Thread: Lucas(Potter)'s Workbook

I'm going to bed now and I'll try the lucid dream thing from I-Doser. I usually fall asleep without noticing when I listen to that, but I think tonight might be different.

Good luck!

Thank you! I've been too lazy with my DJ, though.

On another note, whenever I try to WILD, I either fall asleep or get bored and decide to just go to sleep, but then I have lots of false awakenings and, in all of them, I experience sleep paralysis, until I actually do wake up... and end up, of course, having sleep paralysis in real life too. It's become rather annoying.

Okay, going to bed in about fifteen minutes... I'll try to WILD, even though I need to work on my patience.

I have abandoned my DJ for a few days now. I've been having nightmares and I refuse to write them down.

That said, it's time to go to bed.

Nightmares are never fun. Don't put any thought into them though and just forget about them if they're bad enough. Otherwise you risk inducing them when you go to bed.

Wow, I suck. I haven't been here for the longest time. I'll start writing on my DJ again, I've been having really vivid dreams. Not much luck with lucid dreams, though. I notice that I'm dreaming sometimes (it's actually a little often - about once every three nights), but I never take control of the dream. It's like... despite the fact that I know I'm sleeping and that it's a dream, dream me isn't aware of it. Very confusing. I remember this one time I realised I was dreaming, decided to take control (I've only done that like four or five times, I think)... and then, instead of doing any of the things I've wanted to try in dreams, I started looking for my car because I felt like driving. So I need to start working on the control thing.

I have decided to drop my DJ. It has the exact opposite effect for me, as in... my dream recall gets WORSE whenever I start writing down my dreams. I go from remembering three full dreams to remembering a few random scenes, sometimes just "feelings".

I also tried the banana/milk combo two nights in a row. It made my dreams LESS vivid. So dropping that too. I've read about salty food and mustard. I used to eat pure salt when I was younger, so I'll try that and the spoon of mustard tonight.

I haven't been posting much here because I haven't really had any progress, but I'm reading about lucid dreaming every night. So at least this time I haven't abandoned my goals, even if I'm not updating here.

Tiny update. No lucid dreams yet, but I'm having an allergic reaction to... something. I have hives on my upper body, so a doctor gave me hydroxyzine to take at night. It apparently makes you super sleepy (I took one pill on Sunday and two pills yesterday), however it hasn't affected my dreams... yet. I did feel extremely sluggish today (as in... after I went to bed) and now I'm absolutely exhausted, even though I had a pretty calm day and I slept quite a lot last night. I'll take another pill (maybe two) tonight again for the itching, so it might affect me tonight. It feels like my body has finally begun responding to it, so I wouldn't be surprised.

JUST HAD A LUCID DREAM!!!!!!!!!

I was dreaming about something totally stupid, a meeting of people who believed we should only have children with people of our own race, then the meeting was over. I took my bag and checked the mirror, to see if I looked okay. First, I had three eyes, so I was like "FOCUS, YOU'RE NOT FOCUSING ON THE IMAGE"... when I finally did, I looked like an Asian boy, cartoon-like... even had some freckles.

Sooo I thought "whoa, am I dreaming?", followed by "well, duh, do you remember that meeting you've just attended? OF COURSE YOU'RE DREAMING!" I threw my bag away, looked at the windows (they were closed) and told myself I should fly. I ran, jumped and I passed through the windows as if they weren't there at all!

I was flying super fast, making crazy turns everywhere, there was even one time I got scared I'd lose control, fall down and wake up... but then I laughed, cause the floor could be anywhere, all I had to do was think it wasn't close!

I tried shooting stuff with my hands (light powers? Force? Kame Hame Ha?), but it didn't work. Finally, I decided to land. When I put my feet on the ground, I woke up.

BUT IT WAS A LUCID DREAM!!!

Feels like the first real lucid dream I've had. The ones before this, I either didn't know what a lucid dream was, or I wasn't so in control and so aware as I was now.

SO EXCITING, CAN'T BELIEVE I GOT TO FLY!!!

Decided to change my number of LDs. It said I had had 2, but I'm sure I've had more. They were never this vivid and this lucid, though, so now I'll only count those types of super awesome LDs!

I had another real lucid dream last night!

About two nights ago, I actually had a dream where I was semi-lucid. I was running from someone/something (who knows what, I'm always being chased in my dreams), when I thought "hey, this looks like a dream! Maybe I can fly! If I can fly, they won't see me!" so I jumped up and started flying. I knew that flying was only possible in a dream and I knew that it was a dream, but I was still worried about running away. So, while happy about the flying progress, I'm not adding this to my LD count.

Last night, however, OH, MY! I was inside a car with my mother, we were waiting for something and all the windows were open. I suddenly had the feeling that someone would attack us and I kept trying to lock the car, but my mum was in the way and that was when I realised that my mother would NEVER be that stupid. Then it clicked that it was obviously a dream. I rolled my eyes, got calm and did lock the car without a problem. That was enough to prove to me that I was right.

I turned to my mum, said "sorry, but I need to enjoy this" and I jumped out of the car (it was all locked and I threw myself at the door... I went through it like it wasn't even there). Then I was in the middle of a park or something. I thought "I want to see Lindsay!" (Lindsay Pearce, my current celebrity crush) and nothing really happened, just got a little blurry, but then it went back to normal. I thought that again and she appeared! Then, she started talking to me about... I honestly don't remember, she was RAMBLING, which was super adorable! I held her hand, we were walking together and she was still talking. Then, I kissed her and she looked surprised, but happy...

...and then my phone woke me up.

But it was still AWESOME and now my count of REAL LDs is up to 2!!!

Okay, so I've decided to try LogicInLife's Repetition of Writing Induction Technique tonight. It is now 7PM and I've written "I know I'm dreaming." thirty times.

Other than that, nothing new. I have been having some pretty vivid dreams, but nothing out of ordinary. What might be worthy mentioning is that it's like my brain is trying to make me lucid sometimes. Last night, I had a dream where I was on the floor, hiding from someone, then this huge flash of light was on me. I realised they knew I was there, so I got up, looked up and thought "fuck them, this is a dream, I'll just fly away from them", which was what I did.

Except that I didn't think, not once, that I could take control of my dream. It really was just a "this is a dream, I can fly, THEY WON'T GET ME BECAUSE I CAN FLY" moment, where I completely ignored the fact that they weren't real and I could try to control them. But I feel like those little moments where I seem to be a little aware that it's a dream and that I can do stuff I couldn't in real life are a good step towards having real lucid dreams.

Okay, time to go to bed... I'll read what I wrote before, though!

I wasn't successful last night... however, I was woken up by my parents twice, being told to get up immediately. Whenever I don't stay in bed for a few seconds after waking up, I barely remember my dreams (my dream recall is usually really good, if I have about ten seconds for myself after waking up), so I will try the technique again tonight.

Another lucid dream last night! It was actually two, but they both happened at the same place and I did the same thing in both of them, so...

I was at this weird room, looked like a small, cheap hotel room. It was very dark and I sat down and looked at the mirror. I realised my hair looked different. Then I was like "I'M DREAMING!" and one of the things I wanted to do in a lucid dream was to look at myself in the mirror. Since the mirror was already there, that's what I did. My face changed, I was a man, I had a beard and I was neither handsome nor ugly. Just average. A little on the grumpy side, perhaps. I think I had a scar somewhere. I woke up. Except that I was still at the same hotel room. I felt like it could be another dream (duh!), so I looked at my hand and it had six fingers. I went back to the mirror. My face changed again, I was a man again. It was not the same face from before, but it was basically the same thing, except for the beard. Neither a handsome nor a ugly face, it looked a little grumpy. Instead of scar, there were like... zit marks. Not the zits themselves, but I could see that I had had many of them in the past.

Quite interesting, imo. I'm assuming that I see myself as a man (which is good, considering I do identify as male), a little bitter perhaps, not attractive, but not unattractive either, and a little flawed in the past. Very interesting experience.

Next time I have a lucid dream, I plan on trying to talk to my subconscious.

Also, I've realised that I've had three lucid dreams in July!

I took a nap and had a semi-lucid dream! Maybe my next dream will be lucid!

Originally Posted by Angelpotter

Another lucid dream last night! It was actually two, but they both happened at the same place and I did the same thing in both of them, so...

I was at this weird room, looked like a small, cheap hotel room. It was very dark and I sat down and looked at the mirror. I realised my hair looked different. Then I was like "I'M DREAMING!" and one of the things I wanted to do in a lucid dream was to look at myself in the mirror. Since the mirror was already there, that's what I did. My face changed, I was a man, I had a beard and I was neither handsome nor ugly. Just average. A little on the grumpy side, perhaps. I think I had a scar somewhere. I woke up. Except that I was still at the same hotel room. I felt like it could be another dream (duh!), so I looked at my hand and it had six fingers. I went back to the mirror. My face changed again, I was a man again. It was not the same face from before, but it was basically the same thing, except for the beard. Neither a handsome nor a ugly face, it looked a little grumpy. Instead of scar, there were like... zit marks. Not the zits themselves, but I could see that I had had many of them in the past.

Quite interesting, imo. I'm assuming that I see myself as a man (which is good, considering I do identify as male), a little bitter perhaps, not attractive, but not unattractive either, and a little flawed in the past. Very interesting experience.

That sounded like a cool lucid.

Originally Posted by lsddream

That sounded like a cool lucid.

Thank you! It really, really was!

Okay, things I've done in lucid dreams:

1. go through a wall
2. fly
3. summon someone
4. look at the mirror

Things I want to do in future lucid dreams:

1. talk to myself/my subconscious/my dream guide
2. turn into a man
3. have ideas for a book
4. visit a place I've never been to (for example, a concentration camp)
5. see what my mind thinks the future will be like
6. talk to someone (famous) I've never met (sort of done this when I summoned Lindsay, but it'd be interesting to talk to other famous people)

I'll add more later... now it's time to sleep!

Last night, I was extremely unsuccessful. Had a long, vivid nightmare. Same stuff that usually happens in my dreams. Being chased, having to hide, not able to drive... and yet, I failed to notice that. At least it was vivid, I guess... I hope to have more luck tonight. I must focus more on reality checks, though. I rarely do them in real life (in fact, I do them more in my dreams... strange), so that should help.

Okay, things I've done in lucid dreams:

1. go through a wall
2. fly
3. summon someone
4. look at the mirror

Things I want to do in future lucid dreams:

1. talk to myself/my subconscious/my dream guide
2. turn into a man
3. have ideas for a book
4. visit a place I've never been to (for example, a concentration camp)
5. see what my mind thinks the future will be like
6. talk to someone (famous) I've never met (sort of done this when I summoned Lindsay, but it'd be interesting to talk to other famous people)
7. turn into an animal (maybe a wolf?)