When I did it, keeping a dream journal helped a lot, so i could work out when i was in a dream. Often when I did work it out, either the dream would end, or change without my direction or I’d wake up.
Eventually you learn to… I don’t really know how to phrase it but like, not disturb your unconscious narrating brain, and instead just sort of insert small changes.
You can imagine it a bit like improv acting or a DM in an RPG session. It says: you’re in school without your pants on and you say “and then a dinosaur comes in the room” and your narrative brain sort of goes with it, and rolls that into the story somehow.
I eventually stopped doing it, it’s a lot less magic than people like to make out in my opinion, it’s much more like telling yourself a story in your sleep, and it being very visually and emotionally believable. It was fun though. The last time I did it, I kept trying to get my narrative brain to say that I died, it was interesting seeing how ridiculous it would get to avoid having that happen. (E.g. “then I get shot” “ok, the bullet turns out to be jelly and splats on your face”, “it’s acid jelly”, “ok, a bucket of soapy water drops on you and flushes all the acid off of you”, “the bucket is full of sharks”, etc…) funny, but really just imagining stuff in your sleep.
Yeah, I do journal indeed! I usually get into a lucid state by noticing something “wrong” with the environment (the first ever time it was my wristwatch - I noticed it was digital and not analog like in the real world). And often the things that would go wrong were repeated from dream to dream.
When I did it, keeping a dream journal helped a lot, so i could work out when i was in a dream. Often when I did work it out, either the dream would end, or change without my direction or I’d wake up.
Eventually you learn to… I don’t really know how to phrase it but like, not disturb your unconscious narrating brain, and instead just sort of insert small changes.
You can imagine it a bit like improv acting or a DM in an RPG session. It says: you’re in school without your pants on and you say “and then a dinosaur comes in the room” and your narrative brain sort of goes with it, and rolls that into the story somehow.
I eventually stopped doing it, it’s a lot less magic than people like to make out in my opinion, it’s much more like telling yourself a story in your sleep, and it being very visually and emotionally believable. It was fun though. The last time I did it, I kept trying to get my narrative brain to say that I died, it was interesting seeing how ridiculous it would get to avoid having that happen. (E.g. “then I get shot” “ok, the bullet turns out to be jelly and splats on your face”, “it’s acid jelly”, “ok, a bucket of soapy water drops on you and flushes all the acid off of you”, “the bucket is full of sharks”, etc…) funny, but really just imagining stuff in your sleep.
Yeah, I do journal indeed! I usually get into a lucid state by noticing something “wrong” with the environment (the first ever time it was my wristwatch - I noticed it was digital and not analog like in the real world). And often the things that would go wrong were repeated from dream to dream.