RE: Just had my first proper lucid dream
February 16, 2018 at 7:52 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2018 at 7:55 pm by Athene.)
(February 16, 2018 at 5:27 pm)emjay Wrote: Wow, I never thought there could be a downside to it... other than the fact that it does go with broken sleep. I'm sorry it's causing you so much grief
Tbh I was too lazy to get into the whole dream signs thing... and didn't have much faith in being able to remember my dreams every night for the sake of finding them. So mine have always been more of a consolation for bad sleep rather than something I've gone out of my way to achieve... the most I've done to deliberately try to get them is to set an alarm to interrupt my sleep... but only once in a while.
Well, at least I gleaned a invaluable lesson in all of this: Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Speaking of dream signs, my sleep disruption problem got considerably worse after I became employed and very proficient at my current job several years ago. My primary nursing duty at this place is auditing medical charts and medication administration records for compliance. I'm inclined to believe that spending hours upon hours pouring over records in search of inconsistencies, errors, and such, somehow made me much more adept at recognizing when things are "amiss" in my dream state...And it fuggin' BLOWS!
Just a theory, of course. Seems plausible though.
