10-19-2014, 07:44 AM
Wow lucid dreaming! In one unemployed phase a while back I trained myself to do that, for making music its incredible you can just think 'orchestra' and there is such an intricate and harmonious piece playing right out of the sky! Only ever managed to capture little pieces of it when awake but a great source for ideas. It eventually led to a few terrifying experiences of sleep paralysis and after a while I just couldn't do it anymore. I had been keeping a dream journal like you mentioned, I never connected that stopping the journal led to not being able to bring on lucid dreams anymore, this is quite a revelation. But yea, I wrote a number of short stories from my dreams, real crazy stuff that'd never have come to me while awake. Thanks for posting this! Gonna start a dream journal again!