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I heard about people, that accidentally entered a lucid dream state during meditation, because they were too sleepy. But doing it the other way round would be more convenient.

That would be a great idea, too, and I think, that the self-help community would greatly benefit of us, if we all shared the wisdom, that we collected. Yet, I shy away from using the journal section as a commonplace book, because I think, it's better suited for daily or weekly journal-type post, to tracking my results and holding me accountable. Awesome, that sound really promising. I'm really looking forward to that.

Thanks for the suggestion. What I wonder is this: Is lucid sleep actually as restful as normal sleep? Can I just have a whole night of lucid dreams and then go about my day normally?

As far as I understand it, your subconcous can only produce mental images according to what you have experienced already, or according to how you think, it may be like. I think it's unlikely, that an enlightement experience in a lucid dream gets anywhere colse to actual real enlightment, if you haven't experienced it before.

Yesterday, we had a discussion about Myer-Briggs pesonality type indicators. As I was researching this further, I stumbled about a website, with all sorst of psychology quizzes: http://www.theemotionmachine.com/psychology-quizze There are assessments about self-improvement mentality, confidence, big picture vs. detail oriented Thinking, introversion vs. extroversion, leadership mentatlity, and open-mindedness. Though I think, that they are mostly meant for fun, because they don't seem very scientific, they may be valuable to you for doing some introspection. I plan to do these regularely to monitor my results. Feel free to share your own assessments and thoughts.

I love that topic, first of all, here are my morning and evening routines (they sort of relate to another): Here's the morning routine: 5.30 am: Wake up, make bed, ice cold shower (sounds harsh, but it's the the only thing, that really gets me going, you get used to it ) Meditation (20 to 30 min) Planning: Reflecting on my mission statement & reviewing my daily to do's healthy breakfast (usually a green smoothy with some fruit, sprouts and seeds (I have soothies found to be the most energizing thing ever, better than caffeine), sometimes rolled oats with dried fruit, nuts and plant milk) And the evening routine: journaling (recently, I found myself journaling throughout the day more, so I sometimes skip that) Planning: reflecting the past day, planning the next one reading for about 30 min bedtime at 10.30 pm I'm still refining the routines, also I want to include working out, doing some affirmations and visualizations and maybe a second meditation in the evening. Also, I probably shift the reading to the morning routine after the breakfast, to make it the first thing, my mind focuses on. A thing about the planning and reflecting: I roughly plan the upcoming week the sunday before, and then review my plan every moring and evening as part of my daily routines, maybe make some minor adjustments. I found this to be the way, I am both productive and flexible.

Thanks for the suggestings. To put it simply, this is following the good old "fake it till you make it" attitude, right? (Chakral affirmations and visualizations are tools, that I have yet to get into a bit more.) But what I'm concerned with; is it even worth to pursure a change of personality, just for the sake of getting 4 other letters, the next time, I take the assessment? Because non of the personality types are inherently superior or inferior. Wouldn't it be wiser to shape my personality with my goals and purpose in mind an then use the test, to see where I'm at? Alternatively, one could look for the mbti of some role model one wants to mimik and than try to shape one's persoality towards that indicator. But I think, that the other way is the more direct one.

ENFP-A I read, that Myers-Briggs Personality types can change over the course of a single month and the last time, I did the assessment, I turned out to be INTJ. So since these personality types are not fundamentally cast in stone, how can this concept be used for personal growth? Just for observing, where I'm at? Or is there some sort of possibility to actively transform ones personality from one type to another? I highly doubt that. Human personality is way too complex to be categorized with just 16 different types.