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Monday, March 31, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | Almost!
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Lucid Dreaming | Waking Life Visualization Technique (Could help with those who have trouble visualising)
By this point I had been moving with closed eyes for a good 15 minutes. I didn't begin to vividly see my house or anything, but as I felt my way past the front gate to the garden, and stepped in my house, I explored my house with my eyes closed and tried my best to visualise what I'm extremely used to seeing on a regular basis. I was able to navigate with much more efficiency after I started doing this rather than just feeling my way around.
Then I thought this might be a good practice technique for lucid dreaming techniques. So what I am going to do is navigate my house each night for a little while with my eyes closed the whole time, and hopefully this experience will greatly enhance my ability to visualise when I'm going to bed (something I'm not too great at). It gives me the focus to really feel what I'm touching and hearing too, since there is no visual input.
What are your thoughts on this, do you think it could help? Sorry if this is a tried and tested idea already.
I'll let you know how it goes for me!
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Lucid Dreaming | I can't do it anymore :(
Could I start having them again? Or will I have to deal with not having them?
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Lucid Dreaming | 5 seconds of Heaven
I have been studying and practicing lucid dreams for QUITE some time. Since I was about 15, a sophomore in high school til now, age 21.
I've never had a lucid experience till a couple days ago randomly, and I used to scroll the pages of this site quite frequently back in the day.
I was taking a nap for a couple hours before going into work and I was really tired but then I started to dream...I remember walking through gas stations, passing cops, and walking out of a garage and all of a sudden...I heard a shouting of my voice.
Screaming "YOU'RE DREAMING"
So I woke up in the dream and it felt like my eyes were beginning to open and gain clarity. I finally understand that now, and I got so excited and I began to instantly try to fly (my biggest desire) and the dream ended extremely quickly with in 5 seconds.
I cannot express my happiness enough but I am requesting more information from you lovely dreamers. I'm going to start doing reality checks in my real life because I see how they crossover into dreams now.
I'm so excited to do so again and I really want to know what the next step is. WILD's have always been a bit difficult for me, but for me to finally realize I was dreaming and induce awareness is a great accomplishment.
But 5 seconds in heaven is definitely not enough. Haha.
Thanks to whoever may read or respond.
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Lucid Dreaming | Emotional Response Triggering Reality Check?
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I reviewed my LD journal to find what triggered me to do a RC, or to just know I was dreaming. I broke the findings into 4 categories
1. Felt Like a Dream: In these cases I did a RC because the environment felt dreamlike, even though there was nothing out of the ordinary going on.
2. Emotion: In these cases I was having an emotional reaction to a situation in all instances it was one of the following that triggered the reaction: Surprise, Confusion, or a combination of the two.
a. Confusion can be viewed as an opposite to interest, and serves as a signal to the self to inform the viewer that they cannot comprehend what they are looking at, and confusion often necessitates a shift in action to remedy the lack of understanding. Confusion is thought to stem from uncertainty, and a lack of one's expectations and knowledge being met
b. Surprise functions as a disruption of current action to alert a viewer to a significant event. The emotion is centered around the experience of something new and unexpected, and can be ellicied by sensory incongruity.
3. RC Habit: In these cases I simply did a reality check out of habit.
4. Remembering being awake before the dream: All of these cases were WBTB occurrences.
(*Note: Technically I could put Felt Like a Dream and Remembering being away before the dream into the Emotion category because both of those would cause some level of surprise or confusion.)
I tracked every event where I became lucid, or did a RC and didnt become lucid.
*I should also note I have never been successful at using the WILD technique, nor can I regularly use WBTB because I have issues falling back to sleep after being awake for more than 10 minutes. Those would fall into a completely different category.*
So, for someone who uses DILD techniques (RCs, Mantras, Visualization, Meditative Visualization, etc.) I have found the overwhelming majority of my LDs were triggered by a response to Confusion and/or Surprise. I believe that confusion and surprise tend to triggers a cognitive response which naturally initiates involvement of the conscious mind.
Example: I have many instances where my reflection in a mirror has triggered lucidity. So, in all of these cases - I look at myself in mirror and something is noticeably different with my appearance (not what I expected). My conscious mind activates to try to figure out why my reflection doesnt match my expectation of how it should appear. It tries to find a reason to explain the discrepancy. With my consciousness elevated in that moment, and my current understanding that I could be dreaming at any time (questioning reality during my waking hours), I ask myself if this is a dream and do a RC. I am now lucid.
To use this with my Text Search experiment I would have to have an emotional response to the lack of text in my dreams. So far my dream logic has gotten the best of me and I am not surprised by the lack to text. I know this is because 98+% of the time, in real life, I pay little attention to text unless it is in my current interest to read it. In my dreams I have little to no interest to read any text. This is similar to doing RCs out of habit. I have been doing RCs, out of habit in real life, for almost 10 years. Yet I have only had 4 instances where I have done a RC in a dream out of habit.
So, if it is the emotional reaction which triggers the rational mind to engage in an attempt to figure out why the current situation defies current expectations....how and I turn this to my advantage?
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Lucid Dreaming | Still nothing...
Can anyone give me any hints as to what I should do? Am I doing anything wrong? Any feedback would be much appreciated.
Thanks so much.
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Lucid Dreaming | RC failing in a differnet way
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Sunday, March 30, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | Need Help
THANKS EVERYONE
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Lucid Dreaming | empty white space
I think I had my first lucid dream yesterday and it kind of just happened without me expecting it and really wasn't like anything I thought it would be. I didn't get it directly from an awaken state, but I didn't realize within a non-lucid dream that i was dreaming neither. It happened about one hour after i had fallen asleep.
It was as if there was a sudden white space in which I materialized out of nowhere and I just thought "Ho! i'm dreaming!" then looked at my hands that were a bit transparent but i could really feel my body like I was completly there, physically. I pinched my nose to try and breath even if I knew I was dreaming, and then I tried to speak and I could feel the sound coming out of my throat, like when you haven't spoken for a long time and your throat is soar. It came out a bit rough first and then it worked well. I tried calling the name of someone I wanted to be there, but it didn't work.
I was beginning to be afraid because I already had a false awakening some months ago and it was kind of scary and it's like I was focusing on the fear instead of the fact that I was lucid dreaming.
I kept trying to call the person and moved a bit, but all I got was a train controller (lol the guy that you see yell all aboard! in movies) that looked at me as if I was mistaken. (a few minutes after I woke up I realized I was calling out the wrong family name lol maybe that was it)I'm not sure if there was an actual train, I don't think so, just the controller in that white space.
Then I tried to spin a lot, because I was aware that I was focusing on my fear of a false awakening and I didn't want the dream to end. I was spinning a lot but it didn't change the white space. I then tried to focus on visualizing the person I was trying t get and a splash of colors were kind of melting together beginning to create his image and I panicked and decided it would be better to check if I didn't have a false awakening, so the dream faded and I opened one eye.
I never dreamt of a white space before, and I thought it was weird that the dream started right away like that. I was wondering what I should do next time if I find myself again in that white space, and how to keep thinking about the dream instead of focusing on my "real life body"? There was nothing scary that happened but right after I was really scared and kind of thinking that maybe I shouldn't try again (but that passed and I still want to try). And also, since the lucid dream happened out of nowhere, is there any chance I will have another one again or I was just lucky?
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Lucid Dreaming | How would you become lucid in a 3rd person POV dream?
Sorry if this is a bit unclear. I'm not sure if I explained my question well enough.
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Lucid Dreaming | How can I improve my lucidity?
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Lucid Dreaming | What technique can you do going to bed?
What's the best way to wake in the middle of the night, any apps that are free or cheap to sense your rem and alarm?
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Chess Puzzle | 3/30/2014 - Endgame Fundamentals
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | I had my first lucid dream the other night, but now what??
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Lucid Dreaming | Awareness
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Friday, March 28, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | Blind fold lucidity
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Lucid Dreaming | The lucid dreaming app and a DEILD app...
Also, I've been looking for a DEILD alarm app (an alarm that turns itself off without the need to actually being turned off manually) with no luck.I would be grateful for any help you are able to provide about that also.
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Chess Puzzle | 3/28/2014 - Tal - Smyslov, Bled 1959
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | Quick question about Reality Checks.
I know what I dreamed about but it never felt like I was actually there. So if I ever did a reality check in my dream wouldn't I only remember about doing it once I woke up? I have always thought I had a good memory for my dreams even before doing a Dream Journal. I have some crazy awesome dreams and share them often with my friends and family. When I write in my journal I feel like I remember quite a bit but only after I wake up.
Sorry if this doesn't make much sense was harder then I thought to explain it but basically if I only know about my dream once I wake up how would doing a check help inside a dream?
Also
When doing check I read here never tell yourself you are awake but how do you not think that once you do a reality check and everything works? I try to do them often and always ask myself "am I sleeping" or "What was I doing 5 mins ago" but soon as i can pass my checks it feels impossible to not think I am awake.
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Lucid Dreaming | My go-to RC
I have a desk job, so I have 4 clocks nearby. Three of them have numbers and are synced. The watch on my wrist is a little ahead and it tells time in a different format. (blanking on the word right now)
To RC I would look at my cell, my desk phone, and my pc and make sure that all 3 are the same. I would then look at my wrist watch and make sure that the arrows are pointing to the correct numbers. I then proceed to count my fingers and if I have five I tell myself that "I am not dreaming, but next time I am I would become lucid."
If there aren't any clocks around, as is the case with most of my dreams, would it be sufficient to simply count my fingers?
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Lucid Dreaming | For those who need reminders
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Monday, March 24, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | FILD Sleep Paralysis?
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Chess Puzzle | 3/24/2014 - Which Threat To Defend
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | Any advice?
Sorry if I am being messy, I am quite tired. Thank you for help.
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Lucid Dreaming | Pretending to see dream signs so you can RC more often?
Normally in reality, I dont see my particular dream signs enough to be able to build a strong habit of reality-checking to them (objects out of place, things not working properly etc.).
So I was wondering, would you be able to just imagine them instead, or just visualize or pretend that its happening right now? I was thinking that this could increase the frequency and specificity of what you RC to, making it a lot more likely in a dream.
Do you think this could work?
Thanks for your responses. :)
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Chess Puzzle | 3/23/2014 - Endgame Principles
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Build Your Own Radio Clock Transmitter
Deep in the Colorado foothills, there are two radio transmitters that control the time on millions of clocks all across North America. It’s WWVB, the NIST time signal radio station that sends the time from several atomic clocks over the airwaves to radio controlled clocks across the continent. You might think replicating a 70 kW, multi-million dollar radio transmitter to set your own clock might be out of reach, but with a single ATtiny45, just about everything is possible.
Even though WWVB has enough power to set clocks in LA, New York, and the far reaches of Canada, even a pitifully underpowered transmitter – such as a microcontroller with a long wire attached to a pin PWMing at 60kHz – will be more than enough to overpower the official signal and set a custom time on a WWVB-controlled clock. This signal must be modulated, of course, and the most common radio controlled clocks use an extremely simple amplitude modulation that can be easily replicated by changing the duty cycle of the carrier. After that, it’s a simple matter of encoding the time signal.
The end result of this build is an extremely small one-chip device that can change the time of any remote-controlled clock. We can guess this would be useful if your radio controlled clock isn’t receiving a signal for some reason, but the fact that April 1st is just a few days away gives us a much, much better idea.
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Lucid Dreaming | Sleep paralysis help?
I've a sleep paralysis three times exactly in my life, and all of that times unintentionally. I will write them anyway but I don't think it's useful.
first, when I woke up and I felt too sleepy and weak to move or open my eyes, although I tried hard (hadn't heard of it that time)
and second(I had sleep paralysis twice that night), when I lay on my back for an hour, but I couldn't get sleep paralysis.Later, I just lay on my side and suddenly I began hearing voices and couldn't move.
So, every time I try to induce sleep paralysis, I find it impossible. I don't move at all, and lie on my back,clear my mind, but I can't induce it.My body does become "heavier", a bit hard to move, but never have hallutinations,hear voices or paralyse my body, except those accidental occasions.So why?Any other way to induce sleep paralysis?
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Friday, March 21, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | Can't manage to be aware...
if i go for a walk, i can be mostly self aware and also around me.
but if i am playing pc or talking to someone, my self awareness vanishes
and i enter in auto-pilot again, without thinking what i am experiencing.
Have you guys experienced this as well?
I don't know what to do to fix this problem.
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Lucid Dreaming | RC for Driving Dreams?
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Chess Puzzle | 3/21/2014 - Too Much To Handle
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | WBTB Advice:)
im trying the WBTB Technique at the moment by setting a alarm for about 4.30 in the morning, when woken i attempt to keep my mind active when falling back to sleep but the next thing i know im waking up and it is morning. does anyone have any advice on what to actually do when you fall back to sleep? more specifically how to keep the mind awake and let the body fall asleep.
im new to this forum and lucid dreaming in general, so any advice tips would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
George
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Lucid Dreaming | Isochronic Tones
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | I haven't had a lucid dream in a long time.
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Lucid Dreaming | Not sure if reality check worked or not?
So is had a (lucid?)dream a while ago, and i am not really sure what happened.
For about a month I am doing reality checks in waking life. Inside the dream I had, a familiy member did something he would never really do. So I was questioning reality and did a reality check.
I closed my nose and tried to breath through. It was a weird feeling and i could kinda breath through it. So ofcourse i was getting exited. (This is also the first time something like this happened to me, i have never lucid dreamed before. So ofcourse the first thing i did was fly. But i didn't really feel the wind through my hair and it wasn't really realistic. (This is how i remember it).
When i woke up i didn't even think about what happened. Later that day i suddendly remember i had this dream and what happened, and was like "Shit did i have a lucid dream this morning?"
Basically it felt like a normal dream in which I did a reality check, and then flew around. Was it a normal dream in which the reality check didn't work, or did i just not remember the lucid dream. If i did not remember it is that why i didn't feel like it was a realistic lucid dream in which I was clearly conscious, and felt like it was a normal dream the next day?
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Lucid Dreaming | Dream flying incubation -- awesome video
Super-Fantastic-Man will be appearing in a dream soon!
I think this is going on the "watch this every night before bed" list.
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Chess Puzzle | 3/18/2014 - One Square At A Time
Monday, March 17, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | Variation of the FILD??
i've recently read about a technique called the cellphone technique. It basically has the same set up and everything as FILD, but with one diffrence. instead of moving your fingers, you imagine yourself having a cellphone lying in your hand. When fallen asleep and transferring to the dream state, you actually will feel a cellphone in your hand and this means you're dreaming. This is atleast the technique behind it, i have never done this, but i was wondering if someone has experience with this technique and if it works??
thank you very much
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Lucid Dreaming | lucid dream struggles
I`ve been struggling to lucid dream for a while now.
I think the main problem is that my dreams are really close to reality, like I had a dream where I was in school and my physics teacher returned the test and i got a C-(usually I always get As in physics tests). And its like that for all of my dreams, usually there are only really small differences. Sometimes its the plots that dont make sense e.g. I threw a fire cracker in a hosptial once and it started to burn.
My dream recall is really inconsistent too for example sometimes I remember three dreams in one night and sometimes I dont remember anything.
Has anyone had similar problems?
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Chess Puzzle | 3/16/2014 - Drawing Technique
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | A blockade for my success.
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Chess Puzzle | 3/15/2014 - Speed Chess Tactics
Friday, March 14, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | A Complete Guide to RC's and DILD
Well, I don't really have a secret. I don't do anything that you never heard of.
But alas, I do things right.
Table Of Contents:
Dream Recall
Dedication
Reality Checking
What do you 'right'?
Background info about DILD's
Dream Recall
Probably my least favorite part, but it is VERY important for LDing period. All techniques need it, especially DILDS.
Whats the point of having LD's if you can't remember them?
So first, the three options you can do are
1: Use a dream journal, old fashioned but very reliable
2: Use a Voice Recorder, only use for keywords
3: Remember your dreams mentally, takes lots of practice to do this
So lets just say you're using a dream journal. Put a title on it, and then write down your dreams. LD or not, its important. You can add things like Vivid meters and stuff but really I like to put the Date, time, and title. Make it simple, and with it being simple, don't freak out if you get lazy and don't write it down. EVERY LDer does this, just remember to get back on track mkay? :D
Dedication
Now before we get to far into this, remember: LDing is for everyone, but its a thing you have a to work for. Its not hard, but you HAVE to work. You won't always have access to electronics for LDing, so remember:
If you wan't to LD, take it seriously but always take it as a joke also. :)
Reality Checking
Now, here is the fun part.
Reality checking, haha! :D
We have lots of reality checks to choose from, like a candy store.
So lets narrow it down and see whats right for you!
Simple Hands Reality Check: Good if you don't need free time, but bad if you do not have much privacy.
Palm: Simple and good on time, and good on privacy.
Nose Plug: Good on time, bad if you don't have privacy.
So now that we got the simple one down, pick one!
When do I do a reality check?
Well if you are at a school that has 6 periods, I do it 3 times every period.
If you don't go to school, then try to do 3 a hour.
When you do this, know you will become lucid because of this. I will get into that later, but, study your hands. You don't need to get all yoda, and don't be serious. Just look at it, anything strange? All 5 fingers? No mirrored fingers? No glitches?
In your mind, don't talk animated. Talk like your telling you subconscious these things.
"Well, my hands have all 5 fingers, nothing is glitchy, I am not in a strange place. So no, I am not dreaming, but next time I am dreaming I will look at my hands and notice that I am dreaming."
What do you do 'right'?
Not much, but their are some thing that are very important. Belief...ugh..well
thats a bunch of bullcrap. Its all about KNOWING you are going to get lucid. No doubt in your mind.
Now with that, like I said last section, I study my hands for no more then a minute.
Background Info About DILD's
Now, last section.
DILD is the lucid dreamers ticket to a easy LD. If you do RCing right, its guaranteed.
Everyone can do these things differently, so try your own variations! Go on! Do a reality check!
You might just be dreaming right now, ;)
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Lucid Dreaming | Do we know what technique is best with unlimited motivation and time?
Similarly, occasionally someone will come along and vow to ask themselves if they are dreaming something like 1000 times a day (accompanied by an RC). I am pretty sure that, even if this is extremely effective, the motivation will soon start to wane.
What else is there? Which could be the best?
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | My method of attaining lucid dream has proven to be very successful
I posted my personal method of becoming lucid in a dream a while ago and I am just writing to let you guys know that the method has proven to be very successful for me.
Here is the method.
The method is called FLD (Focus Lucid dreaming)
1. Practice visual focus (look in front of you) all day.
2. Do this even when going to bed, look behind your eye lids.
When you go into a dream, you might look in front of you and this might trigger you to wake up.
Good luck.
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Lucid Dreaming | Supplements and Weed
Hi guys,
Lately I've been thinking about using supplements to increase my chances of having LD's every night. Now, some of these supplements are those that I already take indirectly, since I mainly taking any kind of supplement supplement my physique training.
I also vape weed every day, but this is not a total disadvantage, since going to bed without smoking beforehand will trigger the REM rebound effect. I actually find weed quite useful for that reason alone. All in all, my dream recall is intact.
Anyway, what weed or supplement variations do any of you use? I especially want to hear from fellow stoners, because they understand my difficulty with going to bed without getting high first. And for any of you straightjackets, stopping weed every day is not impossible for me...it's just not preferable. I'm not going to die if all the weed in the world burnt up suddenly, but then that would be cool, because then everybody would HAVE to get high.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Don’t Wait to Build Your Survival Kit
The predominant culture often views those who value disaster preparedness as fanatical and irrational. Their predictions may sometimes sound apocalyptic; their preparations, drastic. The idea of an implosion of the national infrastructure and financial system simply strikes some as the stuff of fantasy. An honest look at the numbers, however, reveals that survival planning is actually a wise and prudent endeavor. In fact, academic research, practical business experience and good old common sense corroborate the very real possibility that such national and global dysfunction is real, and growing more likely every day. Taking steps to ensure the safety of and provision for a family or community is a reasonable—and advisable—strategy.
Research
Over 40 years ago, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology predicted a severe resource shortage by 2030. Some scientists agree that the forecast is right on track. Meanwhile, numerous financial experts believe that the international debt bubble fueled by easy credit and inflated currencies will soon burst, leading to an even more intense recession and causing massive social unrest. While many are still bullish on the stock market, more sober-minded analysts see stocks soon losing over half their value. The increasing income gap and swelling national debt create an even more dangerous economic environment.
Economist Martin Feldstein, one-time Chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisors, believes that the current responses of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors are short-term fixes that will lead to higher inflation and higher interest rates in the future. Beyond that, artificially low rates relieve the pressure on the president and Congress to address the fiscal deficit. Although the Fed had previously held to a two-percent ceiling on inflation, Feldstein notes in the Wall Street Journal, it is now allowing that the limit will be exceeded. What can this mean for the financial and social future?
Higher inflation leads to, of course, higher prices. It bears noting that many news outlets will broadcast the “core inflation rate” that excludes food and energy from its factors. The reason behind this is that other variables than money supply, e.g. weather and geology, will affect the prices of these commodities. Yet these necessities are nonetheless subject to monetary policies, and are fundamental to survival should hard times come in the wake of economic meltdown. For this reason—and others—the importance of building a comprehensive survival kit in advance can not be overstated. Should scarcity and desperation hit American shores, those with the foresight to store and courage to defend will fare better than others.
A survival kit adequate to a future financial implosion will be more than what might be found in a backpacker magazine. Stockpiling dried foods, for example, is preferable to cans and jars in that these foods use less space. Storing one gallon of water per day for each person and pet in the household is essential for survival. A two-week supply of food and water should be saved at a minimum. Commercially bottled water is likely the safest option for storage. In addition, thorough preparation will account for the storage of a gasoline reserve. Whether for an emergency generator of for extended travel, gasoline should be stored below 70 degrees in appropriate fuel cans—the larger the better—and supplemented with additives that preserve potency and slow evaporation.
Protection of supplies and loved ones during times of desperation and social unrest is crucial. For an all-purpose firearm, the 9mm handgun is widely acknowledged as effective and easy to use. Consequently, no survival kit is complete without lots of 9mm ammo. Unfortunately, recent years have seen unprecedented ammunition purchases by government agencies and anxious gun owners, so time should not be wasted in obtaining a significant cache. Without sufficient protection, the hard work of acquiring and storing supplies becomes futile.
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Lucid Dreaming | Just an observation about what triggers lucidity for me
I ended up with 2 major categories:
1.Doing a RC or attaining lucidity based on things Ive learned about lucid dreaming.
Doing a RC out of habit
Recognized I was dreaming based on the feeling of a dream
Recognizing a dream sign
Remembering I was awake moments before
2.Doing a RC or attaining lucidity based on an emotional response to an event (WTF! moments).
Event something that is impossible or defies logic (My wife is flying)
Event seeing something that I know isnt correct (I look in the mirror and I have perfect abs)
Event highly improbable (finding a bunch of money on the ground)
For the first category makes up 16% of my LDs. The second category makes up 84% of my LDs. So for a DILD (Dream Induced Lucid Dream) it appears to me that a reasonably strong emotional response stands a better chance of triggering a reality check/lucidity than just a habit. The trick is to actually have that emotional response to an event. I have many events that should be WTF moments in my normal dreams, and due to dream logic I have very little emotional response.
Currently I am working on making RCs into a strong habit and hoping it transfers to my dream life. I may also have to try to pay more attention to my emotional state, and do reality checks when have, even small, WTF moments.
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Lucid Dreaming | Natural Lucid Dreaming?
I think I am beginning to become what one might consider a "Natural Lucid Dreamer", I don't reality check lately but when I am in a dream I just realize that I am dreaming due to either just thinking it up out of nowhere, or realizing this wouldn't happen in real life.
The problem that I am having in lucid dreaming is truly attaining lucidity and trying to stay in the dream.
By that I mean when I do realize that I am in a dream, I do not feel like I am fully conscious and just fuzzily feel in a dream, like I know I am dreaming but am not in FULL control. But before I can even do stuff to attain full lucidity I have the other problem of trying to stay in a dream.
Whenever I get lucid in a dream, my eyelids become heavy and I have the impulse to close them, and even if I close them for the slightest second I find myself woken up and mad that about what I just did!
If I could fix these two problems, I think I would be on my path to lucid dreaming very often!
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Lucid Dreaming | I feel like I can get a LD easily, but how?
By the way, I'm a 15 year old girl.
Soo... Any advice?
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Chess Puzzle | 3/12/2014 - Forcing The Way Through
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | Lucid Dreaming Made Easy
Better to read it for yourself since it's not even 30 pages long. But in a nutshell, it gave some interesting information I wanted to share real quick. It talks about how through proper communication with the subconscious mind, you can reach your goals much easier to attain whatever you want, even lucid dreaming. The author doesn't mention lucid dreaming, but it still applies. I won't mention everything there is to know, as you can read it for yourself, just how it applies to lucid dreaming.
You could say this is using mind over matter to your advantage. To quote a fellow member, "Don't think it will work. Believe it will work." This isn't anything new or implausible. Subliminal messaging and affirmations are all about programing the subconscious mind, and they're proven to work. But these messages have to bypass the conscious mind's barriers, because it doesn't accept ideas that aren't 100% logical. The subconscious is the believer, while the conscious is the thinker. Ultimately, it's what we believe that makes up the majority of who we are and how we behave.
Important Detail the Author Doesn't Mention
When programing the subconscious mind, sometimes people ask you to relax before receiving affirmations, or there are subliminal messaging videos that flash images at you. The former is to put you in a relaxed state of mind, where you're closer to the subconscious and more likely to accept the affirmations. There are multiple states our minds go through like Beta, Alpha, Delta, Gamma, and Theta (you can look those up). Suffice it to say, the more alert you are, the more conscious. The more relaxed, the more subconscious.
And then, the reason subliminal messaging videos have audio below your hearing level, or images appearing too fast to see, is so your conscious mind can't decipher them and decide whether or not to accept them. This way, it goes straight to your subconscious which doesn't discriminate, it simply believes in whatever you tell it.
Why MILD Works for Some, but not Others
Mnemonic Induced Lucid Dreams are nothing but affirmations. If MILD has failed you in the past, or you're wondering how to make it work better, the book will teach you how for sure. You'll be amazed how easy the steps needed are. Just whatever information it teaches about how to use affirmations, apply it to MILD, and you'll definitely see improvement.
Conclusion: A Bonus Tool to Help
Before I mention the tool, let me add that the author mentions at the end things about past lives and how it might impede you. He argues there's steps you have to take in that subject to ensure this information works. But since past lives have yet to be proven, take what he says with a grain of salt as far as that is concerned.
Finally, when doing affirmations, yes, you want to be relaxed as explained above. The author says you should try relaxing for at least five minutes, and so do I. But if you're lazy like me, and don't like spending around 15 minutes before you're finally relaxed, well, there's technology to help. Use Theta waves to help your mind achieve that natural state which is very relaxed. You can find them on YouTube. Some use music, others have affirmations in them already. But I can tell you, I was yawning so much I was that relaxed, for only 5 minutes! I don't expect you just to take my word for it, though. Do your homework first, like I did. At the very least, it will make using Theta waves more reassuring because you'll understand how and why they work. The video I use is linked below, without any music.
1hr Theta Binaural Beat Session (7hz) ~ Pure - YouTube
That's it. With this new information, you'll find lucid dreaming is indeed made much easier. I hope what I shared helps you.
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Lucid Dreaming | Does this count as Sleep Paralysis? (Please help!)
So, I'm pretty sure it was SP. But just to be sure... here's how it went.
Sleep Prep
I was working on an essay for school, and spent till 10 PM finishing it up. Then I ate a whole banana (I heard it helps increase the vividness of dreams or whatever). Then I got into bed at around 11 PM.... I probably fell asleep sometime at 12 PM.
Sleep
So I slept. I was doing MILD... chanting "I want to have a lucid dream tonight!" to myself in my head, and before I knew it, I was asleep. I recall a pretty long dream (though it wasn't lucid).
Awakening
I woke up some time at 5:30 AM. Went out for a little drink of water and to use the bathroom. Jotted down some dream tags so I'll remember them in the morning. Then I went back to bed and did MILD again....
Back to Bed
I kept getting distracted while doing MILD... seeing images, hearing music, etc. But I resolved to keep MILDing... it has always helped me get to sleep normally too (like counting sheep minus the counting because counting makes you think way too much!).
BUT I COULDN'T SLEEP FOR THE LONGEST TIME. I'd feel my body start to vibrate as it prepares itself to paralyze.... but no matter what I do, I just couldn't get my mind to sleep. Also, I could easily break "the spell" by moving around a bit, and I did this very often that night, because I kept finding myself lying in uncomfortable positions and whatnot. Vibrations --> reset --> vibrations --> reset... this happened many many times. I got so sick and tired of it I didn't even want to be lucid anymore. I just wanted to freakin sleep because I'm tired and whatnot.
I was also HUNGRY, and COLD. I tried to stick it out and ignore the hunger. Then I suddenly had the idea to put on an extra blanket (it took me that long... genius...).... suddenly, after I got the blanket on and the temperature has improved and all...
SLEEP PARALYSIS STRIKES. Or at least, what I think is Sleep Paralysis. Please let me know if this is sleep paralysis!
Sleep Paralysis (?)
I heard my mom calling me to wake up. She said, "Wake up! Wake up!" But her voice was oddly distorted. I guess you can say it sounds kinda "demonic." Or, in music production terms... bitcrushed and vocoded. And distant yet close. My eyes were still closed. I felt freaked out for a second, then I noticed some intense vibrations going on in my head region. My body was vibrating, like it usually does right before I fall asleep... but at a much intenser intensity! I tried moving my arms and legs and found that I COULDN'T. Now, I'm not TOO sure how much I actually tried to move them. I get pretty lazy sometimes. But I'm pretty sure that it was more difficult than usual to move them. I never ended up moving them. I thought to myself, "Dang, this must be sleep paralysis then!" and then stop feeling freaked out at once. I then concentrated on falling deeper into sleep, the vibrations got even intenser. I heard my mom's demonic bitcrushed vocoded voice again.... "Come on, wake up!"
I started trying to open my dream eyes. Now THIS is where I'm unsure.... Was I really dreaming yet? Or was I just imagining things?
I tried to open my dream eyes and I saw my room in front of me. But the lighting was different. It was all yellow and warm and nice. Then I mentally forced myself to IMAGINE myself walking out of bed and into the hallway. But it was so realistic! I usually can't visualize very well in first person, but this was perfect... It was really dreamlike.
The only thing that made it seem strange to me was the fact that I was still aware of my physical real life body lying there. At the same time, I was aware of walking down the hallway.
Then before I had the chance to do much, it was time to wake up and get ready for school, and then I REALLY woke up.
I tried to slip back to sleep again and found that there were still some left over numbing sensations (but I can move again).
The end.
Does this count as sleep paralysis? The fact that I couldn't move is questionable because I really don't know how much I really tried. But take my mom's messed up voice into consideration... the buzzing, numbing sensations... and the dual awareness of my two bodies... I don't know, I'm pretty sure that was SP but I just want to be extra sure, since I've read around on how it's supposedly really rare, and I may as well just be experiencing REM Atonia or something like that.
Thanks! Sorry that was a pretty long post, but I would really appreciate any feedback! ^^
EDIT: No monsters or demons or anything of that sort... when I opened my eyes, the room was nice and safe. I kind of felt a presence, but not in my room. I felt people in the house in general, because when I'm awake, there are people in my house... in general. o_o I personally don't believe my dreams have anything to do with the spiritual world, nor do they take me to other dimensions. I think it's just something I experience in my own head, privately. So, free of cultural beliefs, I didn't experience anything traditionally "scary"... except for the bitcrushed vocoded mom voice.. but I expose myself to THAT pretty often when I'm making my music, haha. Just thinking "whoah, that's some messed up Daft Punk" takes away the fear. xD
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Lucid Dreaming | Was this a lucid?
Iv been trying to learn to lucid the last two weeks, keeping a dream journal and doing reality checks daily. For my RC i look at my hands and say 'next time i am dreaming i will look at my hands and realize i am dreaming', then i count my fingers while repeating it, try to put my finger through my hand and finally rub my hands together.
Last night i had a weird, semi lucid ish which is similar to the first semi lucid i had over a year ago. This is all i remember:
I was in a room, with my brother i think and someone said something to me, i cant remember exactly what but it just didnt make sense and i stopped mid dream and thought 'wait this cant be right'. 'Maybe im dreaming' so i tried to push my finger through my hand and it went through, i did it again then counted my fingers and i had a weird extra pinky tacked onto my right hand. I rubbed my hands together a few times. The dream didnt feel clear, it was groggy and i didnt get the 'wow' feeling. i just thought i better not get excited and wake myself up.
I think i fell back asleep properly then though because thats all i can remember of it and i dont think i woke up afterwards, though i did remember it till morning. The dream itself was so cloudy that im not even sure it was a lucid even though i did realize i was dreaming.
What to ye think? Was this a lucid? Am i getting close? :cheeky:
(Apologies if this is in the wrong place!)
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Chess Puzzle | 3/11/2014 - Too Much Attack, Not Enough Defense
Monday, March 10, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | Principles of Success - Lose Your Ego!
I have learned so much since I started. And the reason for this is because I have been working on progress and finding the secret and general principles of success.
Here are some areas of my life that I have fixed because of my hunger for understanding success:
(If you wonder why I use pictures, it's not to brag or anything, anyone can do what I have done, it's just to make it a little more eye-catching than a big wall of text.)
Lucid Dreaming: Honestly I just became a really good writer and learned some good theories. I had alot of success but I was definitely not a guy that could lucid dream at will. But at my best I could have one short moment of lucidity once a week.
But I did become a Dream Guide on the forum and later on a Moderator. I then let go of this position for a personal reason that I will discuss later on in this text.
Understanding Female and my own Male Psychology (Game, Pick-up): I went from being a shy, insecure little boy to become a confident, witty, leading man. Stopped worrying about what people thought of me (but especially what I thought of myself) and from having lots of crushes on girls that just friendzoned me, I am now well what people would call a player probably.
But I am not a douchebag, I am honest with my intention with girls and now girls got crushes on me.
I went from being worried about how I walked with my feet on a sidewalk (yes I was that messed up!) to now being able to run up to a total stranger and get numbers, dates etc.)
Building Muscle: I used to be skinny and not even being noticed by girls. Now I got girls and even guy friends pointing out how lean and buff I am. And well I am still working on this area, but I have learned how to get result.
Becoming a Teacher: I used to be afraid of talking to a crowd or even small groups. But now I am studying to become a teacher and by using the principles of success I am striving to become the most entertaining and outgoing teacher in the world.
I have always had a high willpower and worked on my self. But when I found the videos by Owen Cook on Youtube, my life basically exploded! And I have learned the principles of success and got it confirmed through experience.
I will soon talk about the HOW (How to get success), but first I need to mention the WHY. Why am I even mentioning my success with things outside of the lucid dreaming topic?
And the reason for that is partly that I want to make it even clearer that it's the same principles for success no matter what you want to improve at. And it's partly that it might helps someone else.
I will begin by sharing a very long speech by Owen Cook aka Tyler:
The Truth About Success 2 -- Execution, Learning From Failure, Not Being A Lazy Slug - YouTube Skip to: 09:00
I am so hooked to his videos that I can watch his 2-3 hours videos without a break.
What I noticed after starting practising lucid dreaming and flirting with women at the same was that it had the same principles. So I then started to apply that at everything in my life. So to make it clear I am going to explain the process of mastering lucid dreaming and contrast it with learning to flirt with girls as odd as it may sound.
Here goes:
LOSE YOUR EGO!
This is what differs a successful person from a well.. a newbie or a person that gives up.
Most people that hears about lucid dreaming, read about some technique and get really high expectations and try it out and when they don't get their desired result, they blame the technique and say "It didn't work..". A good example would be the REM-Mask that promise you to get lucid instantly with the help of blinking lights while you are in REM sleep.
Why do you think the term pick up lines exist? Because our society and people are addicted to FAST, NO EFFORT based solutions. Is it realistic to think that a girl would like you just because you said "Did it hurt? ... When you fell from heaven angel." or to think that a cheap eyemask can detect rem sleep and make you lucid in well a blink of an eye?
Of course not! The reason to why we want to believe this is because we don't want to admit to ourselves that we need to take a journey and gain experience and knowledge of our own awareness and when it comes to girls, female psychology or maybe just social interactions. Although our brains is actually designed to save time and energy, so it's not entirely our fault. But now when you know it, you basically took the red pill and don't have any other excuse to not execute other than that, that you are lazy.
Sorry but that is the truth and if you get offended by this, you can come up with some lame excuse like I don't have time for meeting girls or I don't have time for lucid dreaming. This excuse is the blue pill that the majority of the population choose to take. And well I have taken that blue pill many times: (I don't have time for a Dream Journal, I don't like clubs, girls in clubs are so uptight, I am too short and skinny for girls to like me etc.)
If you erase the lazy mind, your excuses and ego (the self-image) out of the equation, you will see that anything that you want to be successful at is a really easy journey in theory.
How to get good at lucid dreaming: Practise every night, and even if you fail a hundred nights in a row, you will still slowly improve and learn from your failures and eventually atleast get one lucid dream. And now you got one lucid dream, then you continue to practise and learn more lessons and then you get another lucid dream. After more nights you will see a pattern and have had 5-10 lucid dreams and understand lucidity and your own awareness more and more.
How to get good at flirting with girls: Go out! Clubs, parks any place where you can meet girls. Approach lots of girls and even if you get rejected 25 in a row (I did, because I was a nervous creep), you will always meet atleast ONE girl that likes you, and look at that now you got one girl. Then you keep going out and slowly improve the way you behave, all wrong behaviors will fix themselves if you go out alot. And then you'll meet another girl, and after months of doing this you will have 5-10 girls that likes you and then it just escalates because you understand yourself, female psychology and social interactions more and more.
Tylers video about this: Tyler's Bizarre Voices Explained -- How Vocabulary Influences Perception And Emotional Response - YouTube
If you practise every night for 11 YEARS?! How is it even possible to be bad at it?
Ok I do realize that it is not easy to approach a random stranger or to practise lucid dreaming every night.
But it wouldn't ben fun if it was easy, it's the very reason that it is hard that makes it great!
Believe me I have had nights where I went home and cried because I was too afraid to approach someone for 4 hours!
Or had mornings when I wake up and not had a lucid dream, because I fell asleep by WILDing.
But also keep in mind that this is really irrational, because practising flirting by approaching strangers or practising lucid dreaming is almost as rare as have traveled to the moon. Ok it might be an exaggeration, but you get my point.
Almost nobody does this! So don't judge your result, judge your inability to take action!
So the paradoxical lesson of losing your ego is that if you want result don't focus on result, focus on the actions that gives you the result.
My original idea was to share all the principle of success, but I realize now that it would be too much to read, and this is already becoming a wall of text. So I am going to wait with that and if people find this helpful I'll continue the writing.
Also a shout out: I am going to lose my ego and admit to myself that I don't know ANYTHING about lucid dreaming.
And I am basically going to restart my journey to really demonstrate the power of just taking action.
So in my Dream Journal from now on, I am going to write down as many nights of practise as I can.
I will share it in my Dreamviews Dream Journal as well from time to time.
That was all from me, peace! :meditate:
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Sunday, March 9, 2014
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | Philosophies of Lucid Dreaming
This is a thread for all the different philosophies, I think that analogies for this can help a lot of people. My philosophy as you might have seen somewhere else on the forum:
Dual awareness
In my opinion, you need three things in order to get lucid:
Sleep
General Dream Awareness
State Awareness
I have used this as the three things that I think are needed to get lucid. You need to be asleep (which we all do anyways), Have enough awareness in a dream to actually be there and think for yourself, and have enough of a grasp on dreams that even on the fly, your mind will think "Dream" when something is wrong or just at the start of the dream.
BB's Ideas, Thoughts, and Ramblings
^^ It is all in this post.
Analogy:
In order to be successful in sports (really anything, going with sports for a narrow analogy) you need to do three things:
play (sleep)
pay attention when you are playing (general dream awareness)
know how to play correctly (state awareness)
If you don't play enough, you can't get good at it.
If you spend a lot of time just playing without paying attention, or without knowing how to do it right, you will develop bad habits in game, (this is where most start at with LDing, so we have to overcome all of our bad habits and that is why it gets easier and easier to LD because you are over all the bad habits)
If you know how to play correctly, but don't play enough you won't be able to get better than you ever were, it doesn't matter if you pay attention when you are playing because you don't have enough experience at one time to get better. If you get experience and don't get it close together, then it doesn't really stack up.
This one is confusing a bit
If you know how to play correctly and you do play often, but don't pay attention to the game, then you will find yourself playing correctly without thinking. This is good in sports but not in lucidity. (This is what some call "false lucidity", technically you are lucid, but in the dream you will know that you are dreaming but not do much about it, or just do random things that you have thought about doing without actually thinking in a dream)
Hope that was written well... I am freaking tired.
Sageous posted this:
In a sense, LDing is a 3-legged stool. The first leg is the state of dreaming itself, and the second and third legs are self-awareness and memory. The absence of any one of these legs means the stool topples and poof! No lucidity. Its that simple. All the machines, gurus, techniques, and supplements in the world would do nothing, I knew, until I mastered these two things.
Of course I havent yet mastered either; that might never happen. Although I -- and any successful LDer, I must assume -- had some grasp of these legs, my hold was far too tenuous to seek the things that I knew I should be able to find. But the act of finally making self-awareness and memory a priority elevated my LDing experience from one of enjoying the wonders of my dreams as supplied by my dreaming mind to one of real control, creativity, discovery, and growth. Since improving my self-awareness, some of my dreams, I think, have been downright transcendental in the last few years, and I believe it is because I simplified my quest. Now, for those still with me, the fundamentals:
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. This sounds like a no-brainer, but its a lot harder to master than it sounds. Most people are content to live their entire lives without a moment of self-awareness, content to let the events of their world wash over them and to remain unaware of how the things they do and say touch those events sort of living life like its a dream, I suppose. Perfecting self-awareness is simple: pay attention! Unfortunately, humans are naturally wired to not pay this sort of attention, so it takes a lot of work to stay focused and not lapse back into the easy strides taken by those who travel life without ever once checking the path.
Memory is more of a physical issue, because it is turned off during sleep, naturally out of reach of dreamers. This is why so many things in your dreams seem so normal and obvious, but in reality are impossible. Turning memory back on is not easy, but it can be done. Indeed, there are many mnemonic techniques available that will help you, but suffice it for now to say that if you cant remember during a dream that your waking life body is sleeping right where you left it, you might never be able to step above the lowest levels of lucidity. And yes, your dreams are certainly filled with remembered images; but these images are awash in a matrix of archetypes and powerful long-term memories. Short-term memory, and active long-term memory (the thing that reminds you that cows really cant fly), are naturally inaccessible.
I hope that this is a thread that noobs can learn from so that they can get a better grasp on what it takes to LD. I think that a lot of them are similar in ways, but it is the tiny differences that I think that make the difference for it to click for someone.
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Lucid Dreaming | Could i WILD at this time?
But yesterday i tried to wake myself up by drinking lots of water( around 0.5 L).
I woke up at around 6 oclock and i could clearley remember a dream like it happend a secound ago.
The i want to the bathroom, and went back to bed.
I fell asleep instantley and i woke up an hour later.
Then i could clearley remember very very vivid and long dreams.
Do you think i could DEILD or WILD at this time doing this???
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Chess Puzzle | 3/8/2014 - Endgame Fundamentals
Friday, March 7, 2014
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | How often do you lucid dream on school days
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Lucid Dreaming | I think I almost had a lucid dream?
I wonder if you can transition from a regular dream to a lucid dream or if most people just go right into a lucid dream.
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FEMA – Emergency Food and Water in an Emergency
For those new to preparedness the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) website might be a first stop in their quest to get information. There are actually some good materials there.
One downloadable file provided is the PDF called “Food and Water in an Emergency“. In this 15 page document the basics of disaster preparedness are covered fairly well. Of course subjects such as firearms and personal defense are not covered but the foundations of survival are – food and water. The creation of a disaster survival kit is also discussed with a decent content list.
If every citizen read and took action based on what is in this PDF that our tax dollars have paid for – this country as a whole would be a lot better off.
Check it out below. It’s a start.
Rourke
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | Fryingman's one month get your butt in and out of bed on time CHALLENGE!
I do a LOT of day time practice, I journal fairly regularly (I *always* try for recall, and always reach for more and more), and yet my LD frequency is fairly stable at only about 3-6 per month. I go a couple weeks with nothing, get one or two, then a couple more weeks with nothing, then one or two, etc. My goal is multiple per night every night, so I have a ways to go.
So, what am I not doing right? Sleeeeeeep scheeeeeduuuuuulllle!!! My to-bed and up-from-bed times are all over the map. I go to bed late and compensate by staying in bed late. After all I want those dreams! My poor body must be so confused it's like it's always mildly jet lagged, it never knows when it's going to get some sleep.
OK so time to grab the bull by the horns. For one month I dedicate myself to going to bed before midnight (goal is 11pm but that's pretty hard in my family), and get out of bed no later than 9am, regardless of how much I've slept/dreamt. I'll consider longer sleeping and CAT after this month, I want to see the effect of a very rigorous to-bed and out-of-bed schedule. And no naps for this month.
Day 1: last night: in bed at 23:51, and out of bed at 08:58.
Anyone else struggling with a bad sleep schedule, the more the merrier, so join me for this experiment!
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Lucid Dreaming | Falling asleep in a dream
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Lucid Dreaming | WILD Help
I first felt my ears kinda pop, a sort of first sign that I am approaching sleep.
Then as I became more sleepy, I felt myself shaking, almost like an earthquake, and my eyes were fighting to stay closed....
I did kinda see imagery starting to appear, but I couldn't keep my breath even or my eyes closed.
Any tips? Was that REM? How do I maintain an even breath? Was I almost lucid?
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Lucid Dreaming | Question about meditation
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Lucid Dreaming | Trouble Inducing MILDs
I think my prospective memory is good, e.g. when going to bed at night, I would usually have a brief thought about something I need to do in the morning, and I always remember it upon awakening; so I dont think prospective memory is the problem.
If anything, I think the problem is that I cant take the intention seriously, i.e. I find the idea to set your mind to notice something in a dream very vague, and for some reason, I never think it will work. I'm not really sure what the problem could be.
Any advice? Thanks for your responses. ;)
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Lucid Dreaming | Not Snapping to Reality Checks?
Is there any reason why i didnt realize i was in a dream?
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Monday, March 3, 2014
Remote Control Anything With A PS3 Controller
When looking for a remote control for your next project, you might want to look in your living room. Wii controllers are a hacker’s favorite, but wagging an electronic wand around isn’t the greatest for remote control planes, cars, tanks, and multicopters. What you need for this is dual analog controls, something every playstation since the 90s has included.
[Marcel] created a replacement electronics board for the Sony DualShock 3 controller for just this purpose. With this board, an XBee, and an old controller, it’s easy to add dual analog control and a whole lot of buttons to any project using an XBee receiver.
The replacement board is based on the ATMega328p uC, includes a Lipo charge circuit and power supply, and inputs for the analog sticks and all the button boards inside the DualShock controller.
Yes, we have seen an earlier version of [Marcel]‘s project before, but this time he’s added a few new features – the rumble now works and thanks to multiple people unable or unwilling to spin a few boards, [Marcel] has put up an Indiegogo campaign.
Video below.
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Sunday, March 2, 2014
Lucid Dreaming | Come join LD competition #17! Improve your recall, get more lucids! Make friends!
Come join the latest competition which is now accepting sign-ups. I hope the admins won't mind me spamming a few different forum areas with the news since I think the competitions are under-advertised as they are one of the best features of this site.
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Lucid Dreaming | Gaining lucidity, some questions?
I've never actually had a full on lucid dream. I've had excellent dream recall since childhood, and it's easy for me to recall 3 or 4 dreams had during the night, especially if woken up during or just after each period of REM sleep (which I've read is natural).
The closest I've ever come to a lucid dream has only been semi lucidity, and for some reason I would become semi lucid ONLY in nightmares. During these nightmares I suddenly get a sense of awareness and say to myself "wait, I'm dreaming!". It's then that I realize if I just let whatevers chasing me "get me", I'll wake up and won't have to deal with the nightmare anymore. So I'll stand still and face whatever person/creature I'm running from until it kind of runs into me or hits me with whatever weapon it's carrying, and my head will go black and I will wake up. I imagine I've had chances to go full lucid, but since I'm overcome with fear of the nightmare I use my semi lucidity to make the dream end as soon as possible. The last time I remember having any sort of control over a dream was during a semi-nightmare. I was being chased by a giant lizard/snake monster, and stopped to talk to someone who I think was trying to help me. I looked at them to talk and they had no pupils. I stopped and said "That's creepy, I'm not talking to you without pupils", so I shook my hand at them and they blinked, and opened their eyes this time with pupils. I said "that's better" and we continued talking. That was the extent of my lucidity haha.
Now, the last 2 days I have been trying to go to bed earlier, and I've been using MILD as I go to sleep (this is coupled with many reality checks throughout the day).
My first day of doing MILDS, I was able to get to the point where I was slipping off to sleep, while chanting my dream affirmations "I WILL have a lucid dream tonight" and "Tonight I will consult with my inner creativity". I finally fell asleep and my dream started, but it had nothing to do with my dream affirmation. I failed my first reality check right out of the gate (taking off my glasses) because I started my dream with no glasses! ARGH. So I never became lucid, and instead I am doing different reality checks. After I woke up I wrote down my dream and colour coded important objects, people, and feelings. I plan on keeping my dream journal and doing this for at least 2/3 weeks to try and find my dream sign.
My second day I had a really hard time getting to sleep because I sleep with my boyfriend and he stayed up very late on the computer, which not only made my MILD attempts very hard, but I was unable to practice my WBTS method as well. I ended up giving up on my MILDS and just trying to sleep at all. I managed to get to sleep. During the night I naturally awoke 3 times, each time I laid in bed for a minute until the dream I was having came rushing back. I then got up and typed it down along with the time in which I woke up, and went back to sleep (With MILD the firs time, without the last 2 times). So by the time I woke up for the day I had 1 fairly detailed dream along with 2 shorter dreams (because I ended up waking up much quicker the last 2 times). Still no lucidity, not even a hint that my dream affirmations made it into my subconscious XP
So it's been 2 days, I have 4 dreams in my dream journal right now, and so far my reoccurring dream signs have been my Grandmother, my 2 sisters, and my boyfriend. I'm not using these as actual dream signs JUST yet because I've had many dreams where they have not been present. My dreams are still pretty blurry and I never seem to have any idea that I may be dreaming, unless it is a nightmare.
My reality checks are now: STOP and say "Am I dreaming?". Imagine the letters appearing on a surface in front of me. I look around and start pointing out things like, "My vision is not blurry, everything is clear and vivid. I feel at ease, I can read text twice or more without it changing, everything seems in order." I then take a few natural breaths, and plug my nose during the start of a breath. Obviously if I'm not dreaming I can't breathe, but I believe that I will be able to breathe through my hand. Then I take two fingers and rub my palm, and press down. I try and believe that they will go through, and I imagine what it would feel like if they did.
I plan on continuing my MILDS and WBTS method each night, and today I'm trying some dream incubation throughout the day. I'm not using anything tricky or specific, just "I will have a lucid dream tonight" or "I will remember I am dreaming tonight."
I know one shouldn't be turned down by not gaining lucidity immediately! I'm trying to stay positive. I'm curious as to whether my methods sound right or not? (I know that after awhile people normally play with what works for them personally, but I'm talking strictly for beginners) Any help, advice or insight into my situations would be great!
Also I didn't write down the dreams I've had in case this post gets way longer than it should >< If anyone thinks having them up would help though, I definitely will add them in!
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