i am here because i am interested lucidity (duh), but this is because ive had lucid dreams all my life.
and comparing my dreams to my friends’ dreams, its clear mine are much weirder, in depth and i remember many more specifics.
so i was thinking about how i have lots of lucid dreams randomly (maybe one or two a week), and that i should start putting effort into it. i also asked myself how this happens to me and i have a few theories id like to share:
i LOVE cereal, but unlike normal people, i like to have a huge bowl of it before i go to bed (my whole family did this and i nevr thought it as being weird till i lived in halls at uni). this means of course im eating lots of carbohydrates or whatever (not sure about that?) but more importantly lots of milk. so thats probably a big factor.
when i go to sleep i think about myself doing things. its something i learn from my dad i suppose, because in th middle of the day we both do this thing wherewe talk to ourselves, when what we are really doing is imagining conversations with people (as if to practise).
so as im going to sleep i imagine these conversations and practise what i might say etc, but they inevitably turn into me conversing with people as well as walking to new places etc (i.e lucid dreams).
something that has PLAGUED me is fake awakenings. seriously they piss me off more than anything. heres a description of why they happen to me, and how it wold be just as easy to slip into a lucid dream.
i set my alarm plenty of time before i have to get up or anyhting. its a short alarm so i dont have to move to turn it off, but it still wakes me up. im lying there lazy for a minute or two. then i want to look at my watch to see if i have to get up yet. but im lazy as. i want to move my arm to look at it but i cant be bothered. i then do it. turns out it was a dream, which i realise. then i properly look at my watch. 2:35? that cant be right. oh because i dreamed it AGAIN. this goes on.
so i think if i didnt have to get up for anything i can slip back into a lucid dream, i.e number 4 (below):
im lazy, lyin in bed in the morning, not getting up. its late but i want to sleep. in similar vein to 3+2, i lie there, thinking about casually walking around. what i might do for the rest of the day. in no time at all, this becomes a lucid dream, but i think its more like half awake/half asleep.
i believe theres one of those HBTW achronyms or whatever for this, but i have spoken about it as halfawake/halfasleep since i was a kid.
yeh so if i condense my life story there , i think it becomes a couple small recommendations. a large bowl of cereal before bed each night. a short alarm in the morning (i.e three monotonous beeps that are enough to wake you up but not interesting enough to engage your attention - as in music etc). and finally not getting up to go anywhere, lie in bed as long as you can thinking about random stuff.
HAH! I told Redifin (or was it Painocus?) it helped my recall, but he insisted that it had have sugar (and my cereal indeed does)! Now I’m gonna eat cereal all nights before going to bed!
Ooh! points A natural WILDer! Those are the most rare Lucid Dreamers one can find! Congratulations, you kind of rule in my opinion!
Relax, that just means you are a normal teenager (or at least I hope you are). False awakenings and morning laziness (and morning laziness–induced lucid dreaming) are just common that age.
I myself get a lot of both during the school year.
Thanks for the recommendations and welcome to the forum!
If you are really interested in testing the efficacy of your habits in LD inducing, you should write a formal text proposal on the Lab section of the forum. And don’t forget to read the way the Lab works first. I’m certainly up to trying your methods myself
re: the cereal-
i dont get what you mean about the sugar factor. does that help or hinder? either way i generally add sugar to cereal. aparently thats disgusting in some peoples views but i never reall thought of it like that.
anyhoo i came home in the last few days (from uni) and i had trouble sleeping. i noticed it could easily be because im eating earlier in the night and not havng cereal at night.
so i microwaved some milk for 30 seconds (as described in other parts of the forum) and 20/30 minutes later i could easily sleep.
i didnt have a lucid dream (in that i could control it) but i had the usual really vivid dreams, so if anything id say it helped my DR.
There was an informal experiment in the forum a while ago to check if having sugary stuff before sleep would improve the recall and the strengthen the vividness of the dreams; one of my outcomes was, after a night in which I had a lot of cornflakes with sugar, a very very vivid dream with a nice recall, but I think it was Redifin who said the cereal was tempering with the experiment… [=
does ANYONE eat cereal at night, or is this just something screwed up my family does?
anyway everyone should make a tradition of it. not because it will help LD’s (it might) but it will make me seem less weird.
