Thread: Lucid Art

Originally Posted by serenitatem1

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO BUT, it will give you TERRIBLY FRUSTRATING great ideas!! I'm an artist- painter by trade, but I have visions of some awesome things that I haven't developed the skills (or the time) for. I have recieved great book, invention, and project ideas in LD though!!!!!!

Could you elaborate a little? What kind of invention, book?


Also, painting in an L.D. is my next project as soon as I can get my mind out of the gutter. I've no doubt that this helps visualizing AND technique. In Laberge's book he mentions a surgeon that performs surgery's in his LD's the night before and then outperforms his colleagues by about 40% based on speed.

And nice artwork Ethen

Sorry, ska, but drawing, painting, etc, are a hell of a lot more than just motor skill.

I go to one of the top art schools in the nation, and I can tell you, a professional-seeming veneer over work that lacks fundamentals can get you a pretty long way, but a discerning eye can tell the difference. Whereas work that is fundamentally strong, but maybe needs work getting it polished, it may not look as impressive at first, but it's better off by far. The knowledge of and execution of fundamentals such as balance, composition, proportion, scale, perspective, anatomy, structure... these are all things that could unarguably be improved in dreams, given firm enough motivation and concentration.

The calm, practiced, and smoothly guided hand, your motor skills, maybe not. But you sure as hell could do yourself some serious good if you really went balls to the wall with dream-study and dream-practice.

what school do you go to?

The Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Is there anyway I can see any of your art, if you don't mind?

Haha, I'm not trained as a fine artist, technically. I'm part of their Bachelor of Science program for game design and interactive media.

Oh ok.