Hello Everyone!
Back in 2009 I joined this forum to begin my quest for lucid dreaming. I never posted anything and only stayed a lurker on the forums for a couple of months. I was 16 and was so fascinated by the concept of ludic dreaming.
Since then, I have never been able to stop thinking about lucidity. I have had a few successful lucid dreams, but I never was a hardcore lucid dreamer. I didn’t keep a dream journal every single night, I didn’t to RCs every day. I was more interested in the concept, than putting in the work to do it. Shallow, I know, but it gave me a lot of knowledge and a sort of passion.
Anyways, on to the point. I’m a filmmaker and working on a screenplay at the moment involving lucid dreaming pretty heavily. I’m not going to go into many details, but it’s about a graphic designer who gets a job from a website like yours to create a web banner and some other graphics. While doing research on the site he becomes interested in lucid dreaming. Him and his girlfriend both start a quest to become lucid together. That’s all I’m going to say for now, but I wanted to get your opinions on some things:
First of all, I know you can use dreams to overcome certain fears. Have any of you had this experience? I would love to know some of the more common fears, not necessarily ones you’ve overcome, but ones dreamers have. Is it self-esteem issues? Rejection? Abandonment? Failure? Adventure? Etc. etc.
Secondly, do you think it’s possible to lose sight of what’s real and whats not if you’re not careful? I remember when I was trying lucid dreaming at first, I had been doing so much research on lucidity that i was starting to simply dream about lucid dreaming. This led me to think I was dreaming lucidly, but I really didn’t have any control over the dream when looking back on it. So do you think there’s the possibility that if you feel like you don’t have control over your real life, but do in your dreams, your brain might start swapping reality for the dream? Typically, you have control of your real life, but not your dreams.
Thirdly, if you could point me to some good threads on using drugs in your dreams. Not taking drugs, then going to sleep, but finding drugs in your lucid dream and the affect they have on the dream.
I would like to keep you guys in the loop a bit on this script, because I respect your community deeply. I don’t want to do something that will shed negative light on the LD community.
Also, I know some of these are broad topics and I’m not trying to be spoon fed. I will spend quite a bit of time searching through the forums, I just wanted to let you guys know about the project and how much i respect your community. Hopefully, I can become more active now.
-Tyler Herron