So once I become lucid (only twice) I try to become more aware by thinking of my waking life and how I’m sleeping in bed and just actually dreaming, as well as reality checks of course. The first time it enhanced my lucidity. But the last time I became lucid I had a few second conversation with a dream character, then tried to increase lucidity by becoming more awear through thinking of my waking life. But as soon as I did this the second time I just woke up in bed ( no false awakenings). So I was wondering if thinking of the waking life while lucid could actually be detrimental to the lucid dream? Any thoughts/advice? Thanks.
From my experience it shouldn’t. One of the best lucid dreams was when I was thinking about waking life. I was flying in my street, few meters from the ground and I was simultaneously comparing waking world with dream world, this somehow made the connection with the dream even stronger and dream was from FA.
I don’t know, I mention a few times how profounding this can be… To me it was fascinating, it was like existing in 2 similar yet completely different worlds!
That’s what it was like the first time, the dream became amazingly vivid and great. But when I tried it during another lucid dream I just woke up. Must have gotten to excited or something.
Could be, oh and I forgot to mention now you reminded how much vivid and life like dream was. It was one of the most amazing dreams. Like I said, fascinating how I could think about both worlds simultaneously…
Absolutely! But I would suggest to stabilize the dream first, don’t rush on your goals, it good to have them, but it’s good to stabilize the dream as first thing you do… And to keep a dream to helped often reality checking…
Yeah, at least I do this and it helps me, I can’t say that it will work for you 100% but you can always try it. In theory any “contact” with the dream should stabilize it: rubbing hands, shouting, RC’ing, spinning…
I think the only problem about thinking about your waking life is if you focus too much on your body in bed. This can lead you to shift your awareness from your dream body to your physical body, and this helps you lost grasp of the dream world.
Okay so in my second lucid dream ( the one that pertains to this thread) I am standing in front of a house right down the road from this house I actually lived in ten years ago IWL. I hear voices coming from the back of this house and go see what’s up. Next thing I know I see almost every one of my friends standing behind this house. I walk up and smoke a cigarette with my friend Jake. For some reason (I’m not lucid yet so I don’t know why haha) me and my friend joe run to the yard that is behind the one were all standing in. Me and joe start to taunt these two German shepards but they scare us so we run back to where everyone else is and were laughing hysterically. As I walk back to everyone else I get the notion that I am dreaming so I plug my nose, but long behold I can still breathe out of it. “I’m dreaming” I shout. So I see my girlfriend and grab her lightly and say “you know we’re dreaming right?” and she just smiles so benevolently and says “really?”. There was the most heart melting look on her face when she smiled. So everyone starts walking up to the house that we were standing behind and while there doing that I linger behind to try and increase my awareness. I start trying to remember stuff from WL like my body and my name and where I’m from. I also start rubbing my hands but it’s to late and I just find myself awake in bed.
I was only lucid for a minute or so but it was the most amazing/mind blowing minute of my life
I’m very glad because of your experience. I can’t say nothing more. Every single experience counts and makes our life grater! Just enjoy and good luck!
to me it’s mind blowing