Track 390: Lucidity
THE AWAKENING WITHIN — becoming aware inside the dream.
Starts in Db major (dreamy), shifts one semitone to D major (vivid) at the moment of lucidity. The dreamer gains control, but too much control dissolves the dream.
56 BPM · D major · Consciousness #9
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Which feels closer to my writing process: Daydreaming, where I consciously imagine and guide the scene? Or lucid dreaming, where the story unfolds around me and I try to influence it from inside? Neither?
When I'm really in the groove, my process moves toward lucid dreaming. But mostly, it hangs on the outside and I work towards those moments of inspiration.
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Recently finished a new "My experience with" minizine on lucid dreaming! It was fun trying to come up with an illustration to represent this topic without eyes (open or closed), brains/heads, or thought bubbles.
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Gareth Branwyn in Slumberland
The Plutopia News Network podcast welcomes writer, editor, and media critic Gareth Branwyn to discuss his workshop “Dreaming for Creatives,” which focuses less on dream symbolism or interpretation and more on mining the “dream-time mind” for usable creative material. Gareth and the Plutopians reminisce about early-1990s zine and cyberculture scenes (The WELL, FactSheet 5, bOING bOING, Mondo 2000, “Jargon Watch,” and “Street Tech”), then shift into Branwyn’s lifelong dream practice, including lucid dreaming as a teen and techniques to improve dream recall, especially using a “dream recall tally sheet” and the habit of staying still upon waking to retrieve dream fragments. He describes three liminal sources of creativity: “night thoughts” (hypnagogic scribbles), “night bulbs” (clear middle-of-the-night insights), and dreams themselves. He gives examples of how these have shaped his work and even his name. The conversation also touches on “second sleep,” sleep tracking, recurring flying dreams, sleep paralysis and its eerie “presence” hallucinations, and the idea that paying attention to dreaming, like meditation, can deepen one’s relationship with consciousness — while still warning against turning dream work into an unhealthy obsession.
https://media.blubrry.com/plutopia_news_network/plutopia.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Gareth-Branwyn.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Gareth Branwyn:
I’ve only done the workshop once so far, and one thing I wanted to make, clear because when I started talking it up before I did it — people immediately think you’re going to talk about dream interpretation, dream symbolism, which I have basically no interest in, besides the obvious things of that was clearly an anxiety dream, like I lost my wallet, or I lost my phone (I have those a lot) or I got lost at a conference. But I’m not interested in that at all, and so I really needed to make it clear that’s not what this is about. This is really mining your dream time mind for creative material. That’s really what my interest is.
Video on YouTube:
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Going through my old lucid dream journal. Here's a good one from about 5-6 years ago:
"I was in a large field. I yelled, 'I'm lucid!!!' and then went on a relative rampage of doing things because I was lucid, including:
- making a mushroom grow into a giant tree
- envisioning a pheasant-like bird and then riding it
- tried to eat some of the wood chips from the ground to explore sensory aspects (it tasted bad)."
There was other stuff, but the above cracked me up.
Lucid dreaming could be used for mental health therapy, new study says
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-lucid-mental-health-therapy.html
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Lucid dreaming (LD) is one of the most fascinating parts of human consciousness, where you realize you are actually dreaming while you're still asleep and, in some situations, can decide what happens next. There is a growing interest in lucid dreaming among scientists, but research is often scattered across different fields and long-term evidence of how it affects our health is lacking. So, a group of researchers conducted a massive review of existing studies to pull all the evidence together and discovered that this state of mind could help treat mental health issues like chronic nightmares and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Did Scientists Just Achieve "Inception"? Experiments Show “Dream Engineering” May Be a Reality
This dream is sponsored by Amazon. Don’t like how it’s going? Dream, “Alexa, wake me up!”.
Experiments involving playing music during sleep have revealed a type of dream engineering that doubled subjects’ problem-solving abilities.
Did Scientists Just Achieve "Inception"? Experiments Show “Dream Engineering” May Be a Reality
This dream is sponsored by Amazon. Don’t like how it’s going? Dream, “Alexa, wake me up!”.
Experiments involving playing music during sleep have revealed a type of dream engineering that doubled subjects’ problem-solving abilities.
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