My Lucid Dreaming Journey Day 28 - What's Wrong With Me...
I Can't Fall Asleep in The Morning!
So, I set my alarm to wake me up in the middle of the night and I go to sleep. Meditation and all that before bed...
I fell asleep quite easily this time. But, when I'm awoken by the alarm, I can't fall asleep anymore. I lay there for hours until I finally doze off...
I don't know why this happens... I just don't feel tired when I wake up. Recently, I started setting my alarm to wake me up in 3 hour of sleep.
Maybe that's the problem? I used to wake up after 4 hours of sleep and the FILD method worked perfectly. Now, nothing works.
Today, I'll try waking up in 4 hours and see if I will feel tired.
Anyway, when I finally managed to fall asleep, I did have some dreams, but they weren't very vivid and I couldn't remember much.
I also had some false awakenings. It means that I dream of waking up, but I'm actually just dreaming. It happened like 3 times in a row.
Quite annoying, because there's nothing going on in such dreams. I'm just literally laying in bed trying to fall asleep, but I'm already sleeping!
Plus, I realized that I'm dreaming when it happened for the third time... A person called me on the phone, but I knew this person would never call me.
I said to myself, "Yup, I'm dreaming, ain't no way this bitch is actually calling me".
After this realization, I immediately woke up.
Funny thing is, this is actually the first time I realized that I'm dreaming just because something wasn't right within the dream.
Back to School!
There was one particular dream that I remember. I was like 12-13 years old and I was back in school!
All the old classmates were there. I felt a very warm feeling throughout the whole dream. Something nostalgic! But I didn't realize I'm dreaming...
Apparently, we were suppose to go out on a trip or something. When the class was over, we all went to a bus to go somewhere.
We used to actually take such trips and those trips were the best! A lot of great memories came out of them.
When we got into the bus, I couldn't remember much. I just remember sitting there with all my friends. We were having so much fun!
Ahh... I was a child again... No worries, no stress about anything! It was the time when all you worried about is having fun.
Anyway, there's nothing else that I could remember. Then I woke up, but I fell asleep in a few minutes again, because I was tired.
I tried doing the FILD method, but it didn't work...
This is when I had those false awakenings.
Some Dream Interpretations
I never normally did this before I started this journey, but I think it's going to be fun to check out what my dreams mean, since I'm getting more involved with them.
I don't necessarily believe the interpretations, but it's a great way to get even more immersed into the dream world.
So, in my dream I was a child. What could that possibly mean? Here's what I've found:
Alternately, you may be remembering something from your past which was triggered by a recent waking life event; or you may have recently exhibited some childish behavior.(Source)
Pff, childish behavior? I have no memory of such behavior! Nor am I remembering anything from the past. Well, at least I'm not aware of such things. Maybe I am childish, huh? You tell me!
Next, in my dream I was back to school. What could that possibly mean? Here's what I've found:
You go back to school for other reasons besides taking a test, usually there is a lesson that you learned back then that you may need to remember; or you are learning something in the dream; or the there is an opportunity to learn something in life that the dream is bringing to your attention. (Source)
Since my dream wasn't very vivid, I don't remember much on what was going on there. I just know I had fun! So, I can't really know it there's a lesson that I need to remember...
That's enough with the interpretations.
Hopefully, I'll have better results today. I will experiment with Dream Leaf again, because the last time I failed to fall asleep in the morning and I had no dreams.
I'm ending this post here. At the end of each post I'll include my first post (down below) about this journey as it explains why and how I'm doing this! (Full Post Here)
I Will Be Doing This Every Day!
The main reason I want to start lucid dreaming, is for self improvement. I've been reading a lot about it and studies have shown that you can actually improve certain abilities by doing it in your dreams. For example, if you wan't to learn a foreign language, you can practice it in your dreams. Since you're working with your subconscious mind while you're sleeping, you might find out that you know words that you were never aware of while conscious. It's really all up to your creativity to what you wanna learn and improve upon in your dreams. Is it basketball that you want to become better at? You can do that! Do you want to become a better fucker? Nobody is holding you back! Just make a nasty slut appear in front of you and do whatever you want with her! Apparently while sleeping, the neural pathways engaged in the activity are strengthened, and not only imagined or visualized. To achieve lucid dreaming, a lot of action has to be taken. Well... Some find it really easy to lucid dream, but most have to achieve it the hard way. It's really important to think about lucid dreaming throughout the day. This way you're telling your subconscious mind that this is what you're focusing on and what you want, thus it gives you the access to control the dream world. There are quite a few things I will be doing in order to achieve this goal! So, first of all, I will be posting my whole lucid dreaming journey here on Steemit every day. I will be writing down all of my dreams on a journal. A dream journal is basically essential if you want to achieve lucid dreaming. I will do at least 30-50 reality checks every day. Have a sleeping rhythm. That means I will be going to sleep at the same time every night. I'll also wake up at the same time every morning as well. I will also experiment with some techniques to induce lucid dreams. I won't look at any screens (computer, TV or even phone) 30-60 minutes before bed, because I've read that this helps a lot. For those 30-60 minutes I will be meditating. Talk, read and think about lucid dreaming constantly. Occasionally I will listen to lucid dreaming binaural beats and hypnosis. I will use an app called Awoken. This app is designed to help you achieve lucid dreaming. It reminds you to do reality checks throughout the day and it has a dream journal, which is where I will be writing down all my dreams when I wake up. I will experiment with the supplement called Dream Leaf, I already ordered it and I will use it when it arrives. I will take it only once or at most twice every week to see if it changes anything about my dreams and the ability to become lucid.
Tracking All My Progress!
So, like I've mentioned before, I will be tracking all my progress and I'll be posting about it every day here on Steemit. Also, after I achieve lucid dreaming, I won't stop posting about my experiences for some time still. When I achieve my goal, I will be writing down a lot of experiences that I have inside the dream world, and I'll experiment if it's actually possible to improve real life skills while sleeping. I set a personal goal to achieve lucid dreaming within 30 days starting today. I'm really excited and hopefully I'll be able to do that even faster than 30 days! This is not the first time I try to achieve lucid dreaming, but I never took it seriously and I was too inconsistent, so I never even came close to becoming lucid. But this time I'm gonna SMASH it and record the whole journey on this blockchain!
UPDATE: I achieved lucid dreaming for the first time on day 12
Dream world here I come!
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