Lucid Dreaming Aid

[iamthelaw-andre]

For the record, I have zero interest in "shared dreaming". My concern is simply to experience a vivid other world for myself. Miranda is helping me with this. When I lay down, or wake up and try to drift back asleep, I do my best to hold her presence in my mind and use her as an anchor into the dreamworld. No success yet but I have faith in this and believe it to be one of the most valuable things a relationship with a tulpa can yield. She wants me to enter "her" world and so do I. She has been explicitly created to be my dream companion, my dream guide.

[Zpothu]

It sounds like you're trying to pull off "wild" lucid dreaming. This is a difficult technique. You don't really need it. What you need are symbols to help remind you to be lucid.

 

It's best to attach 4 objects together and meditate on them:

1. A totem like from inception, but make sure it is meaningful to you.

2. A small mirror that you are familiar with your reflection in.

3. A note-card that reads "You are dreaming."

4. A physically painful object like a knife that shocks you into lucidity.

 

So, you want to look for these symbols in your dream states. They will no doubt crop up occasionally. Recognize them when you see them.

 

 

As for wanting your tulpa as a dream companion, you need to create symbols that represent her as well. I have a simple exercise that you may wish to try.

 

Take out a pen and paper and poise your hand to write on it. Then in your mind imagine interacting with your tulpa in some way. Let your hand scribble down a symbol without you looking at what you are writing. It should be about an inch or two in size and take about 1-2 seconds to scribble down.

 

In my case, I imagine myself having romantic passionate affairs with my tulpa, typically kissing. I scribble down the symbol I will use for kissing. It's sometimes abstract, but usually it looks pretty. I meditate on this symbol and voila. I've had dreams that literally started with me kissing her private parts before I even have a chance to think. Lucky me.

 

Anyway, I hope you find that helpful. I wish you the best in your lucid dream attempts.

[VforVendetta]

What's been the most successful method to help you remember your dreams? I have no issue getting to the dreaming, it's the fact that upon awakening, I lose most memories of the dream, and therefore achieve nothing.

[Zpothu]

Have a dream journal or tape recorder next to your bed. When you wake, do not jostle yourself or get out of bed until you have recorded everything you remember. Keep practicing and you'll remember more and more each time. If you don't remember anything that's okay, just try again next time.

 

Also, try to become lucid. I don't think it's possible to forget a lucid dream.

[Luminesce]

upon awakening, I lose most memories of the dream, and therefore achieve nothing.

 

Try to remember anyways, every time you wake up. No matter how much you want to do/think about other stuff, lie still with your eyes closed and try to remember. Simply doing this (and making it a habit) does wonders for your dream recall, if you're dedicated enough it takes less than a week to start remembering dreams, in my experience. But it's really, really important that you don't give up after five seconds because you remember nothing. Try to remember feelings, places, just themes. If all you remember was something about a mall, keep thinking about that until more starts to pop up.

 

It's both really hard and easier than it seems. Mustering the will to do anything right when you wake up is difficult, but if you actually work at it it shouldn't be too long before you see success.

 

As a bonus thing, waking up in the middle of the night usually helps you remember at least the last dream you were having. Alarm clocks are commonly used for WILDs ( http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-methods-techniques/ ), and if you're woken up during REM sleep you have a much, much higher chance of remembering dreams, which is your best bet if you're the type of person that can't remember a single detail of any dream ever. Personally, I naturally wake up multiple times throughout the night even if just for a few seconds. If I remind myself to do so before going to sleep, I usually remember to get up for a few minutes when I do so, which both helps remember dreams I was having, and wake my mind up a bit to make lucid dreaming easier when I go back to sleep.

 

I could probably write a book on this stuff, so you should probably just go to Dreamviews, 'cus they've already done it for me. If you don't want to make an account to ask a specific question you can ask here, but most common questions have already been answered there. On the other hand you're already here and I consider myself an expert on the subject, so..