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The Dream Journal - finger through palm, noivern, and an IKEA maze
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The first step to lucid dreaming is remembering your dreams.
Reading other people’s dreams before bed is a great way to prime your own brain to lucid dream. So here are three for tonight - all from our Discord server.
Brandon used his reality check inside a dream for the first time after years of trying. Vinderex met a Pokemon and made friends with it. And onessa got stuck in a dream IKEA. Yes, really.
As always, come post your dream in the Discord or just reply to this email - you could be the next one featured in the Dream Journal.
From Brandon B.’s Dream Journal:
This is exactly why you keep doing reality checks even when nothing is happening. Brandon did them every day for years before one finally showed up inside a dream. That is how the technique works - you build the habit awake so it eventually surfaces asleep.
Also worth noticing: the dream did everything it could to stop him. The finger went through the wrong limb. The lucidity collapsed inside a minute. That is normal. The first lucid dream after years of trying is almost always short. The second one is easier.
From Vinderex’s Dream Journal:
Lovely.
Notice what happens with the noivern - Vinderex starts out wary, then crosses the line of fear (jumping into the pool to help), and the dream figure responds with warmth. That pattern shows up a lot in lucid dreaming too. The friendlier you are toward a dream figure, the friendlier it tends to be back.
From onessa’s Dream Journal:
The “scene reset” onessa describes is a real thing. When you push hard for control of a dream, sometimes the whole environment just flips to a new one. The fix is usually softening rather than pushing harder. Look around. Touch something nearby. Let the dream settle.
And what onessa tried at the end - reality checks while you are already lucid - is a great instinct. They ground you in the dream you are already in, which makes it harder for the dream to slip out from under you.
Three dreams. Three different reasons to keep showing up - to your reality checks, to your journal, and to the people you share them with. The Discord is full of people doing all three.
Big thanks to Brandon, Vinderex, and onessa for letting us share these.
Sweet dreams,
Jake
P.S. Our friend Ryan Hurd has a brilliant community for experienced lucid dreamers over at the Dream Portal - worth a look if you want to connect with other practitioners.
P.P.S. Come say hi on Facebook, YouTube, Discord, or TikTok. And if you want to go deeper, the Lucid Dreaming Fast Track Academy is waiting for you right here :-)
The first step to lucid dreaming is remembering your dreams.
Reading other people’s dreams before bed is a great way to prime your own brain to lucid dream. So here are three for tonight - all from our Discord server.
Brandon used his reality check inside a dream for the first time after years of trying. Vinderex met a Pokemon and made friends with it. And onessa got stuck in a dream IKEA. Yes, really.
As always, come post your dream in the Discord or just reply to this email - you could be the next one featured in the Dream Journal.
From Brandon B.’s Dream Journal:
Last night I actually used a reality-check in my dream and it worked! You know the one, finger through the palm, that’s my go to reality-check in my daily life. But despite having used that technique for years, I never actually remember to do it while dreaming. Until last night!
I don’t remember the details of the dream, other than I was pretty sure it was not a dream. I was pretty sure I was awake, but it dawned on me that hey maybe this was a dream. Well that’s what reality-checks are for, right? So why not do a reality-check.
And so I pushed my right index finger, not through my left palm, but through the base of my left index finger. The right finger slowly inserted into my left finger with the flesh morphing around it as my finger slide all the way through coming out the other side! WOAH! That’s not supposed to happen! THIS IS A DREAM!
And so I took off toward a high cliff nearby and lept off and started flying. I was thinking about what I wanted to do in the dream when I felt the dreaded feeling of wakefulness approaching. “No no, stay calm...” But it was too late, I was awake, laying in bed with my eyes closed desperately trying to remain in that in between state of still asleep, yet aware within the dream. But I quickly realized it was no use, I had come completely out of the dream now.
Anyway, just wanted to share that with everyone! YES reality-checks do work! I know from personal experience now!
I don’t remember the details of the dream, other than I was pretty sure it was not a dream. I was pretty sure I was awake, but it dawned on me that hey maybe this was a dream. Well that’s what reality-checks are for, right? So why not do a reality-check.
And so I pushed my right index finger, not through my left palm, but through the base of my left index finger. The right finger slowly inserted into my left finger with the flesh morphing around it as my finger slide all the way through coming out the other side! WOAH! That’s not supposed to happen! THIS IS A DREAM!
And so I took off toward a high cliff nearby and lept off and started flying. I was thinking about what I wanted to do in the dream when I felt the dreaded feeling of wakefulness approaching. “No no, stay calm...” But it was too late, I was awake, laying in bed with my eyes closed desperately trying to remain in that in between state of still asleep, yet aware within the dream. But I quickly realized it was no use, I had come completely out of the dream now.
Anyway, just wanted to share that with everyone! YES reality-checks do work! I know from personal experience now!
This is exactly why you keep doing reality checks even when nothing is happening. Brandon did them every day for years before one finally showed up inside a dream. That is how the technique works - you build the habit awake so it eventually surfaces asleep.
Also worth noticing: the dream did everything it could to stop him. The finger went through the wrong limb. The lucidity collapsed inside a minute. That is normal. The first lucid dream after years of trying is almost always short. The second one is easier.
From Vinderex’s Dream Journal:
Hey everyone, it’s been a while!
I had a kind of cute dream last night.
I was living back at the old house which I grew up in, and there was a noivern (from Pokemon) that had taken up residence nearby and could often be seen flying around or wandering the streets. Just about everyone was afraid of it, and even though I was fascinated by it and wanted to approach it, I also didn’t know whether it would be territorial or aggressive or otherwise dangerous, so I too had some respectful fear of it and kept my distance.
Then at one point, I saw it floating in the swimming pool in my backyard. I thought that it might be dead, so I panicked and jumped into the pool and swam out to it, and began trying to revive it, shaking it gently and shouting “Hey, are you okay?” Thankfully it was just cooling off in the pool and had decided to take a little snooze while it was floating. Once it woke up, it seemed to understand that I was concerned for it, and it began nuzzling against me and licking my face.
The details of the dream began fading after that, but I remember seeing that noivern a few more times out wandering the streets, and I’d pet it and show it some love, and it would always be happy to see me.
I had a kind of cute dream last night.
I was living back at the old house which I grew up in, and there was a noivern (from Pokemon) that had taken up residence nearby and could often be seen flying around or wandering the streets. Just about everyone was afraid of it, and even though I was fascinated by it and wanted to approach it, I also didn’t know whether it would be territorial or aggressive or otherwise dangerous, so I too had some respectful fear of it and kept my distance.
Then at one point, I saw it floating in the swimming pool in my backyard. I thought that it might be dead, so I panicked and jumped into the pool and swam out to it, and began trying to revive it, shaking it gently and shouting “Hey, are you okay?” Thankfully it was just cooling off in the pool and had decided to take a little snooze while it was floating. Once it woke up, it seemed to understand that I was concerned for it, and it began nuzzling against me and licking my face.
The details of the dream began fading after that, but I remember seeing that noivern a few more times out wandering the streets, and I’d pet it and show it some love, and it would always be happy to see me.
Lovely.
Notice what happens with the noivern - Vinderex starts out wary, then crosses the line of fear (jumping into the pool to help), and the dream figure responds with warmth. That pattern shows up a lot in lucid dreaming too. The friendlier you are toward a dream figure, the friendlier it tends to be back.
From onessa’s Dream Journal:
I was in a huge convention center and there were places for VR, massages etc. I was trying to find the exit but it was like an IKEA and maze where i was effectively blocked by both the staff and. Vendors. I was able to tell I was dreaming by looking at my hands a few times but then I’d get like scene reset vs it allowing me take control. Was first time when I know I was dreaming I tried to actively ground myself doing a reality check when I knew I was already dreaming.
I did eventually get outside and then I woke up for good.
I did eventually get outside and then I woke up for good.
The “scene reset” onessa describes is a real thing. When you push hard for control of a dream, sometimes the whole environment just flips to a new one. The fix is usually softening rather than pushing harder. Look around. Touch something nearby. Let the dream settle.
And what onessa tried at the end - reality checks while you are already lucid - is a great instinct. They ground you in the dream you are already in, which makes it harder for the dream to slip out from under you.
Three dreams. Three different reasons to keep showing up - to your reality checks, to your journal, and to the people you share them with. The Discord is full of people doing all three.
Big thanks to Brandon, Vinderex, and onessa for letting us share these.
Sweet dreams,
Jake
P.S. Our friend Ryan Hurd has a brilliant community for experienced lucid dreamers over at the Dream Portal - worth a look if you want to connect with other practitioners.
P.P.S. Come say hi on Facebook, YouTube, Discord, or TikTok. And if you want to go deeper, the Lucid Dreaming Fast Track Academy is waiting for you right here :-)
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