Thread: RP Survey

1. What is your gender? Male
2. How old are you? 15
3. How often do you lucid dream? Around once a week, but less recently because I've been lagging behind in my dream journaling.
4. Have you ever used lucid dreams to overcome your personal fear? Nope.
5. (re:4) If yes, do you think this method is useful/effective? Not applicable.
6. Have you ever practiced real life skills while lucid dreaming? Yes, it was Jiu-Jitsu
7. (re:7) If yes, has it:
i) Improved your confidence to complete the task? Yes
ii) Improved your performance practically? Not really, since I hadn't really practiced that much.

8. By lucid dreaming, do you think it helped you improve in the following aspects?
i) Controlling emotions Yes
ii) Achieving goals Yes
iii) Becoming more aware Yes
iv) Improved memory (eg. remembering dreams) Sort of, if you count dream recall.
9. Do you feel tired after having numerous lucid dreams? Not really, but it is a tad mentally tolling.
10. On a scale of 1-10, how much do you think lucid dreaming has improved you, as a person, overall? 7?
11. optional: Any any additional comments you'd like to tell me before ending the survey? Not really!

Ooh, really cool topic! I hope you'll post the results when they're ready, this sounds really interesting.
So I'm guessing you want us to select from the options you provided, rather than answering each question in detail? Let me know if you want more in depth answers, I'd be happy to update them.

1. What is your gender? (male/female)
2. How old are you? 25
3. How often do you lucid dream? (Less than once a year/a few times a year/a few times a month/a few times a week/every night) (depends on how much I'm focusing)
4. Have you ever used lucid dreams to overcome your personal fear? (yes/no)
5. (re:4) If yes, do you think this method is useful/effective? Yes
6. Have you ever practiced real life skills while lucid dreaming? (yes/no)

7. (re:7) If yes, has it:
i) Improved your confidence to complete the task? (yes/no)
ii) Improved your performance practically? (yes/no)

8. By lucid dreaming, do you think it helped you improve in the following aspects?
i) Controlling emotions (yes/no)
ii) Achieving goals (yes/no)
iii) Becoming more aware (yes/no)
iv) Improved memory (eg. remembering dreams) (yes/no)

9. Do you feel tired after having numerous lucid dreams? Not from the dreams themselves, but if I keep waking up to journal them, I can lose some sleep.
10. On a scale of 1-10, how much do you think lucid dreaming has improved you, as a person, overall? 10
11. optional: Any any additional comments you'd like to tell me before ending the survey? Yes, I'll expand on some of the other answers below...

I think lucid dreaming and waking life practices are very interconnected. For me, working on dream control in dreams has naturally improved my ability to regulate my moods and be more mindful in waking life. This is because in a dream, I get realtime feedback from my state of mind - if I'm scared, it's more likely that something scary will jump out at me; if I expect something to be difficult, it's more likely to be difficult; if I'm worried about waking up, I might start to feel the dream destabilise, etc. On the positive end of the spectrum, if I am calm and very confident in my abilities, and believe everything will be effortless, it usually is. My best form of dream control comes from my mind, rather than any particular physical techniques for making magic occur. I have worked on this over the past 8 years in lucid dreams, and I have learnt a lot about what it feels like to identify negative/fearful feelings, and how to transmute them - and this carries over to waking life, too. I think the external effects are more subtle in waking life (a dragon probably won't appear just because I'm thinking about dragons), but the internal effects are quite profound. It goes the other way, too - practising mindfulness in waking life has helped me to improve my dream control.
I have also used lucid dreams to practice confidence for things like performing, public speaking, and directly facing my fears. I put an end to recurring non-lucid nightmares by intentionally incubating the nightmare theme and calmly approaching the characters lucidly, asking them to explain their meaning to me. I have also done some exposure therapy in dreams using a trigger topic that can cause panic attacks for me in waking life, and I have seen actual physical progress as a result when faced with the topic since then.
As for improving my memory, I can't comment on other areas of memory, but I am able to remember my dreams more clearly when I am mindful during my lucid dreams. I also use in-dream narration to help me remember when it comes time to journal them. I would say that keeping a DJ and having the intention to remember my dreams probably has more to do with improving my recall than just having lucid dreams in itself.
Edit: one more addition to the question about feeling tired. I don't feel physically tired because of lucid dreams, but if I push myself too hard with day/night work to achieve lucid dreams, I can burn out. I do know at least one person who feels more tired after lucid dreams than non-lucid dreams though, I'll ask if he wants to fill out your survey too.