Uncategorized

So I'm giving this thing a try where you just repeatedly hit your snooze button and enjoy the 10 minute dreams in between. They were interesting but I wish my alarm gave me at least 5 more minutes to enjoy them. I could be on to something here.

Had a dream where I got to play Doom Eternal. Fought Khan Maykr and one of those Sentinel mechs. Then the dream got crazy when Khan Maykr wanted to resurrect Icon of Sin. Sora from Kingdom Hearts appears with the X-blade and we killed Khan Maykr. Turns out Khan Maykr wasn't really a "Maykr", it was some deceased woman. Anyway, we still had to deal with the Icon of Sin Armored. Riku appears without his keyblade. He instead absorbs the ISA. Riku immediately gains weight in a comical way. The credits roll and instead of getting a metal outro fitting of Doom Eternal, it's some orchestral Kingdom Hearts stuff. Other stuff include The Doom Slayers real name being, "Sinister" and also him having a scottish accent. There was also a scene in where The Doom Slayer makes friends with an archvile.

Had a dream I was petting a black cat. It meowed. I tried to summon some superpowers. I was looking for a dream character. I heard someone call my name and I was invited into a house party by some old friends. Funny thing is that his entire lucid dream happened in 20 minutes. I tried in bed for nearly an hour trying to fall asleep only that my mind was so active from daydreaming. I finally realized I had work soon so I used meditation to forcefully quiet my mind so I could fall asleep.

Daydream > Silence see-saw?

Had a very cute dream about Kingdom Hearts 3. The guardians of light had just defeated Xehanort powered up with the X-blade. We all get absorbed into Kingdom Hearts the actual place; not the game, and land in this open desert area completely illuminated by another moon. I am the first to come to and gaze up at the moon which is a small triangle instead of a giant heart now, but still bright as ever. I look around and spot the X-blade and immediately run over to wield it.

Vanitas gets to it before I do and picks it up. Shortly after, Ventus grabs the hilt of the blade. The two fight over it. Cutest thing ever. I want Ventus to have the X-blade. I kick Vanitas away and Ventus holds up the blade triumphantly. Vanitas gets up, wrestles the X-blade from Ventus and attacks me instead. I stop the attack by catching the sharp end with my bare hand. Vanitas tries to wrestle the sword away from me but I am just in awe. Old man Xehanort gets up and finally wrestles the keyblade from Vanitas. I am like, who cares? We are in Kingdom Hearts. Other people transported wake up and we all start looking around. The scene transforms to something like inside of a mall. I know I saw a lot of vending machines. All I am worried about are, "Where can I find Oathkeeper and Oblivion."

We race through the mall.

I had an extra hour of sleep before work so I took a nap. All I did was set an intention of what I wanted to do the next time I had a dream. I occupied my mind with this intention. Focused more on falling asleep. Find so-and-so. Sleep paralysis came after some time and I kid you not, I willed the dream into the moment. I felt the dream coming on so I just invited it in until I found my inside a small store. I found a cashier and asked if she knew where so-and-so was. She looked and didn't say anything. The lucid dream ended.

I ended up oversleeping.

On another note, this October will mark 10 years being part of Dream Views. That would be 10 years of me *attempting* to *master* lucid dreaming. I'm just going to go ahead and say that no, I am not a master of lucid dreaming. I can't lucid dream everyday and when I do have a lucid dream, it is less and than thirty seconds long. Just because I easily had a lucid dream today doesn't mean I am going to have one tomorrow guaranteed.

I didn't have a lucid dream today. I think I woke up at the wrong time. I started and ended my WBTB 1-hour later than I would have liked. The WBTB period was still 90 minutes but that didn't seem to matter. I wasn't in the right state of mind while falling to sleep either.

Stayed awake for ~60 minutes and went to sleep with the intention to have a lucid dream.

SSILD is a legit technique, just need to not be so lazy. Got a DILD from it. I sleep for 6 hours then set my alarm to awaken me every hour for 3 hours. This enables to be retry a technique if it failed the first time.

Currently working on this technique where I do a WBTB and fall asleep as I observe my thoughts as if they were on a huge cinema screen.

Mindfulness. Presence. Here & Now. Important things to keep in mind. Don't get distracted and discouraged with other techniques.

Had a lucid this morning via the fundamentals of lucid dreaming. Dream Journal, Reality Checks, WBTB and MILD.

Meditation + WBTB procured me two lucid dreams. Throughout one lucid dream I was rubbing my hands to stabilize. It worked to some extent. When I walked outside my house, everything was overcast like it was a rainy, depressed 7AM in Texas. It felt quite cold as well. Tried to change the sky, but things just got darker. When into some houses; I was looking for someone.

Onward and upward.

WBTB + Mindfulness meditation. Had a lucid dream about two fighting figurines. I also remember being back in elementary school.

So the "looking at the hand" stabilization technique outlines on the site didn't work out too well. I am still losing lucidity somewhere in the dreamscape. If I can just get that garbage sorted out, I can have 2 hour lucid dreams. My induction is near flawless.

Long story short, had a bunch of dreams. One dream included KoRn in 1998. They had just released Follow The Leader.