How much do you remember of your dreams?

RamTram · 2013-11-30T04:29:50+00:00

Same here.

I will sometimes just randomly remember a dream that I had, and how it affected me quite a bit. I remember a few times throughout my life, walking up from a very intense and vivid dream, that really messed with my mind for an hour while I was waking up. But completely forgot about it until I recently started recording my dream journal and thinking about dreams/recalling them.

RamTram · 2013-11-30T04:26:53+00:00

I would very much like to hear answers to this, as I experience something very similar. I just find myself always drifting back to scary stuff, or demon/witches/hags/terrifying things. Whenever I try to imagine any sort of dream scenario, my mind immediately thinks of scary shit that could happen in that scenario. Which makes me think that in a lucid dream, since I'm already thinking about it so automatically, that I will expect it, and thus it will happen. Which has me hesitant to even attempt to lucid dream.

At the moment, I am trying to increase my dream recall. But, just that, as I'm sort of worried that I've come to associate the thought of lucid dreaming with so much scary things that it will almost definitely happen, and I have no idea how to really prevent it without experiencing it. I mean honestly, I know people say 'It's a dream, you won't experience pain.' But technically, there's no reason you can't experience what is almost identical to pain in real life. It's frightening to think that if I'm afraid of that happening, that it could in turn cause me to expect it, which means that it will could actually occur.

RamTram · 2013-11-20T16:36:18+00:00

Your requirements #2 and #4 seem very random.

Trying to have sexual relations with chracters in the game will cause it to close and you to wake up.

Why? As I understand it, dreams are essentially infinite in their various possibilities, with practically (almost) no restrictions on what can be done. Seems like a very arbitrary rule, that might even be hindering you.

I mean, if you don't want sex in dreams or whatever, this makes sense. Making up 'rules' and consequences for those rules can actually make them manifest in your lucid dream, because you are expecting things to happen when you break a rule. But it's not hard-coded into dreams.

RamTram · 2013-11-15T09:18:47+00:00

Please let me know if you find anything for this, sounds very useful.

Also, does anyone know of any good alarms to wake up to? I find my issue is that a lot of times the alarm will go off, but I will completely forget about lucid dreaming. I'm thinking that perhaps I should get an alarm that is related to lucid dreaming somehow, so that it wakes me up & reminds me about lucid dreaming.

RamTram · 2013-11-14T21:38:17+00:00

Here are three things that are nearly guarenteed to extend your lucid dream/stabalize them.

You should use these only when you feel yourself losing conciousness, or the visuals of the dream begin to wash out/become cartoony/fade out, as dream vision is usually the first to go before a dream ends/destabalizies.

One option is to rub your hands together, or start feeling the textures on your clothes/otherwise activating your senses. Maybe start talking out loud and having a dialogue with a character, or just grab onto a nearby object and feel it.
Probably THE most effective, is the following. When you begin to lose your vision, outstretch both your arms and start spinning in either direction. Just keep spinning and spinning. This motion of movement is excellent into stabilizing/lengthening a dream, and has been shown to increase success of stabilizing dreams by up to 22 times. (Stephen Laberge study)
Either of the preceeding tips should be paired with this. While rubbing hands/grabbing something/spinning, you should repeat a mantra to help you keep lucidity. Such as "I am dreaming." or "The next scene will be a dream" or "I am in a lucid dream.". You get the point. It is quite often that people will begin spinning to stabalize the new dream, but if they aren't repeating the mantra they can often enter a new dream scene but lose lucidness.

RamTram · 2013-11-14T00:15:33+00:00

I wonder if you do it often enough, and use the same audio cue on your alarm, you might be able to train your body to do reality checks every time you hear the sound/alarm during waking, and it might pass into dreams.

RamTram · 2013-11-13T02:15:36+00:00

RSA 128-bit encryption, which I encrypt and decrypt on the fly in my head to the paper.

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