Lucid Dreaming: Night 2
For the majority of yesterday I tried to follow my training techniques, as I described in the Lucid Dreaming Experiment introduction article.
I didn’t experience any kind of lucidity last night. I even found it quite difficult to remember my dreams this time. I read an article the other day which said that you can remember your dreams in the morning much easier if you remain still when you wake up. Apparently the motor neurons in your brain which allow you to move are triggered and this can mask the ‘dream memory’ part of your brain. To my surprise this actually works very well. If you don’t move at all when you wake up you can not only remember your dreams more often but you can almost feel what they were like too. As soon as you start to move, your memory of them begins to fade, try it next time you wake up. After lying still and trying to remember for a while, I managed to remember bits and pieces, so I logged that in my dream journal.
I remember a point in my dream where I thought things didn’t add up, like the realisation that triggered a reality check in night 1. But this time it didn’t cause me to check my wristband. I’m not quite sure why it did yesterday but not today. It could have been because yesterday I was in a later phase of sleep and I had actually woken up then gone back to sleep again, which is supposed to make it easier to have a lucid dream.
I didn’t do much visualization yesterday, I mostly just kept checking my wristband, which may not be enough. So today I’m going to try to do a bit more visualization as well.
In night 3 I am going to try to wake up early then go back to sleep, like I did in night 1 to see if that will help me spark another reality check. I really want to be able to realise I’m dreaming and not immediately wake up.
My curiosity needs to be satisfied.
Related Articles:
- The Lucid Dreaming Experiment
- Lucid Dreaming: Night 1 - A Breakthrough Already
- Lucid Dreaming: Night 5
- Lucid Dreaming: Night 10
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