Good morning (or night ?)
I’m Cedric, I live in France, I’m 38.
it’s been a loooong time that i didn’t have lucid dream but when I was younger ( between 20 and 30 ^^) I was very accurate to have LD.
i have also wrote a small article about lucid dream because I have found few thing about it by myself.
18 years ago, LD were not something very clear, there wasn’t forum like this one, there wasn’t a community. Just a few books that have one or two words about it and it was books about spirituality and so on.
I have been VERY happy to discover this board because this mean that today, there is a real community of lucid dreamer, people involved in making progress about this wonderfull ability we all have. I don’t feel alone no more (just regarding LD )
In the article I wrote (and lost unfortunatly ) I was speaking about the consciousness in dreams.
in lucid dream, as explained here, you have different degrees of consciousness: the more you are lucid, the more “power” you have on your dream, the more things you can do but the more lucid you are, the more close to wake up you are too.
I explain it like this:
on a chart there is a flat line. This flat line is the frontier between wake up and sleep.
when you dream you goes close to this line, when you have a LD, you are very close to this line and the closer you are, the more “power” you have to change your dream in something you want. It happenned one time onlu that I have had a FULL control on my dream, I mean a fully conscious like if I was wake up on my feet. I could do anything but one thing.
i was in an appartment and I couldn’t go up to the celling: it was the limit I couldn’t go up but appart of this limitation I was really conscious.
I’m sure we can educate ourself to control the consciouness degree we have in dream, it’s a kind of training.
In the past I have make a chart with different level, I don’t remenber how many steps there was , maybe 4 or 5 to describe the consciousness degree you can have in dream.
First one was “hey I’m dreaming !” then you subconscious take back the controll
second was : I’m dreaming, I start to make something like flying, making apprear someone or just changing a little thing and then again, you subconscious take back the control.
third was : I’m dreaming, I can do a few things (flying, going somewhere, watching your hands, changing few things) but you know that you don’t have a complete control on your dream, it’s not very stable
fourth was: you have a complete control on your dream, you are perfectly wake up in your dream.
The main clue that helped me to provoc lucid dream was a reality check: evrytime I was watching something unusual (police car, scared by my girlfriend making me a joke, phone ring while watching a movie etc…) I was pulling my finger with the willing to make it longer. If I’m in “reality” my finger don’t move, if I’m dreaming, my finger was going longer The RC has been very usefull, in a few days of training (around 2 weeks) I have had more LD but it was 18 years ago…
In my first LD, the first thing I was doing was to fly of course
Generaly my subconscious was taken control immediatly after that and the dream become something like I’m superman and I beat a flyng shark or something like this
I’m pretty sure that we can do better things with lucid dream, I’m sure we can “work” for something , for us , for others.
I have been very suprised and very happy to see the characters classification we can meet in dreams on this board because I remeber on time I woke p in my dream and I told to my friend that were in my dream that thing:
“hey, you know what? you the product of my subconsious! I’m dreaming !”
and they have had EXACTLY the reaction described here: my “friends” have had a movment back like if they didn’t understand what I was saying , with a face like " what the hell he is talking about?! he has the wires in shortcut in his mind …" (french expresionn to say “he’s cazy” )
What leads me to think I have found an intersting place was reaing the character classification. When I read "you can meet you subconscious, spiritual guide and “dream god”, I was dubitative, but when I read: “all these characters can lie and you will never know if you are really speaking to a spiritual guide” this lead me to conclude that we have serious guys (and girls) working there.
My english isn’t very good but I hope I will be able to share my own experiments here. When i have discovered this board a few days ago, I told myself: it’s time to come back in lucid dream Cedric
And it happens 3 days ago: I woke up in my dream but i made a mistak
I have seen that to become more lucid you can ask for more light, more lucidity in your dream. I have done it but I requested: “I want more consciousness,I want more consciousness, …” and … I woke up
be carefull of what you are asking for, you will have it ^^
next time i will ask for more light and lucidity as written there
Thank you to have read this until there, see us in another posts
,^…^,
Catlord