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Dream Journal
February 15, 2016 at 4:24 pm
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I'm training to have lucid dreams and so I have to keep a dream journal, among other things. Is anyone interested in sharing their dreams as well? If you are, don't worry about being too explicit about them. The whole point of keeping a dream journal is training your memory so that you can have better dream recall. Be as vague as you like and if you'd like to join me in my LD quest or if you simply want to share a dream you had last night, feel free to post here. I'll be happy to help in any way I can 
I dreamt I was on some sort of mission last night. I was looking for something, I think, in some sort of a deserted factory yard. After a while I decided to head back, only to notice a couple of big ass snakes on the way back. So I jumped a fence and climbed to the top of a building and then jumped from building to building until I came to a very familiar place, which I could swear I've dreamt of numerous times before, even though I can't exactly put my finger on it, except to say that I had it a long time ago - do you know that feeling? Anyway, it was the roof of a building overlooking my city from a spectacular angle, I don't think there's such a view in reality, it's just very surreal. I didn't know how to to get off the roof now, though, and I was really scared that someone would see me standing there - as though I wasn't allowed to be there. I considered jumping off but then thought the better of it, crouched down and waited for it to get dark so I could slip away unnoticed.
I'm sorry if its incomprehensible, but its the best I could describe it.
Looking forward to hearing about your dreams as well!
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RE: Dream Journal
February 15, 2016 at 4:33 pm
My mission in lucid dreaming is to feel something that I touch. Most dreams are too bizarre to correlate with our primary reality which why they are so difficult to remember. What makes sense in a dream is ofttimes complete nonsense in this reality.
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RE: Dream Journal
February 15, 2016 at 4:36 pm
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(February 15, 2016 at 4:33 pm)IATIA Wrote: My mission in lucid dreaming is to feel something that I touch. Most dreams are too bizarre to correlate with our primary reality which why they are so difficult to remember. What makes sense in a dream is ofttimes complete nonsense in this reality.
IF you're lucid, you're going to feel what you touch. Definitely. Being really lucid is the same as being awake, except better. Your brain functions even more and so all of your senses are heightened.
Dream recall and gaining lucidity are two very different things, that's not to say they're not related and you don't need to master them both in order to both have lucid dreams and remember them.
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RE: Dream Journal
February 15, 2016 at 4:39 pm
Can't look it up right now . . . (boss in the room!) . . . but what's the difference between an extremely memorable dream with vivid detail (have had a lot of those) and lucid dreaming? Is it that you are aware that you are dreaming? Or is it that you are actually consciously influencing the dream?
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RE: Dream Journal
February 15, 2016 at 4:42 pm
(February 15, 2016 at 4:39 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Can't look it up right now . . . (boss in the room!) . . . but what's the difference between an extremely memorable dream with vivid detail (have had a lot of those) and lucid dreaming? Is it that you are aware that you are dreaming? Or is it that you are actually consciously influencing the dream?
It's both. You're both aware and able to do anything you want. It's practically like your very own virtual reality. That's not to say you can't simply be aware of it and let it take you wherever it does without interfering, because you can, and a lot of people choose to do that as well at times. But if you could fulfill any possible fantasy and desire you have, or do whatever your mind can think of, wouldn't you take the opportunity to do so?
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RE: Dream Journal
February 15, 2016 at 4:46 pm
I have lots of strange, vivid dreams but I don't especially have a desire to have lucid dreams.
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RE: Dream Journal
February 15, 2016 at 4:52 pm
(February 15, 2016 at 4:42 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: (February 15, 2016 at 4:39 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: Can't look it up right now . . . (boss in the room!) . . . but what's the difference between an extremely memorable dream with vivid detail (have had a lot of those) and lucid dreaming? Is it that you are aware that you are dreaming? Or is it that you are actually consciously influencing the dream?
It's both. You're both aware and able to do anything you want. It's practically like your very own virtual reality. That's not to say you can't simply be aware of it and let it take you wherever it does without interfering, because you can, and a lot of people choose to do that as well at times. But if you could fulfill any possible fantasy and desire you have, or do whatever your mind can think of, wouldn't you take the opportunity to do so?
Hmm. Maybe. But then I would want to sleep as much as I can, because my dream life was better than my real life. This might be a very bad thing for someone who has battled depression. I think I'll just appreciate the really vivid dreams and keep my dream journal.
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RE: Dream Journal
February 15, 2016 at 4:56 pm
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(February 15, 2016 at 4:52 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: (February 15, 2016 at 4:42 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: It's both. You're both aware and able to do anything you want. It's practically like your very own virtual reality. That's not to say you can't simply be aware of it and let it take you wherever it does without interfering, because you can, and a lot of people choose to do that as well at times. But if you could fulfill any possible fantasy and desire you have, or do whatever your mind can think of, wouldn't you take the opportunity to do so?
Hmm. Maybe. But then I would want to sleep as much as I can, because my dream life was better than my real life. This might be a very bad thing for someone who has battled depression. I think I'll just appreciate the really vivid dreams and keep my dream journal.
That's strange. What do you mean you would want to sleep as much as you can? Keep in mind that you can only dream during certain periods of sleep. Normally, a lucid dreamer just has to sleep at least 8 hours a night, but that doesn't mean sleeping too much will get you more lucid dreams. I don't think it works like that.
Let me further clarify that statement. All you have to do to be a lucid dreamer is take a few minutes out of your day to perform certain techniques, and have a healthy sleep schedule. Nothing more and nothing less. I don't know if you knew, but sleeping too much is not exactly healthy either, and I don't think it's conducive to lucid dreaming, for that matter.
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RE: Dream Journal
February 15, 2016 at 4:57 pm
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Anyway, people, don't turn it down till you try it. You don't even know what you're saying no to and it seems to me like you're against the idea for no good reason.
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RE: Dream Journal
February 15, 2016 at 5:23 pm
I don't know what I was dreaming about but I woke up retorting to something I can't remember.
I said something like "Theres nothing more dangerous than an idealistic moron." Thats how every dream I have is. I never remember it.
I just catch the tail end. I'll gain consciousness midway through saying words which aren't my own that make absolutely no sense out of context.
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