yes, and it also has high margins on top, which is great for writing my notes 
@Bucket did you read this post?
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Beautiful. The moment is perfect in itself,
Oh nice! I’ll have to skip a DnD session I think my players will understand though. I’ve really gotten a lot from Charlie’s book which I just finished today.
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Had a fun dream two nights ago. I was in an amusement park with a friend. We were searching for a girl that had gotten on a ride like a merry-go-round but that goes much faster. My friend gets on and as the ride starts it makes a chugging, diesel noise as it starts rotating. I can hear words in the noise, it sounds like “TATHAGATA BUDDHA” repeated again and again with each rotation of the ride. When I notice this my friend seems to notice too and shouts happily from the rise “It’s saying TATHAGATA BUDDHA! It’s saying TATHAGATA BUDDHA!”
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UAU! any highlights you wish to share?
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LD last night. Lot of excitement. I tell myself to calm down. Rub my arms to ground myself. The room I am in is dark. I shout “illuminate!” but nothing happens. I try it again, still nothing. I find a light switch and flip it, that doesn’t work either. A little frustrated I find a door and open it, the room beyond is illuminated with several different people in it. I remember my dream plan to talk to everyone I see to work with social anxiety and not knowing what to say when I talk to people. When I approach though, everybody but this one woman moves away. I go up to her however and start talking to her. Our convo is pretty shallow at first, but she starts talking to me about a master’s thesis she is writing about drainage (I think?). I think she’s talking about a building but she seems to be referring to it in regards to people.
I loose my lucidity after this I think as there is a scene shift and I’m on a road trying to calm down this guy standing next to a bus who is freaking out.
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That dream plan didn’t really go the way I was planning lol. Only got to talk to one person. Will try it again moving forward.
Some things that helped: WBTB (woke up did some work, studied some Greek, listened to a lucid dreaming podcast, meditated, then went back to bed), MILD, and a prayer to God that I would have a lucid dream.
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I really like the idea of writing out a dream plan and being very intentional what you want to do in your dream. It’s something I’ve been implementing. I also like his “Columbo method”. Taking time to investigate your reality, whether awake or sleeping. I’ve made it more of a habit to do this during the day. I also really appreciated his thoughts on using lucid dreaming for shadow work. That’s something I really want to do, I know I have a lot of purification to go through. I bought his book on the topic, Dreaming Through Darkness, and am making my way through it now.
The dreams he shares in the book are very inspirational. And the book has a lot of great quotes, like this one:
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this is SO COOL… I learned this with him and it worked (still works) really well with me!
My first super lucid dream happened thanks to Charlie and especially the dream plan which I was postponing, but in the middle of the night, I decided to do it and it materialized on that same night. This was life changing for me! I was registering my dreams since 2003 and I believe it also helped a LOT, but his techniques are VERY POWERFUL. It was with him that I also learned how to MILD 
it also worked very well because I already practice conscious breathing for years, so it was just adding some sentences that my heart felt resonance with.
love the quote also - and it’s aligned with the previous work I was doing for years now, without knowing that one day it would just trasnport me into super lucid dreaming 
thanks for sharing.
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that in itself could be a message for you.
if this was my lucid dream I would interpret it as focusing my social communication, and trusting what life brings on to me.
perhaps I would refine it to “What can I give in my social interaction with world?” or something like that…
In my lucid dreaming plans the results are very non-linear, but they are there…
example:
A lucid dream plan with the sankalpa “My feminine and masculine energies merge”
what happened in the dream was fascinating!.. My energetic arms moved to raise and then came to my heart, hands together.
When I woke up, I clearly felt that thanking for all in life was the way for my energies to unite inside. I’ve been practicing that and I still agree with that.
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Had a cool dream tonight. Background: I did an exercise from Dreaming Through Darkness yesterday answering questions like “What are you most ashamed of?” and “What do you hide from others?” to identify my shadow. During my first sleep cycle of the night I had the following vivid dream:
I’m with someone who I know is my father even though he doesn’t look like my father in the waking state. We are in a room with no floor, just the bare baseboard. We are tapping the floor in order to get a sense of what’s below in the basement. Eventually my father goes down in the basement and pokes a hole in the ceiling/ floor with the handle of a broom. The hole opens up so I can see below. I see an old computer printer. There is a book sitting in the printer tray. My dad says it’s a book written by this holy woman who died. I tell him that I would like to read the book. He says that we will have to read it in order to find out her last wishes, but that there is no rush.
Well that’s pretty clear even to me who doesn’t have much experience with dream interpretation. The basement is my unconscious. Tapping the floor was doing the exercise to identify my shadow. The opening of the floor is the revealing of the contents of my unconscious. The spiritual book is the spiritual treasure that lies in the unconscious for me to find. The person who wrote them is my soul, or anima in Jungian terms. There’s no need for me to rush to read them right away, it will all come in due time.
I am very grateful to my unconscious for sending me such a clear message of encouragement. I will continue doing shadow work to unveil these spiritual treasures. I love you, unconscious. 
