DREAM DICTIONARY

Cataloging Your Dream Signs - Lucid Dreaming

1. Keep a dream Journal

In which you record all of your dreams. When you have collected at least a dozen dreams, proceed to the next step.

2. Catalog your dreamsigns

While continung to collect dreams, mark the dream signs in your dream repors. Underline them, and list them after each dream description.

3. Classify each dreamsign

Using the dreamsign inventory. next to each dreamsign on your list, write the name of its category from the dreamsign inventory. For instance,if you dreamed of a person with the head of a cat, this would be a form dreamsign.

4.Pick target dreamsign categories

Count how many times each dreamsign category (inner awareness, action, form, or context) occurs and rank them by frequency.

Whichever occurs most often will be your target dreamsign category in the next step. If there is a tie between categories, pick the one that appeals to you.

5. Practice looking for dreamsigns

While you are awake Make a habit of examing your daily life  for events that fit under your dreamsign category. For instance, if your target category is action, study how you, other people, animals, objects, and machines act and move.

Become thoroughly familiar with the way things usually are in waking life. This will prepare you to notice when something unusual happens in a dream.

Reference: Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming: Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. & Howard Rheingold