Hi,
I’ve been reading and reading the last few days; I got really caught up in this big mystery after watching Linklater’s excellent film Waking Life. I’d never heard of such thing as a lucid dream before, and I clearly doubted the fact that there were no boundaries. Though, I’ve gathered I was very wrong, and I’ve also decided that this is something I really want to do.
I love the idea of escapism. I do read books, I do play (role playing) games, I do watch movies, and sometimes I feel like being somewhere else, but all over I find nothing more satysfying than simply daydreaming. Having discovered this, though, I figured it’s no turning back. This is my thing.
I reached lucidity though DILD once, but as many others, I woke very quickly. It did although save my day; I’ve never felt something so glorious before (I had lots of bullets in my head and realised they shouldn’t make me feel good).
I have been doing reality checks several times a day since monday, and I am thinking, believing and deciding that I will find lucidity the very next night. I am also writing a dream journal, which forces me to get up half an hour earlier. I also figured I should go much earlier to bed. I am trying to interpret your ideas about lucid living and put them into real life. All over, my life has been been better, and I hope there’s more to come. Still, there’s some questions:
I don’t wake up before war is raging outside. OK, admittedly, my pretty ordinary alarm clock does do the job, but I’ve gathered that it’s not the ultimate thing when doing a WBTB and then WILD. So, although it isn’t directly related to LD, how the heck can one program oneself to wake every time one has had a dream, for instance? With me it’s like, when I sleep, I sleep. I don’t wake during nights unless something very special have happened. Does that mean I’m a “deep sleeper”, and does that have a positive or negative effect on my actual abilities to lucid dream? But it’s this “wake-by-myself-during-night”-thing I’m really curious about. It sounds like a neat future. Can I practice it?
OK, that actually seemed to be the main question. I’m always reluctant to join a new forum with a post of this length, but now it’s done. I’ll probably bring up more questions very soon. Thanks alot for reading, and wish my good luck.
Other advice are of course greatly appreciated.
J-
Edit: One more thing, I’m sure you can get addicted to just about anything, but how is it with lucid dreaming? Have people literally got addicted to having these dreams… on such a level that they sleep far more than actually necessary? Like if you on a daily basis are impatient to get home to have a nap… not because you’re tired, but simply to have the lucid dream?