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So I am at the point in my life where I could care less about music, art, romance, travel, etc. Been there done that... I am now raising a family, working, paying taxes, and paying the bills. Everything is fine, love my children and my wife and I am comfortable.

I used to be a professional musician. Music and art was the end all be all. Those things had an immense effect over my emotions. I thought those things really meant something! I'm sure they still do for a lot of people my age (40's) and this is only a description of my perspective.

But what is quantifiable is the fact that I seem to feel the passion of my youth when dreaming. Romance seems new and exciting. Physical objects like instruments or even cars seem new and exciting. Everything seems to have more meaning and purpose. But this is the same me in both realities!

Whats going on here? Has the physical world just worn me out? Society just beaten me down with shoulds and shouldn't? My physical body isn't as energetic so is that connected with my emotions?

What say ye?

From the recent thread "Beginner Astral Projector"

However, after a couple years, I stopped making "conscious" attempts to have OBEs and started opting more for gaining conscious awareness in dreams. It took a while and it was hard, but once I taught myself to "wake up" into a dream, the whole control issue kind of disappeared.

Like I've said before, I've had three LD's now and they were all very short. The last one I was making more of an effort to look at things and stay aware. But getting lucid or waking up is still random at best.

I'm sure it was probably a long slow process of many techniques but is there any particular thing you did that was more effective in "waking you up"?

I had my third Lucid dream last night. When I realized I was lucid I immediately started to look at textures on walls. I felt like that helped focus me. Then I would try and do things.
Trying to fly, I would just slowly lift up. Or I could jump from a building and come down gently but I could not control it fully.
I have no control over my environment.
Then something strange, I seemed to slip out of lucidity, and within the dream, I was trying to get back into lucidity, with onlookers commenting on what I was trying to do!

I'm excited because I feel like this is the beginning of things for me. I read what Lumaza said in the Tom Campbell thread:

First there was the my 3 night experience back in 2011. That created the curiosity to learn more. Then came Phasing, then came me becoming aware of my Dreams, then came me becoming lucid in those Dreams and learning how to navigate those areas. Next came awakening in full SP and spontaneously exiting the body.

Guess everyone walks they're own path with this stuff and for me it seems lucid dreaming is the beginning.

Anyhow, is there some techniques for more control other than just staring at walls? A direction I can go in?

Hello astral people!

I've been reading the forum for about 8 months now. I have become a Frank K devotee. I've read pretty much all there is to find on Frank. I've read many of Xanth's articles. watched a lot of you tube stuff on AP. Read most of the Monroe stuff. So "technically" I know whats up. "Experientially" I don't know whats up. 

I've had a couple mild experiences (one short lucid dream, One SP experience) since reading the forum. I've been practicing the wave 1 CD focus 10, with a mental rundown for about six months now. Probably about three times a week.
I usually practice at around 5:00pm when I get home from work. I have also tried a couple times in the early morning at around 6:00am. I go to sleep at around midnight and get about 6-7 hours of sleep on the week days. I sleep in on the weekends and can get up to 10 hours of sleep. This doesn't seem to make a difference with the way I experience my practice sessions.

I have an office job so my body doesn't get a lot of physical work out time. But I'm pretty healthy for a male in his 40's.

I do dream pretty much every night and make an effort to remember my dreams and mentally step through them after I wake up. I don't keep a journal as I wake up early for work and don't have enough time. I know I could make the time but...

Problem is I can't seem to stay conscious and always fall asleep. Although I feel like I'm becoming more aware of my imagination by repeating the rundown, I still cant sense the transition point between wake and sleep. I guess I've always been a heavy sleeper. I have not lost interest in AP but it just doesn't seem like I'm getting any closer to anything.

Any advice for a heavy sleeper?

Thanks!