The first step towards relearning lucid dreaming
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve been having some difficulty recalling my dreams. Last night I set myself the task of trying not to forget anything I dreamed in the night. Before I went to sleep, I made a point to believe that I would be able to recall my dreams, and I imagined myself as dreaming as part of a reality check so as to establish a difference between the dream world and the real world. I looked at objects and then closed my eyes and imagined them as something else. When I opened my eyes I could see that the objects hadn’t changed, and thus I knew I wasn’t dreaming. I said out loud to myself that I would remember my dreams, and that I would achieve lucidity in them. Lucidity in dreaming is something I have not been able to achieve for many years, but it is something I intend to work on.
Sure enough, as I was dreaming throughout the night, I was able to wake myself up during REM sleep while my dreams were most vivid so as to write down what I had dreamt. I woke up three times with vivid recollections of longer dreams, and also had two or three other dreams that I only have vague recollections of, one involving the monster from the movie ‘The Host’. Being able to remember so many dreams in such depth was a satisfying achievement, although when I got up the next morning I had to consult my journal to remember exactly what I had been dreaming during the night. Sure enough, there were three dreams with not immediately decipherable meanings. I’ll attempt to go through one or two of them today.
I wasn’t able to achieve a lucid dream (that I could recall), but I feel that this was a major step towards relearning that skill.
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