Lucid Dreaming - A useful skill?

Originally Posted by Mobius One

I've been trying to have lucid dreams recently.

I've been dying to have a lucid dream. Since...before I was born. Well, probably not that long, but something close to that. How do you improve your chances of having a lucid dream at night?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The closest I've come to a lucid dream is having the knowledge that I am dreaming, within the dream. I just can't control anything.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Yamamanama

Write down your dreams and look for recurring themes and images.

Thanks for the tip. I'm going to start that tomorrow morning.

I've actually noticed a number of recurring themes within all of my dreams:

A) I never, ever look older than seven or eight years old. I've had one dream in my entire lifetime in which I looked like an adult.

B) I'm waiting for something to happen. I'm with a group of people, and we've each done everything we can to prepare for some climactic event that's about to occur. We never know what, just...something is impending and we're sitting around waiting for it to happen. Everyone else in the room is usually silent, and I'm running around asking everybody a lot of questions.

C) I tend to be the single able hero when I have dreams about dangerous situations - the "Chosen One," if you will. The only person who can save everybody from whatever the villain is in the dream. I always know something other people don't, and their fate depends upon me. I had one dream in which saving everybody else required that I sacrifice myself, and I was debating whether I was prepared to do that.

Each of my dreams run on one of those themes, sometimes a combination of two. I've only had one set of dreams that take place in the same location, though. Does anybody else have dreams with themes like those?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.