Another Lucid Dream

I had another lucid dream (or LD) this morning, breaking a slump of sorts. I think I had already hit the ol’ snooze bar once before it began. Seems when I sleep on the “shallow” side, I tend to remember my dreams more. I think that’s why the LDs show up more often at that time.

The LDs I’ve had have hardly ever compared to the intensity of my very first one. I think my emotion and excitement helped make that first one special. My recent LDs have not been all that exciting, actually. Typically, I’ll be drifting through a dream where I’m back on my ship. Since I’m quite sure I’m no longer in the Navy, it is easy for me to recognize that I’m in a dream. At that point, things will get more vivid and I’ll try to derail whatever might have been going on up to that point.

I think what would help me in my LD explorations would be to decide beforehand what the hell I want to do in them. When I happen to recognize I’m dreaming, I come up short in knowing how I want to direct them. With no ideas to guide me, I tend to fall back into dreaming. Boooorrrrring.