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I'm not exactly new to lucid dreaming. I have lucid dreams every now and then. It happens, and I think it's absolutely amazing.
Lately, I've been having some trouble falling asleep early. And by lately, I mean my entire life because of ADHD. Now I am on medicine, and I can fall asleep, I just don't want to go to bed haha. So I decided to try to learn to lucid dream "on command", because if I have something to focus on while I fall asleep, it helps me feel like I'm being productive. Not to mention the excellent point that if we spend 1/3 of our lives asleep, why not do something with that time, rather than just let it be mindless unconsciousness?
So I started dream journaling and doing reality checks every now and then. Especially reading and looking at my hand. And it's working, and it's getting incorporated into my dreams.
I also know my dream signs really well. It usually has something to do with weird people in weird places and awkward physics. Like this night, I dreamt I was in my childhood neighborhood, with all the medium sized, 2-3 bedroom houses as I remembered them. Except the house on the corner was occupied by 3 generations of family, all children and grandchildren still living at home. There were so many occupants that many of them had to stay well out on the road because they simply didn't fit inside.
Yet my mind had no trouble accepting that. I didn't question reality, as I would have in real life.
I noticed the people because I was walking my dog, a semi-large breed with strong legs. For some reason, I was walking him through people's gardens. I didn't question that, either. And every time he was jumping fences to get in to the next garden, he didn't behave according to gravity. He rather "wobbled" through the air, like he was trying to swim through jelly. This made him increasingly frustrated, yet I was too busy laughing at him to wonder if I was dreaming.
Whenever I do reality checks in dreams, and the text/my hand looks nothing like I'd expect, I just rationalize it. Like it was exactly what I was looking for.
Should I question reality more with my checks? Where do I go from here?
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