Lucid Dream discussion thread

[Brian]

I had a lucid dream this morning.  I had my normal terrible Shami-interrupted rest, and then went back to sleep.  I thought about trying to lucid dream, and the fact that most of my lucid dreams consist of flying around briefly before waking up, so thought I'd try to do more -- like actually alter the setting -- if I managed another lucid dream.

And then it happened.  So I altered the setting, and was flying around somewhere different ... and then I convinced myself in my lucid dream, that I'd pushed things too far, broken out of it, and was awake.  And then the body horror segment of the dream began....

I think my mind hates me.

[Arakawa]

False awakenings are a sufficiently common thing for me that I've gotten used to them :(.

[Arakawa]

Hm. 5 lucid dreams in the past 7 days. That's a record for me, but it depends on the explicit 'wake-back-to-bed' experience of getting up at 5am, working with intense concentration until 6:30, then going back to bed.

One random observation: for some reason (as far as I can tell), alcohol consumption totally destroys my ability to attain lucidity (which is why it's 5 in 7 and not 7 in 7). And I don't mean serious alcohol, even apple cider that has started to ferment a bit is suspect.