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Lucid Dreaming – Adriano Bulla

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What Is Lucid Dreaming? Close your eyes; take a deep breath; relax… You feel very, very light; you are a feather, free, floating. A gentle breeze caresses you, and lifts you up, slowly, but steadily… higher, and higher, lighter and lighter, you sail into the sky, like swimming in the air… you see the roofs of the houses slowly sink beneath you, the green canopies of trees bow their heads underneath you, and turn to soft tuft under your feet while your face cuts the wind on a swing.

You look around you: the sky is warm, blue, safe…

‘What are you dreaming,’ a gentle voice asks you.

‘Whaaaat? Dreaming? Who’s dreaming?’ you hear yourself shout as you wake up. What’s happened to you as you were flying? Why is it that you were experiencing the flight in all its beauty, through your senses, as you could see the colours, you could feel the breeze, as well as with your emotions, as you felt happy and safe, but you were not conscious that you were dreaming? As soon as the voice told you were dreaming, what did you do? You left your dream;



you stepped out of it; you dropped quickly into the waking world.

Now, imagine if you could go back into the flying dream and, instead of snapping out of it, you wake up inside your dream… Now, you are conscious that you are in a dream, and also conscious of who you are; now, you are no longer a passive observer, half realising what is happening, in a dream that is yours but that you can’t take active part in; now, instead, you can even change your dream: you can decide where to fly, how fast, how high or low; you can decide to glide down and stop by a beautiful river to rest and taste its wonderfully fresh and clean water; now, you can finally answer to the voice that woke you up, ‘I am dreaming of flying. Do you wish to join me?’ Then, fly on together into the sky. This is what lucid dreaming is; it’s the ability to wake up within a dream, to switch on your consciousness while asleep.

Maybe you have already experienced lucid dreaming; many of us have moments of lucid dreaming, especially in the morning. You may remember occasions when, towards the end of a dream, you didn’t quite like how it finished, so you went back and changed it. That is what you can do when you dream and are lucid.

Isn't it ironic that we always seem to know when we are waking, but when we are dreaming, we are there, but we don’t know that we are dreaming? Is



it possible to awaken your consciousness within a dream, so that you experience it, perceive it, feel it and live it better, and so that you can have an active role in it, like when you changed the ending? The answer is simply yes: lucid dreaming is just that!

The beauty of lucid dreaming is that everybody can do it; whether you remember your dreams clearly or not, you can become a lucid dreamer.

The beauty of lucid dreaming is that it does not cost money: you don’t need to attend classes or buy expensive kit to dream lucidly… How many of us would be ready to spend a fortune to paraglide, and yet we can all do it for free! Actually, most of us do it already, and flying in your dreams is not different from flying in the waking world… Actually, it can be more intense: think about it, why do you want to paraglide? Because of the feeling you will get from it… and aren’t feelings stronger in dreams than in our waking world? So strong at times that we have to wake up from them?

Lucid dreaming can change your life; it means sleeping and dreaming better; it means waking up more satisfied, having savoured the dreams, rather than waking up in a haze as if a stone had just dropped on your head. It also means, as we will see, living the whole of your life, not just two thirds of it!



Chapter 1

Recalling Your Dreams Imagine you suffered from amnesia; imagine if, all of a sudden, you forgot one third of everything that you have ever experienced: one third of the people you care for, one third of your days, one third of your happy and sad moments. How would you feel about it? How would you feel if you were trying to remember your first kiss, or the face of your father, and could not recall it? How many years of your life would you feel you have lost in the mist of unconsciousness? Yet, you know it is all there, somewhere... somewhere deep inside you, but locked away from you, hidden in a place where you can’t see, you can’t hear, you can’t smell and taste...

If this happened, you would feel frustration, disappointment, a sense of loss and even pain.

So, how would you feel if you knew that one third of your life is hidden under a dark blanket of forgetfulness already? How would you feel knowing that for one third of your life it’s as if you had not been there at all? Yet, this is what happens to many of us with dreams. Think about how long you spend sleeping; most of us spend about eight hours every day



in a state of unconsciousness, and forget what we experience during that time. How can you call your dreams your own if you don’t remember them? Think about how many colours, sounds, smells, feelings just vanish like shadows into the distance every time you wake up… Wouldn’t you love to welcome that time back into your life?

If you want to be an active part in, not just be an unconscious spectator of your own dreams, the first step, and a very important one, is to recall your dreams. You only know that you are awake when you realise that you are not asleep. So, why is it that when you are asleep you don’t realise that you are not awake? When you recall your dreams, you teach your mind how to distinguish between the two states of your consciousness. By recalling them, you will develop awareness that you are the same person when awake as when you are in the realm of dreams.

The more you give strength to your consciousness and identity across the two realms, the easier it will be for you to be lucid, exactly as you are when waking, also when you live your dreams. By recalling your dreams, you will bring your conscious self into them.

Recalling your dreams will not only bring back into your life so much of your experience, it is essential if you wish to become a lucid dreamer. If you want



your consciousness to be active in your dreams as it is active in your waking hours, you should learn to remember your dreams: don’t let go of them as if they didn’t exist every time you switch from one dimension to the other. You don’t need to live two separate lives, one conscious and one unconscious. Remembering your dreams when you wake up will train your consciousness to be awake, alert and lucid also when you are dreaming.

Consciousness has many levels, even within the same person or within the same life span. It all depends on how far you are conscious of your own existence and of your surroundings and experiences. How many times have you been on a train and felt as if the whole journey hadn’t happened? Not only as if the people on the train weren’t there, not only as if there was nothing outside the carriage windows, but as if you yourself, for the time of the journey, did not exist, or weren’t fully there. Yet, you existed all the time; you were there, so, what happened? That’s because your consciousness lost focus, and when your consciousness switches off, it doesn’t switch off what is around you, not the gentleman in the funny hat sitting on the seat opposite yours on the train: it is you who has, for lack of better words, vanished.

You will never remember the journey if your consciousness is not awake.

Remembering your dreams will allow your consciousness to be awake during them. Imagine you



look at a strange mist and you don’t know what it is; how can you remember it? Imagine now you look at a flower, a beautiful daffodil; you recognise it, you establish a contact with it, and it becomes part of your experience: now you will remember the daffodil: only when your consciousness interacts with the flower will its beauty become part of your life.

How to improve your dream recall Some people remember their dreams; others have almost no recollection of them. This is not because for some of us there is an insurmountable wall between the two realities; everybody can remember their dreams; it’s just a matter of knowing how to. Some people even think they do not dream at all; that’s not true: everybody dreams. Even if you cannot recall a single dream in your entire life so far, don’t worry, your dreams are there, it’s only a matter of engaging with them when you are awake.

Having a good night sleep makes recalling your dreams more easy. If you wake up tired, your brain will find it hard to focus; that’s natural. If you have rested fully, you will wake up with much more energy for your brain to recall your dreams.

Being a lucid dreamer, let us remember, means having a healthy relationship with your sleep. If you have fallen into the habit of sleeping too little and



spending your days in a daze, the very first step you need to take is to make sure you value your sleep; set aside as much time as you need to sleep; some of us need eight hours a day, some manage with seven, under that, it is very unlikely that you are having enough sleep. Don’t think that the time you spend sleeping is ‘wasted’; sleeping is as healthy and essential as eating or drinking; none of us would think that feeding ourselves or hydrating are a ‘waste of time’, but let us be honest, we all have heard someone saying, ‘I’m so busy I have no time to sleep.’ Make sure that someone is not you.

So, apart from having the rest you deserve and need, let’s see what techniques you need to use to recall your dreams; remember though, and this is very important, you will need to recall your dreams as soon as you wake up; don’t wait till you have stepped fully into the waking world and your dreams have been lost.

Think and question backward You have just waken up; you feel the warmth of the morning sun is stroking your cheeks; don’t open your eyes; keep them closed.

Think back. Where have you just been? Can you remember the last place you were before you woke up? How did it feel? Look around you. What can you see? Is there something you can see clearly? Move close to it; focus on it. What is it? Or what is it like?



What shape is it? Is it big or small? What colour is it? Does it have a smell? If so, what does it smell like?

What else do you see in the place you have just been?

Is there someone with you in the place you have just been? Do you know who he or she is? Can you describe his or her face? His or her hair? Is he or she tall? What is he or she wearing? How do you feel about this person? Is he or she smiling?

What were you doing in the place you have just been? Were you standing, or moving? If you were moving, where were you going? How were you moving? Was the whole of you moving or only part of you? How did you feel about moving or standing? Was it what you wanted to do or not? Was it easy to move or not? Did you enjoy it? How did the movement feel, light, heavy, slow, steady? Were you speaking? Were you laughing? Or were you silent? Do you remember what you were saying? Do you remember what made you laugh?

Were you thinking? Do you remember what you were thinking? Do you remember what made you think that? Now step back in time, to where you were just before. Was it a different place? Were there different people? How did you move from one place to another? Did you walk, or run, or fly, or did the places just change?



Now ask yourself the same questions as you before, about the place, what was in it, who was in it, what you were doing, what you were thinking, how you felt… Open the door into your dreams in the morning means stepping back in time with your memory. The beauty of it is that we can see the past, our past is with us. Even if we are conditioned to think of time as only moving forward, and our brains are often too busy trying to predict what will happen next (think about it, we are often thinking about what we have to do next, trying to imagine scenarios: what we will cook for dinner, how we will get home, what will happen next in a book you read…), we can recall the past, we can travel back, and with an advantage: we do know what happened in the past; we were there, whether it was in our waking life or in our dreams.

The pressures of the morning, the thought of the many problems (from small problems, like what to wear next, or where is the alarm clock when you wake up, to bigger ones, like the fact that you have an important day at work, or that you are catching a plane to go on holiday) make our mind turn direction very quickly, and turn its back on the world of dreams as if it was ‘water under the bridge’.

Mornings are often very busy times for people; making breakfast, waking up your children and getting them ready to school, getting ready for work, or



school, or whatever your day is likely to hold… All these apparently urgent problems in need of immediate attention come straight to us as we wake up, and our mind loses focus on our immediate past; it shuts the door on our dreams.

Put these problems on hold for a few minutes; you’ll have the whole day to deal with them. They may shout at you with high-pitched voices, like children crying. Don’t worry; they don’t need your attention straight away: breakfast can wait five minutes, your clothes are still in the wardrobe, the plain hasn’t taken off, you are not at work yet; if there are worries ahead, don’t give them any more of your time than they really need… Worries are dealt better if you have given yourself some time first, and opening the door to your dreams is the most beautiful treat you can give yourself first thing in the morning.

So, before you open your eyes, open this beautiful door. Everything is there, in your memory, you just need to recall it now, or it may vanish forever.

Asking yourself these simple questions is opening the door.

You may or may not be able to go very far back in time into your dreams, especially at first. Don’t worry; even if you only open the door and have a glimpse inside, it’s a great step.

The more you ask yourself questions as soon as you wake up, the more you will be able to walk on these steppingstones into you your dreams. You may



be able to take just one, or two or three uncertain steps at first, but you will see that your steps will become more steady, more confident, and you will be able to walk further and further back, and recall more and more of your dreams.

Think about it: you will find remembering recent events and experiences much more easy than things that happened in the remote past. However, you will also find recalling events from many years ago comparatively easy if you are used to doing it. If you have stories you have told many times, they will come back easily to you. But what happens if you haven’t recalled these experiences in a long time? Don’t worry, they are not lost; they are just somewhere in your mind where you haven’t looked for some time. For example, if you studied a language many years ago and then didn’t speak it for years, you will find remembering the vocabulary difficult at first, but fairly soon, you will find that words come back to you pretty fast: you have learnt, almost literally, where to fish for them.

The same applies to recalling dreams: if you are not used to remembering them, you will only be able to recall small bits at first, and with little detail, but if you start asking yourself questions about your dreams every morning, you will soon find that you remember more of your dreams, more easily and in much more detail.



So, remember: recalling your dreams means asking yourself questions about what you have just dreamt as soon as you wake up; start from your more recent experience and slowly move back in time, a bit like retracing your steps when you have lost something. Don’t worry if you can’t go too far back into your dreams at first, that’s natural, just focus on the progress you have mad.

Waking motionless If you usually wake up suddenly, with a kind of jerk, if you jump out of bed in a hurry, you are not likely to recall your dreams: what you are doing is rushing head on into the waking reality and leaving your dreams behind: you are turning your back on them and looking away.

Instead, when you wake up, take your time. Don’t hurry; if you usually set the alarm clock at six, change it to ten to six and put it on snooze. Don’t worry, you will not feel more tired because you wake up ten minutes earlier; on the contrary, waking up in a relaxed way will make you feel more refreshed. Keep your eyes closed, and do not move in those ten minutes, let your mind do what it naturally wants to, away from the pressures and constraints of daily life, of work, of school, of problems to solve, of trains to catch, of bills to pay… Allow your mind to dwell on



what it has experienced. In the end, when you see an incredibly beautiful sunset, you don’t want to run away quickly and dash back into the grey reality of an annoying boss, do you? Imagine how many beautiful things you experience during your dreams, your mind doesn’t want to forget them, it wants to savour them, think back about them, have a last glance at them. What wants you to forget them is the stress of daily life. Just chill for ten minutes, and allow your consciousness to drift slowly from one state into another. Isn’t it true that if you dive into cold water your body immediately forgets the heat of the sun? So does your mind: if you jump into your waking state, it forgets your dreams; it is forced to readjust quickly. If, instead, you dip your toes slowly into the cold waters of daily life, you are conscious of how your surroundings are changing: while your toes feel cold, your face is still kissed by the warm breath of the sun. Do the same as you wake up; you know you have to, but there is no rush. As you slowly move into the waking reality, hold on to what you have just seen, heard, smelt, felt… lived.

Try different sleeping positions Whether you sleep on your back, on your belly or on the side, if you really find it hard to recall your dreams,



it may become easier if you try sleeping in a different position.

True, it’s not easy to change your sleeping position, you have very likely been used to sleeping in this position for years; however, it is not impossible. It may take you some time before you get used to the new position, but it may make your dream recall easier.

As far as we know, there isn’t a single best position for lucid dreaming; however, there is a study which is being carried out by Rebecca Turner to see if any position gives us a better chance to dream with lucidity. The results are not out yet, so, we will have to wait. However, it may not be that if a position appears the best for lucid dreaming for most people, it is also the best for you. You may simply be uncomfortable in that position; or you may find that in your case, a different position helps you remember your dreams better. What you should do is experiment, and find what is best for you.

Break up your sleeping pattern Think about the last time you woke up in the middle of the night; do you recollect remembering what you had been dreaming on that night? There is no need to remember what you were dreaming on the night now, only if you remembered it then. Very likely, yes. Or if it



didn’t happen the last time, surely you will remember many times when you woke up in the middle of the night and had a vivid, fresh recollection of what you were dreaming.

There may be a few explanations for this vivid recollection: maybe the dream was so strong that it made you wake up, hopefully, it wasn’t a nightmare, but there is also another explanation: you broke up your sleep into smaller chunks.

We all remember experiences better if we break them up into small, manageable parts; you won’t remember a whole week, even last week, as a continuum, but if we break it down to, for example, Friday, then Friday evening, now, surely, you can remember what you did, what you ate, if you went out, where to, whom with, to do what, or if you stayed in; if you read a book, you will remember the title of the book, or even what happened in the chapters you were reading that very night!

Dreams may be more difficult to recall than waking reality, but the process is basically the same. But can you say at what time you had a particular dream? It’s unlikely. Think about the great Salvador Dali’s paintings of clocks in dreams: they warp, they bend, they melt… That’s what happens to time when we sleep; it is no longer fragmented into hours, minutes and seconds; it becomes fluid, floating: it is not measurable.



If you can’t divide time into chunks, you can’t divide experience either: time is the measure of change; experience is change. So, to break up the time in your dreams to recall them better, you can’t say, ‘It was Friday Dreamday at seven dreamhours and thirty dreamminutes…’ ‘Dreamday’, ‘dreamhour’ and ‘dreamminute’ simply do not exist. You will have to use your waking time instead, as if it were an interval during a play or film or concert. You don’t have to check the time, just use waking time to split up your sleep into smaller and more easy-to-remember chunks.

You may think this goes against what we said before, that is, that the first thing you need to remember dreams is a good night sleep. Don’t be confused, sleeping in shorter periods does not mean sleeping less, nor does it mean sleeping badly; on the contrary, think about how much energy you receive from a short nap during the day; it has been demonstrated that spreading our sleep pattern over a longer period and resting for shorter times is much better than sleeping only once a day and all in one go. The impression we have that interrupted sleep is not restful comes from our typical life experience of this: we mainly have interrupted sleep when we are anxious, worried and preoccupied; on those nights, it’s our anxiety that keeps us awake and burns our energies, the sleep pattern is only a symptom of it, a consequence.



Lucid dreamers have explored different ways of waking up, recording their dreams in their journals, then going back to sleep. You need to make sure that you don’t spend a long time being awake, ten or fifteen minutes maximum, and that you keep the lights low, or even better switched off, and remain in bed.

A simple method is to set an alarm clock. If you wish to use one, make sure it is not loud, choose a soft ringtone, one that starts very softly and slowly becomes a bit louder. If the ringtone is too aggressive, not only will you wake up suddenly and risk forgetting your dreams, but you may not be able to go back to sleep after that: a loud noise will alert your brain too much, then you’ll be fully awake.

However, a more interesting and natural method is the one suggested by expert lucid dreamer Reece Jones. His idea is perfectly in tune with our body and it does not require any external apparatus to wake us up. How? By getting our body to wake us up. Does this sound mysterious? Like all great ideas, it is very simple…

Think about when your body naturally wakes you up… when you need a wee. Reece Jones suggests experimenting with how much water you need to drink for your body to wake you up at night; on average, a person would need to drink about two pints or a litre of water, green tea, camomile, any natural fluid, before going to bed. However, different people will have different needs, depending on your bodyweight,



if you live in a very hot country or in a colder one, your diet and metabolism. Still, water does not harm, so you can experiment a bit till you find how much fluid you need without any worry: start with a litre and adjust it from there.

This beautiful and natural method has many advantages: to start with, being well hydrated helps recalling dreams, your memory is simply better when your brain is not dry. The next advantage is that the feeling of relief you will have after having had a wee will make you want to sleep. We have all woken up in the night for a wee, and gone back to bed. The third advantage is, of course, that you won’t be disturbed by aggressive sounds.

However, the most amazing advantage of this method is that using an alarm is a bit like playing the lottery: the alarm does not know when you are dreaming or not; it may interrupt a dream or wake you up when you are not dreaming at all. On the other hand, your body does know when you are dreaming, not only, it also does not want to interrupt your dreams; using water, your brain will tell your body to wake you up just at the end of the second REM phase. Waking up at the end of an REM phase is the best condition ever to remember dreams.

There is one more thing you will need to keep in mind if you want to use water as your alarm clock; if you are not an experienced lucid dreamer, or if you do not recollect your dreams very well yet, it is better if



you hold it a bit, and write your dream in your journal before you go to the toilet. Then have your wee, feel good about yourself and go back to sleep. This is because getting up may diminish your recall ability. However, people who have dream recall can go to the toilet first, then go back to bed and still remember the dream.



Preparation of your dream journal and materials Keeping a dream journal or diary will help you dream more lucidly. You may have kept ‘waking journals’ in the past, and maybe you are still keeping one. If you have, isn’t it true that you remember what you write in it more vividly? The same happens with dreams.

So, keep your journal by your bedside: the very act of getting up and out of bed makes us forget our dreams, so, make sure you can write it in the comfort of your bed. You don’t want to walk across the room (or the house) to pick up your journal; that engages your mind in tasks that distract it from what it should be focusing on, dreams.

How to choose your dream journal Don’t rush out to buy a journal yet; first, there are a few things you need to consider.

First, your journal should be meaningful to you. By this, we mean that it should reflect your personality. Close your eyes and visualise yourself writing in your bed: what’s the journal you see like? Think about how big it is, what colour it is, what it is made of… Will you put your name on it? Will you cover it with paper (or material) to make it more personal, even warmer? Will it have a page marker, or maybe you wish to use a photograph or a postcard for it?



The journal should be an extension of your consciousness: a good suggestion would be to keep it as different from what you use for work or school as possible. It’s better if you don’t recycle an old exercise book, or every time you open it, your memory of lessons will get between you and your dreams. Go as far as you can in your choice from notebooks you use at work: the last thing you want is to start thinking about work when recalling your dreams. Keep in mind that we form emotional attachments to our diaries, journals and even exercise books, and emotions are fundamental to memory: isn’t it true that if you are asked to remember your childhood, the first choice you make is emotional, isn’t it true that you recall your past experiences as ‘happy’ or ‘not happy’? So, make sure your journal has no ‘memories’ from your waking life, especially stressful ones.

You will also need to think about the practicalities of your journal. Some of us, for example, find it hard to write on notepads, there may be many reasons for this; we may not like the feel of spiral binding; flipping pages over at the top like in a flip-chart is not as easy as turning the pages of a book; you may wish to have a hard cover, as you will be writing in your bed. You don’t want it to be too big or thick and impractical, nor do you want it too thin and small, as you would need to keep changing it; ring-binders may be wonderful for storing documents, but they are



hardly ideal for recording memories, and quite impractical in bed…

You may be one of those people who have embraced technology in all aspects of life; you may write your notes and reminders on your phone or tablet. Your dreams, though, will still need a paper journal. Why, you may ask… To start with, think about how many steps you need to take to open your word pad: you will have to insert your PIN, wait for the screen to come on, click on the application, then open a new page, or folder… Yes, it all appears to be very fast, but remember? Time is relative, and every step between waking up and writing is a step away from your dreams; with every click, you have moved further away from your memory and into the waking world. There also seems to be a general incompatibility between dreams and technology: the very use of technology itself seems to be ‘deleting’ dreams from our memory. Moreover, remember that the very light of the tablet will tell your brain that it has to wake up and step into the waking world. So, paper it is. Whichever your choice, make sure it is easy for you to use, remember you will not have a desk or table to lean on (and you don’t want to go fetching a hard cover book to lean on every time), and that you shouldn’t be fidgeting with finding pages… So, to recap:



Your dream journal must reflect who you are, or who you wish to be, as long as it reflects you.

Your dream journal should not remind you of the pressures of waking life, your work and your studies.

You should be comfortable writing in your dream journal in your bed.

Finally, but very importantly, of course, you should use your journal only to write in your dreams, and nothing else, nothing related to waking life.

Alternative journals Some lucid dreamers use small tape recorders (or recording applications) to record their journals. They have some advantages, but also some disadvantages:

The advantages are that, especially if you are not a very fast writer, speaking can be a faster way of recording your dreams; if you know how to use it in the dark (which should not be difficult), you don’t even need to switch on the light, and as we have seen, any light signals to our mind that it is time to wake up; another advantage is that by speaking your dream, you will automatically and naturally record your emotions in the very tone of your voice.



There are, though, as we have said, some drawbacks: while it is easy to find a specific dream in a diary, just by turning the pages, it’s quite hard to find the exact point where a dream starts in a recording; you may end up winding the recordings back and forth, even if they are in file format, they won’t have the same visual impact as a written dream; next, the writing process itself is part of remembering, thus, you will remember a dream you have written down better than one you have recorded; finally, while you can go back to written dreams and write notes, afterthoughts, underline key points etc, you can’t do it with an audiotape or audio file.

So, weigh the advantages and disadvantages carefully if you are considering using a recorder: if you really find it hard to write, then it may be a good idea, otherwise, it won’t have the same long-term benefits as a written journal.

Get to know your dream journal Remember the smell of stationery and of new books on the first day back at school? Now, close your eyes, forget school for now: think about your favourite book ever… Can you see it, what does it feel like to touch? How about when you turn the pages, are the smooth or velvety, are they strong of fragile? What sound do they make as you turn them? What colour are they,



bright white or warm-yellowish? Most importantly, how does it smell? It doesn’t matter if you can describe its smell in words, you certainly remember it, and that’s enough. Now, how do you feel?

We form emotional attachments with objects - and with books in particular. It is important that you establish a relationship with your dream journal, in the end, you will be writing your most intimate words in it; get to know you journal as you know your best friend, your confidante: that will make writing your dreams honestly and with a feeling of safety easier.

Choosing your pen (or pencil) You wake up in the night; it’s still dark and you have just had a wonderful dream; you switch the light on, get your journal… Let’s pause a second… Have you spotted an action that’s out of place? Of course, if you have a small bedside lamp, then your light may not disturb your recall, but if it is too strong, or if you need to switch on the bedroom light, you are jumping headfirst into the waking world…

If you don’t have a small light to write at night - and remember we need so much less light than we think to read and write, actually, it’s much harder to read and write in bright light than it is in a less violent, suffuse light – you may wish to use a light-up pen.

Also make sure your pen feels good when writing; some of us prefer a soft point, some prefer a



felt-tip, some a hard-point, some still love fountain pens, in which case, make sure it has ink before you go to bed. Some prefer pencils, here, again, make sure it is not blunt when you go to bed…

Now you have chosen your pen or pencil, please, do keep it for the sole purpose of writing your dreams; don’t use it to write your shopping list, telephone numbers, notes to friends etc… only your dreams.

Your writing environment When writing your journal, your environment should feel warm, safe and uncluttered. You will be writing in your bed, with a small, suffuse light, and there should be no distraction in your bed and around you. Look at your bed like a ‘shrine’, a place fully dedicated to sleep and dreams. No need to take your day to bed with you, no need to have work piled up next to your bed, if you can keep your work clothes out of sight, that’s where they belong, no computer, television, phone have any place in your sleep, so why should they follow you to bed?

What you may want next to your bed is a jug of water, objects you are emotionally attached to, books you have loved and, of course, your dream journal and pen or pencil.

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