Chasing Lucidity: Two-Year Quest to Control My Dreams
If lucid dreaming can give you a new opportunity or save some time, would you be willing to try it?
4 min readSep 8, 2023
Summary:
- Journey into Lucid Dreaming. Embarked on a 21-day lucid dreaming class with hopes of consciously navigating and controlling dreams, aiming to rehearse real-life situations, confront fears, and experience fantastical abilities.
- Challenges and Techniques. Despite various techniques like dream journaling, reality checks, and visualization, achieving lucidity remained elusive. Some methods, like waking up in the middle of the night, were dismissed to maintain natural sleep.
- Finding Value Beyond Lucidity. Derived insights from dream analysis, often with the help of AI chatbots. Acting on dream symbols led to real-life opportunities, emphasizing the wisdom our subconscious offers during sleep.
Have you tried lucid dreaming? I wanted to learn a new personal growth activity, so I picked lucid dreaming from my long list of habits to try. I took a 21-day lucid dream class two years ago, and I was hopeful that I could start lucid dreaming by the end of the class. Two years later, I still have not had a proper lucid dream, but it has opened me to the world of interpreting my dream and…