No, Not Like Inception

               I’ve never had a lucid dream, but I am really intrigued as to what it would be like.  For anyone unfamiliar with what a lucid dream is; it’s basically a dream where you are aware you are in a dream. I’ve had friends who have had lucid dreams, I’ve heard neat stories and I’ve read a lot about them but I’ve never had one myself. It seems to me that it would be really cool.

                I’ve read that for some people it’s really difficult to have lucid dreams and for others it comes very naturally. This kind of perturbed me so a while ago I decided I was going to try to have a lucid dream. I read on the oh so reliable internet that a good way to get your mind in the proper state is to record your dreams in the morning in journal or something. I’ve been doing so, for the dreams I remember, since April 9^th, 2010. Unfortunately, I don’t have very many recorded. There were some mornings where I just know I had a dream but I just couldn’t remember it at all. There were some dreams I deemed unworthy of writing down due to the boredom involved. But mostly I just woke up without remembering any part of any dream at all. The notebook is barely a quarter of the way full.

                I haven’t read through it. I don’t know when, or if, I will. I just write down the dream immediately as I wake up and then go about my day. I haven’t re-read a single entry in there and I can only remember a few particular moments. I think it would be interesting, and probably amusing, to sit down and read through the thing. But there could also be a productive reason for reading through it.

                I also read online that it is easier to have a lucid dream if there is a reoccurring person or object in your dream that you can recognize and use to remind yourself. If I read through my dream journal I’m sure I could come across some sort of subject that keeps appearing. I could then concentrate and constantly remind myself that when I see this person or object it means I’m dreaming.

                Then perhaps I could control the dream. I don’t know what I would do in that situation, but it seems like a very fascinating prospect to me; to be the perpetual architect of world around you, to be able to change things on a whim. Seems like fun.

                So, as of today, I’ve yet to have a lucid dream. But I really do hope I can experience, and remember, at least one, once. But what about you? Have you ever had a lucid dream? Were you aware you were dreaming; could you control things? What was it like? Care to share?