Dreamstate

Hi dreamers, I recently came up with an idea on how to find motivation for lucid dreaming practices. The idea is that you make a deck of cards, on each card there will be a task, for example: "Review dreams from last month", "Think of 3 new dream goals", "Draw a scene from your dream", 'Re-read a random Are You Dreaming? chapter", "Perform a reality test whenever you see [something]", "Try to induce WILD" and so on. Every day shuffle the deck and randomly pick a card, then perform task described on the card. You could also reward yourself for completing it. Please let me know your thoughts on this and if you have any interesting ideas on what other tasks could be there.

For over a month and a half I've been having this continuous dream of which I'm in complete control of an when I go to sleep in the dream I wake up in life but when I go to bed at night I wake up right we're here I left off in the dream the previous time this dream is of one situation of which I won't mention but it involves me an others scrambling an fighting for our lives it's always dark not once yet has there been sunshine these ppl with me in the dream know me very well but I've never met any of them before the dreams started were doing what we can to get to our family an friends some of the group went there own way an some chose to stay with me in these dreams we drive as much as possible but only when we can when we can't we walk as hidden as possible but the dreams where I'm running an fighting all night I wake up in the morning an my legs are tired as hell my shoulder is sore an swollen from all the shooting what we are fighting an what we are fighting isn't just a single looking enemy there's a few that look completely different from the the main one but they are on the same team the only night this dream didn't happen was a few weeks ago when I got drunk but a day later I picked up kinda where the dream left off but a day ahead I lightly talked to my best friend about this when it first started happening so I got in depth with him today an my brother cuz someone in the dream told me I have to let this be known an we'll now here I am I'm not a wack job I live a simple life I work 6 days a week I eat great meals I enjoy a couple beer when I get home from work I have a very healthy social life I'm well liked I'm constantly moving forward with the company I'm employed with I'm not stressed or depressed an I don't do ***** but with other things I've seen on the news an social media is starting to line up with this one long continuous dream that picks up where I left off every night Idk what's going on or if in fact this is something real I can't explain it but I dove in to the silver cord theory of which I knew nothing about an or it could be dejavu

Hello! Lately, as I've been working on my lucid dreaming practices, I've noticed that in a fair bit of my lucid dreams I've had a glaring problem and that problem is called a disconnect. In my more recent lucid dreams, I've been more focused on handling my emotions, which is great as I used to not have a grip on them, but even when I eventually do calm down and get to a more workable baseline, expectations are weird to work with and fully control. For example - the other week I had a lucid where I started to overthink an expectation that I've long had, which led to the dream being confusing and arguably the dreaming turning back into a non-lucid one. This dream expectation (this one particularly helpful dreamling being in a house very close to me) was fighting against a fact that distance doesn't exist in a dream. In the past, it was simple to visit this dreamling but this night my overthinking mind was present. There's also more examples where I've been so focused on trying to keep my emotions in check that I often don't do anything in the lucid because I'm too focused on how emotions can increase the likelihood of the dream becoming non-lucid. Now that we have some background out of the way, I started thinking about how to handle this so that I could have an easier time when trying to accomplish my dream goals. One idea that I thought up was (and not sure if anyone else has so sorry if I'm repeating someone else's idea!) for a personal "rules" list, with the rules being common expectations that are held in most lucid dreams. Referring back to the previous example, that particular expectation has been around for a while and has been useful for me in the past. I started writing down my own rules list in my dream journal but, after getting through a few expectations, something felt off. On the positive side of this idea, it would allow for one to firmly know their expectations and treat the dream world like the real world, just with a new set of rules. It could prevent overthinking and confusion as one could fully expect those things to happen. It could also help one in situations where issues have popped up in the past, making handling them a little easier. On the negative side (and possibly the reason I felt that this was a bit "wrong" to do), doing this can take away from the dreamworld and can cause new mind viruses to form. Not only this but one could start taking these as fact and become limited by their own rules. Rules are meant to be broken after all and I only started thinking of writing down expectations I have as a "rules" list as that helps me understand what's "right" and "wrong". With these pros and cons, that brings us to my question - would this be a helpful, hurtful, or neutral tool to use? I intended to use it as a list of common expectations to get over mind viruses and common obstacles that come up while in lucids but I can see how limited this could be in regards to limits on dream control. Any input would be much appreciated as I am genuinely interested to see others thoughts. I again apologize if this has already been covered. I also apologize if this got a bit to rambling as I'm typing this up in somewhat of a distracted state! Also, sorry if this is in the wrong thread - just seemed like the closest one to what I was asking!