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Is it possible to influence your dreams the next night?
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this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
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With a dream journal, and setting intentions before sleep, you likely can increase the likelihood of influencing your dreams the following night.
I kept a dream journal as a requirement for an undergrad class. Really interesting thing to do
and it helped me to lucid dream a few times.
Cool! Can you elaborate? What was the class? Do you remember the lucid dreams? What was the journaling process?
It was a class on sleeping+dreaming, an "easy A" class that was actually really interesting. Taught by William Dement, an old timer who helped pioneer the field of sleep research. As I recall there wasn't much emphasis on what dreams mean
it was fairly matter-of-fact in that regard, which I liked.
The journal process, from what I recall, was just to write down every detail. In doing so you may realize patterns in your dream
recurring objects or themes, or anything really.
Another thing, especially for lucid dreaming, is to do "reality checks" throughout your (waking) day. This can be something like looking at a watch. Get in the habit of this
just randomly looking down and verifying that your watch is reading a valid time, and ask yourself if this makes sense, and if you're dreaming. Most of the time you'll look at your watch, say "yup 11:42, and I don't think I'm dreaming." The idea though is that this will be a habit that you perform in your dream, too
and hopefully, in your dream, your watch won't make sense, you'll ask yourself if you're dreaming and boom! Lucid dream.
For me, lucid dreams were usually pretty short
as soon as I realized I was dreaming, I'd only have a little time before waking up. I also found it frustrating that I couldn't always control my dreams, so I'd try to fly, and... nothing. Even though I knew I was dreaming.
That's so cool, and sounds like a wonderful memory. Thanks for sharing!