about a year ago i began actively pursuing lucidity. i tried many tactics, and had limited success. i lost interest in the spring, and now that i’ve graduated and have lots of free time to spend on LD, i’d like to start on it again. here’s a summary of my “journey”:
-i tried reality checks and had no success. i drew an L on my hand so i would RC every time i saw it, and i did RC a lot but never once in a dream.
-i tried wild a few times, to radiohead’s Kid A and at the drive-in’s relationship of command, my two favorite albums at that time. i tried this some at night, some in the afternoon.
-i began the SUNEYE technique #1, and had my first lucid dream! the odd thing is, i had the dream before i could finish the technique (it involves severing your sleep) so i recorded it and ended it early.
-i kept a dream journal diligently for months. this improved my dream recall somewhat, but it’s still quite lacking.
-i have had a few almost-obes in the mornings, in which i recognize the duality of my consciousness, and arise in a dream-body in a dream-world. these never last more than a few seconds. sometimes i’m just able to “see through closed eye-lids”
-since i stopped actively pursuing lucidity, i’ve had many fun dreams in which i achieve a limited lucidity. in these, i usually believe i am in a video game and i have limited powers, usually including flight.
so any ideas? where should i go from here? my ultimate goal for lucid dreaming is using it as an enhancement for creativity.
Hey, somewhere here is a pattern !
I have almost the same history with you, and i ALSO see i m in a video game, or I play some coin-op and then I enter its world, though my lucidity is limited!
I also have OBEs in the morning every now and then, but I experience something liquid inside me trying to move out of me. I also experience a sense of anger in that thing trying to come out. Sort of like a beast or a freaky monster in a horror movie…
I , too , have quited for a while.
What I see now ,is that I get experiences only when I actively want it and pursuit.
Yesterday,for example, (this has worked many times in the past , too) I meditated for about 20 minutes (nothing much, just sat on my bed and eased my mind) , I focused on the thought that I wanted to gain lucidity next time I would be dreaming, and then slept for one and a half hour. I woke up at 11 at night, and then slept again at about 2 in the morning. During the first sleep cycle I had a lucid dream. Though it was kind of short (just like all the ones in the past- 5-10secs)
So it’s a matter of pursuing it. Not just wanting it a bit. REALLY thinking you want to do it. All the other times, I would just lay in my bed before I went to sleep and tried to meditate on the thought, but I would always fall asleep and nothing would happen…
also, my dream recall is atrocious… i have reason to suspect i’m still ld’ing, just not remembering any of it! during a long stretch where i didn’t remember any of my dreams, i was walking down a parking lot one day and noticed a license plate that looked odd. then, i had a flash of insight in which i realized that i had had a lucid dream some time ago in which a license plate triggered lucidity! that was all i remembered of the dream, but i thought to myself: how many lucid dreams have i had, lost forever to my memory?
Freaky! the moment I read “-since i stopped actively pursuing lucidity, i’ve had many fun dreams in which i achieve a limited lucidity.” from your first post,
I remembered I had a LD last night, which was very real and vivid.
I then suspected you may be having many LDs but forgetting them, and then I read your most recent post.
Keep up with your dream journal, and maybe try to visit the forum soon after waking to see if anything triggers memories of LDs.