Any other ways to improve dream recall other than keeping a dream journal?
I was wondering because I have a bit of a hard time remembering to write things down as soon as I wake up.
[QUOTE=Bi0hazard;25930962]Any other ways to improve dream recall other than keeping a dream journal?
I was wondering because I have a bit of a hard time remembering to write things down as soon as I wake up.[/QUOTE]
Even if you don't write it down, just staying still and trying to remember for a couple minutes upon waking can help.
[QUOTE=1STrandomman;25931289]Even if you don't write it down, just staying still and trying to remember for a couple minutes upon waking can help.[/QUOTE]
I'll still have to remember to remember. :colbert:
When I wake up I always:
A. Sleep for 1-2 more hours, or
B. Get up.
[QUOTE=Bi0hazard;25931374]I'll still have to remember to remember. :colbert:
When I wake up I always:
A. Sleep for 1-2 more hours, or
B. Get up.[/QUOTE]
Well yeah, in that case I don't really see what you're asking.
You want to remember without remembering?
You have to remember in order to remember.
I think I just had an anyeurism.
[QUOTE=1STrandomman;25931478]Well yeah, in that case I don't really see what you're asking.
You want to remember without remembering?
You have to remember in order to remember.
I think I just had an anyeurism.[/QUOTE]
Now that I think about it, I don't exactly know what kind of answer I was looking for. I guess mental tricks or vitamins or something to help me remember dreams.
[quote]You 11:25pm
I hope she finds security in parties and random hookups, cheating and lying to steal boyfriends, being an insecure bitch and hurting people, and lying so she can fit into whatever social group she's trying to alienate. That's just the way she is.
But I don't want to hear about it. I hope she has a good life and doesn't end up like most college party girls. Hell, she'll probably be a politician. She's good at manipulating people into following her blindly, it'll play to her strengths.
So tell her I wish her good luck, and I mean that sincerely. Also, however, I'd like to issue a solid fuck you, and good riddance.
Laura 11:28 pm
You don't have to keep saying you don't care. ): I know you do because she hurt you. But saying you don't care and using hateful words will help you convince yourself that you don't need her. So I won't discourage it.
You 11:31 pm
You're right. I want something to hurt her the way she hurt me. And I know that that's guaranteed to happen, it's just the way she is. And I don't want her to have a good life. I want her to have a miserable life. I want her to realize that she's not a good person, and that if she ends up alone it's her fault and she deserves it. I hope she builds up a huge following when she's a lawyer or governor or whatever she is, and I want her to collapse under pressure. I want her to realize that a house made of manipulation and lies doesn't stand, and I hope it falls square onto her shoulders. I doubt she's capable of handling that kind of pressure or that she could bear the thought of owning up to it, and I wish, WISH I could see what happens when that day comes.
But I know I can't, and so I say it again. I don't care what happens to her. She's not dead to me, she's just never existed. Her positive impact is negligible, I guarantee nothing she's done can make a lasting impression on me. She left her mark on my purely by time and the fact that we were connected at one point, but nothing that she's done will stick with me. There are better people I can waste my time with, and I certainly don't intend to waste any breath talking or thinking about her anymore. So again, for emphasis, I just don't care about her.[/quote]
That felt good to say. But you know what else felt good? The fact that it's all true.
[QUOTE=Eonart;25933711]From Jake's only journal posts, I can see that our subs gives us tests or do experiments.
Does this look like some sort of test?
Best dream about pride, ever.[/QUOTE]
Wow, someone's defensive.
I don't think he meant that as a positive thing
I insult myself all the time.
yeah, you stupid prick.
I had a dream I was undercover with the KGB. My friend, and FBI agent was captured and I had to interrogate him. I spoke flawless russian :smug:.
[editline]8th November 2010[/editline]
also, woke up with the song "counter personality" in my head.
I had a lucid last night... or should I say this morning. I woke up at 4:30 to do a WILD which I failed and immediately fell back to sleep. After that I woke up and walked around a little bit. I went back to bed at 7. After that I can't remember how I became lucid. I think I might have somehow been lucid the whole time. This LD sucked because the whole time I was on the borderline of waking up. I could literally choose between moving my dream body or my real body. In case you didn't know it is [b]very hard to move your dream body when you are half awake[/b]. After I gained a little control I tried doing a couple things. None of my reality checks really worked so I didn't want to do anything too crazy. I tried flying and managed to jump really high a couple times. Next I tried making the person appear that I couldn't in my first LD. It worked! The "imagine something is behind you" trick works really well. Me and the person talked and then two random kids were trying to wake me up. I think it worked at one point because I woke up then fell back asleep into a REALLY random dream. All in all I wouldn't call it a successful LD.
[QUOTE=AgentBoomstick;25935836] it is [b]very hard to move your dream body when you are half awake[/b][/QUOTE]
yes.
[QUOTE=Eonart;25933711]Does this look like some sort of test?Best dream about pride, ever.[/QUOTE]
It's interesting when you're tested in dreams. I had a really profound moment last week in a dream where I'd fled from a bomb into some caves, where people had split down into different factions. I realised I was in the wrong one, and climbed the fence to get to my friend when the guy from the faction I was leaving made a grab at me, and people from my faction went to defend me. I knelt in the mud and went all philosophical, saying to the guy grabbing me (who I recognised from my old high school): "You remember when we were at school together? You remember Piccadilly (what we called the T-shaped corridor junction)? Everyone was moving in one direction, going to their lessons; at the crossroads, some people went left, going to history or science, some people went right for geography or french. No lesson is more important that an other - at the end of the day it's all still education."
This was met with amazement and acceptance.
I'm amazed at my own ability for metaphor...
I fucking love metaphors.
-snip-
I had one of the weirdest dreams ever.
While in my dream, I encountered one of my friends, who then proceeded to tell me a story that he heard happened.
It was kind of like watching a movie, with my friend narrating the whole thing and me seeing what actually happened.
Anyway, in the story one of my teachers from school parked his car in an underground parking lot. He then used an elevator to go up from the parking lot and someone tried to kill him in the elevator with nerve gas, but it turned out that my teacher is secretly a robot so he was alright.
The dream ended with me basically telling my friend-"Dude, are you high or something?"
Didn't have many dreams last night. Barely any. I did get into SP at morning but failed to go into a WILD. It's been happening to me more often lately, I'll get into SP, but won't be able to get into a dream from that. Which is strange, because I've always could. Maybe it's my sleep schedule which has changed lots lately.
I cant ever stay awake in WILD.... would coffee be a good idea?
[editline]8th November 2010[/editline]
...or FILD
[QUOTE=Birdman101;25940530]I cant ever stay awake in WILD.... would coffee be a good idea?
[editline]8th November 2010[/editline]
...or FILD[/QUOTE]
You're not supposed to stay awake in WILD.
The idea is to go to sleep while maintaining a little bit of consciousness.
thats what I meant; I cant stay aware. I always fall asleep too soon.
coffee=good?
[QUOTE=Birdman101;25940980]thats what I meant; I cant stay aware. I always fall asleep too soon.
coffee=good?[/QUOTE]
No, I'm pretty sure coffee would just keep you awake.
I think you should try FILD.
k cool
thanks man
Ah, wow. I think my sub's fucking with me. This morning I had a dream that went something along the lines of my dad letting me stay home from school. I wake up to find that I'd slept in, and not even on my own, my mom woke me up.
I had an oddly poetic dream last night, I'll write it down later.
On an unrelated note, I have a zit on my knee. What the fuck. Is that even POSSIBLE?
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;25942910]I have a zit on my knee. What the fuck. Is that even POSSIBLE?[/QUOTE]
ingrown hair. massacre it.
[editline]8th November 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=Eonart;25944537]Ia burst of sound, beating my eardrum. I rolled, it felt automatic, process ruined.[/QUOTE]
exploding head syndrome.
[QUOTE=Eonart;25944537]But being awake and having a dream at the same time is really awkward though.[/QUOTE]
that's how we roll
[QUOTE=Orkel;25945098]that's how we roll[/QUOTE]
hell yeah
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Listening to slow ride+playing tanks=adrenaline |
I MUST have some kind of gift! I've been remembering most of my dreams for about a week straight now!!
Two nights ago I had another close-to-lucid dream. In fact, it was the closest I've got yet. I used a lot of handrubbage, but I don't remember using the sunglasses method. I could close my eyes and make objects and things appear, but I wasn't aware enough to realize that I could do anything, change people, and that crap.
Last night, I had a dream that I was at my school, and I missed my bus or something. I don't remember much of it, but it went along those lines. Also, a lot of times a have "false memories" where I might remember things from other dreams, but when I think about it when I wake up, I realize that dream never happened. In this dream, my friend, Spenser was talking to me about this girl (fictional) that we tried to get in another dream, who was now married or something. That other dream never happened. Also, I wasn't lucid at all in that one.
Edit : I feel stalked. There are 4 other people viewing this thread, but nobody is posting... :byodood:
ANOTHER THING I FORGOT TO SAY! I rarely have nightmares. I haven't had a bad one in a long time, now. Even nights when I'm reading about Slenderman, and completely under the covers in like, 90 degree weather, I still have cool dreams.
motherfucking NyQuil
fhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhf
[quote=Beefbars]I MUST have some kind of gift! I've been remembering most of my dreams for about a week straight now!! [/quote]
Most people in this thread can do that.
Hopefully I can have a more peaceful lucid tomorrow morning and actually be asleep for most of it. I find that in the morning, even if I fail at a WILD attempt then I automatically do a reality check the instant I get in a dream. This is good. It's pretty much almost a failproof way of getting a lucid (provided I can keep this habit up).
My main goal of lucid dreaming at this point is to get in a full-on war with my sub and be able to summon ANY instrument of war that I know of, and even ones I dont.
It would be like an RTS, only not gay.
[editline]8th November 2010[/editline]
Heavy Gustav VS Puff the Magic Dragon, anyone?
[editline]8th November 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;25947284]motherfucking NyQuil
fhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhfhf[/QUOTE]
I know what you mean
:damn:
[quote=Birdman101;2598]My main goal of lucid dreaming at this point is to get in a full-on war with my sub and be able to summon ANY instrument of war that I know of, and even ones I dont.[/quote]
I get this nagging sensation that going to war with your sub isn't the best idea you've ever had.
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