Dreamwork update
Feb. 21st, 2006 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
penmillionI keep meaning to update this journal, but I'm not really in the habit yet, so I keep putting it off. I did dream that I was about to update it, but I didn't have an internet connection. So now I do. I'm awake, I think. (checks) Yep. Awake.
I repeated the same experiment/ritual/meditation whatever you want to call it that I had such great luck with originally, but this time I did not have a lucid dream. I will try it again several more times at least over the course of the year to see what happens, along with other techniques. I'm a bit disappointed that I don't have a sure-fire guaranteed lucid-dream induction technique, but maybe that was overly optimistic for right out of the gate. I am, however, having a ton of non-lucid dreams, so many that I'm falling behind in typing them up and now I'm swimming in little scribbled note pages that I'll have to decipher soon. I think the volume has doubled or tripled, but I'll do a hard count when I get caught up. Maybe the extra dream awareness went for memory rather than lucidity this time.
Some ideas for the future: herbal teas, dream pillows, more meditations, keep reading dream books. Just finished: The Jungian-Senoi Dreamwork Manual by Strephon Kaplan Williams. (Many, many different techniques for working with dreams. Very useful.) Just started: Dreams Beyond Dreaming by Jean Campbell. Favorite all time dream book so far: Patricia Garfield's Creative Dreaming.
I repeated the same experiment/ritual/meditation whatever you want to call it that I had such great luck with originally, but this time I did not have a lucid dream. I will try it again several more times at least over the course of the year to see what happens, along with other techniques. I'm a bit disappointed that I don't have a sure-fire guaranteed lucid-dream induction technique, but maybe that was overly optimistic for right out of the gate. I am, however, having a ton of non-lucid dreams, so many that I'm falling behind in typing them up and now I'm swimming in little scribbled note pages that I'll have to decipher soon. I think the volume has doubled or tripled, but I'll do a hard count when I get caught up. Maybe the extra dream awareness went for memory rather than lucidity this time.
Some ideas for the future: herbal teas, dream pillows, more meditations, keep reading dream books. Just finished: The Jungian-Senoi Dreamwork Manual by Strephon Kaplan Williams. (Many, many different techniques for working with dreams. Very useful.) Just started: Dreams Beyond Dreaming by Jean Campbell. Favorite all time dream book so far: Patricia Garfield's Creative Dreaming.
