In my dream, I find a photo album in my house, I view the photos one by one… first, some photos of my sister, then old photos of the rooms, photos of Barrack Obama… , then photos of rabbits, etc…
what and an organised photo album!
this wasn’t enough to make me lucid, but I did become lucid later in this dream, when I found myself in an embarassing situation. somehow, embarassing situations are the ones that trigger my lucidity all the time… much more than any dreamsing.
I feel ashamed, and think “this can’t happen to me… I must be dreaming”.
I don’t know how to use this to help me become lucid more frequently.
should I ask my mind to put me in an embarassing situation in my dream, rather than asking it to recognise the dream state? (induced dreamsign technique)
As soon as I became lucid in this dream, I saw a pink dog…
I said…“you’re a little late my friend…”
Most of the times when I get lucid, I somehow get ot my house, and continue my dream from there: If I start lucid, I start at my house. If I was walking, I am suddenly walking into my house etc…
If you’re well “trained” at recognising a certain dreamsign, if doing a reality check when encountering it has become systematic for you, then you can try the “Induced Dreamsign Technique” (I call it this way but it may have a different name somewhere else).
Instead of asking your mind to recognise the dream state, to acchieve a LD, which is a complex and especailly vague idea, you could ask your mind to let you dream of that dreamsign you are perfect at recognising. This is a simple indirect way of accheiving lucidity since the idea of a “red car” (for exemple, assuming that that is the dream sign you chose) is much easier to comprehend and much accurate than the idea of “knowing that you are dreaming”.
There’s no need to say that the more the idea is accurate (hence can be easily visualised), the more likely and easily your mind will respond to it.
Again you have to be certain that you will recognise the dreamsign, otherwise it’s useless.
it has worked several times for me, but since I’m still not well trained to recognise my dreamsign, I miss it sometimes. (but I succeed at incubating it at least one time a night)
for me, one dreamsign I cannot miss is the “embarassing situation” dreamsign, the problem is that the idea is still kind of vague, less vague than “I will know I’m dreaming”, but still more vague than a “red car”…
I was reading what I wrote this morning about my dream, I forgot to say that on that photo of the album, Obama is playing soccer, and there was written on the photo “Obama Mc Ken” (close to Mc Cain)
Now if this isn’t the dreamsign of the year!! lol
, then photos of rabbits, etc…
For me, I think, I usually get lucid with the small things, not the gigantic and surreal…