Sunday, June 30, 2013

Lucid Dreaming | How long does it usually take to acquire lucidity?

I've been focusing on the DILD technique for more than a month and i haven't had any results. should i give up dild and try WILD? it's just the idea of Wild kind of frightens me. i tried it once and i got scared of the feeling it gave me, and apparently you start seeing images and even hearing voices?! If anyone has successfully done WILD please explain more about the transition as i am sure there is more to it. And how long did it take for you to have your first lucid?





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Lucid Dreaming | Update me on some popular techniques now (older member)

What are some popular and efficient techniques at the moment?



It would be greatly appreciated if you'd provide a link, I want to get back into lucid dreaming and experiment with some techniques.





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Lucid Dreaming | Focus method is a success

A while back I posted a thread about how to get lucid dreams by just practicing visual focus all day and while going to sleep. This post is a follow up and I am happy to let you guys know that it was a successful method and that I still use it.





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Lucid Dreaming | Fundamentals of Gaining Lucidity?

Forgive me if a thread of similar topic is already posted and have been discussed already. Also forgive me if I present false and/or misleading information that seems to lack research and understanding.



Hello dreamviews! I am gunzblitz (and I wish I could change my name) and I found this forum during 2009. I rarely visit this forum --only whenever my interest in LD sparks up. Last year I decided to create an account because I wanted to take LD seriously at that time, yet sadly my interest in it somehow faded. But because of what happened last week, my interest in LD sparked up again. This time I am really serious in pursuing my LD goals.



Last week, I suddenly had a successful LD out of nowhere. I was not doing anything to induce lucidity nor thinking about lucid dreaming. I never practiced reality checking seriously (because honestly, I developed a habit of doing an RC as if it was mannerism --specifically the 'pinching the nose and trying to breath' RC, without questioning reality) yet somehow, I managed to do a reality check (with the purpose of gaining lucidity, and not as a mannerism) and gain lucidity.



The only thing I did different from my sleeps before is removing the alarm I always use, since I always wake up before the designated time.



This is what happened:



I was going to bed as usual, but decided not to put any alarm since I always wake up before it rings, and slept like usual. But after what 'feels' like a few minutes, I somehow knew that I was dreaming, and decided to perform a reality check. So when I performed a reality check and was able to breath in through my nose, I 'opened' my eyes. I was still lying on my bed and saw my room exactly as how it would look like in the morning. I went out of bed, did another RC just to make sure, and went out through the window to exit the house. I then had 2 more successful lucid dreams that night (a DIELD, if I would say.)



Now before I say something else, I will tell what I know and tell information about me which might be related to LDing (and dreaming in general).




Spoiler for Background:


----- I am always aware of my surroundings. By aware I mean like how Sageous said awareness in rats or something (Correct me if I'm wrong, since I can't seem to find the thread nor remember it clearly).



According to the information I have, A lot of people have bad dream recalls. But I have no problem with dream recall.



Before I learned about lucid dreaming (around 4-5 years ago), I never had any lucid dreams. What I had was a great dream recall. Almost every night I would have at least 1 dream. I don't recall most of them after I wake up though. I recall them after pondering about things after waking up.



For example, when I brush my teeth after waking up, I ponder about things and suddenly recall the dream last night.



Sometimes, the dream recall does not happen after waking up. There are times when I recall my dream in the afternoon. Say for example, when riding a public vehicle (Jeepneys), I let my mind wander about things. And when a thought related to my dream comes, I suddenly recall that dream and go "Ah, so that was a dream."



There were only a few times where I recall a dream exactly after I wake up.



This is probably the only thing I do that I think has a relation with my dream recall.



-----I know about different types of induction and gaining lucidity.

Things like ADA, self-awareness, DILD, DIELD, WILD, and etc.



I myself have tried WILD, DILD, and DIELD. Although I fail at WILD since I have no time to do such things before going to sleep, I had a couple of success with DILD a few years ago, and DIELD seems natural to me (a high success rate of LD) if I ever had the chance to wake up after a dream.



-----I know a handful of RCs

RC such as:

The nose pinching + breathing (which became a mannerism of mine until I started to get serious in LD again last week)

The counting of fingers, checking of clock, reading texts, and looking at my reflection.



In my dreams, the only RC I ever did was the nose pinch whenever I gain dream awareness.







Now, I've been thinking about dream awareness, like in the situation where I was not even trying to get a lucid dream.



How do we gain awareness of a dream?




Spoiler for :


I know about ADA and self-awareness, and have started to practice it 3 days ago. The first day I practiced self-awareness, I had a successful lucid dream. The next day, I only had normal dreams (which is normal for me already), and the day after that, I had another lucid dream.



Supposing that what we do in waking life transmits to the dream life, maintaining self-awareness in real life would mean an increase of self-awareness in the dream life.



In waking life, normally most of the time we are on auto-pilot mode. That means we somehow do things by instinct, or do things routinely. Most of the time we forget things that are done instinctively or routinely, as they are what most people would say "being taken for granted".



If we stop running on auto-pilot (self-awareness), it would mean we are aware of everything in life. This results in knowing that we are aware of everything in the dream world (best case scenario). This would explain the increase of dream recall. But it does not explain how we know we are dreaming. How would someone know that being aware in reality would mean knowing that you are dreaming in the dream world? The only thing you can get out of ADA/self-awareness is you 'existing'. In the dream world, when ADA/Self-awareness manifests, you would simply know you exist, again explaining the increase in dream recall.



Being self-aware and aware of the environment only intensifies the feeling of existence. In the dream world, it is not much different from waking life. There is the environment, there is you, and there is your perception. Most important of all, the dream is on auto-pilot. Snapping out of auto-pilot in the dream world, similar to gaining awareness in real life, would mean you have an idea of what you are doing. But that does not still mean you know you are dreaming. You only know more about what you are doing in the dream (increasing dream recall, and possibly vividness of the dream), just as how you would know more about what you are doing in the real life (which in turn lets us retain those memory for later purposes).



And so, the only concrete results I can get from practicing ADA/self-awareness is that it only improves dream recall or awareness IN the dream. (Take note: Awareness IN the dream does not necessarily mean you are aware OF the dream --that you are dreaming or lucid).







What I would like to know is how we 'know' we are dreaming.




Spoiler for :


I know there is the answer of "Reality Checks". But from what other people said, some are a natural LDers, and some doesn't even need to do a RC to know they are dreaming.



(Correct me if I am wrong. The information I know is quite old, and it might have changed). In the WILD technique which I have not tried yet, you induce lucidity by jumping directly into a dream from the waking state. In DILD, you induce lucidity by training yourself to do a reality check. And in DIELD, it's somehow a mix of DILD and WILD, wherein you have an easier time of slipping into a dream after waking up directly from a dream.



Those are the methods of inducing lucidity. But what is the most basic thing present in all those technique?



In RCs, being aware is one thing, as you would not even know you did an RC (and a success at that) if you do not even know you are dreaming. You train yourself to constantly check for reality after being aware, thus leading to lucidity.



Besides the RCs which rely on awareness and training, all the other methods basically have one thing in common, and that is Sleeping.







Sleeping. We all do that.



With all those things I presented, I think the only way we would know we are dreaming (other than the awareness+RC) is that when we know we are sleeping. In WILD, we know that we sleep in order to enter the dream. In DILD, we know we dream in our sleep, and so we practice Awareness+RC. In DIELD, probably a mix of the WILD and DILD reasons.



Here's what I want to say (TL;DR):



Isn't basically knowing that we are sleeping the reason why we know we are dreaming? ADA/Self-awareness doesn't actually let us know we are dreaming. Is it not the knowledge that we slept the reason we know we dream?



Following that idea, would not autosuggestion be the best way to know you are dreaming? This would explain why a lot of people say that simply knowing that you would lucid dream is important during an attempt.



Assuming what I know about autosuggestion is correct, would not 'suggesting' that "every time you sleep, dreaming follows (essentially WILD? I am not quite sure)", be the best way to know we are dreaming?



As I mentioned earlier, supposing that what we do in real life transmits to the dream world is it possible that the knowledge of knowing that we are sleeping transmits to the dream world?



(Sorry for the lengthy post, and also a very bold first post. I am also sorry if I am not quite clear with what I am trying to convey, or if I presented this topic in a messy way. Either way, I thank you if you took your time to read this.)





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Lucid Dreaming | A dream within a dream causing lucidity.

A friend of mine told me about lucid dreaming a month ago. I was sceptical at first but later I googled "lucid dreaming" and eventually came here. Somehow the first thing I read was Sageous fundamentals thread. This one really got me.

I`ve been interested in psychology and self improvement for 6 years now. I have found Eckhart Tolle`s teachings a 1.5 years ago and been practicing living in the Now, which is basically awareness. So I thought that this awareness and my strong waking memory will help me to progress quickly.

When I`m interested in something I tend to focus on in until I achieve my goals. This happened with lucid dreaming as well. I managed to read all the sticky threads as well all last month threads, I practiced reality checking every half and hour, tried almost all techniques.

The first 10 days were very fruitful as I managed to recall on average 2 dreams at night as well as all dreams that I remembered from my entire life /more than 50/. I had my first lucid which was 5 minute long in which I performed multiple reality checks as well as flied.

Then I overburned and the problem was too much expectation as well as destroying my sleeping shedule because I decided to go to bed much earlier and incorporate WBTB which turned into 2-3 hours waking periods in which I got nervous because of failed WILD attempts and eventually I recalled nothing in the morning. It got worse but I had a 10 second lucid 2 days ago in which I recognised it was a dream did a look at fingers reality check I`ve been practicing hard for the last month decided I want to teleport but failed and woke up.

Yesterday I was pissed as I had a terrible night and in the morning I decided to give myself a break because it started to become too overwhelming. So for the first day I didn`t do any reality checks /even awareness/ and was in my worst mood for 2-3 months now. I went to bed at 00:30 am with no mantras and intention. The night that followed was a blast and something that I haven`t expected at all: here follows my best dream probably in my entire life.



We were sitting near a camp fire in the forest with the friend of mine who told me about lucid dreaming together with two girls who appeared to be our girlfriends. The girls were DCs. All 4 of us appeared to have as a hobby lucid dreaming which we discussed for something which appeared to be 20 minutes. Me and my girlfriend went to our tent and we had a talk and she told me he has a task for me which is very important for our dream life as well as the real life. We went to sleep than I left my dreaming dreaming body in the tent and I became lucid. I knew I was dreaming so certainly that I didn`t even bothered with reality checks. The sight of my dreaming dreaming body was quite enough for me. I went back to the campfire as my friends started to have sex. They did`t see me as I considered myself invisible but I decided that although I could stay, my dream quest was much more important.

Next I found myself in a city which looked like Florence from Da Vinci`s Demons series as well as a steampunk influenced city. As I became lucid I reached vividness and stability in the dream that has never happened to me before. I thought that my quest is find/chase someone who has skills in this world as well so I`d better hone my abilities as well. I jumped and it was 2 meters /7 feet/ jump. I spend next 10 minutes improving my jumping and eventually jumped over 3 guys in the street. One of them I knew and he chased me and told me that I was showing off. So I decided that jumping was not good enough and I summoned a steam punk device which made me something like spiderman. I attached a hook to a building and moved rapidly towards it /this is one of the methods of flying I read about in the flying tutorial here/. I practiced with my new device as well and felt very advanced at movement now. As I flew around the city I saw the shadow of someone who entered the highest window of the highest building. I knew he was the one who I was looking for. Then I entered the same window and chased his shadow down the building. He was fast as was I. When we reached the huge living room I found that he was the Frog King who introduced himself as a very respected and wise nobleman and advanced dreamer who brought me here to tell me something important about my quest. We had a talk which unfortunatelly I don`t remember but in the end with the sence that I acomplished my quest I spend another 10 minutes flying around the city returning to my starting point. I teleported to the campfire again, saw my dreaming dreaming body again with my dreaming girlfriend and merged with it.

That everything became more blurry and I might have lost lucidity but I woke my girlfriend told her everything and eventually recieved my reward :banana: :banana:

I woke up literaly stunned. I spend recording in my dream journal for the next hour and had one more dream telling people I know about this dream. In the morning I felt like my subconcious has been preparing for this dream the whole month and sent me it the night I wasa considering giving up. It is the longest and most vivid dream I can ever recall. My dream control was beyond what I thought I am capable of as well. Now my motivation is as strong as it has ever been.

Now I have several questions.

First of all I have never had any sounds in a dream. When a DC talks to me I recieve the information teleparically. How to turn the sound on ? Why I can`t recall what exactly DC talk to me? Was this a dream within a dream thing too bizzare and what do you think about it ?





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Chess Puzzle | 6/30/2013 - Mate in 2

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Lucid Dreaming | Properly working alarm to attain lucidity

Hello



I'm looking for an alarm application that will help me attain lucidity by using the technique "DEILD". I haven't had my first lucid dream yet, but I've been trying to find an alarm that will help me with that. My idea was to have an alarm play after a good 4-5 hours, turn it off manually, then have ANOTHER alarm about 15 minutes later that will turn off automatically after about 15 seconds. In these 15 seconds it will wake you up, but you don't have to move or open your eyes in order to turn it off. The alarm 15 minutes earlier would be to prepare yourself for the DEILD.



However, I'm struggling to find such alarm application for my iPhone. Any suggestions?



Thanks in advance!





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Lucid Dreaming | Lucidity on a subconscious level?

For a few years now I've wondered if I'm sometimes aware on a subconsciuos level or at the back of my consciuos mind that I'm dreaming and as a result don't think about it to become lucid. Some dreams become lucid spontaneously for mo apparant reason and some because I mention it to a DC in conversation, the latter telling me that I was aware but not thinking about it.



A recent event really got me thinking though. A while ago I started using telekenesis in LD's. Since this, I occasionally do it in non-lucids, I have roughly the same skill level and method. Its almost as if I've taught my subconscious that it can be done in a dream and now its used in regular dreams. I had a dream a few weeks ago where I was in a room full of people and I was demonstrating telekenesis to them, but wouldn't tell them how I did it. A bit later when I was walking around outside, I saw one of the people who was there earlier, I asked her if she would like to know how I used telekenesis. She said yes and was very curious, I told her that it was because it was my dream. That dream became lucid then. It's also an example of what I said earlier about how I sometimes casually tell a DC I'm dreaming without thinking it to myself before.



I don't really know what to make of it all though. Was I lucid at the very back of my conscious mind? Am I often like this? Really makes me wonder. I sometimes have non-lucids where something doesn't go to plan and I rewind time to "try again".



Another point would be if there is some awareness of dreaming without actually thinking about it, could this be harnessed somehow to get more lucids?





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Lucid Dreaming | Harnessing sexual energy for LDing?

I just read How to Harness Your Sexual Energy and it makes a lot of sense. If one stops releasing sexual energy, you could transmute that energy in to maintaining awareness which in turn gives a lot of LDs. What do you guys think about this?

You could also use that energy to learn an instrument, a language, exercise, etc.

I can confirm this helps me, ever since I stopped jerkin' it I noticed I had MUCH more energy and motivation to do things, especially practicing my awareness.





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Lucid Dreaming | Can't move during FILD! Suggestions?

Hey everyone.



Last night I tried FILD and had some degree of success, falling into dreams almost instantly.



I had minor HH and felt like I was going into SP, but instead I experienced multiple FAs in a row. During the first FA, I wanted to sit up and do a reality check, but I found that I couldn't move my dream body or my real one! My arms seemed locked in place.



This morning, I tried again. In a similar fashion, I transitioned directly into a dream and was, this time, aware that I was dreaming. When I went to move around, though, I was once again locked in place. I tried moving my dream body, but my real body moved instead, and I woke up.



Anyone have any clue why this happened, or how to solve it? Once I get past this problem, I think FILD will be an easy and reliable technique for me.





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Chess Puzzle | 6/29/2013 - F Corrales - A Ferragut, Cuba, 2004

Friday, June 28, 2013

Why MRE Food Is Crucial For Disaster Emergency Planning

Lucid Dreaming | what the fuck was this?

So i WILDED last night, i ended up in a dream and i was in new york on top of some buildings. I was jumping from building to building, but what stopped me then was my foot which ached whenever i landed on a new building. It got so bad that it hurted even when i walked. So i took a look at my foot and found i giant blister, i popped it with my finger and out came a black goo. It was really discussing and i am just wondering how this could have happened.





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Lucid Dreaming | I dont remeber my dreams

I have a dream journal and have been using for the past few days but I never remeber my dreams when I wake up or sometimes il have a dream but when I right it down its only a few sentences now I stopped having dreams and dont know how to use a dj if u cant remeber anything





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Chess Puzzle | 6/28/2013 - Mate in 3

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Group attacks by urban youth…..

Prepping: It’s a Family Affair

Lucid Dreaming | Motionless reality checks for SSILD

What are some good ones? If I am laying still and I think I'm still awake but I could be in a FA what should I do?



* - Also, how do I open my 'dream eyes' as to not ruin the trance?





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Lucid Dreaming | Is this my REM timing?

So i went to sleep on 12PM and woke up for some reason on about 3PM. i remember having a dream at that time, does this mean my REM sleep starts after 3 hours?





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Lucid Dreaming | Almost had 2 WILDs this morning

Well I woke up this morning,and no-one was home. So I decided to try to WILD. At 1st I was very close. I was lieng still on my back for nearly 25 minutes,and suddenly I tried moving my fingers but I couldn't. I knew I was in SP. I started seeing mini hallucinations. they were kind of like mini dreams. One was that I was in my apartment and I saw this elderly couple,and they were asking me how high the elevator goes up to. Then it transitioned to me walking around my block. Then it went back into blackness. I started hearing things. I heard static waves and a hair blow dryer,and I got freaked out and ended up waking up. I tried again several minutes later. I again fell into SP,and just before I started getting hallucinations, my ipod(which i keep near my bed because I use it as my Dream journal) but I got jolted awake because I got a loud notification from my ipod telling me to update one of my apps. -__- I woke up mad because of my ipod and did a RC just to make sure it wasnt a FA. I'm happy that I got pretty close :D I was about to quit lucid dreaming a couple of days ago because I've been on a dry spell since the beginning of the month,but now I feel motivated again. I will keep you guys updated. I'm trying WILD again tonight. Should I mix it with WBTB?





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Lucid Dreaming | Advanced Hybrid Techniques

Hello there



I have been into lucid dreaming for five years, and would like to share a website with you



Noah Answers -



It's called Noah Answers



You can ask any questions related to lucid dreaming



How many of you use hybrid techniques such as SSILD or SSCR?





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Chess Puzzle | 6/27/2013 - Done and Done

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Thanks for the support and site update…….

….On Hygiene and Personal safety

Lucid Dreaming | RC reminders, are they helpful?

Today I found an image that says "am i dreaming?" And set it to the background of the lock screen on my phone. I see it there every time i grab my phone and i do a RC. I started thinking, is this even helpful? Could it infact be hurting my progress? I am not doing these RCs independently, im starting to rely on my phone to remind me to RC. So in a dream, how will i ever spontaniously do a RC unless i have my phone? my phone almost never appears in my dreams





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Lucid Dreaming | Knowing I am Dreaming Without Doing Anything

In the past few days, I had dreams where I knew I was dreaming but did not attempt to do anything. I even woke back up and fell back asleep attempting to (I think DEILD but possibly WILD) while thinking of things to do, but it just has not been working. Any advice? Thanks in advance :)





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Chess Puzzle | 6/26/2013 - Sidelined

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Review and Giveaway: The Lifestraw

Video of the Week: How to Suture with Dr Bones

Lucid Dreaming | Any tips for WILD?

Lucid dreaming is going pretty well at the moment. I finally conquered ADA but I really want to learn to WILD once and for all. I have only succeeded a couple of times, and ironically, my first LD was a WILD. So here's the problem. School is over and I have plenty of time to WILD in the morning. However, I can't seem to fall asleep [WILDing], and it normally take a crazy amount of time by just normally going to bed. Killing the little annoying voice usually helps but I can't seem to fall asleep. Then, if I sucess, I don't feel anything or see any HI whatsoever. It's pretty hard to hold onto something to stay aware, and most of the time if I try to create the dreamscape I can visualize it instantly with real life precision but it will form pretty slowly, leaving just enough time to lose awareness...



Any kind of help/tip would be much appreciated,

Thank you for reading my post,

Simon





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Lucid Dreaming | Visit the DreamViews Academy (DVA)

Could you use some extra help with all this lucid dreaming material? Are you looking for a starting place, or would you like to strengthen your lucid dreaming abilities?



Visit the DreamViews Academy! DV Academy



Classes can be joined at any time and do not require anything other than your attention.



In the DVA you will be instructed by knowledgeable teachers, and interactions with other students help reinforce the lessons.



Current classes:



Intro Class: Intro Class

General Lucid Dreaming: General Lucid Dreaming

Dream Control and Stabilization: Dream Control and Stabilization

DILD: DILD

WILD: WILD

Dream Yoga: Dream Yoga





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Chess Puzzle | 6/25/2013 - Mate in 4

Monday, June 24, 2013

Knife Review: Gerber Warrant

Preparedness Expo: August 17-18, Hagerstown Maryland

Lucid Dreaming | Am i almost there?

In the past month ive had to dreams i where ive asked myself if i was dreaming and nothing happened, i kinda just went alone with the dream while asking





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Chess Puzzle | 6/24/2013 - Mate in 2, Take 2

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Is preparedness just a “fad”?

News you NEED to Know….

Lucid Dreaming | how do you stay lucid once you realize that you are dreaming?

today i realized that i was dreaming,, and as soon as i did i turned around and remembered i wanted to fly,,, i didnt get tooo excited but i was excited,, the dream became white,, i remebered to spin bu the dream never came back





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Incorporating Your Survival Kit Into Your Normal Routine

Chess Puzzle | 6/23/2013 - Mate in 2

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Gear Review: 5.11 Hard Time Gloves

Lucid Dreaming | The problem with summer

So a week or two into summer for the past few summers, I can't stop having difficult dreams (not nightmares or anything) about being in school. It's not even that bad things happen in them besides being at school, it's just that it's like my brain knows what day it is, because I always say out loud in the dream "You can't have me in school in the middle of summer, I'm leaving". Or something like that. But I rarely do.



It's very stressful to me, I wake up almost as stressed as actually being in school and it's ruining my summers. You think it'd be easy to train yourself that you're not supposed to be in school, and if you are, you're dreaming. It's not. I've yet to realize I'm in a dream when one of these happens.



"Neuro Sleep" has helped me have more fun and vivid dreams (not necessarily lucid) in the past, so I might try that tonight. But I doubt that will continue to work for the rest of summer.



Any tips to at least stop dreaming about being in school?





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Lucid Dreaming | Random LD in a dream, but when I made a reality check I was not lucid.

I've searched some posts about failed RCs. Then, I realized that you need to believe in the RC to happen. This was months ago...



My current RCs are: Trying to fly (One strange thing, I can only fly backwards lol is it normal?) and check how many fingers I have in my hand (this is the most effective for me, I'll explain later). The finger crossing the hand have failed to me every time I try it in the dream, the nose one I never remember to use in dream.

I make this 4 RCs every time I wake up, at 16h (I use an alarm clock) and before sleep.



So the problem is, after reading a lot, I've started to travel more in the world of LD. But most of the time they're random, only 2 I've became lucid with RC.

So a few days ago, I had a dream and did the examination of the hand (I realized that this is a good one for both a RC and getting stability, one of my biggest problems is stabilize the lucidity). Then it worked! I count the fingers in my hand and there was 7! Then I get excited and almost woke up, so I've tried to calm myself and examine the hand, I was both lucid and excited. Even start to feel weird, because 2 of theses fingers was like my foot fingers in my hand lol o.o



Yesterday night I had another dream:



I was in the house of my father, it was really different that it is in the awake life. I was sleeping and my dad woke me up (in the dream), as I always do I sleeped again a little and then I saw a tall guy in black clothes near my bed, I feel it strange then my father woke me up again and that man disappeared, so I realize that it was a dream. I've got excited and tried to sleep again, then this time the same tall man was dressed in blue, and was trying to get me. I was in the same bed, and I knew that this was a dream, so I thinked "I wish this guy that is trying to get me was a woman wishing sex" it worked and I've become really happy :D sadly it only last few seconds...

So my dad was in the door and woke me up for the third time, I was with my hand under the pants that were dirty, so I was afraid that everyone in my family could make fun of me and went to the bath.

The dream in the dream was lucid, but the whole dream wasn't.

It was a long dream, I thought I was awake all that time. My family was making a barbecue party, but randomly in the party I've made the finger count reality check. It worked! I saw my hand with 7 normal fingers, but even with that, only 2 things happened. First I was really fascinated with my hand and started to laugh alone like a crazy guy that laughs from random things lol. Second, my dream became more clear and vivid, even not lucid.





This made my dream really amazing! There was infinite meat in the fire, and it that extra vividness make the taste even better! But I was not lucid! How? The reality check worked the way I expected! Is it normal to do RC and don't become lucid?? What am I doing wrong? Most of the time I get lucid randomly... Another fact, I always use melatonine to increase the chances of LD.



That night I drank 1l of maracujá juice(don't know english word, I think it is passiflora or something, it makes a better sleep), 12,5 mg of melatonine and fish sandwich (B vitamins)



Could someone please help me? Sorry for the bad english, this isn't my mother language, Thanks





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Lucid Dreaming | Reducing reliance on crutches

I have decided that a part of my methodology for attaining lucidity needs to be eliminating or reducing my reliance on crutches, and I don't mean literal crutches, but crutches such as the following:



Caffeine (already reduced, but I can do even better)

Sugar (need to work on that)

IPhone and DreamViews / Social Media (sorry, if successful, you may see me here less, I am an iPhone and DV addict, and that's not good)



And added to the list today: my glasses. I am severely short sighted, but does that really mean that I need to use my glasses all the time? I just took my glasses off during a walk, and became more aware of my senses, including eyesight which I needed to struggle with. Then I came home and exercised to the Wii (Just Dance 3) without my glasses, and you would think my glasses benefit me there by allowing me to follow the movements of the dancers on screen better, not so! I scored as well without glasses as with them. And I noticed my sweat more. My glasses have allowed my eyes to get lazy, and I am not compensating as much for poor eyesight with other senses as I should. Of course, I will still drive with my glasses and use them for various activities where really needed, but I plan to start asking myself, "Do I really need my glasses for this activity?"





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Lucid Dreaming | Lucid dreaming plan

This is a thing i am doing just for me, but i hope it can help you as well. The plan is to make a schedule of everything i need to do in order to get lucid, it will take about a week and i will be able to have a lucid dream on friday or earlier.

Will be adding more days and tasks, let me know if you have any more ideas or suggestions!



Day one, Saturday:



*Do reality checks about every hour and really put an effort in them.

*Write down common dream themes which i will read after my dreams, in order to try and "awaken" some memories of a dream.

*Go to bed earlier(fix my sleep cycles)



Day two, Sunday:



*Do reality checks about every hour and really put an effort in them.

*Wake up earlier

*Write down my dream.



Day three, monday:



* Figure out what i want to do once i am lucid

*Do reality checks about every hour and really put an effort in them.

* Now my sleep cycles should be correct, so i will do wbtb and wild





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Lucid Dreaming | Has anyone tried this out yet?

Hey guys ;)

So, since I was lurking on the internet and I found this picture about how to do Lucid Dreaming while in bed, I've been doing this for like 3 days and still no Lucid Dream, I lay down on my bed and close my eyes and try not to move a single muscle, at first it feels like my arms starting to float in the air, as time passes it feels like I am floating, also my heartbeart rate goes higher o.O alot! One night I did it like 3 times and still didn't work, nor I was hearing any voices -_- nor I was getting any sleep paralysis..

Thanks.. ;)

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Chess Puzzle | 6/22/2013 - Forcing Line

Friday, June 21, 2013

World War Z…..

Coping Without Power

Lucid Dreaming | Technique Questions and Vacation

Hello All,



So I'm kind of at a weird point in my lucid dreaming journey

-I've had 3 short and blurry DILDs

-I want to try like a lot of techniques at once(DILD WILD WBTB SSILD DEILD)

-I do self awareness reality checks

-I have phases of on and off dream recall



Basically, I want to DILD for life sake but techniques that involve WBTB excite me



Also starting my vacation in Colorado today in which I'll be hiking and seeing beautiful sights, should I just do regular awareness stuff?



Any suggestions, ideas, and resourceful info is appreciated



Thanks,

-EmptyBucket





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Lucid Dreaming | How can i Find my dream pattern?

Guys, i checked out a video on youtube a guy saying

"finding your dream patterns could help you to have LDs easier."

I do not know if it is true but makes sense for me.

but how could i find it? My dreams are very random and no-sense at all.





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Lucid Dreaming | Baby Steps

At 69 I might well be the oldest person ever to have attempted to become lucid...so this journey is interesting. Nothing's happening fast, but I am inching forward. It might be better long-term, to concentrate on one aspect and really drill away at that...but, for now, I'm spreading it around just to see what happens and what looks most promising. I've got the mantras, RC's etc. I know most of the drills and I have a fair idea what to expect... although it will still be mind-blowing when it happens of course.



WBTB + WILD really interests me. I tried WILDing twice during the day yesterday (without WBTB). Although that's not the normal way of course, something happened (more the second time than the first) I can now easily get to the stage where my arms and shoulders feel dead. (should my whole body feel dead?)



Now I view the itchy/scratchy part as a stage I don't have much of a problem with it. Interestingly, I didn't hit the problem with breathing during either attempt...but I got colour. It was a yellowy-green patch in the centre of my vision at the first attempt and it gradually filled almost all of my vision at the second attempt. I give up when I get into cycles of feeling that something is about to happen than it fades off...then again...and so on.



I can't spend the whole day experimenting of course so I eventually have to terminate the try. I did notice after the second attempt that there was residual effects on one of my arms, that lasted for a short while



I'm waking a few times at night, after dreams...because I can sense them, but some are eluding me (even more work on laying still after waking)



So...baby steps...but this baby is toddling forward... (some baby!) bb05.jpg


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Chess Puzzle | 6/21/2013 - Persistent With The Mate

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Utility Vehicles, Tractors, and vulnerability to Electromagnetic Pulse

Communications deal: Baofeng UV5RA Ham Two Way Radio

Chess Puzzle | 6/20/2013 - Knight Night

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

“Marmot Farm” – Humor by Shirley Swift – June 2013

Bullet powered arrow? This is interesting…..

Lucid Dreaming | I cant think during dreams?

I don't know why...but for some reason when I get dreams,I can't think! Btw I try the DILD and MILD techniques. I've been on a dry spell for nearly 2 weeks now. All I've been getting lately are regular dreams. But during the regular dreams,I can't think! That makes it difficult for me to become lucid. I really can't think in my dreams,It's like Im in a 1st person movie or TV show but I can't do nothing about it,I'm just watching. Any advice on this please? I want quick answers because Im going to bed soon and trying WBTB with MILD or DILD.





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Lucid Dreaming | Singing mantra, a MILD idea.

Keep your mantra small. Some members teach a positive aformation style of mantra, with messages that are long, suggesting they will remember such and such. That is reasonable and helpful, but not how I use mantras.



I will use a simple mantra. I may sing the mantra to keep it fun. I will do the mantra in my head often during the day if I am trying to MILD.



I may simply chant "Lucid Dream, Lucid Dream, Lucid Dream" in a light hearted sing song kind of rythm. Some times I sing Row Row Row Your Boat in my head, but replace almost every word with 'Dream' just using the tempo and such of the original. Honestly, like this,,, dream dream dream a dream, dream a dream a dream, lucidly lucidly lucidly, this is all a dream.





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Lucid Dreaming | How can i train/improve MILD?

Guys, this question had been in my head for a few days and i decided to make a post here.

So, basicly i want to improve my MILD technique but i don't know how.

can anyone give me a tip?



thank you.





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Crystal oven temperature sensor reads 0.01F resolution

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[Scott Harden] continues his work on a high precision crystal oven. Being able to set a precise temperature depends on the ability to measure temperature with precision as well. That’s where this circuit comes in. It’s based around an LM335 linear temperature sensor. He’s designed support circuitry that can read temperature with hundredth-of-a-degree resolution.


Reading the sensor directly with an AVR microcontroller’s Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) will only yield about 1-2 degrees of range. He approached the problem by amplifying the output of the sensor to target a specific range. For the demonstration he adjusts the swing from 0-5V to correspond to a room temperature to body temperature range.


Of course he’s using analog circuitry to make this happen. But before our digital-only readers click away you should view his video explanation. This exhibits the base functionality of OpAmps. And we think [Scott] did a great job of presenting the concepts by providing a clear and readable schematic and explaining each part slowly and completely.


So what’s this crystal oven we mentioned? It’s a radio project that goes back several years.






Filed under: radio hacks



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Preparedness Guest Post Writing Contest………..

Lucid Dreaming | The Sitting Technique

I found this post on Reddit. I haven't tried it yet, so I can't judge its effectiveness, but I'll leave it here for anyone who's interested:





The Sitting Technique






Quote:




One simple change has given me LDs pretty much at will





Sleep sitting up.



Not the whole night, just the latter half. What you need to do is sleep 3-4 hours in your bed, wake up (with an alarm) and go finish your sleep in a recliner or deck chair that has head and neck support.



I used to only LD once every few months, now I have them whenever I drag myself to the recliner (a few feet from my bed) in the middle of the night.





It works because your body, being exhausted, will easily fall asleep, but your mind senses (through the vestibular system) that you're in an upright position and so remains aware. The bottom line is that you're asleep, but the higher mental processes that are usually offline at this time such as planning, working memory, attention, problem solving, and self-referential mechanisms are prevented from being shut down. Most of these functions are located in the prefrontal cortex, so I'm guessing that specific part of the brain remains active while sleeping upright and shuts down while asleep in natural positions. Also, you don't go into the deep sleep stages, so you remain in the sweet spot between waking and coma-like sleep.



A few notes:



-Every single one of the LDs I've had from this method (which is more than 70 now) begins in a replica of my room (the place where my recliner is). As such, my room functions as the loading dock of my entire LD universe.



-This method produces LDs that are very high level.



-Make sure you support your lower back with a pillow. If you're not comfortable, you won't fall asleep.



-Also helps to have a pillow behind your neck so that you're facing forward like you are in waking life.



-The recliner/deck chair should be roughly at a 120-130 degree angle.



-Put the alarm on the other side of the room to make you get out of bed.



-If you're having a hard time falling asleep after waking up, I've found that sleep deprivation (30 hours+) works just as well with no need for WBTB. What you do in that instance is stay up for about 40 hours then go straight to the recliner/deck chair rather than your bed. This results in sleep paralysis which you can then convert into an LD. For some reason, going to the recliner in the first half of the night doesn't work without sleep deprivation (rem rebound?).



-If you have trouble falling asleep and don't want to use sleep deprivation, I guess you can only sleep 2-3 hours before WBTB. I'd still strongly recommend you use sleep dep if you can't fall asleep after 3-4 hours sleep, as I haven't experimented with 2-3 hours (because I fall asleep fine on 3-4).



-Whatever you do, don't turn on the lights. That makes it much harder to fall asleep. If your laptop/computer has to be on, download F.lux to eliminate blue glare.



-This technique has made lucid dreaming a choice for me. What I mean is that before I struggled and struggled with little to show for it. Now I simply ask myself, do I want to LD tonight? Y/N? If I'm too tired, have an early wake up or a hectic schedule the next day, I just decide that I'll LD the night after. If I'm not zonked out and don't have any commitments the next day, it's a go. I'm now on the choice side of the LD equation. I simply have them when I want to have them rather than just desperately hoping for them.



-You don't need an elaborate la-z-boy set up. It just has to be comfortable enough for you to sleep in.








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Chess Puzzle | 6/19/2013 - Short and Sweet

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Video of the Week: The M6 Scout Survival Rifle

Lucid Dreaming | WILD = skill DILD =luck?

Excuse me for the possibly bizarre title. I have come up to this idea whilst watching a you tube channel called lucidology, which discusses OBE's and lucid dreams. In one of their videos, they state that the reason that causes many beginners to be unable to accomplish lucidity, is that they are taught to rely on randomly attaining lucidity through performing reality checks frequently . I understand that WILD can be more reliable, but I think it takes more effort and time then DILD. I also still can't perform WILD reliably. It's very hard for me to sleep again even doing the WBTB. My biggest problem is eye flickering. i can keep my whole body still for well over 30 minutes. but i can't control my eyes. Once they begin flickering it's done for, they just keep at it and there's nothing i can do to stop it. I think that's the reason I keep failing atWILD . Also is there any dreamer on here that has had many lucid dreams through DILD and reality checks. I mean i began reconsidering that the reality checks idea in whole is worth it and i would really appreciate reassurance. Thank you. :)





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Lucid Dreaming | My dreams are becoming more vivd.

Hey people, i am noticing my dreams are becoming more vivid and i am very happy for it.

Does this means also i can be close to become lucid? :P





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Chess Puzzle | 6/18/2013 - Tal-Starodub, Petrozavodsk 1984

Monday, June 17, 2013

Fitness and Survival

News you NEED to know…..

Lucid Dreaming | Reality check stuffs

Ok, so I've been thinking about reality checks recently.



My favorite is the nose one, but I don't like it because sometimes I don't plug my nose right, or its just plain wrong. So I've been thinking about trying to make a new one.



My theory incoming, feel free to shoot it down if it's wrong:



I think that reality checks only work if we realize that they're not supposed to happen. Like, that's why they tell you to practice them, I think its to associate those attributes of it with reality. So that when you go into a dream, it will have the opposite effect. You know what I'm sayin'?



So truthfully, anything could be a reality check. So I'd like to create my own, one that I know will work and be easy and all that stuff. But first I need y'all's help to tell me if this is plausible.



Thanks in advance. ;)



Sweet dreams. :sleepmeditate2:





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Lucid Dreaming | ADA: Right or Wrong for Lucidity?

I’ve noticed that All Day Awareness (ADA) has been gaining in popularity lately, and one tutorial and advisory thread after another has come to accept it as given that ADA is an important, if not essential, tool for achieving lucidity. I have been familiar with ADA for a long time, and understand its value as a tool for meditation, but I for probably one have never considered ADA a useful tool for developing LD’ing skills. Indeed, I have been wondering lately if the rise of ADA’s popularity might be moving people away from, rather than toward, consistent lucidity.



So, at the risk of the slings and arrows that accompany contradiction, and at the suggestion of a couple of interested dreamers on another thread, I thought I’d start a thread to discuss ADA, and maybe determine whether practicing it clears or clutters the path to lucidity. I hope everyone will bear with me through this post so we can get a good baseline for healthy discussion. Here we go:



First, what is ADA? Here is the definition from DV’s Wiki, which seems pretty straightforward and more than acceptable:




Quote:




ADA is all about developing a habit of paying attention to details of your surroundings and yourself (awareness) while awake, with the intention of being more aware in your dreams. You can focus on things like the objects in the room around you, your muscles as you walk down the street, people's faces, your own breathing, the sound of the wind, or the pressure you use to hit a key in your keyboard. Everything in your surroundings, including any sensation, can be used to practice ADA.



Now, this thread is for discussion of ADA, where hopefully LD’er’s will offer their opinions about why ADA works or why they think it is not very helpful. Regardless of my stated personal (and still quite flexible) opinion, this is not an OP announcing that ADA doesn’t work, so please let’s not get into an “Is too, because I said so!” “Is not, because I said so!” sort of argument, because that doesn’t help anyone.



It would be great to hear from both experienced LDer’s and novices alike. From the experienced dreamers we can get opinions from dreamers who have had more than a couple of successful dreams using ADA, or have found it unhelpful. Plus, because all techniques, no matter how useful, tend to work well a couple of times thanks to the placebo effect, and then are “inexplicably” rendered useless after the placebo effect wears off, it would be nice to hear from novices (aka newbies) who practiced ADA but have seen little to no ongoing success with LD’ing.



Basically there are just two questions to consider:



1. Has ADA worked for you? If so, how and why?



2. Regardless of your success, what is your take on ADA?



If you have any questions about this, or my way-too-brief opinion below, please ask.



So I hope we’ll have a good discussion among lots of dreamers, experienced and novice alike, that everyone stays calm and open, and I also hope that I don’t get dragged into some electronic public square to be punished for my heresy!



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Here is my take on ADA:



On paper, ADA seems ideal to LD’ing, because it exercises your awareness. On paper. In reality, though, I think it exercises the wrong awareness necessary to successfully LD.



Huh, you ask?



Yeah, that does sound strange, but in truth it is not. And be assured I am not playing some silly semantics game. The sort of awareness we want to develop and have on hand for LD’ing is self-awareness, whose definition and practice lies at the other end of the consciousness spectrum from the awareness practiced in ADA.



Self-awareness is nothing more -- or less -- than being aware that you are here, that you have an effect on everything around you, and everything around you has an effect on you. Self-awareness is the sense that “I am here, and I am interacting with reality” which is also the sense you want to have during a dream. In other words, it is the most “unnatural” state of consciousness, in that we only invented sentience a short time ago, evolutionarily-speaking.



Mastering self-awareness allows a dreamer to know that the universe she is in is a dream, and that universe is of her own making, a part of her consciousness... fairly important things to know for successful LD'ing, I think!



Awareness in this context is the condition of being on one’s guard, conscious of your surroundings, or simply knowing that there is stuff going on around you. Awareness is the sense that “the world is here, and I am a small part of it.” Awareness is a primordial function that exists to some degree in every living thing, and always has.



As opposed to self-awareness, which is drawn from biologically unique sentient consciousness (which is the basis for a whole other thread, I think, but ask if you want more about that), awareness is a universally common natural function: all living things practice awareness, with most of them being truly adept at ADA. A mouse, for instance, practices ADA far better than we do, so as not to get eaten. Awareness at this level is fine, and ought to be practiced; we all need to pay attention! But awareness at this level -- which by the way is already built, naturally, into dreams -- is anathema to lucidity. This is so because natural awareness causes a dreamer to believe that the world of his dream is the world that is here, and that the dreamer is but a part of it. ADA, I think, would only amplify that feeling:



ADA teaches you to pay attention to everything around you, every physical impulse you can comfortably absorb. Doing this all day, every day, might eventually lead you to believe that the world is huge, complex, and you are just a small unwitting participant in it “all.” That may all be true, I suppose, but I think it might not be the best cognitive place a budding LD’er necessarily wants to go.



That is because, come dreamtime, though your ADA training will have helped you to notice lots of details in your dream, and possibly has increased your chances of spotting a dream sign or two, there is a better chance that you will believe, from all that daytime observation, that this dream world you are in is much bigger than you, and you are only an insignificant player in it… the dream is not yours.



In other words, ADA might embed in you a sense that the dream world is real, that all these details you are observing have to be there, were always there, and did not spring from your own unconscious imagination.



Self-awareness, on the other hand, allows you to remember that this dream world, complex and enormous as it may be, is simply an extension of your own mind and everything that happens here is a result of your presence. From that comes lucidity, control, and adventures of your own conscious invention.



Tl;dr: ADA is fine, but you must have self-awareness in order to achieve and sustain lucidity. Enhanced natural awareness may actually diminish your chances of LD’ing because it makes the dream world too important, and it would be especially damaging if you practiced it in place of working on your self-awareness.



That's what I have so far... anyone care to discuss?





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Lucid Dreaming | I cant get lucid dreams anymore?

Hey guys,I'm new to this forum. Im having difficulty lucid dreaming. I started lucid dreaming about 1 month ago and starting to have a dry spell. This dry spell has actually been going for 2 weeks. Last time I had a lucid dream was almost 2 weeks ago on June 7th. I don't know what is wrong with me. I've been trying the MILD and DILD techniques. I've also started using KingYoshi's ADA with the DILDs. Am I doing something wrong? All I've been getting the past 2 weeks are regular dreams. I get about 2-5 dreams per night and I write them down every morning. However some of them were quite obvious that I was dreaming. Most of the dreams are set in my school,however my school year is over. I wake up every morning mad at myself because I should've realized that I'm on summer break and not in school,so I could've went lucid. I think Im doing it wrong. I try to MILD right as I go to sleep,I do that with DILDs too. Should I set an alarm 4 hours after I go to bed and then try to MILD?





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Chess Puzzle | 6/17/2013 - Mate in 3

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Call to Action: June ’13 – Shelter

Lucid Dreaming | Does WILD requires REM SLEEP stage?

Im just currently wondering whether if we can just WILDing when we're going to bed or after a 5-6 hours of sleep period? :lol: Does WILD need to hit REM SLEEP period? Or just simply occur at the first stage of sleep? :? :banana:





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Chess Puzzle | 6/16/2013 - The Last Attempt

Saturday, June 15, 2013

A few changes……..

Guest Post: ….On Ethics (and fair play)

Lucid Dreaming | Was I about to wild?

Right, so I was listening to this isocronic beat, and about 18 mins in, My body went numb, and started to tingle slowly. My eyes behind my closed lids began to see this light that got brighter and brighter... But then at 20 mins... The isochronic changed sounds, which jolted me back awake. Was I about to succesfully wild?.. "Lucid Dream" ~ Isochronic Binaural Beat ~ 1 Hr. - YouTube

(This is the sound I used.)





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Lucid Dreaming | Surreal Sounds

Hi all, not sure if this is the right place for this question so apologise in advance if it is not.



I've been trying to attain lucidity for a few nights now with the aid of a phone app which place binary beats & water sounds. Now for the previous two nights I have been waking up in the dead of night, or just before I wake up & have been hearing a sound like a baby is crying/calling. The sound feels so real, like it is with me and just after this when I am awake I fear to turn the other way for fear it might be in the room with me. I can turn around but the fear makes it difficult. Almost like a fear there may be a ghost watching me or something! I thought it was SP but I can move so it can't be that can it?



I just wanted to ask people on what they think is going on here? Am I close to lucidity or far from it?



Thanks.





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Chess Puzzle | 6/15/2013 - Calculation

Friday, June 14, 2013

SHTF ONE GUN DEFENSE

Preparedness Expo: August 17-18, Boonsboro Maryland

Lucid Dreaming | Reality checks in my dreams

I've tried various techniques to get reality checks to "spill over" into my dreams now, (if you do something frequently during the day it tends to show up in your dreams) everything from carrying cards in my wallet with events that I should remember to look out for and then perform a reality check when I come upon it (to really keep my mind on the idea of reality checks during the day) to writing a program that pops up a window every half hour telling me to perform a check, but I never seem to to perform them in my dreams.



Does anyone have a foolproof way to make sure that you do perform the checks in your dreams?





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The Panhandle Rancher speaks…….

Chess Puzzle | 6/14/2013 - Mate in 4

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Lucid Dreaming | The more aware I become, the weirder reality becomes

Has anyone else observed this?



The more aware I become, the weirder reality becomes. Who ever said that waking like is normal and that weirdness means that we are dreaming? If you believe that, then you must live in a reality that is different from the one I inhabit.



Yesterday I saw an office document that had a paragraph in Latin in it out of some unexplained reason. My boss assured me that he had run it through google translator, which identified the language as Latin, but translated it to gibberish. And I was not dreaming.



Today I got into my car after work, and its hazard lights turned on and so did the horn as if it had a car alarm, but our car has no car alarm! I had to double heck several times that I got in fact into my own car, and that I was not dreaming.



Other weird stuff too, but not interesting enough, still keeps me on my toes. That's weird. Am I dreaming? How can I not be dreaming? Reality is not supposed to be weird like that, you know?





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Lucid Dreaming | Need help attaining lucidity more frequently

Hi, so i have been keeping a dream journal and my dream recall is pretty good and im practicing all day awareness and reality checks here and there but my question is how can i have more frequent lucid dreams? because if i stop practising i will have an LD every 2 months or so but when im trying i will have the odd few more but i want to know how i can boost this up to hopefully once a week or even whenever i want to (once a night) Thanks





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Lucid Dreaming | Someone experienced please advise :)

Hello,

I have been trying to lucid dream for I think five nights now and I had something very weird happen to me last night. Throughout the day yesterday I did multiple different Reality Checks. I know that a normal thing to happen to induce a lucid dream is for people to look at their hands and see their finger being pushed through their hand or also their fingers to look different in some way. Last night I dreamt that my cousin came home from the military. He was going to show me a wound or something that he had on his knee. When he showed me his knee their wasn't a wound there. He then pushed his finger and it painlessly went straight through his leg. Then a little later his fingers got about 10x bigger than normal. I saw these things and I didn't even realize that I was in a dream. Why didn't I?? It just seems like that should've been enough of a sign to tell me that I was dreaming. If someone has any similar experiences or has an idea or anything that could help me for next time thatd be awesome. Thanks!





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[Patrick Schless] is excited to show off the project he took on about nine months ago. After finding an antique telegraph sounder he wired it up to an Arduino to see if he could make it tick. The successful experiment laid the ground work for different hardware that would make it into a morse code email reader.


He doesn’t know much about the background of the old hardware, but driving it is relatively simple. It’s basically a magnetic relay so you need to have a transistor for switching and a flyback diode for protection. Once those components are in place it’s just a matter of toggling a bit. [Patrick] knew he wanted to pull messages from an online source, so he set his Arduino aside and grabbed a Raspberry Pi. It worked like a charm. His plan was to put this on a bookshelf in perpetuity so he went the extra mile, designing his own PCB and having it spun using the OSH Park service. The project is finished with this low-profile laser-cut base which houses all of the electronics.


Now if he wants to respond to his emails in Morse code he needs to build this keyboard.






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Lucid Dreaming | Asking your Subconsious to give you a lucid dream

I just had an awesome lucid dream induction, the lucid dream itself was not very impressive thought. Yesterday i had so much to do, so i didn't have time to think about reality checks or lucid dreaming at all. At night i got to bed, and remembered a technique i have heard of not exclusively for lucid dreaming, but i gave it a shot anyways.



So i was lying there in bed, and started relaxing and clearing my mind. When i visualized pouring a bucket of color and when the bucket is empty, i will be in a deep relaxed state. I was very relaxed after 10 minutes and visualized me going into a room, where i saw myself sitting in a couch. It was my subconscious and i asked him if he could make me realize i was dreaming tonight. He said okay and later on that night a dream character said to me, How did you get here? Think about it... I thought about it and realized that it must be a dream since i can't remember how i got there.



That's just my experience, but i think this could be a very powerful alternative to MILD/CALD





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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

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Lucid Dreaming | Any DILD tips?

I´ve been keeping a dream journal since a month now, do 3-4 mindfull reality checks a day, but i can´t seem to DILD. Heh, the fact that i ALWAYS find myself having a dream about playing a videogame, might mean that i should RC each time i start playing videogames. Should i? Any tips?





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Lucid Dreaming | Having Troubles

Okay I see that all of you are pretty experienced lucid dreamers. I have a few questions for you. How long did it take you to achieve you first lucid dream? how did you do it? by using mild wild dild or others. which techniques do you use today to lucid dream? I have been trying for 2 nights and have not been sucsessful yet. If anyone can answer these questions thatd be great.











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Lucid Dreaming | The Pursuit of Happiness

Today I am going to share a concept and a way of thinking that I believe is the path to happiness in life in general.



But it is also the path to lucid dream effortlessely at will and beyond that if you choose. This is what I am going to focus on in this thread.



I just want to point out that I am sharing this partly because I want to make it structured out for my own mind, but primarily because I



like to share the useful knowledge in hope that it will help and bring joy to someone else.



What I am going to share is something that I have slowly started to realize on my own, but today I watched a video of a much more



experienced man that explained it in a way that really made it all click and become crystal clear.



Here is the video:







Here Thomas Campbell talks about Meditation and OBEs however you can associate this information with what benefits you.



If you are not into Meditation and OBEs don't judge it, just use the information and it will be just as valuable to you.



Campbell talks about how people judge a helpful advice just because of the fact that it is a lucid dream (mindcreated place) and not an OBE.

And he say "Does it matter? No if the advice is helpful, why judge it?" - The same goes for this video. And besides I will now try to link this to the lucid dreaming practise anyway. :)



In the beggining of the video a woman describes how she have tried all the different meditation techniques and adds that with one of the techniques she got more interesting results than another, with one she experienced some bright white light. And then she ask the question:



What really is the difference? Is one technique better than another? Is it worth investing money on some technique that seems to work for most people or can I continue to experiment on my own and have the same results or atleast get better at it?



For us oneironauts this is a really good question and I got really excited when she asked that because I knew that the answer would be helpful.

I mean how many times don't we see a thread where someone asks "What lucid dreaming technique is the best?" or "What lucid dreaming technique suits me best?" and people who come up with a "NEW LUCID DREAMING TECHNIQUE", I am guilty for starting a thread of every single one on this forum back when I was a total newbie. :roll:



Here is what Thomas Campbell said, well I will switch the words to make them suit our context:



"All of these forms of lucid dreaming techniques are similar in what they do. Most of the differences in these techniques aren't actually in the techniques themselves, most of the differences is in what YOU bring to it. It's in the way you APPROACH each of these techniques. When you are doing the WILD technique for example you are focused on doing something to induce the lucidity, however when you are using a DILD technique which is reality checked focused and a passive technique in that sense that you don't induce the lucidity directly, you are not focused on doing anything other than just to do a reality check."



So in other words what's important is not what technique you use, but what you feel comfortable doing. And I will explain why now:



The first 13 minutes of the video is very OBE related so if you are interested in that go ahead and watch it. But what I am gonig to explain now starts at

14:45. What he explains here is something that I have really started to realize on my own and this is the secret to result in whatever you are doing.

It might be getting good grades in school or getting strong and muscular by working out or what most of us reading this are interested in learning how to induce a lucid dream.



And the secret is. LET GO OF EGO! as Campbell say "The one thing that will keep you from learning to successfully lucid dream is the fear of that you can't do it. It doesn't work for me, am I doing it right?, is this the right way?, was I lucid or was I not? Fear is the number one blocker."



He then talks about how unpleasant experiences makes people discouraged and stop practise. In the video he relate it to fear in the OBE state but we can relate it to: lucid nightmares, dryspells of recall and lucid dreams, not being able to fall asleep after a WBTB etc.



And the truth is that those things are not something we should avoid, in fact those are the things that are NECESSARY for GROWTH and in a sense you should want them, well atleast want to get them and overcome them. Those are the experiences we need to get through.



And also remember that you need to have a long-term view on this whole thing. You can't think "I am going to try this out for a week and see how it goes.. And if it doesn't work I'll let it go" No because lucid dreaming is just like learning to play an instrument, you can't learn by reading about it, you need experience.



And by viewing the practise in a completely different way you will start to become something rather than trying to do something.



Our Western culture is so used to immediate result and we don't appreciate the journey.



But the truth is that the journey is NECESSARY if we want to evolve.



Think of it this way:



Which person would you rather be, let's say 3 years from now:



A. The person who knows about lucid dreaming and practised it for a few months/ years but decided that it wasn't worth it.



Or.



B. The person who lucid dreams every night because you never gave up and are now enjoying the benefits of it.



Ok I am done now although I just want to tell you why I named this thread "The Pursuit of Happiness".



A great man once said "When I am sad I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True Story."



And I want you to ask yourself is there something you are not happy with in your life right now? If there answer is yes. Go fix it!



If it is within your control, which it's mostly is you have the power to fix it, just let go of ego and start working on it and begin the journey to change.



Everything in our world is designed to evolve and I truly believe that personal growth and internal change is what will make us happy.



Sweet dreams (and lives) everyone!





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Lucid Dreaming | False awakening dream journaling

I've recently started to keep a dreamjournal, next to my bed. Before, I just reconstructed the dream in my head every morning.

Now I have this recently occuring problem (2x in 10 days) that I wake up in bed, take my notebook and cellphone (to give my some light) and I write down my dream. Last night I wrote down about half a page and I remember I flipped it for a new page. I went back to sleep and in the morning when writing down another dream, I turned the page to see what I wrote during then night and nothing was there. I searched my whole notebook but no note of that dream in the middle of the night.



Could it be that I wake up in a dream and do fake dream journaling? It's quite annoying because I really seem to think I'm awake, everything just feels so real. I try to do as many reality checks as possible (with awareness!!!) but for some reason I always seem to forget it while waking up during the middle of the night.



Anyone has experienced this before? Is this considered lucid dreaming? It feels like inception to me: waking up within a dream.



Thank you already in advance!



Best,



Risdt





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Monday, June 10, 2013

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Lucid Dreaming | Need help to get motivated again.

Hi everyone



I've been into lucid dreaming for about 1 1/2 year or so now, I go though 3 to 4 month periods of heavy interest and its all I think about.......

But!! I then go into a complete can't be arsed mode and I try but don't.



I know it's a shit excuse but my life gets in the way.



So can anyone help me to re-jizz my interest and get me back onto the lucid road.





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Lucid Dreaming | Am I close to a DILD?

Currently got back into lucid dreaming a week or two ago.



I have my mantras which I do every night before bed or whenever I wake up in the night: Dream Recall, "I wake up after every dream and remember my dreams vividly!", DILD, "I'm dreaming, reality check!", DEILD, "I wake up after every dream and play dead!" And, during the day, whenever I have free time, I pause and analyze what I hear, feel and see while saying to myself, "I'm dreaming" over and over again and using a reality check at the end.



I only just changed to these mantras and, while I would describe my recall as good (I have two to four small dreams during the night which I remember in fuzzy detail upon waking up), I wonder if my ADA and DILD mantra is starting to work. Two days ago I have a FA but sadly didn't realise this until later when I really was awake, and, last night, in my dream I was with some friends and were talking about lucid dreaming and how to get lucid.



Is there anything more I can do or should I continue with what I'm doing so far? :)





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Lucid Dreaming | Suggestions?

Hi, so I've been attempted to lucid dream for a while now. I have gotten lucid once or twice in the past but never for more then a minute (after which I usually wake up due to excitement). Then I moved, and I didn't have time to really focus on it so I stopped entirely. Now for the past couple months I've been trying to get back into the swing of things but have had very few dreams that I even remember, though I'm trying to keep a dream journal. I also find myself too lazy sometimes to get up and write my dreams down in the middle of the night. Also, I havent been able to remember to do reality checks very often (I do it at least 5-6 times a day lately).



So I was wondering if you guys have any suggestions as to keeping a dream journal, and using reality checks more often then I am now so I can hopefully get back to having lucid dreams again. Thanks, greatly appreciate it! :)





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Lucid Dreaming | My pet hat awareness

So this past week, I have been doing the awareness exercises from the MILD chapter of EWOLD, where I have a list of four things to notice that day. And in EWOLD I am supposed to just notice the next occupance of the four things, but I decided to just throughout the day watch out for them. Today is Sunday, so I am watching out for pets/animals, myself in the mirror, turning on light, and flowers. Earlier this morning I made a point of consciously looking in a mirror when I may not have chosen to do so otherwise. For the pets/animals, I noticed birds, bugs, a stuffed animal I decided to count. Then later on I noticed a hat if mine, and it occurred to me that if I can think of the stuffed animal that way, why not the hat? It can be my pet hat, and I can be aware of it. After all the point is not to just notice pets, but the point is to be aware, and I am aware of my hat as a pet, so there! :)





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