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penmillionOne of my goals this year is working deeply with my dreams, which includes reading books on dreams, keeping a dream journal, and tracking possible influences on quantity/content including varying sleep times, current reading material, phases of the moon, etc. I've been remembering more dreams over the past few weeks, but haven't had much luck with getting lucid, other than a few near-lucid instances.
This morning I got one. Of course I don't have enough data to say for sure what triggered it, but yesterday I finished reading Etheric Anatomy by Victor Anderson, and did a Huna mana raising exercise with the intent of increasing my dream awareness. It could also be the accumulation of daily reality checks (asking myself if I'm dreaming, looking at my hands, etc.) Anyway, something worked, and I'm only 28 days into the experiment. I've had a few lucid dreams in the past, but they've been pretty few and far between. I hope this systematic study will help me learn effective induction methods.
[Dream excerpt]...The room was mostly empty, and seemed dusty and unused. Maybe they hadn't unpacked stuff into it yet. It had a fantastic view. Since it was a basement room, the windows were near the ceiling, going in a band almost the length of the room. The room was only partially underground. I could see out onto an area, almost a swamp/plains/nature preserve. There were lots of animals around. There were some creatures very close by to the left, maybe Mercats, but much furrier. I thought it was odd that they'd have them in their backyard. Then I saw some other small animals of different types, but all about the size of a kitten or small cat. The one to the far right was a skunk, but too small to be a real skunk. It was almost a cartoon. It was so weird I thought, “I must be dreaming” and then I realized that I was dreaming. I was happy. I thanked my subconscious? that had sent the weird imagery to clue me in. I wondered what to do, and decided first just to walk around and look at stuff. I may have gone back into the hallway. I must have lost consciousness soon after that.
Here's a link to the Mana exercise: http://www.lilithslantern.com/mana.htm
This morning I got one. Of course I don't have enough data to say for sure what triggered it, but yesterday I finished reading Etheric Anatomy by Victor Anderson, and did a Huna mana raising exercise with the intent of increasing my dream awareness. It could also be the accumulation of daily reality checks (asking myself if I'm dreaming, looking at my hands, etc.) Anyway, something worked, and I'm only 28 days into the experiment. I've had a few lucid dreams in the past, but they've been pretty few and far between. I hope this systematic study will help me learn effective induction methods.
[Dream excerpt]...The room was mostly empty, and seemed dusty and unused. Maybe they hadn't unpacked stuff into it yet. It had a fantastic view. Since it was a basement room, the windows were near the ceiling, going in a band almost the length of the room. The room was only partially underground. I could see out onto an area, almost a swamp/plains/nature preserve. There were lots of animals around. There were some creatures very close by to the left, maybe Mercats, but much furrier. I thought it was odd that they'd have them in their backyard. Then I saw some other small animals of different types, but all about the size of a kitten or small cat. The one to the far right was a skunk, but too small to be a real skunk. It was almost a cartoon. It was so weird I thought, “I must be dreaming” and then I realized that I was dreaming. I was happy. I thanked my subconscious? that had sent the weird imagery to clue me in. I wondered what to do, and decided first just to walk around and look at stuff. I may have gone back into the hallway. I must have lost consciousness soon after that.
Here's a link to the Mana exercise: http://www.lilithslantern.com/mana.htm
