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Robert Waggoner 1/6/2011 4:39:37 PM
Breanne, Congratulations on having two lucid dreams! Like every skill, we go through stages of development and learning -- so learning how to become lucid and maintain the state is very important. I wrote a piece on The Crucial, First 30 Seconds of a Lucid Dream, which can be found at http://dreaminglucid.com/crucial.html Please read it and see if it helps! Submitted By: Robert Waggoner

Breanne 1/3/2011 1:39:05 PM
Robert, let me say that first of all, we are so lucky to have an expert on lucid dreaming so responsive to our questions! I am a beginning lucid dreamer who has become lucid twice, but after I become lucid, nothing else happens. For instance, last night I became lucid when seeing my late grandfather in a dream (though I've been trying the "Finding your hands" technique lately). Realizing that Grandpa has been dead for 9 years and that this must be a dream, I recalled the tips from your book for maintaining lucidity, repeating to myself, "This is a dream, this is a dream" and reminding myself to keep my excitement in check. But that was it; the lucid dream ended there. I think that maybe I was too anxious and worried about maintaing my lucidity, because I'm so eager to accomplish so many things in the lucid dream state. I have many goals, and maybe in my case it's not so helpful. (When I started playing the piano, I wanted to play the last and most difficult song in the primer book rig

Robert Waggoner 1/3/2011 11:08:53 AM
Xai, Often when we become curious about some aspect of lucid dreaming (or dreaming) like weather in dreams, we find that we dream about the weather in the next night. In your case, you became lucid (perhaps by seeing an unexpected snowfall). Congratulations! Sometimes weather prompts lucidity for me. For example, I may see a flowering tree when there is snow on the ground, and think, "Wait a minute. This must be a dream!" So the incongruity sparks my lucid awareness. One thing I mention in my book is that I often became lucid on nights when we had approaching thunderstorms in physical reality. It may be the change in electronic ionization of the atmosphere. Best wishes on your dreams of weather, Robert Submitted By: Robert Waggoner

xai 12/25/2010 3:34:50 PM
One night I found myself going thru my dream journal, and I have an interesting thought. Although atmosphere is a huge part of the dream realm, weather is somewhat of an unknown aspect in dreams in my experience. That night, I have a lucid dream in which I walk up from a beach to a forest and it starts to snow. My question is, what is your experience with weather in dreams? Have you experimented with this? Submitted By: xai

Robert Waggoner 12/13/2010 10:40:39 AM
Dorothy, The Question, "Who Is the Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream?" seems quite complex. In dreams, we sometimes view our self acting in the dream. When lucidly aware, we can consciously cast our perception into another dream figure and view the dream from their perspective. And often, the self in the dream bares little resemblance to the persona of the waking self. In my book, I suggest that lucid dreaming allows us to see consciously the great variety of dream figures. Moreover, we can access the non-visible "Awareness Behind the Dream" and ask it questions, etc., to probe the incalculable depth of the subconscious mind and its unique knowing. So as you have discovered, dreaming leads to an acknowledgement of the larger self. Best wishes. Submitted By: Robert Waggoner

Dorothy Jones 12/13/2010 7:32:10 AM
I hope you can shed some light on what is going when I dream. Sometimes I am not my self when I dream, and when I wake up I am confused for a few seconds as to who I am and where I am at. So if I am not me, who is the sub-conscious? I have had some lucid dreams, but not when I am someone else, in the dream it never dons on me that I am in reality not that person. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Submitted By: Dorothy Jones

Robert Waggoner 11/15/2010 10:38:20 AM
Michal, Glad you enjoyed the book! Almost every lucid dreamer has dealt with this issue of "Gosh, this seems kind of dreamy" - but then decides it must be real (and fails to become lucid!). So this is what I recommend: suggest to yourself and imaginatively see yourself at those questioning moments performing a "reality check" by trying to levitate. Really tell yourself (inwardly) to check those wierd, cracker-eating situations by testing them. When in doubt, test. Best wishes! Submitted By: Robert Waggoner

Robert Waggoner 11/15/2010 10:31:12 AM
Alissa, Many people write to tell me that reading my book resulted in numerous lucid dreams - so congratulations! And thanks for submitting a lucid dream to the e-zine I co-edit at www.dreaminglucid.com To your questions: First, one should always ask someone's permission to be sure it is 'okay' with them, and to gain their cooperation when you try to verify the lucid dream answer's vailidity. By doing experiments like this, you learn whether information seems accessible in the lucid dream state. So give it a try (after you get permission) and report your success or failure in the LDE. Good luck! Submitted By: Robert Waggoner

Michal 11/12/2010 10:09:40 PM
Dear Mr. Waggoner, I finished reading your book a few days ago and am very pleased with it. I've been lucid dreaming since summer of '09 and it seems it used to come more naturally but lately I find that in my dreams I am in a state of sub-awareness. In one dream I was under our kitchen table picking up crackers when I thought "this is odd, it might be a dream" but decided the environment felt too real for me to be dreaming. Now, I do reality checks every day multiple times, and feel that I prepare adequately before sleeping, but I find that lately my awareness doesn't pass thinking: "I usually do this in my dreams" but then doing nothing of it. What do you recommend I should do? Submitted By: Michal

Alissa 11/10/2010 1:12:57 PM
Hi Robert, I finished reading your book and what would you know... I started having lucid dreams again. *Amazing* ones as well. I actually submitted one to the lucid dream exchange, I hope to hear something back. I have asked questions about me, than I came up with the idea to pose a question for somebody else. So I had him give me a question to ask.. Is this something you have ever done?? What is your opinion on asking other peoples questions?? I haven't tried any healings one yet, I have read about your experiences with those. I am wondering if I can take this farther and hopefully help people by posing questions to their inner selves.. but only if they ask. :) Submitted By: Alissa