Having often seen other people with no credibility of any kind regarding dreaming (including in most published books), with few exceptions, one exception being some of Carl Jung's work, at least from my perspective and fifty-plus years of ongoing work and focus - and seeming to perceive that some dream journals (not necessarily on this particular site - as I post on several) are primarily fictional in construct (I do not mean of lucid manifestation or actively scripted - but "strained" conscious creation just to have a "story" with seemingly "far too much" mundane linearity and critical thinking demonstrated to be an actual dream - and my wife agrees regarding the same entries), I have decided to move on into a different realm yet again - but this time with a sort of "award system", a few basics of which I will share.

Much of what I have learned (solely regarding my own experiences) conflicts greatly with other people's ideas on dreaming (often being the opposite of another view - which is important to add that my beliefs have been strongly validated many times over or I would not have developed the particular ongoing belief or realization in the first place), but that is of no concern to me at all - everyone is "wired differently" so to speak (or if you prefer, "weird differently"). I will, however, share some of the "oneironautics training" so to speak that I have started with others in real life again. I confess that I have been doing an extraordinary amount of eye-rolling and forehead-slapping over the last few weeks, even more than usual. This is not to say that I do not respect "ordinary" humans so to speak, as I do to a point. I understand the transient nature of people's ideas but I enjoy idle conversation far more than dream discussion and always have (simply because there is no real credibility from another dreamer's viewpoint). However, many "accepted" beliefs I can not even build a foundation to try to understand, let alone understand. This is my limitation.

For the most part, I have made a habit of posting non-lucid dreams and lucid dreams that were not under full influence from pulsing sessions (which I often do on purpose to see what unfolds - I have found that leaving basic phrasing a bit more open results in more extended facets of "education" so to speak) and "non-programmed" stages of oneironautics. It would be quite pointless to document online lucid dreams that are fully "programmed" (not to mention a bit more personal and so elusive to the average person - there would be little comprehension at all - believe me I know this all too well) - other than stages that developed from "open" conditions over years.

When I did some of the experimental oneironautics as I was growing up, I learned that photo projection in those times was fairly conditional - at the age of eleven and on, I had cloth set up in somewhat human shape (and tied to a support on the ceiling) to holographically transfer the tulpa template image to, so that the awareness was a bit more feasible to transfer into lucid-dream-level perceptions. The problem with that, of course, was that the otherwise properly-sized projected image was then usually in photographic negative (I usually did not use a slide projector as I did not want to "rely" on technology even in the dream state if such a habit developed in real life). However, over time, the mind seems to adjust to what the dreamer intends imagery-wise. I guess it is just like being ambidextrous - you have fully adapted (in this case optically) to both "sides" and use the one that you need to at a particular time for whatever task (after all, we technically "see upside-down"). When I switched hands sometimes in school, I would actually tease people, pretending to be left-handed (rather than ambidextrous). One time, a sixth-grade teacher actually walked to my desk and saw me writing in very well form with my left hand and she asked me how I could write like that, with a very puzzled expression on her face (priceless). It was hilarious, and to deliberately "annoy" her (although I liked her as a teacher), I started using my right hand in the second half-hour of class. The look on people's faces when they cannot accept the truth is really something amazing, I think. The ultimate "mask of cluelessness" many people wear all the time, with no projection of any level of credibility otherwise.

But now, it is really easy and very effective (more than ever) thanks to the digital age and useful tools. Bliss is the rule for me - my body begins to feel almost like a "mist of joy" from head to toe - not possible to put into words in any useful descriptive way - and no drugs or alcohol ever needed - which I have learned to despise from a very young age. Once that habit develops that you can "dream whatever you want" and even get amazing gifts and rewards, so to speak, you never go back. Even the regular day-to-day random or trivial precognition, I consider rewarding in a way, for no other reason than truly knowing the universe is nothing at all like many people think it is, even though, really, that is ultimately sad to realize at some levels - the human race ultimately being seen as "wrong" in almost every way conceivable - so a very high level of extended patience is warranted.

I have gone back to a rather "silly" (depending on how one looks at it) award system for one's own usage in oneironautics and more fully developed tulpa adventures. I normally have a gold-colored notebook (A4 binder of 192 pages) and use a set of star stickers of five different colors as well as another system using "dots" of four colors depending on the type of highly detailed and conditional "task" (and a certain number of points, which is more symbolic than of any meaningful merit - kind of like going to school, I guess) to place in a special alphanumerically encoded list (in a particular long list of such codes, next to the accomplishment) ONLY whenever something goes as I will it without direct programming (in other words, in self-perpetuated internal "coasting" will only without a forced imagery session - which I enjoy as well, but I also enjoy non-assisted states of dreams to leave room for new ideas, because new ideas are always important to me).

Another reason I have become more "vocal" on this is from recently reading a more-than-usual astoundingly stupid set (to me) of different dream-related materials lately from who I see as the "resident troll" on one site even though they claim to have "written more dreams than anyone in history" and are constantly running down every other user in an almost surreal form of snobbery (while at the same time seeming to have no understanding of dreams whatsoever). Whatever.

So, sincerely, I guess I will reveal exercises and "tasks" that I am willing to do to a point - journal-wise, and in a basic way. Being a willing oneironaut can be beneficial in ways it seems a lot of people do not even have the ability or capacity to imagine. Instead, we get endless books and publications (and websites) on lucid dreaming and the belief in certain types of symbolism that literally seem solely designed to stop or prevent most people from learning or knowing about dreams. I am certainly not a conspiracy theorist but It does not add up...at all.

Seven billion people on this world, approximately. How many record or even reflect honestly on their dreams (considering that mental awareness and the inner life is the most important thing in one's existence)? Or even desire to focus and sharpen the "higher dimensions" so to speak? Seriously. Ten? Twenty? It is hard to say for sure. (...and once again the "resident troll" on the dream journal site took this idea from me and made it his own, as if he had come up with it).