Volume level -----------------------Random. 2-Amount of songs---------------------Random. 3-Type of music-----------------------Random. 4-Preference--------------------------None. 5-Time of exposure--------------------As long as I pay attention. 6-Device used to playback-------------Wherever. 7-My expectations---------------------Regular. 8-Time of the day---------------------Random. Inforcing topics: I payed attention every time I was able to be aware usually due to music in my head, I thought about the feelings of this kind of dreams where water doesn´t touch my feet. Sex. Day X-11 (Wednesday) -Last night resume- The first dream was about an entity mixture of multiple insects with human arms but crab hands, who was telling me with an electronic low voice: "...or do you think that I should transmutate into a more specific species?" Then the next dream was related to the symbolic dream I thought. It was a boat trip on a lake. There are around 9 DC´s with me. The boat has more than 3 levels, the first level is covered under water. We are riding on the railroad once, out from the water. I think it is wrong because of the boat must be on the water. So we end on a regular sized watertight. I was woke up by my daughter. Day starts Ordinary life. I wasn´t too aware of my surroundings. I was amazed of the entity I saw. I forgot to pay attention on music. I was watching some FotP episodes. Before going to bed I wondered about the next thing I would like to do in my next lucid dream. Inforcing topics: I will think about how to jump to the moon in a lucid dream. Day X-12 (Thursday) -Last night resume- Once in bed, I started to focus on this feeling about water not covering my feet. Then I made some relations from this symbolism which went from water to my origins basically. The first dreams were about ordinary life mostly: Getting home, group of teenagers, my wife goes out to an important date. Then, it got in a recent operation I made to a clock. The dream cycle ends with a Lucid dream where I performed what I was curious about. It triggered lucidity when I started to dance by jumping. The dream faded when I was staring at a lonely star in the sky while the earth vanished from my back. I wasn´t able to get to the moon. It wasn´t there neither! I cannot remember any other dream. Day starts: The first thing I did was to remember I had a lucid dream last night! It made my day. Although there were some strugling, everything looks better for tonight. I expect a lucid dream again since there´s a chance. The sets for the songs this time: 1-Volume level -----------------------Headphones in the head, low volume. 2-Amount of songs---------------------More than one. 3-Type of music-----------------------Animes + Clasical. 4-Preference--------------------------Like them. 5-Time of exposure--------------------More than an hour. 6-Device used to playback-------------PC. 7-My expectations---------------------Better. 8-Time of the day---------------------Before going to bed. Inforcing topics: Updating this project. Once in bed I plan to think about how could I perform a jump to the moon. I have a previous idea which is: "I must jump at the speed of light to get there in a couple of seconds". Day X-13 (Friday) -Last night resume- Bad night. I got to bed a "little bit" tired. Then there were some Interruptions which didn´t match any REM stage I supose. Bad dream recall. I just can remember dreaming about school times. The dance my shoolmates are performing now have changed. I walk around, I see it´s night. There´s a Pool table with some adolescents playing on it. I get back where my schoolmates. I think I could join them in the dance. Fun anyways. Day starts Ordinary life took over. Bad day mostly. The sets for the songs this time: 1-Volume level -----------------------Headphones in the head. 2-Amount of songs---------------------More than one. 3-Type of music-----------------------Rythm & Blues. 4-Preference--------------------------Like them. 5-Time of exposure--------------------More than an hour. 6-Device used to playback-------------PC. 7-My expectations---------------------Low. 8-Time of the day---------------------While working Before going to bed. Inforcing topics: In the night, I recieved a call for a job. I worked on it while hearing some songs. I planned to be aware every time I hear those songs but I didn´t do it at all. Sex. Day X-14 (Saturday) -Last night resume- I went to bed too tired. Too many interruptions again. I was too confused during night. I woke up once, hearing one of the songs which was previously played. I just can remember being in some kind of struggle with a close cousin who was drunk or some. Day starts Ordinary life. Long walk looking for some stuff. Regular day. I don´t pay much attention on my surroundings. The sets for the songs this time: 1-Volume level -----------------------Random 2-Amount of songs---------------------Unknown 3-Type of music-----------------------Random 4-Preference--------------------------None 5-Time of exposure--------------------Random 6-Device used to playback-------------None 7-My expectations---------------------None 8-Time of the day---------------------All day long Inforcing topics: This time I just want to sleep well. Day X-15 (Sunday) -Last night resume- After going to bed, there was a moment I started to think about the music I heard during day, where I was and so. There was a moment where I remember a particular music shape. I fell asleep while thinking that it´s important the way I wake up every day. If I want to be aware during day, I must think about it during bedtime the previous night. Then I have a vague sensation of working on lucid dreaming but didn´t watched around. Then one of my mother´s friends asks me for someone I don´t know. There´s a catholic animated film playing somewhere. I remember small fragments. Day starts I wake up thinking I will be more aware during day. I used the random music system for today. Ordinary life again. There´re some important points I could pay attention for tomorrow. I will see it once in bed. The sets for the songs this time: 1-Volume level -----------------------Random 2-Amount of songs---------------------Unknown 3-Type of music-----------------------Random 4-Preference--------------------------Not interested in shape 5-Time of exposure--------------------Random 6-Device used to playback-------------Wherever it happens 7-My expectations---------------------Regular 8-Time of the day---------------------All day long Before bed playback: 1-Volume level -----------------------Headphones in the head, low volume. 2-Amount of songs---------------------More than one. 3-Type of music-----------------------Animes + Clasical. 4-Preference--------------------------Like them. 5-Time of exposure--------------------More than an hour. 6-Device used to playback-------------PC. 7-My expectations---------------------Better. 8-Time of the day---------------------Before going to bed. Inforcing topics: I was aware of my surroundings from time to time. It wasn´t necesarily triggered by music all the time. Before going to bed, I update this project. "Tonight I must think about what I must pay attention for tomorrow, if I want to be aware most of the day if not all."