Comment on Is it possible to influence your dreams the next night?
200ok@lemmy.world 1 year agoCool! Can you elaborate? What was the class? Do you remember the lucid dreams? What was the journaling process?
Comment on Is it possible to influence your dreams the next night?
200ok@lemmy.world 1 year agoCool! Can you elaborate? What was the class? Do you remember the lucid dreams? What was the journaling process?
qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
It was a class on sleeping+dreaming, an “easy A” class that was actually really interesting. Taught by William Dement, an old timer who helped pioneer the field of sleep research. As I recall there wasn’t much emphasis on what dreams mean — it was fairly matter-of-fact in that regard, which I liked.
The journal process, from what I recall, was just to write down every detail. In doing so you may realize patterns in your dream — recurring objects or themes, or anything really.
Another thing, especially for lucid dreaming, is to do “reality checks” throughout your (waking) day. This can be something like looking at a watch. Get in the habit of this — just randomly looking down and verifying that your watch is reading a valid time, and ask yourself if this makes sense, and if you’re dreaming. Most of the time you’ll look at your watch, say “yup 11:42, and I don’t think I’m dreaming.” The idea though is that this will be a habit that you perform in your dream, too — and hopefully, in your dream, your watch won’t make sense, you’ll ask yourself if you’re dreaming and boom! Lucid dream.
For me, lucid dreams were usually pretty short — as soon as I realized I was dreaming, I’d only have a little time before waking up. I also found it frustrating that I couldn’t always control my dreams, so I’d try to fly, and… nothing. Even though I knew I was dreaming.
200ok@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s so cool, and sounds like a wonderful memory. Thanks for sharing!