Has anyone here mastered lucid dreaming?

[MavsSuperFan]

Recently found out it was possible.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Can't lucid dream that well. And if you're banging every hawtie you know in your dreams then what motivation do you have to get up out of bed :oldlol: ?

But am working on subconscious reprogramming.

[Budadiiii]

What did it for me was the reality checks throughout the day. (asking myself if I'm in a dream constantly and analysing why/why not) and also looking at my hands and making sure they stay intact when I poke my finger at them. I don't have them very often anymore because I don't consciously try to very often. I'll probably have one tonight just because of this thread. I was addicted for months and I consistently did the reality check shit and still have them as a consequent. I ingrained it into my mind :biggums:

[treadster]

The last time i tried it i went to sleep paralysis, might try again tonight

[Le Shaqtus]

Lucid dreaming seems like some scary shit, does anyone have any personal experiences they can share about it?

[Swaggin916]

I am getting there. I seem to have something happen before I can get it in though... like fourplay is all there but before I can get it in I wake up. A couple times I have managed to stick it in though and it feels like the real deal. It's kinda cooky.

As for other non sexual dreams, it's hit and miss. I usually know that I am dreaming though. I feel like ever since I started taking shrooms my dreams have become more lucid... and that's probably because I can better separate fantasy from reality now. Like when something happens in a dream that doesn't make a whole lot of sense it's a dead give away.

[fiddy]

You could try 5p5, co-enzyme form of Vit b6, definitely makes dreams more vivid. Doesnt work after intoxication. Had all kind of crazy dreams with just 33mg of it. Its somewhat easier to recall and therefore remember your dreams afterwards.


Can't lucid dream that well. And if you're banging every hawtie you know in your dreams then what motivation do you have to get up out of bed :oldlol: ?

But am working on subconscious reprogramming.
Seems interesting. Care to introduce us to your regime?

[gigantes]

cool... lots of interesting replies in this thread.

pretty much all of my time and energy in this arena is spent on meditation / reflection / reprogramming. not sure if i want to take away from those things to pursue this actively. is there any significant benefit to lucid dreaming, besides the sexual fantasies?

[Rake2204]

I don't think I've had a lot of experience lucid dreaming. Sometimes I feel as though I've dreamed lucidly, but it feels a little vague i.e. it's not always super clear and apparent that you're controlling your dream.

Generally speaking, my recommendation for those wishing to delve deeper into their dreams (lucid or otherwise), I'd actually recommend keeping a pen and paper bedside and recording your dreams the moment you wake up, even if you can't see what you're writing (because it's dark in the room and you're tired). Ever had a great dream, then woke up thinking about how crazy or awesome it was, feeling as though you'll never forget the experience, only to fall back asleep and when you ultimately wake up for good, you suddenly only remember that you had a great dream but the details are all absent? Any notes taken at the time of the dream will likely trigger your true memories of the dream itself.

Also, make yourself think about remembering your dreams before you go to sleep for the night. The strategies may sound silly, but they work.

[gigantes]

when i get a sufficiently powerful dream, i reflect on it afterwards so as to burn it into medium / long memory. then, over the course of whatever... hours or days... i continue to reflect on the memory, identifying the key points and decoding their meaning. ultimately the dream usually turns out to be advice... usually in the form of realisations and possibilities.

so far i'm fairly happy with this approach, since this way it's not possible to write the dream down and fail to take action on it. no... IMO it's quite important to work on the dream immediately if you want to reap its benefit. and this way i automatically sort dreams on a priority system, since quickly-forgotten dreams do not turn out to be of much significance IME. i'm always trying to preserve brain cells and not fill up yet more notebooks that get lost in the shuffle.

[bdreason]

I can control my dreams fairly well. I'm able to recognize I'm in a dream about 30% of the time. Unfortunately it usually isn't long after I recognize I'm in a dream that I awake. There are also times when I recognize I'm in a dream, but am unable to control my actions in the dream.

[kNicKz]

Did it once in my life and it only lasted a couple seconds before I woke up.

It was indescribable. I knew that externally I was laying on a couch but was mentally in the dreamworld

[Jameerthefear]

Yeah I never really intentionally do it though. I think there is only a 1-2 times where I could "full-on" do it though. I don't have dreams very often. Maybe once a month at most. The crappy thing is that I can control when I wake up, so I can accidentally wake myself up if that makes sense.

[hateraid]

Recently found out it was possible.

Where you just watching an episode of American Dad?

[knickballer]

Lucid dreaming seems like some scary shit, does anyone have any personal experiences they can share about it?

Nothing scary about it at all. Maybe you're thinking about Sleep Paralysis which can be scary if you don't know what's happening(lol)


As for Lucid dreaming with practice you will be able to get good at it. You'll need to record your dreams every night/morning you wake up, you'll need to start remembering them.

After a while you'll be able to remember your dreams easier and once you are in your dreams you'll be able to recognize them. But once this happens you'll want to start waking up so you have to force yourself to stay in the dream and I read before that if you imagine yourself spinning in a circle non stop or rubbing your hands like a maniac you'll break that stage and you'll remain giving you the ability to do w/e the **** you want and slay as many brazillian round ass booties as you would like!

Ways to realize if you are in your dream is to look and some very detailed stuff. For example look at your hands cuz in the dream you won't have 5 fingers but more like some alien shaped hands. Look at the clock which will be blurred, etc.


As for me I have I have given up on lucid dreaming. Too lazy to do that dream journal.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

You could try 5p5, co-enzyme form of Vit b6, definitely makes dreams more vivid. Doesnt work after intoxication. Had all kind of crazy dreams with just 33mg of it. Its somewhat easier to recall and therefore remember your dreams afterwards.


Seems interesting. Care to introduce us to your regime?

fiddy, if you don't mind my venting; I've had a lot of lies and filth enter my head from a young age from arrogant obnoxious retards. And many of them .And a few of these things stick because kids are impressionable sponges. Now I did not choose to have these disgusting arrogant obnoxious retards in my life and I did not have the reference points to understand what Truth was, so change was crucial.

So what I did was extensively search for ways to try to repair the damage without consulting a counselor/therapist.

And there it is. It's called the Silva Method. It teaches you to use the deeper levels of your brain. Look up 3-2-1 method on google youtube. And in that 3-2-1 method I want you to repeat a belief over and over again.

So let's say that you were naturally racist against.. blacks or gypsies or something. If through subliminal messaging, friends, or certain powerful influences you had. This would literally cause your conscious perception to perceive a man approaching you in your territory with a grin as a Threat.. even tho he could be wanting a joke. It could make you think that a man who was nice to you wanted something in return even if he was kind. It could mean that you see a fella doing a krumping dance and see it as a violent seizure or something :oldlol:... By slowly and steadily repeating a statement like "Black people and gypsy people are normal people just like us and I'll see the good in them" While you're in a deep meditative state.. your conscious mind begins to follow suit.

And that's only scratching the surface.


I'm only on like Day 2 and by switching up my perspective on things it's helped a lot in overall mood stability clarity and quality of thoughts and so on and so forth. Two major beliefs I had (which permeated through my brain by ungrateful retard classmates) were things like "all in all you're just another brick in the wall/life sucks work sucks" and "its impossible to have a full courseload, work, gym, social life, learn about money, and find time to go out" so I just switched it up with "Life's a blessing and it's an opportunity to be able to commit to labor that's not like 3rd world countrie or 1800 factory conditions, and my role in society is but a sliver in the tree of having a fulfilling life" "Anything is possible provided you are discerning with your time." Only very very minor shifts in perspective but I can already tel you, that there's something going on.

And by doing this repeatedly and going back it's like you installed a manual transmission gear as a Captain of your own Ship. More Control, more personal responsibility and less reliance on others. Of course the key is not to be delusional but adhere to reality and truth. But I've been blessed to have met many good men of all wakes of life with that cynical honest sense of humor so that won't be an issue.

Loving it so far. This plus Qigong has helped light years in getting to be where I want to be.

The method should have your mind completely quiet and you are relaxed and hyper aware. Good luck Bulgaria.

[Nets fan 93]

I can not remember one of my two lucid dreams but what I do remember is that the one I had turned into a nightmare and I woke myself up.

The reality check, asking yourself if you are dreaming throughout the day was what triggered mine. The trick works

[ILLsmak]

Recently found out it was possible.

lol, you might find this crazy, dude, but I'll humor this question.

YES.

Most of my dreams are lucid anyway, but I've also mastered projection, or what I thought was at the time.

I did this when I was pretty young. Basically, what I did was lay down and not fall all the way asleep. Try to sleep but really maintain focus. It became hard to stay between going to sleep and waking up, though.

I got out of my house once and walked around. I was thinking about doing all kinds of deviant shit because "it was just a dream." But the whole world was foggy and empty and it was ****ing weird. Scary even.

I've also had many night terror type dreams. Basically, I've feel the dream world exists, but it is fragile. It can be a malignant place. I've found that other than waking up or "going to sleep" there is a third option, or one could even say the going to sleep leads to this mostly, which is getting sucked into a nightmare world.

The nightmare world is also a very scary place. I've fought and fought to break out of it, even throwing myself on the floor in real life.

I think it has to do with imagination. It's more of a trance state, though, I mean projection is better than lucid dreaming period. It was like the sims or something where you could bring shit into it. However, you gotta be careful not to get sucked in or wake up.

For some reason, that shit interested me when I was a teenager. I don't do it anymore because it's not worth the trauma.

-Smak

[gigantes]

it could be the way our animal brains perceive the batshit crazy way we humans are living today. for them, it would naturally be a terrifying place.

but all of those more primitive brain regions are still with us. science found a long time ago that our modern brains merely build upon those older regions. they didn

[knickballer]

[QUOTE=gigantes]it could be the way our animal brains perceive the batshit crazy way we humans are living today. for them, it would naturally be a terrifying place.

but all of those more primitive brain regions are still with us. science found a long time ago that our modern brains merely build upon those older regions. they didn

[gigantes]

Do you know what lucid dreaming is? The ability to know when you are in a dream and to control it.
i was addressing the last thoughts of the post right above mine.

[raprap]

I was petty good at it a year ago. I used sleep paralysis to lucid dream most of the time, its easier. when you are in sleep paralysis, just try to sleep again and then try hard to dream something you want. that's it.

[East_Stone_Ya]

I had a lucid dream the night after I saw Inception

[HarryCallahan]

I used to be pretty diligent with lucid dreaming. Studying my hands before sleep, trying to remember "look at your hand, look at your clothes, flick the light-switch" - just stuff that's supposed to make you aware of your dreams.

After waking up paralysed a few times I actually managed to stay asleep. First was silly, I looked at my hands, and they were like fleshy boxing gloves, I pretty much laughed myself awake. Then a few short uneventful dreams, then I did what I started it for; lucid sex-dream :banana:

After a while, I just kinda stopped. It was too much for such little reward, can't drink, have to look at my hand for five mins, have to put up with sleep paralysis and for what? So I could dream about fvcking the chick at the supermarket?

[riseagainst]

i literally JUST had a lucid dream last night.

The following dream is not a joke, not making this up. It felt so real. I dreamed that I was having sex with Kim Kardashian. When she was giving me head, it felt so facking good. It felt so real. I knew it was a dream, but it felt like real life. I could literally feel her warm wet soft lips wrapping around my c0ck. And while she was blowing me, I was fingering her. Her vag felt pretty tight, not super tight because of all the black dudes she's been with. lol. But anyway, it was crazy, I literally felt warm, slippery flesh with my fingers. Then when we finally started facking, I commanded her around and I was consciously aware of it. I pounded that so hard. Then I woke up and I felt sad. :(

[East_Stone_Ya]

i literally JUST had a lucid dream last night.

The following dream is not a joke, not making this up. It felt so real. I dreamed that I was having sex with Kim Kardashian. When she was giving me head, it felt so facking good. It felt so real. I knew it was a dream, but it felt like real life. I could literally feel her warm wet soft lips wrapping around my c0ck. And while she was blowing me, I was fingering her. Her vag felt pretty tight, not super tight because of all the black dudes she's been with. lol. But anyway, it was crazy, I literally felt warm, slippery flesh with my fingers. Then when we finally started facking, I commanded her around and I was consciously aware of it. I pounded that so hard. Then I woke up and I felt sad. :(

and the pillow was covered with jizz right?

[joe]

Haven't mastered it but I've had some pretty good ones.

I wanted to communicate with my subconscious mind in my dreams. I heard if you directly ask your subconscious questions in your dream, you can get answers. Though sometimes your mind will trick you or not respond.

I became lucid a few times but it never came to mind to talk to my subconscious. But then a couple months ago I became lucid, and I remembered about asking my mind questions.

I was in a room with an old TV in it, so I looked at the TV and asked it "What kind of person do I want to be?" And then all the dust on the TV started swirling around and created the answer "Pursuant."

I asked a couple other questions but the answers were either 1) Non-sense or 2) Extremely cryptic. I can't tell if the answers are meaningful or if they should just be dismissed. I have them written down but I'm not sure what to make of them.

[riseagainst]

and the pillow was covered with jizz right?

surprisingly no, i didnt jizz or wet myself.

[gigantes]

@joe,
"pursuant" in the legal sense or as a noun? did it get clarified by any of the later words?

[G-train]

i literally JUST had a lucid dream last night.

The following dream is not a joke, not making this up. It felt so real. I dreamed that I was having sex with Kim Kardashian. When she was giving me head, it felt so facking good. It felt so real. I knew it was a dream, but it felt like real life. I could literally feel her warm wet soft lips wrapping around my c0ck. And while she was blowing me, I was fingering her. Her vag felt pretty tight, not super tight because of all the black dudes she's been with. lol. But anyway, it was crazy, I literally felt warm, slippery flesh with my fingers. Then when we finally started facking, I commanded her around and I was consciously aware of it. I pounded that so hard. Then I woke up and I felt sad. :(

I would interpret that dream as that you need to let go of worldly and fleshly desires and give more meaning to your life, as all the pleasures of the world will not truly satisfy you in the end.
Or that you are porn addict. :crazysam:

[che guevara]

I haven't "mastered" it or even close, but recently (the last couple months or so) I've been having them. Which is weird, because I had no intention of having lucid dreams, I've just suddenly been realizing that I'm dreaming while asleep. No idea why.

My problem is that after realizing I'm in a dream, I can't make anything happen. Everything is super hazy, I can't think of anything to do, and then when I do think of something (being a red blooded American male, it usually involves ****ing a bitch), I can't "poof" it into existence. Then I quickly wake up. Oh well.

One weird thing I've read on the Internet is that, supposedly, text is illegible or disfigured in dreams, but it's always completely normal for me.

[HarryCallahan]

I haven't "mastered" it or even close, but recently (the last couple months or so) I've been having them. Which is weird, because I had no intention of having lucid dreams, I've just suddenly been realizing that I'm dreaming while asleep. No idea why.

My problem is that after realizing I'm in a dream, I can't make anything happen. Everything is super hazy, I can't think of anything to do, and then when I do think of something (being a red blooded American male, it usually involves ****ing a bitch), I can't "poof" it into existence. Then I quickly wake up. Oh well.

One weird thing I've read on the Internet is that, supposedly, text is illegible or disfigured in dreams, but it's always completely normal for me.


That's weird. Do you remember anything that you saw written down?

[joe]

@joe,
"pursuant" in the legal sense or as a noun? did it get clarified by any of the later words?

Nope, no clarification. When I woke up I had my own interpretation of what it meant, but I don't know if it's exactly what the dream was trying to tell me. My feeling was that my subconscious mind (or whatever the TV represented) wanted me to be "pursuant" towards my goals and not to be stagnant. Even if I'm not always sure what the goals are, to keep pursuing and making an effort to find a better way. Be "pursuant." I don't know if that's what it meant but that was my gut feeling about it.

One of the other questions I asked was about an old girlfriend, basically to see if my subconscious thought I was right or wrong for a decision I made in the past. Or what was the right decision. And the TV says, "Stop. What's the point?" And then it said, "that's enough, time to wake up" and I woke up out of the dream.

[HarryCallahan]

Nope, no clarification. When I woke up I had my own interpretation of what it meant, but I don't know if it's exactly what the dream was trying to tell me. My feeling was that my subconscious mind (or whatever the TV represented) wanted me to be "pursuant" towards my goals and not to be stagnant. Even if I'm not always sure what the goals are, to keep pursuing and making an effort to find a better way. Be "pursuant." I don't know if that's what it meant but that was my gut feeling about it.

One of the other questions I asked was about an old girlfriend, basically to see if my subconscious thought I was right or wrong for a decision I made in the past. Or what was the right decision. And the TV says, "Stop. What's the point?" And then it said, "that's enough, time to wake up" and I woke up out of the dream.

That's some interesting stuff. I wish I did stuff like that, instead of just bangin a supermarket chick on the cash register. Feels kind of wasteful now...

[joe]

That's some interesting stuff. I wish I did stuff like that, instead of just bangin a supermarket chick on the cash register. Feels kind of wasteful now...

Haha The dream I wrote about in here was my only lucid dream like that, before that one I would just fly or blow up dragons with a laser beam.

Edit- I've got to admit, I tried sex but it would never work out. It would always make me lose lucidity, my dream mind couldn't create the feeling or all the details of having sex.

[HarryCallahan]

Haha The dream I wrote about in here was my only lucid dream like that, before that one I would just fly or blow up dragons with a laser beam.

Edit- I've got to admit, I tried sex but it would never work out. It would always make me lose lucidity, my dream mind couldn't create the feeling or all the details of having sex.

The only sense that I experienced in my lucid sex dream (other than sight) was sound. So a blurry vision of me pounding this chick while hearing the slapping of skin was the best I managed.


I also kicked a baby in a different dream.

[gigantes]

Nope, no clarification. When I woke up I had my own interpretation of what it meant, but I don't know if it's exactly what the dream was trying to tell me. My feeling was that my subconscious mind (or whatever the TV represented) wanted me to be "pursuant" towards my goals and not to be stagnant. Even if I'm not always sure what the goals are, to keep pursuing and making an effort to find a better way. Be "pursuant." I don't know if that's what it meant but that was my gut feeling about it.
hmm... and maybe it's an affirmation of the fact that such is already in your character. like a dash of vision quest-- this is who you are and you can always feel comfortable and true to yourself in that role.


One of the other questions I asked was about an old girlfriend, basically to see if my subconscious thought I was right or wrong for a decision I made in the past. Or what was the right decision. And the TV says, "Stop. What's the point?" And then it said, "that's enough, time to wake up" and I woke up out of the dream.
wow, all of this would be a great reason to keep dreaming that one TV! :cheers:

[gigantes]

I also kicked a baby in a different dream.
don't be pickin' on your fellow ISHiots, now. :(

[HarryCallahan]

don't be pickin' on your fellow ISHiots, now. :(

Not joking.

I was aware that I was dreaming, but I wasn't making stuff materialize or anything super-cool like that. I felt slightly pressured by something (probably the thought "Oh shit you're lucid dreaming, better make the best of it!"), so I was kind of running/jumping (Not quite flying, but close) really fast down a street I am very familiar with just running amok, breaking stuff, punching people and then I picked a baby (didn't get a good look, so it might have been a loaf of bread for all I know) up out of it's stroller and punted that sumbitch like it was 4th and 20.

[Lebron23]

Time travel lucid dreaming is very tiring. I feel like I am playing basketball for 8 hours.

[L.Kizzle]

Is this similar to a wet dream?

:confusedshrug:

[#number6ix#]

Holy shit!!! I do this all time... I didn't realize that it was a term for it until just now...

[gigantes]

something i just found out about: lucid dreaming sleep masks.

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/2013-11/enhanced/webdr03/7/13/enhanced-buzz-2210-1383849985-33.jpg

the idea is that when you drift off in to REM sleep, the masks will begin gently flashing LED's in your eyes. not enough to wake you up, but enough to become part of your dream, and something you can slowly train yourself to recognise. when you do, at that moment you begin lucid dreaming.

the remee is the low-budget one which only guesses at when you're in REM sleep. the novadreamer 2 is a pricier / fancier one that takes feedback from your blink pattern to sense your REM, and also allows you to send signals back in order to make adjustements.

that's the very basics, anyway. here's one site with product reviews:
http://dreamstudies.org/2012/07/06/lucid-dreaming-masks-reviewing-the-next-generation/

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Dreamt of snakebites and they are associated with twisting temptation


Right on with the events of that day

[LakersDaBEst]

Whenever I try to have lucid dream, the dream always come out to be a scary one.

In my dream, I opened my eyes and stared at my closet. All of a sudden, I saw a fken witch/scary person coming out of my closet and trying to pull out my tooth. I tried to shake off my dream by moving my body aggressively, and for a minute, I literally felt like my body was moving to a point where I felt off my bed. However, I did not because it all happened during my dream. I kept trying to fight it off( so I can wake up) but it was impossible... This whole progress takes me about 10 minutes to shake off the dream and wake up in panic. It's some crazy shit, and this is a true story.

[riseagainst]

i literally JUST had a lucid dream last night.

The following dream is not a joke, not making this up. It felt so real. I dreamed that I was having sex with Kim Kardashian. When she was giving me head, it felt so facking good. It felt so real. I knew it was a dream, but it felt like real life. I could literally feel her warm wet soft lips wrapping around my c0ck. And while she was blowing me, I was fingering her. Her vag felt pretty tight, not super tight because of all the black dudes she's been with. lol. But anyway, it was crazy, I literally felt warm, slippery flesh with my fingers. Then when we finally started facking, I commanded her around and I was consciously aware of it. I pounded that so hard. Then I woke up and I felt sad. :(

holy crap i dont remember posting this.
:roll: :roll:

[PullupJay]

About a week ago I had a dream where I was in an empty building with white walls ,white ceiling and white floors.

I was aware that I was in a dream and was like,'hmm this is pretty cool".

I saw an open window, looked down, I was about 50 feet away from the "ground".

I was thinking of jumping and kept telling myself,'don't worry it's not going to hurt its just a dream". I almost jumped, but chickened out even though I knew it was a dream and there would be no pain.


Weirdest thing ever.

I woke up thinking,"damn! why didnt i jump!!!??"

[Swaggin916]

About a week ago I had a dream where I was in an empty building with white walls ,white ceiling and white floors.

I was aware that I was in a dream and was like,'hmm this is pretty cool".

I saw an open window, looked down, I was about 50 feet away from the "ground".

I was thinking of jumping and kept telling myself,'don't worry it's not going to hurt its just a dream". I almost jumped, but chickened out even though I knew it was a dream and there would be no pain.


Weirdest thing ever.

I woke up thinking,"damn! why didnt i jump!!!??"

"The body cannot live without the mind."

In all honesty though I have had some things happen in dreams where things should have hurt me really bad or killed me but I was fine... I always wake up pretty soon after those things happen.

[gigantes]

interesting stories.

i'm still jealous, frankly.

the basic mask is $100, but it can't detect when you're in REM. i might have to shell out $500+ if i want to do a proper. >_<

maybe there's a DIY version, though...?

[I<3NBA]

i've mastered lucid dreaming in a way that once i realized i'm dreaming, i can wake up from it, go to the bathroom to pee, go back to sleep, and continue right where i left off.

control is a bit harder though. sometimes i can control my actions, but sometimes i can't. controlling the dream is even harder. i can't control whatever happens in my dream. i can only control my own actions and even that is hard.

i can control what i dream of though. before i go to sleep, i tell my subconscious what i want to dream about and it usually happens. most of the time, it's also when i dream lucidly.

[Stuckey]

I had brief moments of lucid dreaming

I floated/flew down a street going downhill at about 10 feet off the ground

and I also did a back flip twirl in the air while flying

could feel the balance water in the head shifting as I did it

was pretty cool

wish I could do it more often but not sure if lucid dream takes away precious deep sleep time

[Ancient Legend]

I can control my dreams fairly well. I'm able to recognize I'm in a dream about 30% of the time. Unfortunately it usually isn't long after I recognize I'm in a dream that I awake. There are also times when I recognize I'm in a dream, but am unable to control my actions in the dream.

The exact same thing happens to me. When I find out I'm dreaming, but don't try to control the dream, I will keep dreaming for a while, until an external event wakes me up. If I TRY to take control of the actions in my dream it starts to end quickly. When lucid dreaming I am aware of this so I let the dream take its course.

Another curious thing is that I now have abilities I have build up in previous dreams, for example flying. In my dreams when I was younger, I used to try flying to escape, but struggled to stay in the air a few meters, couldn't fly over power lines for example. As years passed, I "mastered" flying to the point that it's now a given ability in most of my dreams and I don't exert that much energy trying to do so.

In the end, life is just a set of images in the brain, whether they are from conscious experiences or from dreams.

[CeltsGarlic]

Today I had one, since I learned some shit on the web yesterday. Me and a friend or on this shit right now.

Obv, I got too exited and woke up. Till next time.

[gigantes]

a couple weeks ago i saw some tips on how to recognise when you're dreaming. these involved stuff like examining clocks and light switches, and right after you wake, remembering what you were dreaming about... especially stuff that appears regularly. all these things apparently create links between the two worlds that help you have that AHA! moment.

anyway i've been working on this stuff here and there when i remember to. just for gits and shiggles, mainly.

so last night i had my 2nd lucid dream ever and it was a lot more impressive than the first time (from a year or so). first time around it was a dawning realisation in the middle of a mildly unusual dream. last night i dreamt i was having a conversation with my mother, then when i remembered she was no longer alive, suddenly i KNEW. but being able to walk around knowing that, with everything around me seeming so real, was pretty wild. unfortunately it didn't last too long, but the moment of knowing sure made up for it.

if i can keep going with this, maybe it will turn in to a self-growth kind of thing. :banana: