Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Chess Puzzle | 12/31/2013 - Mate in 3
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Monday, December 30, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Would it be a good combination?
Hi, all! Because of school I forgot about lucid dreaming for a while, but I'm back again. I'm wondering if ADA, Reality Checks, MILD and DEILD would help me achieve a lucid dream, or these are too many techniques at the same time?
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Chess Puzzle | 12/30/2013 - Mate in 2
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Sunday, December 29, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Help with the "EXIT" thing on OBE!
I've been into sleep paralysis this morning. I had this vibration and creepy sounds(like metal and a creepy bird(or a witch) sound). After that vibration I feel my eyes slowly opening so what I did was close it again. I've been in that state for about a minute and then woke up because I was uncomfortable with the feeling. After that, I tried to enter Mind Awake - Body sleep state again but I fell asleep and sort of had a Lucid Dream...but the moment I realized I was dreaming, I instantly woke up!!!!!!!!! deymmm!
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Lucid Dreaming | how to get back to sleep with WBTB?
Hi, second post here.
I am currently wanting to do the wake back to bed method, but for one snag; I cant get back to to sleep. I wake up naturally at around 4 with no alarm clock, and eventually I find myself not being able to relax back into sleep, I whip out the laptop which makes it worse. Is there any techniques for getting back to sleep? A kind of modified meditation? I find that if I just got back to sleep I would probably have a lucid, as I can feel my awareness not too much not too little beforehand when I've tried getting back to sleep.
I am currently wanting to do the wake back to bed method, but for one snag; I cant get back to to sleep. I wake up naturally at around 4 with no alarm clock, and eventually I find myself not being able to relax back into sleep, I whip out the laptop which makes it worse. Is there any techniques for getting back to sleep? A kind of modified meditation? I find that if I just got back to sleep I would probably have a lucid, as I can feel my awareness not too much not too little beforehand when I've tried getting back to sleep.
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Lucid Dreaming | Low clarity of dreams. help please
Hello people, i think i know why i don't have many LDs
it's because of my low clarity of my dreams. because
my memories are also in the same clarity "level" of my dreams.
can someone help me how to increase my clarity?
it's because of my low clarity of my dreams. because
my memories are also in the same clarity "level" of my dreams.
can someone help me how to increase my clarity?
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Lucid Dreaming | Advancing meditation and lucidness
So basically I recently came to be able to reach a "zone" during meditation, when my body is numb, I only feel my jaw and abdomen, and my mind wanders. I hear random faint sounds, yells, speech, etc.
I was surprised achieving this was so easy, as I maybe meditated 10 times in my life, and today I could reach this "zone" consistently, within 5-10 minutes of starting to meditate.
I have a few questions:
1.I use foam ear plugs. Yay or nay?
2.I drink 2-3 cups of coffee a day. Could this interfere? Sugar prevents me from sleeping for example, but I can drop unconscious like a brick in bed even if I drank a full cup of coffee just prior.
3.Like I said I feel my jaw. I have to consciously keep it shut, otherwise my mouth opens and I start getting saliva down my throat. Should I keep my teeth together, let them part with my lips sealed or keep my mouth wide open?
4.How do I go past the random thoughts and sounds in my current "zone"? I still try to focus on breathing , but I get distracted by passing thoughts randomly. I quickly retain my focus, but can't seem to push further. I tried for about 10-15 minutes, does reaching every new state take longer?
5.I tried SSILD while laying down and got hypnagogia and wild vibrations, but fell asleep. Should I rather try it sitting up during the night? Does it wake you up too much?
6.What state of meditation is used for self suggestion and thinking?
7.I'm an avid tank fan and World of tanks player. 16 000 matches :cheeky: Anyway this causes more than 50% of my remembered dreams to be about tanks, from a 3rd person vehicle perspective. How do I realize I'm lucid from this??? I mean they are even more true to the actual game than my RL dreams are true to RL :eek:
Thanks in advance! :panic:
I was surprised achieving this was so easy, as I maybe meditated 10 times in my life, and today I could reach this "zone" consistently, within 5-10 minutes of starting to meditate.
I have a few questions:
1.I use foam ear plugs. Yay or nay?
2.I drink 2-3 cups of coffee a day. Could this interfere? Sugar prevents me from sleeping for example, but I can drop unconscious like a brick in bed even if I drank a full cup of coffee just prior.
3.Like I said I feel my jaw. I have to consciously keep it shut, otherwise my mouth opens and I start getting saliva down my throat. Should I keep my teeth together, let them part with my lips sealed or keep my mouth wide open?
4.How do I go past the random thoughts and sounds in my current "zone"? I still try to focus on breathing , but I get distracted by passing thoughts randomly. I quickly retain my focus, but can't seem to push further. I tried for about 10-15 minutes, does reaching every new state take longer?
5.I tried SSILD while laying down and got hypnagogia and wild vibrations, but fell asleep. Should I rather try it sitting up during the night? Does it wake you up too much?
6.What state of meditation is used for self suggestion and thinking?
7.I'm an avid tank fan and World of tanks player. 16 000 matches :cheeky: Anyway this causes more than 50% of my remembered dreams to be about tanks, from a 3rd person vehicle perspective. How do I realize I'm lucid from this??? I mean they are even more true to the actual game than my RL dreams are true to RL :eek:
Thanks in advance! :panic:
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Lucid Dreaming | Finger Spasms during Wild
Hi! Last night I woke up at 5 AM and decided to try to WILD. So far so good, I set up my pillow, closed my eyes and started to count but suddenly my foot pinky started twitching like hell! Then I said that I better go to sleep and check in the morning what happened and I did some research and found out that its pretty natural during sleep. My question is: If I got twitching/spasm was I really close to a LD? I would be really happy if so because two days ago I found a position where I cand really easly WILD. If anyone wonder what is that position just ask in a reply and I`ll post a description.
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Lucid Dreaming | what is wrong with me?
Last night I dreamt about some scientiest talking about the greatest discoveryes in lucid dreaming. And I didnt got lucid! what the heck is wrong with me? Do you think that I should improve self awarness? I don't have a rised level of self awarness because for LD I choose WILD because it requires less work during the day.
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Chess Puzzle | 12/29/2013 - Knight After Knight
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Saturday, December 28, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Lost About Self-awareness
Hey. I've been trying to figure out why improving self-awareness will make you lucid. What changes when you become more self-aware?
I need someone to answer me with biological facts:
What is self-awareness? knowing or considering your existence? But this is only a mere thought that has no impact, unless in stimulates a part of the brain.If so, what part? Is it the same part that is responsible for lucidity? we know lucidity is realizing that you are in a dream and your body is sleeping, thus itself being self-awareness. If so, we would become lucid by practicing self-awareness how? Is it because when we are more self-aware in our day means we are more self-aware in dreams? Then when the self-awareness reaches a specific level(where the self-awareness part of the brain is functioning at a high level), it would be reaching the threshold of lucidity?
If so, then there is no doubt that RRC is the method to do.
Am I right?
I need someone to answer me with biological facts:
What is self-awareness? knowing or considering your existence? But this is only a mere thought that has no impact, unless in stimulates a part of the brain.If so, what part? Is it the same part that is responsible for lucidity? we know lucidity is realizing that you are in a dream and your body is sleeping, thus itself being self-awareness. If so, we would become lucid by practicing self-awareness how? Is it because when we are more self-aware in our day means we are more self-aware in dreams? Then when the self-awareness reaches a specific level(where the self-awareness part of the brain is functioning at a high level), it would be reaching the threshold of lucidity?
If so, then there is no doubt that RRC is the method to do.
Am I right?
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Lucid Dreaming | Beginning a lucid with eyes closed?
This has happened twice now, it seems i can have a FIILD quite easily but there is a problem. When i FILD im in my bed and i move my fingers then i think im dreaming i do the nose pinch RC. The problem is that when i realize im dreaming i start the dream in me bed with my eyes closed. As soon as this happens i get a very strong feeling that if i open my eyes i will actually open my real eyes. Therefore i cant start the actual dream. How do i get around this?
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Lucid Dreaming | Asking yourself how you know that you are awake instead of whether or not you are dreaming...?
One common practice while trying to get lucid dreams is to develop a critical thinking and ask yourself whether or not you are dreaming - but let's face it, sometimes we just know with absolute certainty that we are indeed awake, for example if we have stayed awake and active for several hours and if everything has felt completely solid and logical that whole time, and in such cases it can feel a bit fruitless to ask yourself if you are dreaming, because you know that you you aren't dreaming at that point.
So I was wondering, wouldn't it sometimes be a better idea to ask yourself what it is that makes you sure that you are awake?
For example, instead of asking yourself "is this a dream?", maybe a question like "why do I know that I am awake right now?" would be more effective?
So I was wondering, wouldn't it sometimes be a better idea to ask yourself what it is that makes you sure that you are awake?
For example, instead of asking yourself "is this a dream?", maybe a question like "why do I know that I am awake right now?" would be more effective?
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Friday, December 27, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Mild and Dild questions
I have been trying Dild for almost a month now but I do not have any results. Every hour I go to a certain location and ask myself if I am dreaming. After looking around my environment I do reality checks while repeating 3 mantras. Before I go to bed, I repeat 3 mantras. So far I have not even had the slightest results at all. Is there anything I am doing wrong?
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Thursday, December 26, 2013
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | ADA Flaw
I was thinking about All Day Awareness (ADA), the technique I value most. I find it very difficult because it it so hard to maintain. I feel that the reason for that is because ADA depends on the attention of the subject being focused on the physical environment. I find that as humans we live in our thoughts and although I have always thought that was an obstacle or a bad habit, I now feel like the opposite is true. This living in our thoughts is the advantage we have over all other organisms in the world (or so I think). Planning the future and thinking back into the past, playing scenarios in our heads, philosophizing over abstract contexts; I don't think those things are bad habits anymore and the problem is that they are incompatible with the ADA technique I use. The ADA technique requires me to focus on my environment; where I am in the present and that is huge distraction from any mental work I might be doing. If I try to do ADA 100% of my waking time, I will without fail come across a situation where I must take my attention away from being aware of what is going around me to focus on something in my head (for example, solve a mathematical equation. The answer is not in my environment, it is in my brain). In such a situation, two things may happen. Either, I lose my awareness as I focus on the mental task or I just can't do the mental task. Both are disappointing. I think my problem is that I have to change my technique for my awareness to not only be focused on physical activities but also mental activities. I don't feel this is anything new, but this was a reminder to myself and I thought, why not make it a reminder for others who have also missed on this.
My concrete goal now for my ADA is to focus my awareness on my thoughts, frequently quiz myself on my train of thoughts (think back to what thoughts brought to the next thoughts and so on, be aware that I am thinking (versus walking, dreaming, driving, etc...), just so I remain aware of my present experience (even if it is an abstract experience in the thought realm) and of the context in which I am.
My concrete goal now for my ADA is to focus my awareness on my thoughts, frequently quiz myself on my train of thoughts (think back to what thoughts brought to the next thoughts and so on, be aware that I am thinking (versus walking, dreaming, driving, etc...), just so I remain aware of my present experience (even if it is an abstract experience in the thought realm) and of the context in which I am.
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Lucid Dreaming | Why do you need to believe, subconscious?
You can have LDs by training, but it is essential to make your subconscious self believe that you can!
Why?
Why do you have more LDs when you are confident you can?
All answers are very much appreciated!
Why?
Why do you have more LDs when you are confident you can?
All answers are very much appreciated!
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Chess Puzzle | 12/25/2013 - Mate in 5
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Dild Improvement
I think I could use improvement on my Dild. One time I did a realize I am dreaming because I did the nose reality check but it ended quickly. Since then, I have not done a reality check or even do my technique in my dream. I remember my dreams quite well know but I am worried about how long this will take. This is my technique: once an hour I go to an area in my house and look around and ask myself in my head if i am dreaming. I then try the finger through the palm and repeat two mantras which are I do reality checks as i dream and I lucid dream tonight. I then do the nose one and repeat the same two. I lastly count my fingers and say next i am dreaming, i look at my hands and realize i am dreaming. is there anything I could do improve this. Should I say this out loud or in my head?
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Chess Puzzle | 12/24/2013 - Alekhine-Maroczy Bled 1931
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Monday, December 23, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | RC Tattoo
Any of you have an RC Tattoo? I want to see it! Please post images of your RC tattoos here.
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Chess Puzzle | 12/23/2013 - Mate in 2
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Sunday, December 22, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Meditation
This is something I'm struggling to really get information for. I've been trying a basic meditation when I go to bed for a couple of days for about 10 minutes so far as I'm still getting used to it, by focusing entirely on breathing (I have no danger whatsoever of falling asleep while lying on my back). If nothing else it helps me sleep afterwards as I don't sleep easy when I first go to bed.
I'm wondering if/how well it combines with WBTB. I have a problem with WBTB in that I go straight from being able to sleep again immediately to not getting back to sleep at all, I have no middle area with that. I've been attempting SSILD and FILD and while these produce lucids I almost always fail at the method itself because I fall asleep or cannot sleep after.
My current plan is to be woken in the night, and go straight to this meditation on my back and hopefully fall asleep while doing it, or at least being able to sleep straight after, perhaps even try and sneak a FILD in at the end. I believe I might be able to sleep on my back in this circumstance, if I'm not that awake I sleep again very easy. I don't really know much about the ideals on all this though. Am I achieving anything by trying this? Does meditation even help during a WBTB? Any input would be appreciated, or even more information on what exactly this meditation is doing and how it helps with lucids. Or tell me off if I'm doing something wrong! There's no point me chasing something that doesn't work.
Thanks for any help.
I'm wondering if/how well it combines with WBTB. I have a problem with WBTB in that I go straight from being able to sleep again immediately to not getting back to sleep at all, I have no middle area with that. I've been attempting SSILD and FILD and while these produce lucids I almost always fail at the method itself because I fall asleep or cannot sleep after.
My current plan is to be woken in the night, and go straight to this meditation on my back and hopefully fall asleep while doing it, or at least being able to sleep straight after, perhaps even try and sneak a FILD in at the end. I believe I might be able to sleep on my back in this circumstance, if I'm not that awake I sleep again very easy. I don't really know much about the ideals on all this though. Am I achieving anything by trying this? Does meditation even help during a WBTB? Any input would be appreciated, or even more information on what exactly this meditation is doing and how it helps with lucids. Or tell me off if I'm doing something wrong! There's no point me chasing something that doesn't work.
Thanks for any help.
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Chess Puzzle | 12/22/2013 - Mate in 3
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Saturday, December 21, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Journaling, and remembering your reality checks.
Here is something I am considering trying: In addition to keeping my dream journal, I am considering keeping a journal of my reality checks that I perform in waking life, and other awareness exercises. Using this method to remember these events should help my brain be more aware of them, and perhaps increase the probability that I will perform a RC in my dreams. Even though I perform each RC with focus, a lot of the time, I think the check just gets forgotten about; that can't be good. I think being able to recall these events with high resolution would help a whole lot. I believe keeping a waking journal in general is a good idea as well, but I am really wanting to focus attention on the checks, and awareness exercises specifically to make a clear vivid memory of each one.
Just my thoughts, and so I think I will begin right now!
Just my thoughts, and so I think I will begin right now!
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Lucid Dreaming | Strange semi-lucid dream
This is the first time I ever had a lucid dream in a few years now, and I'm wondering on your feedback.
There was one dream in which I was checking NFL results on my phone but they all seemed rather strange and the records as well seemed strange as well. I didn't believe that those were real, so I was able to do a reality check by pinching myself, but I didn't wake up. During that time I felt I was transported to some strange alternate reality.
There was another dream in which my teacher sent me to this dark room filled with doughnuts because I wasn't paying attention to a lecture. I ate all the doughnuts. The teacher punished me, but later in that dream I was standing in front of my porch and I realized I was dreaming. The dream began destabilizing but I then rubbed my hands, and what happened was that I felt this weird feeling. I felt this really strong charge, this really strong vibe in my body I don't think I ever felt before. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get complete control of the dream. However, it still felt very special.
There was one dream in which I was checking NFL results on my phone but they all seemed rather strange and the records as well seemed strange as well. I didn't believe that those were real, so I was able to do a reality check by pinching myself, but I didn't wake up. During that time I felt I was transported to some strange alternate reality.
There was another dream in which my teacher sent me to this dark room filled with doughnuts because I wasn't paying attention to a lecture. I ate all the doughnuts. The teacher punished me, but later in that dream I was standing in front of my porch and I realized I was dreaming. The dream began destabilizing but I then rubbed my hands, and what happened was that I felt this weird feeling. I felt this really strong charge, this really strong vibe in my body I don't think I ever felt before. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get complete control of the dream. However, it still felt very special.
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Chess Puzzle | 12/21/2013 - Required Precision
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Friday, December 20, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | WILD Attempt after a year of not lucid dreaming
Hi all!
So it's christmas and finally I have a few weeks to get back into lucid dreaming again haha
Ever since I started (last christmas) I always found the WILD method to naturally be the best method, as strange as that is.
Last year at my peak, I think I managed to WILD 2-3 times/day for 4 days straight, and my dreams where EXTREMELY clear (maybe more clear than real life haha).
So I started to WILD today during a nap and after 10-15mins I reached SP and started hearing voices/feeling vibrations, this went on for around a minute when suddenly I "fell out of my bed onto the ground".
At this point, I DID NOT realize this was indeed a False awekening, and thought I actually fell out of my bed (-,-) so I went back to sleep in my dream and woke up naturally...
Can someone direct me as to why this happened? The dream felt so real I thought It wasn't a dream haha.
Could it be because the last time I ever recorded/properly recalled a dream was like one year ago?
Sorry for making this so long.
Thanks in advance,
So it's christmas and finally I have a few weeks to get back into lucid dreaming again haha
Ever since I started (last christmas) I always found the WILD method to naturally be the best method, as strange as that is.
Last year at my peak, I think I managed to WILD 2-3 times/day for 4 days straight, and my dreams where EXTREMELY clear (maybe more clear than real life haha).
So I started to WILD today during a nap and after 10-15mins I reached SP and started hearing voices/feeling vibrations, this went on for around a minute when suddenly I "fell out of my bed onto the ground".
At this point, I DID NOT realize this was indeed a False awekening, and thought I actually fell out of my bed (-,-) so I went back to sleep in my dream and woke up naturally...
Can someone direct me as to why this happened? The dream felt so real I thought It wasn't a dream haha.
Could it be because the last time I ever recorded/properly recalled a dream was like one year ago?
Sorry for making this so long.
Thanks in advance,
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Lucid Dreaming | Dreamy Feeling Reality- Check ?
I was planning to post a long thread, but decided it´s best to try it for myself instead of just posting dry theory, even if it is funny to speculate and find one actually abused logic and knowledge :). Maybe i will do that later in a later post in this thread, if my enthusiasm doesn´t decline.
Anyway, my question, my working hypothesis is: is the dreamy feeling a good reality-check? ( i am really challenging the concept that dreams feel like WL, although many people already swear they are completely different )
I have been thinking about this since i read an interview with a ex-DV member, Line Salvesen ( Luminous ) who claims to have cca. 1500 lucids per year because she recognizes this dreamy feeling. She has LDs since her childhood nightmares, so one must be cautious - we have not this background. I have also chatted with her, and that´s all she has to say :roll:
Personally, many times i feel this dreamy feeling but fail to go further and actually become lucid. And, in many times i do become lucid, i think there is some dreamy feeling that gets me to check my state.
I wonder if many induction techniques, like Tholey's, RCing, MILD, share a common sensitizing effect to this dreamy feeling. Wouldn't this explain to some degree why some people get very good at LDing, almost natural LDers, after "some" practice ?
For instance, in Tholey combined technique, both in the original and the modified ( by Laberge) versions, there is a step which consists in a simulation:
Tholey 's method:
1. Ask yourself, "Am I dreaming or not?" at least five to ten times
a day.
2. At the same time, try to imagine intensely that you are in a
dream, that everything you perceive, including your own body, is
merely a dream.
[...] [....]
Tholey´s method ( modified, EWOLD ):
[...] [...]
3. Imagine yourself dreaming
After having satisfied yourself that you’re awake, tell yourself, “Okay, I’m not dreaming, now. But if I
were, what would it be like?” Imagine as vividly as possible that you are dreaming. Intently imagine that
what you are perceiving (hearing, feeling, smelling, or seeing) is a dream: the people, trees, sunshine, sky
and earth, and yourself—all a dream. Observe your environment carefully for your target dreamsigns from
chapter 2. Imagine what it would be like if a dreamsign from your target category were present.
As soon as you are able to vividly experience yourself as if in a dream, tell yourself, “’The next time I’m
dreaming, I will remember to recognize that I’m dreaming.”
[...] [...]
Oh, and some more interesting quotes:
Gackenbach's Control your dreams
«Two French scientists who
worked with Tholey's technique found that even those participants
who dropped out of their study often obtained good results.»
Laberge's EWOLD:
«Practice in attaining the critical-reflective frame of mind is only necessary in the beginning phase, which may last a
number of months. Later on, lucid dreams will occur even if the subject has not asked himself the critical
question during the day. The frequency of lucid dreams then depends to a large extent on the will of the
subject. Most subjects who consistently follow the above advice experience at least one lucid dream every night.»
So, i ask, also partly influenced by some recent threads like the blink/breath RC, if this RC can become kind of automatic, second nature with practice? That would be a good thing :)
Probably i have extended my post more than i wanted..
Does this make any sense :D ? Do you think that dreamy feeling stuff is a good thing to explore directly ?
( PS: How can we achieve 1500 lucids per year, then ? :? )
Anyway, my question, my working hypothesis is: is the dreamy feeling a good reality-check? ( i am really challenging the concept that dreams feel like WL, although many people already swear they are completely different )
I have been thinking about this since i read an interview with a ex-DV member, Line Salvesen ( Luminous ) who claims to have cca. 1500 lucids per year because she recognizes this dreamy feeling. She has LDs since her childhood nightmares, so one must be cautious - we have not this background. I have also chatted with her, and that´s all she has to say :roll:
Personally, many times i feel this dreamy feeling but fail to go further and actually become lucid. And, in many times i do become lucid, i think there is some dreamy feeling that gets me to check my state.
I wonder if many induction techniques, like Tholey's, RCing, MILD, share a common sensitizing effect to this dreamy feeling. Wouldn't this explain to some degree why some people get very good at LDing, almost natural LDers, after "some" practice ?
For instance, in Tholey combined technique, both in the original and the modified ( by Laberge) versions, there is a step which consists in a simulation:
Tholey 's method:
1. Ask yourself, "Am I dreaming or not?" at least five to ten times
a day.
2. At the same time, try to imagine intensely that you are in a
dream, that everything you perceive, including your own body, is
merely a dream.
[...] [....]
Tholey´s method ( modified, EWOLD ):
[...] [...]
3. Imagine yourself dreaming
After having satisfied yourself that you’re awake, tell yourself, “Okay, I’m not dreaming, now. But if I
were, what would it be like?” Imagine as vividly as possible that you are dreaming. Intently imagine that
what you are perceiving (hearing, feeling, smelling, or seeing) is a dream: the people, trees, sunshine, sky
and earth, and yourself—all a dream. Observe your environment carefully for your target dreamsigns from
chapter 2. Imagine what it would be like if a dreamsign from your target category were present.
As soon as you are able to vividly experience yourself as if in a dream, tell yourself, “’The next time I’m
dreaming, I will remember to recognize that I’m dreaming.”
[...] [...]
Oh, and some more interesting quotes:
Gackenbach's Control your dreams
«Two French scientists who
worked with Tholey's technique found that even those participants
who dropped out of their study often obtained good results.»
Laberge's EWOLD:
«Practice in attaining the critical-reflective frame of mind is only necessary in the beginning phase, which may last a
number of months. Later on, lucid dreams will occur even if the subject has not asked himself the critical
question during the day. The frequency of lucid dreams then depends to a large extent on the will of the
subject. Most subjects who consistently follow the above advice experience at least one lucid dream every night.»
So, i ask, also partly influenced by some recent threads like the blink/breath RC, if this RC can become kind of automatic, second nature with practice? That would be a good thing :)
Probably i have extended my post more than i wanted..
Does this make any sense :D ? Do you think that dreamy feeling stuff is a good thing to explore directly ?
( PS: How can we achieve 1500 lucids per year, then ? :? )
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Chess Puzzle | 12/20/2013 - The Most Unexpected
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | How can you keep having Lucid dreams after Experiencing First?
Hi.
So i had my first lucid dream yesterday.
I was hoping i get another one last night(today's early morning) but i din't. I did have recall though.
But i didn't have lucid even though i did exactly what i did the day i had the lucid dream.
How do you keep having lucid dreams. Do i just continue what i'm doing(RCS , mantras, meditation, visualizing)....
and it's just a matter of hit or miss? sometimes you just don't have any lucids. is that how it works?
or do masters of lucid dreaming just have them every time they want to? Cause i definetly want to become a master.:banana:
So i had my first lucid dream yesterday.
I was hoping i get another one last night(today's early morning) but i din't. I did have recall though.
But i didn't have lucid even though i did exactly what i did the day i had the lucid dream.
How do you keep having lucid dreams. Do i just continue what i'm doing(RCS , mantras, meditation, visualizing)....
and it's just a matter of hit or miss? sometimes you just don't have any lucids. is that how it works?
or do masters of lucid dreaming just have them every time they want to? Cause i definetly want to become a master.:banana:
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Lucid Dreaming | Sleep paralysis from DILD?
So this morning i woke up around 7:30 am and went back to sleep and i had a false awakening in which i was looking at my iphone and the layout was unfamiliar at which point i realized i must be dreaming, Then before i even had a chance to rc i abruptly entered sleep paralysis. it only lasted around 4 seconds and was not too frightening because i was educated on the cause and how to stop it. But my question is that i always thought Sp only occured durring WILD and i have never even had SP before let alone when having a DILD, can i stop it? and why did i go
into SP from a DILD
into SP from a DILD
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Need some help with MILD technique...am I doing it right??
Ok so I'm not a TOTAL beginner but lucid dreaming doesn't always come naturally to me. I've never really had a true, PROPER lucid dream and it's a bit frustrating.
Anyway, I tried MILD the other day because I thought it sounded easier than WILD. I got in a comfy position and relaxed. Every time I breathed out I repeated (in my head) "I am dreaming now".
After a while I felt a little numb and felt like I was floating. I am struggling to see hypnogogia but I had flashes of light in my eyes. It felt just like the early stages of going into a lucid dream but I woke up and lost it. When I finally got to sleep an hour later, I BARELY EVEN HAD ANY DREAMS! :roll:
In the morning I woke myself up at half 5, stayed awake for 20 minutes then tried MILD again but STILL had no real dreams, let alone lucid ones.
I need help! Help me! I really want to lucid dream and am not going to give up, but need a bit of a hand... :panic:
Anyway, I tried MILD the other day because I thought it sounded easier than WILD. I got in a comfy position and relaxed. Every time I breathed out I repeated (in my head) "I am dreaming now".
After a while I felt a little numb and felt like I was floating. I am struggling to see hypnogogia but I had flashes of light in my eyes. It felt just like the early stages of going into a lucid dream but I woke up and lost it. When I finally got to sleep an hour later, I BARELY EVEN HAD ANY DREAMS! :roll:
In the morning I woke myself up at half 5, stayed awake for 20 minutes then tried MILD again but STILL had no real dreams, let alone lucid ones.
I need help! Help me! I really want to lucid dream and am not going to give up, but need a bit of a hand... :panic:
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Lucid Dreaming | First Lucid Ever Last Night!! Finally
Hello Everybody. I'm male age 30s from usa. I have practiced lucid dreaming training( RCs and Dream journal dream recall) for since about November 5. That means it's been like 1 month.
I was disappointed about my recall and about not having a Lucid dream. Bu i did it!!! I finally did it :cheeky:
I kept practicing everyday. Mantras, RCs, awareness, and sometimes meditation. I thought i wasn't making progress especially since like 5 days ago for 4 days i coudnt remember my dreams at all and it was disappointing.
but last night the first wake up time was at like 2 and that failed. i didn't have any dream recall.
But then as i went back to sleep i kept saying mantras in my mind as i fell as sleep. And thoughout the day i do the
looking at my hands and asking myself if i'm dreaming. And i specifically did the Mantra that i posted about yesterday which surprisingly did work. This one "I'm dreaming" or "this is a dream"
Then i had it :) I had my lucid dream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll tell you how it went.
==First i was in my house , kind of like waking up or something and i looked at my hands several times and i had 5 fingers. But then I looked again, and i had 6!!!!!!!!
So then i just went crazy already lucid. testing out RCs even though i already became lucid. hehehe. I specifically tested the mirror one alot. Sometimes my face would be there and then i woiuld check again and there would be like a weird background behind me or i wouldn't be there. It was funny and fun. :P
Anyways, so i was in my house and I wanted to try meeting sexy girls. I didn't really know how. I thought you just call it out "I want sexy girl" and that she would immediatly come to me. Mmmm. that didn't work. and i kept trying that. heheh.
So i was disappointed. But i tried flying and that did work perfect. It was gooood. I just flew inside my house alittle.
Then, I said "why isn't not working with the girl thing" and i decided to go to another room where my sister used to live because i thought that since it was a Girl room that there my "I want a sexy girl" command would work. And it didn't really work.
So i went outside, and i flew bit more and stuff happend. Then i thought, why am i asking for 1? I should get 10 girls!
But that didn't work anyways. but
at least i got one snippet of a girl , driving to meet me. but never got to met her, didn't wait.
just went walking downtown thinking that "Maybe this is not how it works, maybe i have to GO where girls are"
And so i headed downtown..
And then it ended. It was my first lucid but it lasted pretty good amount of time.
Yesterday at night I was watching Lucid dreaming videos and i watched this 30 minute video of some British Lucid dreaming instructor he was being interviewed by some athletic body builder guy who also likes dreaming. And then other
videos that said "How to stay lucid" and it said something about not letting the excitement get to you.
So in my lucid i was excited but i didn't let it get me. I just experienced it :) But it was
disappointing that i couldn't get what i wanted(girls ).
I also watched one video from a guy talking excitedly about how awesome lucid dreaming is and HOw to Experience and Maintain a Lucid dream and what to expect.
Anyways, it was great. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great Lucid dreaming.
But i wonder why i couldn't call out what i wanted to see (girls) . it just didn't work.
I was disappointed about my recall and about not having a Lucid dream. Bu i did it!!! I finally did it :cheeky:
I kept practicing everyday. Mantras, RCs, awareness, and sometimes meditation. I thought i wasn't making progress especially since like 5 days ago for 4 days i coudnt remember my dreams at all and it was disappointing.
but last night the first wake up time was at like 2 and that failed. i didn't have any dream recall.
But then as i went back to sleep i kept saying mantras in my mind as i fell as sleep. And thoughout the day i do the
looking at my hands and asking myself if i'm dreaming. And i specifically did the Mantra that i posted about yesterday which surprisingly did work. This one "I'm dreaming" or "this is a dream"
Then i had it :) I had my lucid dream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll tell you how it went.
==First i was in my house , kind of like waking up or something and i looked at my hands several times and i had 5 fingers. But then I looked again, and i had 6!!!!!!!!
So then i just went crazy already lucid. testing out RCs even though i already became lucid. hehehe. I specifically tested the mirror one alot. Sometimes my face would be there and then i woiuld check again and there would be like a weird background behind me or i wouldn't be there. It was funny and fun. :P
Anyways, so i was in my house and I wanted to try meeting sexy girls. I didn't really know how. I thought you just call it out "I want sexy girl" and that she would immediatly come to me. Mmmm. that didn't work. and i kept trying that. heheh.
So i was disappointed. But i tried flying and that did work perfect. It was gooood. I just flew inside my house alittle.
Then, I said "why isn't not working with the girl thing" and i decided to go to another room where my sister used to live because i thought that since it was a Girl room that there my "I want a sexy girl" command would work. And it didn't really work.
So i went outside, and i flew bit more and stuff happend. Then i thought, why am i asking for 1? I should get 10 girls!
But that didn't work anyways. but
at least i got one snippet of a girl , driving to meet me. but never got to met her, didn't wait.
just went walking downtown thinking that "Maybe this is not how it works, maybe i have to GO where girls are"
And so i headed downtown..
And then it ended. It was my first lucid but it lasted pretty good amount of time.
Yesterday at night I was watching Lucid dreaming videos and i watched this 30 minute video of some British Lucid dreaming instructor he was being interviewed by some athletic body builder guy who also likes dreaming. And then other
videos that said "How to stay lucid" and it said something about not letting the excitement get to you.
So in my lucid i was excited but i didn't let it get me. I just experienced it :) But it was
disappointing that i couldn't get what i wanted(girls ).
I also watched one video from a guy talking excitedly about how awesome lucid dreaming is and HOw to Experience and Maintain a Lucid dream and what to expect.
Anyways, it was great. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great Lucid dreaming.
But i wonder why i couldn't call out what i wanted to see (girls) . it just didn't work.
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Chess Puzzle | 12/18/2013 - Logical Follow Through
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Is "I'm dreaming" mantra good for Lucidity?
Laberge said it somewhere or in his book i read. And some people have said it here and someother website says to.
"I"m dreaming" as you go to sleep. TO go straight into lucidity.
So does that mantra replace doing any RCs?
Anyways is this a good mantra? I tried it before but i wasn't sure if it's efficient so i haven't tried it lately.
"I"m dreaming" as you go to sleep. TO go straight into lucidity.
So does that mantra replace doing any RCs?
Anyways is this a good mantra? I tried it before but i wasn't sure if it's efficient so i haven't tried it lately.
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Chess Puzzle | 12/17/2013 - Mate in 4
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Monday, December 16, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Another lucid False Awakening...
This morning I had a lucid dream that started out in bed, and it started out with me very slowly getting up (it must have taken at least 30 seconds to leave the bed, I was pretty much moving in super slow-motion), and when I stood on the floor I realized that my vision was pretty bad, it was kind of like looking into a broken mirror with some pieces missing, although I could certainly tell my general location.
Anyway, I went out of my apartment, and I constantly did the hand rubbing reality check - this did seem to at least keep me in the dream, even though I always had that feeling that I could wake up at absolutely any moment.
I went through a couple rooms, then ended up outside, and it was snowing and I felt a bit cold.
Then all of a sudden I just woke up, right as I was about to go exploring.
It's cool that I was lucid and everything, but there are clearly a couple aspects that I would like to improve.
How do I fix the broken eyesight, for example?
And why did I move so slowly?
Anyway, I went out of my apartment, and I constantly did the hand rubbing reality check - this did seem to at least keep me in the dream, even though I always had that feeling that I could wake up at absolutely any moment.
I went through a couple rooms, then ended up outside, and it was snowing and I felt a bit cold.
Then all of a sudden I just woke up, right as I was about to go exploring.
It's cool that I was lucid and everything, but there are clearly a couple aspects that I would like to improve.
How do I fix the broken eyesight, for example?
And why did I move so slowly?
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Chess Puzzle | 12/16/2013 - From Both Sides
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Sunday, December 15, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Repeat in your head
It seems to me that the important step in a dream that will help you realize you are dreaming is to mentally hear the words "You are dreaming this". This is what I heard when I had my first and only lucid dream. I didn't try WBTB, I hadn't been WILDing and I didnt do any reality checks or notice dreamsign. I just heard the words and became aware. Lost the dream almost immediately but now at least I know I can become aware. The question is can I do it again? I think I can.
Since hearing the words seems to be the most important part, i think it can work if I repeat them in in head when I wake up in the middle of the night and drift back to sleep. The important thing for this part is also to be tired enough to fall asleep while repeating the words. I tried doing this while napping in the afternoon and after a while the words seemed to be entering my heads with my exhalation triggering it without me mentally having to say. They were just being repeated in the background.
Since this seems to be somewhere between WILD and MILD I am wondering how many others trying this technique have had success. It seems a good chance to me since if that is the last thing in your mind as you dip into REM sleep it will be heard in your dreams too....eventually at least. So, who all reading this have had success with this technique?
Since hearing the words seems to be the most important part, i think it can work if I repeat them in in head when I wake up in the middle of the night and drift back to sleep. The important thing for this part is also to be tired enough to fall asleep while repeating the words. I tried doing this while napping in the afternoon and after a while the words seemed to be entering my heads with my exhalation triggering it without me mentally having to say. They were just being repeated in the background.
Since this seems to be somewhere between WILD and MILD I am wondering how many others trying this technique have had success. It seems a good chance to me since if that is the last thing in your mind as you dip into REM sleep it will be heard in your dreams too....eventually at least. So, who all reading this have had success with this technique?
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Chess Puzzle | 12/15/2013 - Mate in 3
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Saturday, December 14, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Wayne Dyers book; Wishes Fulfilled
Has anyone tried his method in this book?
I did this method before I knew about this book and it worked. For me it worked in attaining the exact dream I was going for. I'm sure his presumption in the book is to make it a reality. I really couldn't do that in this case but I certainly created the perfect dream out of it.
His five steps are very clear...
Imagination
Living from the end
Assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled
Attention
Now I lay me down to sleep
I did this method before I knew about this book and it worked. For me it worked in attaining the exact dream I was going for. I'm sure his presumption in the book is to make it a reality. I really couldn't do that in this case but I certainly created the perfect dream out of it.
His five steps are very clear...
Imagination
Living from the end
Assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled
Attention
Now I lay me down to sleep
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Lucid Dreaming | Is this why i can't do any technique?
I've been sleeping on my right side for a long time now, can't remember dreams greatly and i never seem to get lucid. One day, i did WBTB and decided to sleep on my back, and i became lucid that time, now i tried the same thing but with sleeping on my right and it didn't work.
To sum it up, is this why i can't perform any technique?
To sum it up, is this why i can't perform any technique?
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Friday, December 13, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Caffeine's effect on lucidity and dream recall?
Have a slight addiction to coffee. Also cigarettes but i'll kick that habit later.
Took 2 cups of coffee in the afternoon and deliberately denied any offers for more later on to see if it has an effect on dreams and dream recall. Going to bed in about an hour ^^
I was just wondering if anyone here on this forum tried complete abstinence or played around with different doses and could tell me anything about coffee's effect on recall and lucidity?
Took 2 cups of coffee in the afternoon and deliberately denied any offers for more later on to see if it has an effect on dreams and dream recall. Going to bed in about an hour ^^
I was just wondering if anyone here on this forum tried complete abstinence or played around with different doses and could tell me anything about coffee's effect on recall and lucidity?
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Lucid Dreaming | Night time or day time?
So when is the best time for YOU to attain a lucid dream?
At Night time or Day time?
Personally I find that a rarely have a lucid dream within my normal sleeping hours during the night. (I sleep about 6 or 7 hours at most)
Instead I almost always get them when I have a sleep for an hour or 2 during mid day afternoon.
For instance I start work at 7am and finish at 12pm I would then goto the gym for an hour and come back home, eat and then Nap for an hour or sometimes maybe 2 hours.
But its during this nap time that I actually easily attain a lucid dream. And ALWAYS end up with sleep paralysis. And I will always be lying on my back facing up.
Why am I not able to lucid dream at night time does anyone know and how and when is best for you to attain a lucid dream?
At Night time or Day time?
Personally I find that a rarely have a lucid dream within my normal sleeping hours during the night. (I sleep about 6 or 7 hours at most)
Instead I almost always get them when I have a sleep for an hour or 2 during mid day afternoon.
For instance I start work at 7am and finish at 12pm I would then goto the gym for an hour and come back home, eat and then Nap for an hour or sometimes maybe 2 hours.
But its during this nap time that I actually easily attain a lucid dream. And ALWAYS end up with sleep paralysis. And I will always be lying on my back facing up.
Why am I not able to lucid dream at night time does anyone know and how and when is best for you to attain a lucid dream?
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Chess Puzzle | 12/13/2013 - Back Rank Power
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Thursday, December 12, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | improve lucid dream dild
i have been practicing lucid dream dild for 4 days but i have had no luck so far. to do this i stop at random times during the day to look around at my enviroment and i perform my reality checks. how long should this routine take and how long would it take for it to work.
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Lucid Dreaming | FILD clarification
I just read about FILD and based on the success rate am eager to try it. However, I tried practicing what I was going to do on my bed just and need to be clear about some things.
-Just how much do we move our fingers in the low movement phase? Do we press down very slightly on the bedsheet or do we just contract the finger muscle?
-I dont feel much when I just try contracting the finger muscle and when I try pushing slightly that finger or another nearby one twitches. Is that normal?
-This seems to work better when I try to only move the upper third of my index/middle finger. I that the right approach or do we try to move the whole finger?
-Just how much do we move our fingers in the low movement phase? Do we press down very slightly on the bedsheet or do we just contract the finger muscle?
-I dont feel much when I just try contracting the finger muscle and when I try pushing slightly that finger or another nearby one twitches. Is that normal?
-This seems to work better when I try to only move the upper third of my index/middle finger. I that the right approach or do we try to move the whole finger?
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Bizarre Mini Amplifier + White Noise Generator?
[Jordi] made this awesome looking mini amplifier which has a rather unusual feature. He’s calling it the Bizarre Mini Amplifier because it also has a white noise generator built right into it! Bizarre right?
Now, most people would just find a suitable amplifier and put it into a nice box, but not [Jordi]! He’s designed the amplifier circuit from the ground up! It features four distinct stages like most typical amplifiers:
- Impedance Adapt Stage: Two OPAMPS for both the left and right channels — The high input impedance allows for different audio sources to be connected without affecting the output.
- Mixer stage: Combines the left, right and noise signals into one, using a third OPAMP. A potentiometer is the output resistor which allows for the volume control.
- Filter Stage: A simple filter stage that uses a R-C low-pass filter, another potentiometer controls the tone.
- Power Stage: A final power amplifier to boost the output.
After building the circuit, there was a bit of troubleshooting to get it to work properly, so if you’re interested [Jordi] has done a great write-up of this on his blog.
Finally, he decided to add a white noise generator after he discovered it helps him sleep. This is the one part of the project that he didn’t actually go into detail for! But, considering it’s just white noise, we could probably figure out what he did. Stick around after the break to see the device in action!
There’s just something about the retro style look to this thing that we love. We know it’s just a plain old white project box, but between the clear speaker, chrome switches and old labels, it just looks… great!
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Will a false awakening boost your chances of having a lucid dream?
I have thought that I would like a discussion about. A reason that I think that I personally cannot initiate a lucid dream by recognizing it is because when I go to sleep I basically zone out. So nothing matters. My dream recall is bad anyway so that doesn't help. My mind doesn't want to do anything because I'm trying to sleep; is what it feels like. What I'm basically saying is that after I go to sleep the first time I actually take not of what's going on is when I get up, in my room. This makes sense to me because when I get up that is when I do a reality check etc. It's difficult to explain but I'm thinking that if I can somehow trigger a false awakening or make it more likely to happen, I am much more likely to realize if something's up (If I do encounter a false awakening). It is like the ultimate reality check (for me personally).
How would I go about making a false awakening more likely? Is it the same chances and situation as a DILD? Or is there something more?
How would I go about making a false awakening more likely? Is it the same chances and situation as a DILD? Or is there something more?
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Lucid Dreaming | If My Recall isn't improving then I won't ever have Lucids?
I'm a 3 week practitioner of dream journaling for recall. I hope to someday achieve a lucid.
Well so far my recall seems good SOMETIMES. only sometimes. So i can't say it's improving. It is good some nights, but others nothing. Like recently i can't remember any of my dreams or maybe one but last week i was remembering more.
I dont understand why sometimes i remember and sometimes not.
So i wouldn't think i'm improving. Improving would be if everyday i would recall all my dreams. from every wakeup time.
So if i'm not improving, then that means i won't ever had a lucid? That sucks.
I guess some people have it easier.
i'm male age 30s, quiet, shy, not good speaker and not social and stuff. Maybe the people that have better recall are more social people or something in real life. I don't know if this is true but it seems like it since my recall doesn't work well
Well so far my recall seems good SOMETIMES. only sometimes. So i can't say it's improving. It is good some nights, but others nothing. Like recently i can't remember any of my dreams or maybe one but last week i was remembering more.
I dont understand why sometimes i remember and sometimes not.
So i wouldn't think i'm improving. Improving would be if everyday i would recall all my dreams. from every wakeup time.
So if i'm not improving, then that means i won't ever had a lucid? That sucks.
I guess some people have it easier.
i'm male age 30s, quiet, shy, not good speaker and not social and stuff. Maybe the people that have better recall are more social people or something in real life. I don't know if this is true but it seems like it since my recall doesn't work well
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Chess Puzzle | 12/10/2013 - Easterwood-Williams 2004
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Monday, December 9, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Using Waking World Sounds to Help WILD
A common problem people have when trying to WILD is when a waking world noise keeps pulling them back into the waking world. We normally hear a noise, and our brain searches for meaning and relationship. You quickly attempt to discern the nature of the noise and where it is located, as well as if the noise present an opportunity or danger. This instinctual process hinders WILD.
All that is needed to overcome this is visualization and self hypnotic suggestion. Near my window is a small grove of bamboo, and birds love it. I often WILD after the sun is rising and 1000 birds sing for joy. This could cause a WILD to fail. What is needed here is the auto-suggestion that I must be in a dream, because I can hear birds. It removes the instinct to locate the birds in relation to me and evaluate if they are a opportunity or threat. I assume I must be dreaming of a lovely morning in a forest, and continue towards conscious sleep. Next, my wife starts the washing machine. It is not a washing machine, I tell my mind I must be in a dream as I can clearly here the mechanism for a railroad cart operated with a hand lever system. Where is the noise? Here in the dream. I tell myself I am probably on the cart and even more likely I am pumping the lever. I visualize the lever and the tactile/ proprioception feeling of this. See, I must be dreaming because the noise is so loud and vivid. Noise: chunk-chunk-chunk-chunk. Mental: It is so vivid (the sound of the hand operated cart) that I am clearly having a dream.
By this simple mental manipulation you can use external noises to enhance your WILD effort instead of ending it.
All that is needed to overcome this is visualization and self hypnotic suggestion. Near my window is a small grove of bamboo, and birds love it. I often WILD after the sun is rising and 1000 birds sing for joy. This could cause a WILD to fail. What is needed here is the auto-suggestion that I must be in a dream, because I can hear birds. It removes the instinct to locate the birds in relation to me and evaluate if they are a opportunity or threat. I assume I must be dreaming of a lovely morning in a forest, and continue towards conscious sleep. Next, my wife starts the washing machine. It is not a washing machine, I tell my mind I must be in a dream as I can clearly here the mechanism for a railroad cart operated with a hand lever system. Where is the noise? Here in the dream. I tell myself I am probably on the cart and even more likely I am pumping the lever. I visualize the lever and the tactile/ proprioception feeling of this. See, I must be dreaming because the noise is so loud and vivid. Noise: chunk-chunk-chunk-chunk. Mental: It is so vivid (the sound of the hand operated cart) that I am clearly having a dream.
By this simple mental manipulation you can use external noises to enhance your WILD effort instead of ending it.
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Chess Puzzle | 12/9/2013 - Mate in 3
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Sunday, December 8, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Tip for WILD!
Hello guys! :)
When i first started WILD, i had problems keeping conscious while lying down. I always drifted of to sleep and the WILD failed. I know a lot of you WILd'ers have or had this problem. I've found a simple technique that tells you when you are falling asleep and so it tells you to be more conscious!
1: Lay down after a WBTB.
2: Bend your knees so you're lying like this: o-^
3: When drifting of to sleep, your legs will drift apart. When this happens, you are losing consciousness! Put your knees together and start over. Doing this will train you to feel the moment of falling asleep and getting used to it. After some time, you are used to the feeling of falling asleep and you can remain conscious without the leg technique and just lay down flat without bend knees.
When i first started WILD, i had problems keeping conscious while lying down. I always drifted of to sleep and the WILD failed. I know a lot of you WILd'ers have or had this problem. I've found a simple technique that tells you when you are falling asleep and so it tells you to be more conscious!
1: Lay down after a WBTB.
2: Bend your knees so you're lying like this: o-^
3: When drifting of to sleep, your legs will drift apart. When this happens, you are losing consciousness! Put your knees together and start over. Doing this will train you to feel the moment of falling asleep and getting used to it. After some time, you are used to the feeling of falling asleep and you can remain conscious without the leg technique and just lay down flat without bend knees.
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Chess Puzzle | 12/8/2013 - Boxed In
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Saturday, December 7, 2013
Super Simple FM Transmitter
Making your own FM radio is practically a rite of passage for hackers. How about making a small FM transmitter?
Originally designed by the Japanese multimedia artist [Tetsuo Kogawa], this simple FM transmitter can be built with only 10 components and about an hour of your time. The method shown here is one of the easiest to build, and it’s called the Manhattan Style — the same method used when [Bill Meara] built his BITX radio. It’s unique in that instead of using traces it uses one copper PCB which is used for all ground connections, and then small islands of the same PCB glued on top to form nodes for the circuit to connect to. Besides being an extremely easy way to make a PCB without any fancy tools, it also makes you think about circuits in a different light. In fact, it gives “floating ground” a whole new meaning!
While its 10 component count is impressive, it can’t beat this 3 component FM transmitter we shared a year ago! Stick around after the break to see how to make your very own.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMgzUGBfXiE
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Lucid Dreaming | Interesting jump in lucidity success rate...
I decided at the very beginning of this month to make a diagram of my number of lucid dreams each month, kind of like how Stephen LaBerge did at Stanford University.
And I noticed a rather interesting thing the very first night - for some reason I ended up being very successful that night, I could vividly recall at least 3 dreams without even writing them down, and all of them were lucid dreams or half-lucids!
Just like that!
In the first dream I had a very strong feeling that I was not in physical reality, in the second dream I told myself that "I must be dreaming again", and in the last dream I was definitely lucid, because I did the reading check, got it to work several times, then fully realized that I was indeed dreaming.
Then the night after that I was really close to becoming lucid again, but I haven't quite become lucid since that first night.
But why did I reach lucidity so easily that night?
What was happening there?
Obviously it must have had something to do with my rekindled motivation and my desire to count my number of lucid dreams, but what was it specifically that suddenly made it so easy that particular night?
And I noticed a rather interesting thing the very first night - for some reason I ended up being very successful that night, I could vividly recall at least 3 dreams without even writing them down, and all of them were lucid dreams or half-lucids!
Just like that!
In the first dream I had a very strong feeling that I was not in physical reality, in the second dream I told myself that "I must be dreaming again", and in the last dream I was definitely lucid, because I did the reading check, got it to work several times, then fully realized that I was indeed dreaming.
Then the night after that I was really close to becoming lucid again, but I haven't quite become lucid since that first night.
But why did I reach lucidity so easily that night?
What was happening there?
Obviously it must have had something to do with my rekindled motivation and my desire to count my number of lucid dreams, but what was it specifically that suddenly made it so easy that particular night?
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Lucid Dreaming | Unintentional WBTB?
So, i went to sleep last night normally. and i woke up several hours later to go to the bathroom. I went back to sleep (might have thought about LD's) and next thing i know is that in the middle of a dream i happen to realize it's a dream with no RC's. I want to make this happen again, can someone explain what i exactly did? DILD or WBTB?
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Friday, December 6, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | You are or aren't
So you want to lucid dream, well sir, then why don't you do it? What is your excuse. What reason do you tell yourself to feel assured that you aren't a lucid dreamer? Whatever it is, i dont want to hear it. You are either a lucid dreamer or you aren't, it's that simple. Theres nothing to say, nothing to explain. You choose. Get rid of your doubts, now. You are a lucid dreamer, period. Don't think about how, just know that you have the power to make it happen.
So, I see how it is. You want guides, instructions, steps, teachers, ANYTHING. Why? Oh you know why. You don't believe in yourself.
Guess what, you are responsible for yourself. Nothing in this world will help you lucid dream except you. But, who am I to say that? Lets give it a shot, shall we?
The act of lucid dreaming is so simple. Just become aware you are dreaming while you are dreaming... how do you do it? HOW DO YOU DO IT!?..... hell if I know. I just do it. Why bother thinking about how when I know I can do it? It's like trying to explain to you how I move my body. Really, when it comes down to it, I don't know. I just do it.
But of course it's not as easy as moving a finger, right? Yes, right. No just kidding your wrong.
It is incredibly easy, but only if you get "HOW" out of your head, like right now. Instructions only serve to comfort and distract our mind that is always thinking "how how how, how this, how that".
Let me tell you something. You either are a lucid dreamer, or you aren't. Either way, it takes the same amount of work, don't believe me? That's natural, but that doesn't make it right. Saying you aren't who you want to be because of this, and that, or him or her, is what cowards do. You aren't a coward. You used to be a coward. No longer. From this moment on, you are who you are because you choose to be this way, whether or not you are a lucid dreamer.
You DO have the power, after all, so what will you choose?
I made my choice.
So, I see how it is. You want guides, instructions, steps, teachers, ANYTHING. Why? Oh you know why. You don't believe in yourself.
Guess what, you are responsible for yourself. Nothing in this world will help you lucid dream except you. But, who am I to say that? Lets give it a shot, shall we?
The act of lucid dreaming is so simple. Just become aware you are dreaming while you are dreaming... how do you do it? HOW DO YOU DO IT!?..... hell if I know. I just do it. Why bother thinking about how when I know I can do it? It's like trying to explain to you how I move my body. Really, when it comes down to it, I don't know. I just do it.
But of course it's not as easy as moving a finger, right? Yes, right. No just kidding your wrong.
It is incredibly easy, but only if you get "HOW" out of your head, like right now. Instructions only serve to comfort and distract our mind that is always thinking "how how how, how this, how that".
Let me tell you something. You either are a lucid dreamer, or you aren't. Either way, it takes the same amount of work, don't believe me? That's natural, but that doesn't make it right. Saying you aren't who you want to be because of this, and that, or him or her, is what cowards do. You aren't a coward. You used to be a coward. No longer. From this moment on, you are who you are because you choose to be this way, whether or not you are a lucid dreamer.
You DO have the power, after all, so what will you choose?
I made my choice.
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Lucid Dreaming | Blackout like sleep state
Sorry if this has been said before but I am having trouble with it so I am looking for help. I believe this arose from going lucid, and just observing the dream, instead of taking control (but i may be wrong). I have no problem with dream control, dream signs, etc, but recall and lucidity has been an issue more recently. I almost always enter a lucid dream upon first going to sleep, but it often fades away into a void like, black out state. I wake up in the morning with the feeling I had a lot of dreams, some times I can even recall images of really vivid/intense dreams. But I still remain in that black out like state where I can't remember, or even tell what I was dreaming about. I can even be fully lucid, and everything will just fade away.
Could this be a comfort thing? maybe i just slip off into a very relaxed sleep state? All I know is that I am having many, many, many dreams that I am not remembering, or able to become aware of while sleeping.
I am having trouble explaining this sensation, but I will try to elaborate more if I can.
Could this be a comfort thing? maybe i just slip off into a very relaxed sleep state? All I know is that I am having many, many, many dreams that I am not remembering, or able to become aware of while sleeping.
I am having trouble explaining this sensation, but I will try to elaborate more if I can.
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Chess Puzzle | 12/6/2013 - Mate in 8
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | questioning dream
so yesterday night i even had a dreamcharacter tell me i was dreaming. but i gave an automatic respons: thats impossible. i did reality checks, breathing through nose, looking at hand and they failed. (although breathing through nose did not fail entirely).
anyone got tips?
anyone got tips?
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Lucid Dreaming | Red Lights for WTBTB and Recall
When I was in the U.S. Coast Guard, we used red lights at night, because you retain your night vision with red lights. Red lights do not shock the system light like white lights, and also is easier on the mind and general restfulness. Try using a red light instead of white when you WBTB. (An incandescent or LED, not fluorescent)
Also, when you wake in the morning, and jot down notes, try and use a red light, because it may help you stay in a more restful state.
Also, when you wake in the morning, and jot down notes, try and use a red light, because it may help you stay in a more restful state.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Chess Puzzle | 12/4/2013 - Immunity
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Lucid Dreaming | BEST WEBSITE for LUCID DREAMING QUESTIONS
http: //noah-answers.qhub.com/
This website will give immediate answers to all your lucid dreaming questions.
I got so much useful information from this site:cheeky:
This website will give immediate answers to all your lucid dreaming questions.
I got so much useful information from this site:cheeky:
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | FA's: Do Most DEILDs Actually Occur During False Awakenings? Do FA's Have a Purpose?
I have a feeling that a lot of people have false awakenings and just don't recognize them. I have read theories that lucid dreamers are more likely to have them, but perhaps we are just more likely to catch them either during or after the dream since we pay attention to our dreams. Sometimes it takes me a while to remember that I had a false awakening so my gut feeling is that I am missing many of them altogether. Often the way I catch them after the fact is when I realize that I thought that I had already written something in my dream journal but later find that I hadn't. I think they are often missed because they are often so realistically duplicating the feeling of getting up, something that is so mundane and repetitive that we often do it on auto-pilot paying no attention at all.
I have been wondering lately if most or all of the DEILDs I had were actually during FA's...perhaps it was easy to DEILD because I was actually still dreaming...I had just dreamt that I was waking up (FA).
Lately I am noticing many of my LDs end by waking up but I later realize I only woke into a FA. I occasionally catch these but I am working towards catching a very high percentage of them.
All of this also makes me wonder if FAs have a purpose and if the brain is attempting to counter lucidity. Reading around the web some theorize that FAs often present things that we need to confront, but the ones that I remember are not confrontational or scary.
I am interested in other people's opinions on the above theories, other's experiences with FAs with or without relation to DEILDs and any tips that anyone has. My current focus is EVERYTIME I feel like I am waking up: #1 attempt quick DEILD and if nothing apparent #2 do a few motionless RC's. The goal is to do this no matter how sure I am that I have woken up. It is harder than I thought at first.
I have been wondering lately if most or all of the DEILDs I had were actually during FA's...perhaps it was easy to DEILD because I was actually still dreaming...I had just dreamt that I was waking up (FA).
Lately I am noticing many of my LDs end by waking up but I later realize I only woke into a FA. I occasionally catch these but I am working towards catching a very high percentage of them.
All of this also makes me wonder if FAs have a purpose and if the brain is attempting to counter lucidity. Reading around the web some theorize that FAs often present things that we need to confront, but the ones that I remember are not confrontational or scary.
I am interested in other people's opinions on the above theories, other's experiences with FAs with or without relation to DEILDs and any tips that anyone has. My current focus is EVERYTIME I feel like I am waking up: #1 attempt quick DEILD and if nothing apparent #2 do a few motionless RC's. The goal is to do this no matter how sure I am that I have woken up. It is harder than I thought at first.
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Lucid Dreaming | DEILD and move signals
hello,
i'm new here, and i'm a bit lost in this forum, so sorry for when it's posted in the wrong section --' but here's my question:
(i've never had a succesful DEILD)
i woke up this night from a sms and i saw an opportunity.
i kept laying in the same position and didnt open my eyes.
my arm was under my head, and after 10-20 seconds it started to hurt, a lot...
i thought it was just an urge / move signal so i remaind still.
but i was afraid it was not an urge / move signal, so i rolled over (because i wanna keep my arm alive :) ) and it disapeared immediately.
now my question is, did i feel an urge? or did my arm just hurt because it was laying under my head all night?
how do you recognize the difference between an urge and real pain?
normally i lay on my back when i'm trying to enter SP. then i feel an urge in my thighs and chest, and they don't feel like 'pain'.
i think it was an urge because the pain came up after a few seconds... but, i don't know much about DEILD and sleep paralysis.
thx, erik
i'm new here, and i'm a bit lost in this forum, so sorry for when it's posted in the wrong section --' but here's my question:
(i've never had a succesful DEILD)
i woke up this night from a sms and i saw an opportunity.
i kept laying in the same position and didnt open my eyes.
my arm was under my head, and after 10-20 seconds it started to hurt, a lot...
i thought it was just an urge / move signal so i remaind still.
but i was afraid it was not an urge / move signal, so i rolled over (because i wanna keep my arm alive :) ) and it disapeared immediately.
now my question is, did i feel an urge? or did my arm just hurt because it was laying under my head all night?
how do you recognize the difference between an urge and real pain?
normally i lay on my back when i'm trying to enter SP. then i feel an urge in my thighs and chest, and they don't feel like 'pain'.
i think it was an urge because the pain came up after a few seconds... but, i don't know much about DEILD and sleep paralysis.
thx, erik
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Chess Puzzle | 12/3/2013 - Forward Thinking
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Monday, December 2, 2013
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Memory Does not Transition Easily from Waking World to Dream world?
I'm just wondering because in my waking life i keep doing Reality checks and telling myself "When i dream i look at my hands and realize i'm dreaming"
But i've had several dreams since i started practicing like 2weeks and a half so far. ANd in my dream I never ever remember to look at my hands.
So how come in my real life i remember that Yesterday i practiced reality checks alot but in my dream world i don't remember that at all and i don't remember me saying "When i dream i will look at my hands" so I don't do reality check in my dream world.
Seems like memory doesn't transfer easily from waking world to dream world.
Will it eventually happen? I"m doing all i can in the daytime: Meditationn, Awareness, mantras, visualization.
So far all the dreams i had continue to be like passing movies that i just watch , i'm not lucid.:(
But i've had several dreams since i started practicing like 2weeks and a half so far. ANd in my dream I never ever remember to look at my hands.
So how come in my real life i remember that Yesterday i practiced reality checks alot but in my dream world i don't remember that at all and i don't remember me saying "When i dream i will look at my hands" so I don't do reality check in my dream world.
Seems like memory doesn't transfer easily from waking world to dream world.
Will it eventually happen? I"m doing all i can in the daytime: Meditationn, Awareness, mantras, visualization.
So far all the dreams i had continue to be like passing movies that i just watch , i'm not lucid.:(
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Lucid Dreaming | WBTB techniques
Last night I had 3 goes at a WBTB with no success.
Woke up its seems after nearly each of my 90mins rem cycles and recorded 5 dreams in the morning but none lucidity
Bed at 11pm waking at 12.45, 3.30, 5.30 and finally 9am. 5-6 drams recalled for the evening.
Have been at this for under 2 weeks so all is certainly not lost.
Keen to understand how others go about WBTBs
Mine consisted, looking at this forum for 20-30mins. Hitting the hay. Visualising last dream seeing myself realise I am dreaming using a mantra along lines of "next time I am dream I will become lucid"
Cheers
Woke up its seems after nearly each of my 90mins rem cycles and recorded 5 dreams in the morning but none lucidity
Bed at 11pm waking at 12.45, 3.30, 5.30 and finally 9am. 5-6 drams recalled for the evening.
Have been at this for under 2 weeks so all is certainly not lost.
Keen to understand how others go about WBTBs
Mine consisted, looking at this forum for 20-30mins. Hitting the hay. Visualising last dream seeing myself realise I am dreaming using a mantra along lines of "next time I am dream I will become lucid"
Cheers
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Lucid Dreaming | Lucidity interupting dreams?
Hi all,
I have always had very vivid dreams but after a few random semi-lucid dreams (suddenly realising "hey I can move things with my mind") although not fully aware I was dreaming (one of the times i kind of figured well this must be a dream) I have decided to try and become more aware and started doing reality checks throughout the day saying to myself "is this a dream?" Anyway went for a nap this afternoon and while going down a slide I thought to myself "is this a dream..." and as soon as a realised it was the dream faded to white and I woke up.
My question is, is the realisation of being lucid enough to wake you up or was it purely bad timing?
I have always had very vivid dreams but after a few random semi-lucid dreams (suddenly realising "hey I can move things with my mind") although not fully aware I was dreaming (one of the times i kind of figured well this must be a dream) I have decided to try and become more aware and started doing reality checks throughout the day saying to myself "is this a dream?" Anyway went for a nap this afternoon and while going down a slide I thought to myself "is this a dream..." and as soon as a realised it was the dream faded to white and I woke up.
My question is, is the realisation of being lucid enough to wake you up or was it purely bad timing?
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Chess Puzzle | 12/1/2013 - Double Trouble
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Saturday, November 30, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Waking up in the night and going in to what I think is SP
For the past year or so I have been trying to WILD with only a few success, nothing amazing. I would also sometimes lay in bed for as long as possible without falling asleep and sometimes I would witness some awesome hypnogia. Anyway because of this when ever I wake up in the night now, I will roll over and sometimes I start to hear ringing and it would get louder and louder and then I usually fall asleep straight after because I don't know if that's sleep paralysis or not. The other night was different, no ringing but weird stuff did happen. I was laying there and every few seconds I heard a weird sound and it kept getting louder and more audible. After about 10 seconds, it sounded like a guitar or violin - next thing I know I am standing by my bed in a Lucid Dream. Anyway... when this happens, what can I do to transfer to a lucid dream and not fall asleep?
Thanks :-)
Thanks :-)
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Lucid Dreaming | Have you ever tried keeping track of your LD frequency each month?
I know that Stephen LaBerge did something like this when he did his dissertation study at Stanford University - he would plot his LD frequency on a diagram and it is pretty obvious that it was a general increase over the three years.
Have you ever done something like this?
In that case, how much did it afect your motivation?
I consider trying this myself tmorrow morning, and try to keep at it every day.
Have you ever done something like this?
In that case, how much did it afect your motivation?
I consider trying this myself tmorrow morning, and try to keep at it every day.
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Lucid Dreaming | HELP! LD is Like Balancing a Needle!
For me it seems that LD'ing is like balancing a needle - I've now had about 10 very short LDs over a year and a half of trying (about 1 a month in the second half of this year), but I just can't seem to get the balance right between sleep and being awake.
Each time I have become aware I always seem to wake. Maybe sometimes I've been on the point of waking as I've become lucid, or other times I've just got excited and woken.
I just can't seem to stabilise.
I've tried the techniques, but I always seem to have so little time that I've woken before I can really get started.
I've tried relaxing, but it just doesn't seem to work.
I thought I had cracked it a month or so ago when I had a slightly longer LD, followed by a false awakening that I tried to stabilise, and I assumed it would steadily get better and each one would be longer, but no!
Getting a bit frustrated now.
Can anyone help inspire me?
Each time I have become aware I always seem to wake. Maybe sometimes I've been on the point of waking as I've become lucid, or other times I've just got excited and woken.
I just can't seem to stabilise.
I've tried the techniques, but I always seem to have so little time that I've woken before I can really get started.
I've tried relaxing, but it just doesn't seem to work.
I thought I had cracked it a month or so ago when I had a slightly longer LD, followed by a false awakening that I tried to stabilise, and I assumed it would steadily get better and each one would be longer, but no!
Getting a bit frustrated now.
Can anyone help inspire me?
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Friday, November 29, 2013
Chess Puzzle | 11/29/2013 - Mate in 5
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Thursday, November 28, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Love The Journey - Get Results with ANYTHING
My name is Chris, I used to be depressed, lonely, and not do much with my life. I have been inactive on the forum from time to time and well the only reason I am making a thread now is because I still see beginners asking questions and wonder how to start to lucid dream or recall dreams or whatever.
And there is nothing wrong with that, that is what the forum is here for but most importantly it's here for you in order for experienced people to share their knowledge to you. As I said I used to be a nobody, I am a short less than average looking Asian dude but now I am a short Asian dude with an awesome love-life (currently dating a photomodel), self-esteem, good grades, been a Dream Guide and a Moderator (for a short time) on this forum, and last but not least I got lots of experience! :shadewink:
I am not trying to brag, I am just trying to show you that ANYONE can do ANYTHING.
I used to be super shy, not being able to even talk to my best friend without stuttering, had no experience with girls because of that, and I was also really lazy. Lucid dreaming was in fact my escape from life, well that and playing videogames on the computer. :roll:
So what does all this have to do with practising lucid dreaming you ask?
And well my answer to that is: EVERYTHING!
We humans are lazy, we are in fact programmed to be lazy, we don't use more energy than our body think we need to.
So when people finally decide to approach a girl and get rejected, they give up. When people start to workout to gain muscle and it gets a little tough they stop going to the gym. When people don't get a lucid dream the first month or get a dryspell, they stop practising!
And worst of all, when they hit roadblocks they need to protect their self-image so they come up with excuses to WHY they fail:
"Nahh I don't like clubs and club-girls, and I am too short anyway", "Well I guess I just don't got the genes", "Nah the technique didn't work".
I know because I used to fail all the time and make up all kind of different excuses.
But I did something that the average person doesn't do, and that was to not give up.
I approached lots of girls got rejected by hundreds of girls, but small percent that did like gave me confidence to continue.
I kept going to the gym even though I really didn't felt like it and I slowly and steadily got results.
I kept practising lucid dreaming and learning from my misstakes and eventually found what I liked to practise and what gave me result.
And now for the lesson for all beginners out there. For the lazy magic pill minded person three questions probably pop up.
So now with all your experience...
1. What is the best way to get a girl to like you? - What to say? What to wear? What do I do if...
2. What is the best way to gain muscle? - What is the best protein? What exercises should I do? What if...
3. What is the best lucid dreaming technique? - Is WILD or DILD based techniques better? Should I WBTB or not? Can I...
And sure I can give you a short answer of my personal opinion to all of these questions, but the point is it wont help you SH*T!
It's the JOURNEY that makes you successful and also it's the journey that makes it fun!
As my favourite speaker would say "It's not the end-goal that matters, it's the journey. The end-goal is death after all..." - Tyler RSD
So in order to succeed with anything all you need is to take action and never stop. And when it feels like you want to give up:
Listen to this: New Workout Motivation! (Never Give Up!) Body-Building! 2013! - YouTube
So in other words, if you want something and give up, you didn't really want it, you just kind of wanted it.
I realize that all this sounds kind of extreme and that you will need alot of willpower, and that is true. I started out small with all of these things, but I started at all and I never stopped.
We can all be successful!
I hope this was inspiring, I am not claming to know everything, I am just sharing the insights of the latest years of my experience.
The road to success is long, lonely and built on hard work with menial tasks. But it's also fun and empowering! :)
And there is nothing wrong with that, that is what the forum is here for but most importantly it's here for you in order for experienced people to share their knowledge to you. As I said I used to be a nobody, I am a short less than average looking Asian dude but now I am a short Asian dude with an awesome love-life (currently dating a photomodel), self-esteem, good grades, been a Dream Guide and a Moderator (for a short time) on this forum, and last but not least I got lots of experience! :shadewink:
I am not trying to brag, I am just trying to show you that ANYONE can do ANYTHING.
I used to be super shy, not being able to even talk to my best friend without stuttering, had no experience with girls because of that, and I was also really lazy. Lucid dreaming was in fact my escape from life, well that and playing videogames on the computer. :roll:
So what does all this have to do with practising lucid dreaming you ask?
And well my answer to that is: EVERYTHING!
We humans are lazy, we are in fact programmed to be lazy, we don't use more energy than our body think we need to.
So when people finally decide to approach a girl and get rejected, they give up. When people start to workout to gain muscle and it gets a little tough they stop going to the gym. When people don't get a lucid dream the first month or get a dryspell, they stop practising!
And worst of all, when they hit roadblocks they need to protect their self-image so they come up with excuses to WHY they fail:
"Nahh I don't like clubs and club-girls, and I am too short anyway", "Well I guess I just don't got the genes", "Nah the technique didn't work".
I know because I used to fail all the time and make up all kind of different excuses.
But I did something that the average person doesn't do, and that was to not give up.
I approached lots of girls got rejected by hundreds of girls, but small percent that did like gave me confidence to continue.
I kept going to the gym even though I really didn't felt like it and I slowly and steadily got results.
I kept practising lucid dreaming and learning from my misstakes and eventually found what I liked to practise and what gave me result.
And now for the lesson for all beginners out there. For the lazy magic pill minded person three questions probably pop up.
So now with all your experience...
1. What is the best way to get a girl to like you? - What to say? What to wear? What do I do if...
2. What is the best way to gain muscle? - What is the best protein? What exercises should I do? What if...
3. What is the best lucid dreaming technique? - Is WILD or DILD based techniques better? Should I WBTB or not? Can I...
And sure I can give you a short answer of my personal opinion to all of these questions, but the point is it wont help you SH*T!
It's the JOURNEY that makes you successful and also it's the journey that makes it fun!
As my favourite speaker would say "It's not the end-goal that matters, it's the journey. The end-goal is death after all..." - Tyler RSD
So in order to succeed with anything all you need is to take action and never stop. And when it feels like you want to give up:
Listen to this: New Workout Motivation! (Never Give Up!) Body-Building! 2013! - YouTube
So in other words, if you want something and give up, you didn't really want it, you just kind of wanted it.
I realize that all this sounds kind of extreme and that you will need alot of willpower, and that is true. I started out small with all of these things, but I started at all and I never stopped.
We can all be successful!
I hope this was inspiring, I am not claming to know everything, I am just sharing the insights of the latest years of my experience.
The road to success is long, lonely and built on hard work with menial tasks. But it's also fun and empowering! :)
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Lucid Dreaming | Oportunity to do Lucid Dream Reality check, but i didn't do it
During my waking day i did alot of reality checks looking at my hands and mantras about "i look at my hands and realize i'm dreaming" and although i didn't manage to do it. ...it was funny cause my dream was about me playing(music) a weird digital phone but you could play music notes with the key buttons and then it also had a piano k eyboard tiny embedded too. you could play with the buttons or with the piano keys.
Anyway, my hands were right there in front of me, because i was playing music. but i just didn't look at my hands. but it was close.
I'm getting better at it. feel so happy.
I've never had a lucid dream and my recall is not as great but it's getting better and better cause i do journaling and lucd dream reality checks and stuff.
Anyways, wish me luck.
PS. In my dream i was sitting next to a hot college girl. if i had gone lucid, oh man :)
hehehe
Anyway, my hands were right there in front of me, because i was playing music. but i just didn't look at my hands. but it was close.
I'm getting better at it. feel so happy.
I've never had a lucid dream and my recall is not as great but it's getting better and better cause i do journaling and lucd dream reality checks and stuff.
Anyways, wish me luck.
PS. In my dream i was sitting next to a hot college girl. if i had gone lucid, oh man :)
hehehe
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Chess Puzzle | 11/28/2013 - Mate in 6
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | How do you usually become lucid?
Maybe we can find out what works the most, and focus on that? I'd like to see the results after many people answer.
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Lucid Dreaming | what would you advise about where I am at LDing?
Hi,
okay, motivations problems is creeping again and I wanted to give my status about my LDing and hearing what would be your advice, as well as maybe a couple of questions.
Dream journal: never got around having the proper habit!! I had some starts at it the firsts years visiting this board (years back), but know, I subconscienly have a strong bias about getting arsed at all -_-'
I sleep hard and whenever the night is propice to LD (waking after each dream, vividness, etc.), like I had last night, it don't like it and my sleepy self default to wanting no-bullshit, no-nightmare big dump lump o'slumber.
I've thus stabilised to merely hoping natural occurences of LDs while not asking or techniquing for it. It sucks and I got to move from rock bottom.
Are there no-journal people around here? Is it like doctors telling people who are fat but healthy that even then they would be healtier being less fat (that no-journal folks would still be better having a journal)?
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What got you out of having short LDs where you forget to stabilise and are suckers to FAs? What is your story of becoming pros? What have become your regular techniques, and what are the ones you left behind?
I'm feeling very pessimistic about my dedication. I'm on and off on LDing and magic doesn't happen by deciding one day to jump-start an old DV account. I'm feeling alone and my asperger makes me oblivious of the real activity and life of forums; What does an actual non-lurker life looks like here? You post where?, you do what?
Okay I'm depressed proper. Sorry for that.
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What would be the symptoms of common LD problems? What should I be on the lookout for?
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HypnosisILD: okay, whats the status? Not an endorsed DV technique, but is it worth practicing? There are HILD posts floating around here with scripts but what would be the couple noteworthy ones you know? I've been on and off on self-hypnosis as well but I'm starting to grasp what was not working so maybe I'll start to try it again for LD? Would you advise effort in other techniques instead?
okay, motivations problems is creeping again and I wanted to give my status about my LDing and hearing what would be your advice, as well as maybe a couple of questions.
Dream journal: never got around having the proper habit!! I had some starts at it the firsts years visiting this board (years back), but know, I subconscienly have a strong bias about getting arsed at all -_-'
I sleep hard and whenever the night is propice to LD (waking after each dream, vividness, etc.), like I had last night, it don't like it and my sleepy self default to wanting no-bullshit, no-nightmare big dump lump o'slumber.
I've thus stabilised to merely hoping natural occurences of LDs while not asking or techniquing for it. It sucks and I got to move from rock bottom.
Are there no-journal people around here? Is it like doctors telling people who are fat but healthy that even then they would be healtier being less fat (that no-journal folks would still be better having a journal)?
---
What got you out of having short LDs where you forget to stabilise and are suckers to FAs? What is your story of becoming pros? What have become your regular techniques, and what are the ones you left behind?
I'm feeling very pessimistic about my dedication. I'm on and off on LDing and magic doesn't happen by deciding one day to jump-start an old DV account. I'm feeling alone and my asperger makes me oblivious of the real activity and life of forums; What does an actual non-lurker life looks like here? You post where?, you do what?
Okay I'm depressed proper. Sorry for that.
---
What would be the symptoms of common LD problems? What should I be on the lookout for?
---
HypnosisILD: okay, whats the status? Not an endorsed DV technique, but is it worth practicing? There are HILD posts floating around here with scripts but what would be the couple noteworthy ones you know? I've been on and off on self-hypnosis as well but I'm starting to grasp what was not working so maybe I'll start to try it again for LD? Would you advise effort in other techniques instead?
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Lucid Dreaming | Can I use Fact that in real life I have NO GIRLS as a Reality Check?
Hi 2 week lucid dreaming practiioner. male . i've never had a lucid dream and my recall of dreams is not good currently . although it became really good back 2 years ago when i practiced dream journaling. PS I also restarted dream journaling
Anyways,
In real life i've never had a girlfriend, never a female friend. Yet in my dreams i have girls i get close to girls, i even have sex with them.
Is that in itself a reality check? where i could say "Hey i'm close to a girl, this must be a dream!!!!!"
I personally think i could use that as a reality check. And i'm able to set intent of what i want to dream about. I practiced that before and it works, so i could make girls in my dream and then i'd do the reality check, and then that would make me lucid ( if i am able to remember to do the reality check in my dream)
Anyways,
In real life i've never had a girlfriend, never a female friend. Yet in my dreams i have girls i get close to girls, i even have sex with them.
Is that in itself a reality check? where i could say "Hey i'm close to a girl, this must be a dream!!!!!"
I personally think i could use that as a reality check. And i'm able to set intent of what i want to dream about. I practiced that before and it works, so i could make girls in my dream and then i'd do the reality check, and then that would make me lucid ( if i am able to remember to do the reality check in my dream)
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Lucid Dreaming | Lucid dreaming technique ( Joram's technique )
Hello guys, :)
I just wanted to tell you a technique that works really well for me and maybe will work out nice for you guys aswell. Its a combination between FILD and WILD.
The setup:
1: Go to sleep and set your alarm after 4,5 hours.
2: You are awake and probably feeling very tired. This is good. Quickly turn on your headphones ( a MUST ) and put some music on without bass and lyrics. Keep it on a low volume, because you want to drift back to sleep within 10-30 seconds. It should be one a volume thats not bothering at all, but still good to hear. Now concentrate hard on the music. Think of a place where you want to be. The music will make visualization easier and more vivid, and because you've just woken at a REM period, you will fall directly into a dream. And because you're damn tired, you will fall asleep within seconds. If you concentrate hard enough, you will fall asleep within seconds. The possible outcomes that could happen are
1: You perform a reality check after 30 seconds and find yourself dreaming, listing to the same music in your dream.
2: You find yourself lying on the ground with your headphones on in the place you want to be
I just wanted to tell you a technique that works really well for me and maybe will work out nice for you guys aswell. Its a combination between FILD and WILD.
The setup:
1: Go to sleep and set your alarm after 4,5 hours.
2: You are awake and probably feeling very tired. This is good. Quickly turn on your headphones ( a MUST ) and put some music on without bass and lyrics. Keep it on a low volume, because you want to drift back to sleep within 10-30 seconds. It should be one a volume thats not bothering at all, but still good to hear. Now concentrate hard on the music. Think of a place where you want to be. The music will make visualization easier and more vivid, and because you've just woken at a REM period, you will fall directly into a dream. And because you're damn tired, you will fall asleep within seconds. If you concentrate hard enough, you will fall asleep within seconds. The possible outcomes that could happen are
1: You perform a reality check after 30 seconds and find yourself dreaming, listing to the same music in your dream.
2: You find yourself lying on the ground with your headphones on in the place you want to be
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Lucid Dreaming | Thoughts on timing of reality checks
As I mentioned in another topic, a huge majority of my LDs start as false awakenings. I wake up in my bed, plug my nose (which is my #1 reality check technique) and realize that I'm dreaming. Then, depending on how realistic the dream is, I either jump out of the window and fly somewhere else or go downstairs and fly from the ground level (if my dream is so realistic that I'm concerned about jumping out the window :P).
Anyway, the time of day varies and seems to be random, but I definitely prefer to start my LDs during daytime.
So, I've been thinking, considering that I perform those reality checks during different times of day, can it be the cause of randomness of times of day that I become consious in my dream.
Do you think it's possible that if I only perform reality checks during daytime or even mornings, that's when I will perform them in a dream, and get consious only during daylight as a result?
Anyway, the time of day varies and seems to be random, but I definitely prefer to start my LDs during daytime.
So, I've been thinking, considering that I perform those reality checks during different times of day, can it be the cause of randomness of times of day that I become consious in my dream.
Do you think it's possible that if I only perform reality checks during daytime or even mornings, that's when I will perform them in a dream, and get consious only during daylight as a result?
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Lucid Dreaming | I'm back to Dreaming/Lucid Dreaming: Wtaching videos and reading etc
I just want to say i love reading and watching videos about lucid dreaming. They're fun and interesting.
I was doing Lucid dreaming and dreaming practice long time ago. i had journaling. and my recall was better and better. i often remembered my dreams.
well i'm back . i gave it for a long time cause i had health problems but i' back and really happy. my dream recall is not great anymore. it's really bad but i'm trying to practice more and more and jouranling etc.
Dreaming and Lucid dreaming is the bestest thing ever!!!! I just want to say that. I watched videos from Laberge and from Robert wagonner.
Interestingly, and sadly there's not many Lucid dreaming videos in youtube. We see more Justing Bieber stuff than anything about Lucid dreaming. Aside from Laberge and Wagonner videos which aren't that many...all there is is some user made videos but very very few.
Anyways, i just want to say i'm happy to do Dreaming and Lucid dreaming practice.
I'm a guy with disabilities and don't really have a social life or friends or girlfriend in real life. But dreaming is a great experience.
I was doing Lucid dreaming and dreaming practice long time ago. i had journaling. and my recall was better and better. i often remembered my dreams.
well i'm back . i gave it for a long time cause i had health problems but i' back and really happy. my dream recall is not great anymore. it's really bad but i'm trying to practice more and more and jouranling etc.
Dreaming and Lucid dreaming is the bestest thing ever!!!! I just want to say that. I watched videos from Laberge and from Robert wagonner.
Interestingly, and sadly there's not many Lucid dreaming videos in youtube. We see more Justing Bieber stuff than anything about Lucid dreaming. Aside from Laberge and Wagonner videos which aren't that many...all there is is some user made videos but very very few.
Anyways, i just want to say i'm happy to do Dreaming and Lucid dreaming practice.
I'm a guy with disabilities and don't really have a social life or friends or girlfriend in real life. But dreaming is a great experience.
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Chess Puzzle | 11/27/2013 - Follow The Leader
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Monday, November 25, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | Difficulty Sleeping After WBTB
I've been practicing WBTB for a while now, and it's given me very good results - always a vivid dream or two that I can remember in full. However, I have high difficulty falling asleep after performing a WBTB.
Normally, when I go to bed, it doesn't take that long. Whenever I WBTB, it takes much longer to do such. I only stay up for a WBTB for about 5-10 minutes, then slink back to bed.
I'd rather not stop using WBTB, not after it's given me fantastic results so far. So I ask: What can I do to help me fall back asleep after a WBTB? Should I do somehting different with the time I spend performing the WBTB (When I WBTB, I do all mantras, RCs, and try to visualize a dream before going back to bed)?
Normally, when I go to bed, it doesn't take that long. Whenever I WBTB, it takes much longer to do such. I only stay up for a WBTB for about 5-10 minutes, then slink back to bed.
I'd rather not stop using WBTB, not after it's given me fantastic results so far. So I ask: What can I do to help me fall back asleep after a WBTB? Should I do somehting different with the time I spend performing the WBTB (When I WBTB, I do all mantras, RCs, and try to visualize a dream before going back to bed)?
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Chess Puzzle | 11/25/2013 - Deadly Decoy
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Sunday, November 24, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | I didn't want to Wet dream so i realized and Wokeup
I've never had an actual real Lucid dream but i want to share something that in some way i feel was a bit of lucidity. It happend at the end of the dream so it was what ended the dream.
In my dream i was having hot sx and i don't know , i kinda realized in my dream that in my real life i didn't want to get wet and messy...so i woke up myself. I was feelign near climax but i woke myself right before so i didn't have a wet dream. I was proud of that.
I'm guessing that's at least some kind of lucidity. I've never had lucid dream but that little ending of me realizing that this could get messy in real life and waking myself up, that was at least somewhat lucid. Wouldn't you say so?
So i guess it is a start. I'm still practicing journaling for dream recall. Can't remember my dreams many days but at least i'm trying.
In my dream i was having hot sx and i don't know , i kinda realized in my dream that in my real life i didn't want to get wet and messy...so i woke up myself. I was feelign near climax but i woke myself right before so i didn't have a wet dream. I was proud of that.
I'm guessing that's at least some kind of lucidity. I've never had lucid dream but that little ending of me realizing that this could get messy in real life and waking myself up, that was at least somewhat lucid. Wouldn't you say so?
So i guess it is a start. I'm still practicing journaling for dream recall. Can't remember my dreams many days but at least i'm trying.
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Lucid Dreaming | How can I increase my chances to Attain Lucidity?
In my real life i stuffer from memory problems and anxiety and depression and stuff. I'm guessing these things can make it hard to achieve lucidity? Because i do dream journaling and i'm not remembering anything many days. And also maybe since i'm anxiety and worried about many things in my life due to being disabled, i worry and maybe i guess that's has to do something to do why i can't remmber in my dreams to realize that i'm dreaming.
But anyways, i've been practicing dream recall dream journaling for 2 weeks. But i did it like 2 years ago for some months and i was getting great recall and awesome dreams . I just never got lucid, ever.
What do i have to do to get more chance of getting lucid? more mantras and more meditation and more relaxation and more Reality checks in the day time?
cause i haven't done that much reality checks. I only do like 5 minutes in the whole day of doing reality checks. .
Or do i have to eat something special to get more chance at getting lucid?
Or do more meditation during day time?
But anyways, i've been practicing dream recall dream journaling for 2 weeks. But i did it like 2 years ago for some months and i was getting great recall and awesome dreams . I just never got lucid, ever.
What do i have to do to get more chance of getting lucid? more mantras and more meditation and more relaxation and more Reality checks in the day time?
cause i haven't done that much reality checks. I only do like 5 minutes in the whole day of doing reality checks. .
Or do i have to eat something special to get more chance at getting lucid?
Or do more meditation during day time?
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Lucid Dreaming | Omnilucidity: Constant RC Tech, Lucid 100% of the Time?
I have been talking with a dreamer, Shadowtech, about his technique to be lucid 100% of the time.
What you do is learn to do two constant Reality Checks:
1) Stop breathing.
2) Stop blinking.
The hypothesis is that because you must do these two things constantly in waking life, the fact that you do not need to do them in dreams is a way to do constant reality checks. Eventually, after much practice, Shadowtech claims to be lucid 100% of the time, and it's hard for him to lose his lucidity. He said that it takes a lot of practice. I just heard about it yesterday, and I didn't remember to do it in my dreams last night, but I am looking forward to trying it. This tech makes a lot of sense to me. I remember a dream where I kept losing lucidity, and so I was flying around holding my nose shut and breathing to do a constant RC (as if flying isn't enough? Also, you are dreaming).
Anyway, has anyone ever tried using not blinking and/or not breathing as an RC? I wonder why I never thought of it before. I am looking forward to hearing others' experience with this technique.
May all your dreams be lucid.
What you do is learn to do two constant Reality Checks:
1) Stop breathing.
2) Stop blinking.
The hypothesis is that because you must do these two things constantly in waking life, the fact that you do not need to do them in dreams is a way to do constant reality checks. Eventually, after much practice, Shadowtech claims to be lucid 100% of the time, and it's hard for him to lose his lucidity. He said that it takes a lot of practice. I just heard about it yesterday, and I didn't remember to do it in my dreams last night, but I am looking forward to trying it. This tech makes a lot of sense to me. I remember a dream where I kept losing lucidity, and so I was flying around holding my nose shut and breathing to do a constant RC (as if flying isn't enough? Also, you are dreaming).
Anyway, has anyone ever tried using not blinking and/or not breathing as an RC? I wonder why I never thought of it before. I am looking forward to hearing others' experience with this technique.
May all your dreams be lucid.
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Chess Puzzle | 11/24/2013 - Forced Into Mate
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Saturday, November 23, 2013
Chess Puzzle | 11/23/2013 - Saidy - Fischer, USA 1965
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Friday, November 22, 2013
Lucid Dreaming | problems inducing dild
Most of my dreams are triggered by WILD (apologize if im using the wrong term), ill see something in the dream thats odd and realize im in a dream, as reality checks dont seem to work for me
Now, i have issues with DILD
i lay still letting my body shut down while keeping my mind busy, ill start to see images as usual and then i start to see the dream itself (the dreamscape, where everything turms to color.
So my question is this:
How do i "enter"?
every time i see im close i cant let my mind shut down, and the problem continues.
Also, is the success rate higher using dild rather than wild?
Wild is the only one that seems to work :/
Now, i have issues with DILD
i lay still letting my body shut down while keeping my mind busy, ill start to see images as usual and then i start to see the dream itself (the dreamscape, where everything turms to color.
So my question is this:
How do i "enter"?
every time i see im close i cant let my mind shut down, and the problem continues.
Also, is the success rate higher using dild rather than wild?
Wild is the only one that seems to work :/
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Lucid Dreaming | lucid dreaming in one month
Hi guys,
After 7 months or so i finally have time to try to learn to lucid dream once more. Its been over a year since i first encountered the concept of lucid dreaming. This time last year i achieved a 10 second lucid dream for the first time and around last march i had a longer experience. After that i had to stop trying so i could study for my final exams and what with one thing and another i never got back to it. In three weeks time, i get a month long holiday from college and id love to try to master lucid dreaming in this time. Is it possible? Given my past dabbling should it be easier to pick it back up? Any tips are much appreciated :]
After 7 months or so i finally have time to try to learn to lucid dream once more. Its been over a year since i first encountered the concept of lucid dreaming. This time last year i achieved a 10 second lucid dream for the first time and around last march i had a longer experience. After that i had to stop trying so i could study for my final exams and what with one thing and another i never got back to it. In three weeks time, i get a month long holiday from college and id love to try to master lucid dreaming in this time. Is it possible? Given my past dabbling should it be easier to pick it back up? Any tips are much appreciated :]
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