Being the narrator/camera in dreams

Quest for Lucidity General Lucidness
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I think I have identified something that inhibits my ability to become lucid, and I was wondering if anyone else here has to deal with this.

Many times in my dreams, I am not just a person walking through my dreams. I am the narrator and/or the camera. As narrator I stop the story and ponder whether or not what just happened was the best thing that should have happened (Which usually has to do with me killing someone). As the camera, I am just…there. No other explanation necessary. I am there and sometimes I know everything, but sometimes I don’t know anything except what I see play out before me without any insight into emotions or reasons behind anything. Sometimes I am more than one person, so that I’ll be the narrator and myself and a DC.

What I guess I am trying to say is that my brain is so split up in dreams that I think it is difficult for me to pull them all together in order to be lucid. Even when I have been lucid, it wasn’t me wandering through a dream world. It was more like I was the entire dreamworld - the landscape, the other characters and myself. So since I am the storyteller and the other characters and whatnot, and actively participating in the dreams as such, it seems that I have compelling reasons to convince myself that I am not dreaming and to just go with the flow.

With all that said, any tips on dealing with this? I am trying to convince myself that it would be better for me to consciously take part in dreams rather than just going along with them, but I don’t seem to be getting through. And ever since I moved out of an unpleasant situation into an excessively stable one, my dreams have been mindnumbingly boring. (One involved doing the work I do every day.) I’m not doing anything useful in them or getting anything out of them. Dreams are a great way to work on things, especially since I have trouble with meditation.

Thanks for your help![/i]

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don’t worry, i also have problems with LDs, and so do many others :smile: if that makes you feel better hehe :happy:

we have actually talked about this in chat one time, with the people there. one of them had this problem where he’s always like the watched of the dream (a DO). and that’s why he can’t become lucid, since he’s not really there. we all talked about it and it came out that his favorite hobby is watching movies, and he gets so absorbed in them, that it’s kind of like a dream. and that’s what his dreams are. one of the guys there came up with an idea that he has to try being aware or do RC or just realize he’s watching, while he’s watching a movie. in a way it’s ruining a good movie, but it’s also waking your mind up from just watching. but i don’t know if this can help you, since you seem to be in multiple places in the same dream. but maybe you should still try it.

good luck :wink:

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Thanks! I don’t watch many movies anymore, so unfortunately that won’t help me. But it is good to hear about what other people are doing which is different from the norm.