What's Next on the Lucid Dreaming Path?
So far, we have discussed the essential basics of lucid dreaming:
- Understanding your body, how to recover and get stronger.
- Technique for waking up in a dream.
- Methods for consciously entering dreams.
- Ways to remember your dreams.
Next Steps
I was wondering how far I could take you on this journey. Now I see a clearer direction for what I can do next. If I continue to delve into increasingly complex topics, it can become a confusing and perhaps even demotivating journey. These topics can be difficult to understand without a solid foundation.
Building from the Ground Up
To get the most out of this journey, you need to focus on providing a solid foundation. This will provide a safe and structured space for you to grow. By building on this foundation, you will learn more through your own experiences. I will highlight a few important things along the way to help you learn faster and stay focused.
The Importance of Fundamentals
Sharing advanced knowledge without a proper foundation can be ineffective. It’s like showing a complex PCB schematic without explaining the basics of electronics. You might have a “shocking experience” and not understand what happened. Guiding through such knowledge without a solid foundation would take too long.
Your Way Forward
You have enough work to do for the next few years now. When you are ready for more advanced topics, I will be here to guide you further. Maybe we will even meet in a dream and continue our learning journey there.
Upcoming Topics
In the upcoming posts, I will share some intermediate knowledge to make your journey more interesting and focused. This knowledge will bridge the gap between the basics and more complex concepts.
Practical Application
Now that you have all the necessary knowledge to understand how to swim, you now need to actually get in the water and enjoy it.
The goal is to ensure that you have the tools and knowledge to grow on your own. As you practice and explore lucid dreaming, you will naturally discover more. Remember that learning is a journey, not a destination. Stay curious and keep exploring, and you will find that the world of lucid dreaming holds endless possibilities.
Further application of the dream diary
These steps are done once you have written out at least a book of dreams. Once you have remembered them a little and can start paying attention to the details.
When you are in a dream, start looking not at the script and everything that is interestingly attracting attention, but at what where you are. Is it a city, or a lake, are there walls, are the rooms familiar? Each time, try to look around where you are and write it down in your diary.
Once you have accumulated at least a few hundred insights, you can try drawing a "dream map."
Dream maps
We have seen dream maps from dozens of people who have not communicated with each other, and we have found something very unusual and extremely interesting. At first you may notice that there is a big house in the city, the next time a big mountain, the next time something big. The appearance and shape may differ, but the essence and structure may remain the same.
What does this mean?
Dream map analysis can reveal recurring patterns and symbols that reflect the workings of your subconscious mind. Some elements may be personal and related to your experiences, while others are more universal and common to many people. By analyzing these maps, you can better understand your dream world and the processes of your subconscious or reality.
How to do it?
- Collect data: Write down your dreams every day, paying special attention to locations.
- Analyze locations: Notice repeating locations and elements.
- Draw a map: Create a visual map connecting these places.
- Look for patterns: Analyze what these places might symbolize and how they relate to your life or emotions.
Important Tips for Getting Established
When you find yourself in similar places in your dreams, do reality checks in these common places. This will help you to understand if you are dreaming. Try to associate recurring patterns or locations with reality checks. For example, if you often find yourself in a certain room or city in your dreams, do a reality check every time you find yourself in a similar place in real life.
Mystery and Exploration
What if you noticed that some people's dream maps were similar but individually tailored? Could they change as we learn to recognize them? What could that mean? Maybe it would make it easier to understand that we are dreaming. Or maybe it would reveal another interesting mechanism behind dreams that is worth exploring.
Creating and analyzing a dream map can be not only fun, but also a meaningful way to gain a deeper understanding of yourself and your subconscious. It allows you to see recurring themes and patterns that can help you discover new levels of understanding about your inner world. Additionally, by performing reality checks in frequently dream locations, you will be able to more easily distinguish when you are dreaming and gain greater control over your dreams.
And who knows, maybe you'll discover mysterious connections in the dream world that will reveal even more about the workings of our conscious and subconscious minds.
Dream Diary for Lucid Dreams
As you progress in your journey, you may find that a simple dream journal becomes unnecessary. Your ability to recall and retain your dreams will become stronger, so the need to write them down will decrease. Your "memory muscle" will become strong enough to easily retain these experiences.
Focusing on Lucid Dreams
Eventually, you will want to record only your lucid dreams. This stage can be compared to the "crawling" stage when learning to walk. You will realize that in dreams you have to learn to move or glide because you do not have a physical body and the normal laws of physics do not apply there.
Learning to Move in Dreams
Once you have mastered the basic movements in your dreams, you can start experimenting with more interesting activities:
- Creating Magical Items: Try creating a magical item out of thin air. Do it just for fun. Go to a mirror, visualize the item, grab it out of thin air, and put it in your pocket.
- Drawing Chalk: Take a piece of chalk from the air and draw yourself on the ground. Watch what happens next.
- Door Drawing: Draw a door in the air, imagining it as a gateway to a chosen place. Step through it and see where it leads.
Mastering Dream Manipulation
As you develop these skills, you will begin to master the dream world. You may begin to change the environment of your dreams, such as changing the sky, changing buildings, or rearranging the scenery. This ability can also help you deal with obsessive dream entities that haunt you or try to disrupt your consciousness by forcing you to forget your dreams.
Learning to Fly
Learning to fly in your dreams can be an exciting experience.The first few times you look down at the ground or treetops from the sky, your heart may start to beat faster and it will wake you up. But with practice, you will gain control and be able to explore your dreams from new heights.
The Real Fun Begins
Once you master movement and manipulation in the dream world, the real fun begins. You will have the freedom to explore and shape your dreams however you wish, opening up endless possibilities for adventure, discovery, and personal growth.
From this point you will be able to look even further, perhaps beyond everything and perhaps discover something else. more impressive.
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