Lucid Dream Notes: creative problem solving & developing Superpowers
Last night I lucid dreamed a horror movie script (by improvisation on set)..i have studied screenwriting for quite a while and horror is the simplest genre structure, so it follows that as an entry point it's not a bad place to start.. I wrote the movie visually by playing the antagonist ! that was actually like being the character on set and planning how to get the protagonists, one by one with a supernatural ability to entrap each of them.
I Won't bore the reader with a lengthy description of the story, suffice to say that a small band of military personnel, posted to look after an old facility are picked off by the former inhabitant, a sadistic ex soldier turned monster.. it's a great way to write, were i able to capture the images, the film would write itself.
It was like on set improvisation and I dreamt up better ways to put each character through an inescapable mire, designed to reflect the character flaws of each protagonist. In this case the killer lies in wait in weird traps which he has built.. It had a bit of a feel of Dreamcatcher; an excellent horror / sci fi spook flick and also with touches of Freddie Krugers sadisticness and the isolation of 30 Days of night.
I found the actual method of dream writing very interesting and a real evolution of my lucid dreaming state..when lucid dreaming is first experienced, the dreamer can hardly contain their excitement
(well i couldn't) and so for the first few dreams, immediately wanted to just fly around, changing the environment to idyllic ! later i got into themes like meeting aliens (although never seemingly remembering what we talked about) and developing supernatural powers of telekinesis.
and sometimes..freaking people out in the dream by flying around...in one dream i was about to get mugged by two hooded figures in a dark street. for the moment they took their eyes off me, when checking to see if the proverbial coast was clear, i lifted myself to about 20 feet.. when they noticed me standing in the air, they ran away..then i got cold and could see people having a party in a 3rd / 4th floor apartment.. i knocked on the window and they all freaked out.. eventually i convinced someone to let me in and lend me some clothes.. that was weird explaining to a group of people that actually i'm just lucid dreaming.. and in another lucid dream convincing the other people in the dream that it's just a dream by demonstrating telekinetic skills, which at the time just seemed to weird them out..but kind of proved that it wasn't real after all..
the mind is incredible at bi-locating and multi-experiencing within experience.. that one particular dream (where i tried to convince the other people in it that it was just a dream) became a series of lucid dreams which i kept waking up from.. i returned to the lucid dream via what felt like a grey tv static kind of wormhole which i travelled down, emerging into the same place each time. With each dream episode, my lucid powers becoming more pronounced in each chapter.
in yet another lucid dream, (an epic one) i developed incredible powers by practice, convinced myself that it wasn't a dream and ended up on the run (flying at mach speeds in panic) after a demonstration went wrong and i disappeared someone, just like in the alleged Philadelphia experiment.. i had started with mind bending spoons at a dinner party, then perfected absolute telekinesis over a few hours, with weight and material becoming of little obstacle, eventually leading to the mental ability to remotely shrink things, telepyrokinesis (setting fire to things, but that's a guess as to the correct word) including metal objects, and then disappearing things, including one of the scientists /technicians i was asked to demonstrate my powers to..
i knew i was in trouble when i couldn't make him re-appear, that's when i panicked and flew off at very high speed only to find myself hundreds of miles away within a few seconds..i suppose it was a bit like being on my way to becoming Dr Manhattan from Watchmen.
anyway, back to lucid screenwriting...
..it's not the first time i've dreamt a screenplay..last time, a while ago now, i dreamt a screenplay as the protagonist... a great way to explore and fully experience the hero's journey.. the dream was so good that i wrote it down upon awakening, it was a sci fi thriller, with a Westworld / Matrix theme.. and i dreamt it twice over, once as a spectator protagonist, then secondly as the hero, making sense of the conspiracy and it's double twist; a plot by robots to turn all humans into robots by encouraging violence and thus making them vulnerable to mental domination and subjugation...themes of techno fear and corporate domination, (similar to James Cameron's recurring major themes). It was exciting to re-watch the dream from a secondary perspective straight after dreaming the (Film) unconsciously... everything in the first version of the dream was revealed as plot by the robots to try and find and subsequently reveal me.. i had a rare ability to resist location by remaining passive and calm in the face of enduring violence..it was an excellent and rare experience..
I perhaps should revisit the story to get a classic sci-fi script..it's actually almost all completely stuck in my conscious recollection..and i did at least write that one down.
i will endeavour to explore this territory more and perhaps will come up with a really good synthesis of all i've learnt and deploy it, write it and fully capture it's essence upon awakening.. as i awoke in the middle of the night and was really tired, i didn't write it down and so i lost most of the good improvisation workshop, but no worries...I may try to revisit the dream.. one thing i have learnt...re-visiting a lucid dream by choice enables much clearer recognition in the same way watchin a film or reading a book repeatedly does !
dream on sleepers x
each step creates it's own path
I Won't bore the reader with a lengthy description of the story, suffice to say that a small band of military personnel, posted to look after an old facility are picked off by the former inhabitant, a sadistic ex soldier turned monster.. it's a great way to write, were i able to capture the images, the film would write itself.
It was like on set improvisation and I dreamt up better ways to put each character through an inescapable mire, designed to reflect the character flaws of each protagonist. In this case the killer lies in wait in weird traps which he has built.. It had a bit of a feel of Dreamcatcher; an excellent horror / sci fi spook flick and also with touches of Freddie Krugers sadisticness and the isolation of 30 Days of night.
I found the actual method of dream writing very interesting and a real evolution of my lucid dreaming state..when lucid dreaming is first experienced, the dreamer can hardly contain their excitement
(well i couldn't) and so for the first few dreams, immediately wanted to just fly around, changing the environment to idyllic ! later i got into themes like meeting aliens (although never seemingly remembering what we talked about) and developing supernatural powers of telekinesis.
and sometimes..freaking people out in the dream by flying around...in one dream i was about to get mugged by two hooded figures in a dark street. for the moment they took their eyes off me, when checking to see if the proverbial coast was clear, i lifted myself to about 20 feet.. when they noticed me standing in the air, they ran away..then i got cold and could see people having a party in a 3rd / 4th floor apartment.. i knocked on the window and they all freaked out.. eventually i convinced someone to let me in and lend me some clothes.. that was weird explaining to a group of people that actually i'm just lucid dreaming.. and in another lucid dream convincing the other people in the dream that it's just a dream by demonstrating telekinetic skills, which at the time just seemed to weird them out..but kind of proved that it wasn't real after all..
the mind is incredible at bi-locating and multi-experiencing within experience.. that one particular dream (where i tried to convince the other people in it that it was just a dream) became a series of lucid dreams which i kept waking up from.. i returned to the lucid dream via what felt like a grey tv static kind of wormhole which i travelled down, emerging into the same place each time. With each dream episode, my lucid powers becoming more pronounced in each chapter.
in yet another lucid dream, (an epic one) i developed incredible powers by practice, convinced myself that it wasn't a dream and ended up on the run (flying at mach speeds in panic) after a demonstration went wrong and i disappeared someone, just like in the alleged Philadelphia experiment.. i had started with mind bending spoons at a dinner party, then perfected absolute telekinesis over a few hours, with weight and material becoming of little obstacle, eventually leading to the mental ability to remotely shrink things, telepyrokinesis (setting fire to things, but that's a guess as to the correct word) including metal objects, and then disappearing things, including one of the scientists /technicians i was asked to demonstrate my powers to..
i knew i was in trouble when i couldn't make him re-appear, that's when i panicked and flew off at very high speed only to find myself hundreds of miles away within a few seconds..i suppose it was a bit like being on my way to becoming Dr Manhattan from Watchmen.
anyway, back to lucid screenwriting...
..it's not the first time i've dreamt a screenplay..last time, a while ago now, i dreamt a screenplay as the protagonist... a great way to explore and fully experience the hero's journey.. the dream was so good that i wrote it down upon awakening, it was a sci fi thriller, with a Westworld / Matrix theme.. and i dreamt it twice over, once as a spectator protagonist, then secondly as the hero, making sense of the conspiracy and it's double twist; a plot by robots to turn all humans into robots by encouraging violence and thus making them vulnerable to mental domination and subjugation...themes of techno fear and corporate domination, (similar to James Cameron's recurring major themes). It was exciting to re-watch the dream from a secondary perspective straight after dreaming the (Film) unconsciously... everything in the first version of the dream was revealed as plot by the robots to try and find and subsequently reveal me.. i had a rare ability to resist location by remaining passive and calm in the face of enduring violence..it was an excellent and rare experience..
I perhaps should revisit the story to get a classic sci-fi script..it's actually almost all completely stuck in my conscious recollection..and i did at least write that one down.
i will endeavour to explore this territory more and perhaps will come up with a really good synthesis of all i've learnt and deploy it, write it and fully capture it's essence upon awakening.. as i awoke in the middle of the night and was really tired, i didn't write it down and so i lost most of the good improvisation workshop, but no worries...I may try to revisit the dream.. one thing i have learnt...re-visiting a lucid dream by choice enables much clearer recognition in the same way watchin a film or reading a book repeatedly does !
dream on sleepers x
each step creates it's own path
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