I am half way through reading it. Appreciate your recommendation, you told me about it in a thread a few weeks back. Very good recommendation, I have been telling my friends to get it too.
That is really BRILLIANT. I am happy that you shared that. I think that tool is definitely a very strong one that I have not added to my arsenal yet. Will do it this week.
I feel that I am getting very close to achieving lucidity. The dreams I had last night were like 10-25% lucid. Meaning in the back of my mind I kind of realized what was going on was a dream, so the event that happened didnāt really phase me, but that awareness did not fully blossom. Hard to explain. Kind of like a whale breathing at the surface of the ocean for 1 second only to submerge again into the deep.
I think the meditations have definitely been helping, thank you for recommending that book. I almost wonder if there has to be a physical rewiring of the brain neurons to start achieving lucidity on demand? Kind of like the roots of trees moving, they move at the speed of treesā¦
Great, keep going and donāt pressure yourself. You are creating daily bit by bit the causes for future lucidity and will reap the fruits of what you are sowing.
Thought I would follow up with this dream experience.
I had my first false awakening dream this week. It happened the night of the full moon. Probably no coincidence
Also during that false awakening I checked my watch for the first time in the dreams that I can remember. I wasnāt doing a reality check though, but I think it is a good sign that the reality check behaviors are starting to sink into the subconscious.
Not visually distorted, but was visually off, meaning the time it read did not match the sunrise light coming in through the shades. I have not been using a digital watch to do the RCs, which I know now is incorrect, it must be done on a digital watch, not old one with hands.
Then I checked it a second time and the hands had drastically changed. I did not question it, which was a shame. But I am happy to see what I am sowing, I am starting to reap in a small way.
The night before that I had a premonition dream. That was pretty profound. I asked a woman to hold her baby. The baby was very very small, looked brad new. When I woke up, later in the day I was told my cousin had had a baby, she was premature, 4lbs, but healthy.
If you are wondering, I cant remember ever having a dream of holding a young baby, I donāt think I ever have had one. The vibration, emotional quality, and vividness of the dream, all deeply resonated with me when I woke up, and I made sure to right down every detail, because I knew something was different about that dream than most of the others I had had.
Had I not been keeping a dream journal, I know I would not be picking up on these subtle but very important differences between regular dreams, and dreams that are conveying a message.
Iāve done something similar, beginning around May of this year (2022) and really picking it up in June. I had 2 LDs in June and 4 in July! I had started reading āThe Art of Lucid Dreamingā by Clare Johnson and was intrigued to see her fresh approach to the practice. I thought I had finally āentered the chuteā to rapid improvement but a very stubborn streak of sleep-maintenance insomnia has all but derailed the emphasis on lucidity, causing me to backtrack and seriously study sleep and insomnia so as to increase both quality and quantity. Iām continuing my āall day lucid presenceā work, with the assumption that eventually my sleep will be fixed and Iāll have decently long REM cycles in which to practice. Sure hope so!
@Michele1 here is the post, hope this helps. The weekends or whenever you have extra time off is a really great time to set extra alarms with much higher frequency of doing RC.
Wonderful. Thank you. I read it three days ago (or so) and started becoming more serious about my routine. Similar routine as the one you shared here. Just my meditation is the ācoherent breathing oneā while doing yoga nidra, but I have added the red lotus visualization now.
Anywayā¦ the funny things is that I notice that even though I had no lucidity yet, the quality of my dreams is changing since I started in the Nightclub: while I was very concerned about the ādarknessā in my dreams for a start, it looks like now as if it lifted somehow. And yesterday night I had an incredible dream: darkness allowed me to see the gold because it was sparkling in the dark. The golden particles that were everywhere but could not be seen in plain daylight would sparkle in the dark and because I was immersed in dark space I suddenly realised they are everywhere. I found that darkness is not against me but a good quality so-to-speak. Soooo cool! Woke up happy and even delighted. Such a realisation.
Oh, every step on the way is worth it - lucid or not.
Robert Moss has some really great things to say about regular dreams, and how they should not be over looked or treated like āsecond class citizensā.
Have you read Tenzins book? Highly reccomend chapter 12.
now.