Thread: Adi's Workbook

Welcome, Adi

Why I Want to Lucid Dream
To spend a time I would normally spend with slight drool coming out the side of my mouth in a world of adventure and intrigue
To increase the associational awareness that I already have, losing inhibitions in both my waking and dreaming imagination
To do things I normally couldn't do in real life (everything from alchemy to sexing up supermodels)
To find a dream guide/animal, to help piece together an overarching narrative for my life.
To become more aware of sides of myself that are suppressed by time and social chains.

Some of the above items are not necessarily dependent on lucid dreaming, but I have a feeling that lucid dreaming will be synergistic in the achievement of these goals.

12/26/12

Bed Time: 12:00 AM
Waking Time: 6:00 AM

Unfortunately last night my insomnia decided to rear its ugly face. Pity because I was going quite a long time without it. Even though I went to bed at 12:00 I was tossing and turning for quite a while afterwards. When I woke up at 6:00 I was dead tired, and couldn't remember any dreams. I decided to fall back asleep and see what happens.

Nap: ~6:15
Waking Time: ~7:45

I have vague recall of this dream, mainly a fragment.
Fragment #1: I walk with my friend J into his apartment (it is not his actual apartment, but it is in the same complex). The room we enter is scattered and unorganized. Papers of all sorts (mail, magazines, newspaper, ect.) cover the floor, and the whitewashed walls are dimly lit by a small yellow hanging light. There's a small glass table topped with littered ashtrays and we both sit down. He pulls out a bag of meth from his pocket, and I guess today I'm feeling rather ballsy because I tell him we should smoke it.

I find doing drugs in dreams very, very unusual. The effects of the drugs are unlike their real-life counterparts, and they are obviously much shorter-acting (being that one has a limited time in a dream).

After taking an acrid, sulfurous hit from a small, glass pipe, I feel a tingling sensation lurch my body over like a strong, ocean wave. We both stop moving or talking for a minute, taking hits from the pipe, just staring at eachother. I say "Wow", over and over again, the only thing I guess I can say. Suddenly there is a commotion outside, and as we go out to investigate my recall starts to fade.

The dream does not end however, I have strange curios of memory left from what happened after we exited the apartment. I have an image of walking downstairs, entering someone else's apartment, and meeting someone with a very large, developed beard. I remember jumping out of his window for some reason. Hmm, who knows, wish I had better recall under fatigue.

Well that's that, this dream wasn't what I would call a lucid dream. In my lucid dreams I generally try to exercise some of my stored up magickas rather than doing boring stuff I could do in real life , in my next dream I want to end up on a Pacific Island, and perform a ritual with the natives there, I feel that would be fun and exciting. Until next time

-- Adi

12/27/12

Sleep Time:1:00
Waking Time:9:30

Supplements Mugwort (tea from my own pickings), Valerian (1.5g capsule)

I had a lucid and a non-lucid dream last night. But my lucid dream faded away quite quickly. My non-lucid dream on the other hand, lasted a while but I can't remember all of it. Here's what I remember.

Lucid Dream: My lucid dream starts, when I find myself in a long, rolling green field. The sun is shining, and the grass looks quite textured and soft. That's the cue that I'm dreaming since it's the dead of winter up here in the North-east, so I shift into lucidity. Unfortunately as soon as I do that, the dream begins to fade, and the scene blurs. I focus on my hands (Castaneda technique) and my other sensory perceptions, to try and ground myself in the dream. It's too late, I fade out.

Non-Lucid Dream: This takes place in the apartment complex I was in, in my last dream, but in a different apartment. I'm alone this time, there's this girl I know, K, who is walking behind me. I stop at a friends door, and she stops there with me. I smile at her and say, "Seeing V too?". I knock on the door to my surprise, my friend W answers. I haven't seen in him in a while so I grab him in a big bear hug. He laughs, and invites me in. He's a great guitar player, and he's playing with some people right now in my dream (V and M). The rest of the dream is pretty mundane, I listen to them try to piece together a cover of a Jimi Hendrix song (can't remember which). I help out a bit, since I'm a musician, but I don't know the particulars of this song. The girl K sits on a couch, looking with sparkling eyes at all of us. I want to go talk to her, but I don't know what to say. The dream ends when I wake up and realize I've overslept =/, guess I'm paying for last nights sleep deprivation.