Hi- I’m Sophia. I live in California. I have been interested in lucid dreaming for many years but have only done it maybe 20 times.
A couple of weeks ago I downloaded Andrew’s ten steps to lucid dreaming and started trying them out. I was repeating to myself that I was going to have many dreams, remember them, and become aware that I was dreaming. I definitely started to have more dreams right away. I had one dream which seems very spiritual to me. But over the course of a few days, I also started to have many bad dreams, for example where people were coming in my house and killing my loved ones. That scared me. I interpret it as being a warning. I backed off and stopped doing that technique of setting an intention to have many dreams and remember them. I want to have lucid dreams but I don’t want to have nightmares every night/unleash anything that will be harmful to me. Any thoughts?
Hello from the green hills of west Wales in the UK. It is lovely to be part of this wonderful community. I am an artist, writer, dancer, mother and grandmother. I have kept a dream journal on and off for many years; worked with a Gestalt dream therapist for three years which was fascinating. In February this year, 2024, I started seriously engaging with the practices to become a lucid dreamer as Dream Yoga and Lucid Living seem to me of the utmost relevance and importance for both living and dying consciously. I also massively enjoy the imagery and weird and wonderful characters and plots we conjure up in our dreams. I have had only 2 lucid dreams since starting the practices 8 months ago, but they were wonderful, especially the second one, in which I became lucid while flying. I decided to fly to Ultimate Source, and flew like an arrow high into the great blue vastness. In the distance I saw a thing like a grill, or a gate, and I aimed straight for it, full of clarity and joy. After that my dream body seemed to disappear and I lost awareness of the dream. My dream recall has massively increased to remembering about 3 to 5 dreams a night, but I havn’t had a lucid dream since that wonderful dream in April, six months ago, which is a bit frustrating. But I know I will get there. My best regards to all.