Sunday, November 30, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | What happened with Masks: Is any company still Working on Something?

There articles from 2012 or 2013 still talking about how the Nova dreamer 2 was coming out soon. But apparently that's over. Never happend



Then the Remee lucid dreaming mask had negative reviews and it wasn't successful because it can't detect REM periods so what's the point.



Other masks i read in the article say

Aurora by iWinks is destined to be a great mask for Lucid dreaming and it will be able to detect REM periods.

But I quite don't get it, is it already being sold??? It doesn't seem like it. It's still not out, it seems.



wait i'm reading the site and it says It ships 2014 June. Where do they sell it?





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Chess Puzzle | 11/30/2014 - Mate in 2

Friday, November 28, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | After the SSILD, getting back in.

How should I get back into an LD with ssild once I wake up. I mean if it its too late to use deild, then do I have to do the cycles all over again, shorter cycles? Longer? Thanks.





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Chess Puzzle | 11/28/2014 - Inch By Inch





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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | Incubation RC

I don't know if anyone else has already made a thread about this, but I'm sorry if there is one already.



OK so I was thinking about dream incubation today, and how it could help a lot with dream control or if you want to go to a certain place or meet a certain person. Then an idea suddenly hit me...you could use incubation as an RC! I then remembered threads about incubating dream signs, and the VILD technique (which is basically just incubating a certain room into your dreams to get you lucid) My thoughts on those were that with the dream signs, those couldn't be everywhere with you in the dream, and I thought that for the VILD you wouldn't be able to dream about a single place in all your dreams because all my dreams happen in very different places every time. (I could be wrong, these are just my thoughts and how I feel)



So anyways what if you started to visualize something that was on you that you could use a constant RC. For example, I thought of using a watch with the words "I'm Dreaming" written where the time should be. You may be thinking that that wouldn't be a constant RC, because you'd have to look at the watch to become lucid and you can't constantly be looking at your watch. But what if you incubate the feeling of the watch on your wrist as well? (Or any other item you may want to use) Then whenever you feel the watch you'd look at your wrist and become Lucid.



Of course, you'd still have to look at your wrist throughout the day and see if it is there so if you don't feel the watch in your dreams, you can still spontaneously look at it. I'd couple this with traditional RC's in the beginning, and slowly do less and less of those until this method starts to get me lucid every night.



You could also meditate on the image of this watch on your wrist to implement it even more.



What do you guys think of this technique? I would just go ahead and do it, but I want to see if this would actually work so I don't waste a ton of time working on a method that takes me to a dead end.





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Lucid Dreaming | Balance: For those having trouble with Lucid Dreaming and related stuff.

I think that a lot of people view Lucid Dreaming as a magical way to alter reality and do whatever they want. They initially get very excited and start practicing reality checking and dream journaling. They may even have a couple Lucid Dreams that get them thinking they can do this with no problems. They become cocky. These same people will eventually run into problems attaining lucidity. This is normal. When this happens we can do one of a few things.



Take a closer look at your waking life Do you view Lucid Dreaming as an alternative way to live? You have to be careful. You don't want your brain to view Lucid Dreaming as a threat. Do your meditate? Do you drink too much? Do you take mind altering drugs regularly? Do you live a healthy life style? Do you have healthy relationships? I found that being balanced in waking life yielded positive results in dreams.



Get rid of problems Fight to get rid of those taxing and nagging issues you're dealing with.



"I don't know what to do with my life"

"I want to move out"

"I don't have a girlfriend / boyfriend"

"I'm not good enough"

Etc.



Don't think lucid dreaming can help you with these issues, there are simple ways of solving them, and I recommend you do it right away!





Lucid Dreaming is taxing in your body and if you have unresolved issues, then your brains may be trying to solve or deal or cope with them in your sleep. This is a problem. Try to be a better person everyday, in any way. Maybe be less selfish, make new friends (Even E friends count), go out and treat your self to a movie or a massage, do something for a loved one, etc.



Who knows maybe if you listen to this advice you'll start to manifest someone in your dream that will aware you that you're dreaming!





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Lucid Dreaming | How do i stop myself from getting scared awake?

i've had a long dry spell from lucid dreaming, i've finally managed to experience two spontaneous DILDS but both times as soon as i became aware i was lucid dreaming i felt terrified all of a sudden and voluntarily shake myself awake.



The first time i had this fear i was going to see a monster (despite all i saw was the bottom of a bridge made out of bricks and grass)



The second recent time i attained lucidity i was standing in the middle of my old high school, it was empty but i still felt afraid like last time. then i saw a dream character looking at me from a window it looked like a card board cutout cartoon character with an afro (in retrospect they didn't look scary but in the dream i felt terrified of it) and looking at me as soon as i saw it i got scared and shook my body until i woke up.



I've spent so long feeling frustrated i couldn't lucid dream for what felt like forever but now i finally start having i'm too terrified to stay inside them :(



The point is does anyone have any advice for how i can calm myself down once i attain lucidity?? Also how to handle dream characters that scare me?? thanks





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Chess Puzzle | 11/26/2014 - Nowhere To Go





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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Open Sourcing Satellite Telemetry

Launched in 1978, the International Sun/Earth Explorer 3 was sent on a mission to explore the Earth’s interaction with the sun. Several years later, the spacecraft changed its name to the International Cometary Explorer, sent off to explore orbiting ice balls, and return to Earth earlier this year. Talking to that spacecraft was a huge undertaking, with crowdfunding campaigns, excursions to Arecibo, and mountains of work from a team spanning the globe. Commanding the thrusters onboard the satellite didn’t work – there was no pressure in the tanks – but still the ICE mission continues, and one of the lead radio gurus on the team has put up the telemetry parser/display crafted for the reboot project up on Github.


The guy behind the backend for the ICE/ISEE reboot project should be well-known to Hackaday readers. He’s the guy who came up with a Software Defined Radio source block for a cheap USB TV tuner, waking everyone up to the SDR game. He’s also played air traffic controller by sitting out near an airport with a laptop, and has given talks at Black Hat and DEFCON.


The ICE/ISEE-3 telemetry parser/display allows anyone to listen to the recorded telemetry frames from the satellite, check out what was actually going on, and learn how to communicate with a device without a computer that’s rapidly approaching from millions of miles away. He’s even put some telemetry recordings up on the Internet to practice.


Although the ICE/ISEE-3 reboot project will have to wait another decade or two until the probe makes its way back to our neck of the woods, [Balint] is taking it in stride an organizing a few Software Defined Radio meetups in the San Fransisco area. He just had the first meetup (Video below) where talks ranging from creating a stereo FM transmitter in GNU radio, a visual introduction to DSP for SDR and SETI signals from the Allen Telescope Array were discussed. There will be another meetup in a few weeks at Noisbridge, with some very cool subjects on the roster.






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Lucid Dreaming | Waking Life Journal?

Is it worth writing down all my days events at the end of the day?

I do think it increased my recall but I wanna hear from others.





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Lucid Dreaming | What if we do this?

This might be a stupid post.. but I decided to do it anyway, maybe it's worth something. It's probably not anything you haven't heard before, but what if we adopt the mindset of always, or as often as we can, looking out for weird things in our environment, and doing a quick, effective RC whenever we notice something out of the ordinary?

In theory, this would form a habit, if you do it enough times per day with enough attention and awareness, habit which would carry over in our dreams, which are usually (for most people) full of strange things and events, and trigger lucidity via the RC. I know some people already do this as a side thing, but what if we make it the main thing, or very close, very important?

Of course, since most people's lives aren't filled with constant nonsensical events like a lot of dreams are, we would have to lower our standards for what's considered "out of the ordinary". Such as a person saying something we don't quite understand completely, a misplaced object, a strange looking image, a sudden problem of any magnitude, etc. Whenever that happens, notice that something's strange, (I like to say in my head "that's weird, am I dreaming right now?) and quickly pinch your nose and try to breathe (maybe it's better to try at least 3 exhales? I'm saying because I had the nose pinch RC fail me a couple times in dreams before, I only tried exhaling once when it failed), or try to push your finger through something solid like a wall or your other hand (or both, to be more sure), and if you're in public or somewhere you can't afford to randomly hold your nose and put your hands on things, do a mental RC, like try to make an object float, or change color or shape.

Worth mentioning that, as with most techniques that require your attention throughout the day, it would take a while to get into the habit of noticing things that are out of the ordinary, it would be easy to let strange things go unnoticed and unchecked with a RC. Whenever that happens, I think it would be a good memory exercise to think back of the events that happened earlier and try to identify anything weird and then do a RC.

So yeah.. what do youse think? Worth trying or waste of time?



p.s. I don't think it would require a lot of awareness in order for someone to notice a weird thing in their dreams, because it happened to me before and I am godawful at DILDs, which rely a lot on awareness/self awareness, and I also did very few RCs when I noticed something weird, throughout a period of 3 weeks.





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Lucid Dreaming | how does dream journal help becoming lucid?

I keep one and I have read it but I don't appear to have any luck, how does it work?





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Chess Puzzle | 11/25/2014 - Mate in 3





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Monday, November 24, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | What's the latest time I can go to bed if I plan on remembering my dreams?

As the title says.





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Lucid Dreaming | First Lucid Dream- Why Did It Happen?

I have had lucid dreams before, but none really counted. The only one when I was fully lucid ended after a few seconds. The rest I was just partially lucid.



Last night, I had my first lucid dream. I was not entirely lucid, but I knew I was in a dream and remembered most of reality. I would discard this as mere chance, but in all my dreams that night I was semi-lucid. The difference between last night and any other night was that I was sick, and I went to bed much earlier than I usually do. In fact, I may have not gone to bed that early in months, or even a year. Could this have caused the lucid dream?



Here is a link to the journal about it: First Lucid Dream - Sunset World - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views





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Lucid Dreaming | Sleep Schedule ? /Schedule In General?

Alright so I would be doing this stuff by myself but I just can't push myself to fall asleep at a certain time & ill end up staying up for 2 hours more. I used to be really good at following a schedule a few months ago & I remembered lots of dreams.

I'm just wondering if anyone could give me a schedule to follow by? That way I'd feel that I actually HAVE to do it.



Like good you tell me the time I must be in bed,

The times I should meditate?

What mantra should I use when following asleep ( I know that all mantras would be good if I believe in them, but could you just recommend me one? I had the most luck from one someone gave me)

Is there anyway I could record myself saying the mantra, putting it on loop, and just listening to it as I go to bed?





Sorry for all these questions lol, I'm sure I'm getting better at my recall though.





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Chess Puzzle | 11/24/2014 - Captured





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Sunday, November 23, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | Getting back m Recall?

It feels like I'm dead every morning , like my brain isn't working at all.

About 2 days ago I had a really detailed dream about an albino snake

And this morning I had 2 dream fragments. I honestly didn't get those until I finished meditation and said "RaommGaoom".

I have a dream journal ( I record them on my ipod)

But I still have no luck );



Any help?





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The Panhandle Rancher speaks……Ferguson



The furor at Ferguson, Missouri can be said to arise in part from the Fifth Amendment to our Constitution. This Amendment stipulates that trials for felony violation can commence only after indictment by grand jury. This amendment also protects the accused against double jeopardy (being tried twice for the same crime) and protects the accused from being compelled to reveal information that may be used to incriminate (from which we get the infamous phrase, ‘take the Fifth’).


In our society operating under rule of law, trial juries are the de jour final finder of fact. Prosecutors may have investigators and the Department of Justice the FBI, but it is usually up to a jury to find fact and determine truth. There are exceptions such as when the defendant chooses to have the judge alone act as finder of fact, however it is the trial jury that usually performs this function. By finder of fact, I mean that the trial jury hears evidence and determines guilt by issuance of a finding of not guilty or guilty (there being no finding nor plea of ‘innocent – the defendant is either guilty or not guilty). The role of the trial jury is so central to the rule of law that most judges, and others in the court if they are wise, stand whenever members of the jury enter or depart the courtroom.


Juries exist in several formats. In the case of Ferguson, we are awaiting the decision of their grand jury. Grand juries are usually composed of 16 to 23 members. A grand jury is ‘grand’ because it is [usually] composed of more members than a trial jury. Felony trial juries usually consist of twelve members plus an occasional spare for lengthy trials in case of illness or other reason a regular juror would be otherwise discharged. Grand juries are generally chosen from a subset of registered voters in the community of the accused and serve for a period of time usually less than two years. Members of the trial jury serve only for the period of the trial or until released by the judge.


The function of the grand jury is to make a determination whether the prosecutor’s ‘facts’ constitute sufficient probable cause to bind the accused over for trial. This is done by issuance of either an indictment (or True Bill) or by a ‘No Bill.’ A true bill is an affirmative finding resulting in trial and a no bill is a finding that the prosecution’s facts are insufficient to support charges (absence of probable cause).


Grand juries can command the appearance of witnesses, documents, or other evidence as necessary for their deliberation. Unlike trial court, witnesses before a grand jury have no right to representation by council (and a newspaper has already erroneously bemoaned the fact that witnesses were interviewed by the grand jury without council). The exclusionary rule doesn’t apply either. That is there are no or reduced protections under the Fourth and Sixth Amendments. These of course Do apply to the trial court (Fourth Amendment - protection from unreasonable search and seizure; and Sixth Amendment – speedy and public trial by an impartial jury). Of course we already have the attorney for the Brown family complaining that the Ferguson Grand Jury has taken so much time it seems like a secret trial is taking place.






The Grand Jury operates independently of the trial court. This separation provides a dual measure of relief to the accused, the second being trial court. Grand juries depend heavily upon the prosecutor for procedural processes and information about the law but they also may seek their own such information. Generally it is not necessary for a grand jury decision to be unanimous for issuance of a true bill. The standard of proof is far less here than required of the trial jury where greater protections for the accused exist along with the highest standard of proof.


In federal and most state matters involving non-capital crime, the accused may waive indictment without indicating guilt and proceed directly to trial.


The Ferguson Grand Jury has hopefully reviewed autopsy results, any video or audio records, and interviewed relevant witnesses. Hopefully their deliberations have occurred independent of the real threat of community violence. Can any of you suggest a more fair system for the determination of probable cause?


Is it sad that eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darin Wilson? You bet it is. Life is to be revered and protected. What we don’t and likely cannot know is the exact sequence of events that caused Officer Wilson to shoot Brown until he was dead, dead, dead. How easy it is for us in retrospect and with all amounts of deliberation and additional ‘facts’ to judge Officer Wilson. Unfortunately he did not have large amounts of deliberative time. He was required to assess the situation and act accordingly in the heat of the moment.


Did Officer Wilson reasonably believe that he or others were in serious jeopardy? This is what the Grand Jury will have to decide.


You might inquire, what about the looting and arson surrounding the Ferguson matter?


We have a segment of society seeking any reason to justify illegal actions. Looters and plunderers hiding behind mob action operate outside rule of law and serve to weaken the ties that bind us together as a society. Were it Texas, I’d say send a Ranger. Sadly Missouri has no such revered institution. Meanwhile, Officer Wilson and the nation awaits


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Chess Puzzle | 11/23/2014 - Mate in 3





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Saturday, November 22, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | Are all day type RC's necessary?

So the big thing I guess is to have some sort of constant reality check going for you. (Hukif's Gravity RC, ADA, etc.) My question is...are these necessary to LD? It seems that the people who started LDing when it first become more popular just used RC's at random points or when they see dream signs to get lucid in their dreams. Or they do something that you only do for a few second to a minute at different points throughout the day.



Those people seem to be able to LD at will as well as the people that practiced all day techniques. So could you potentially just do RC's with actual meaningful questioning (and looking around at my environment) to increase your awareness? Would that carry over into dreams as well?





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Lucid Dreaming | Practicing SSILD and MILD for 30 days

As i was satisfied of practicing SSILD for 30 days and i got good results on dream recall and vividness, i want to practice SSILD with MILD for another 30 days to achieve constant LDs.



I think by gradually increasing the awareness everyday, having LD is not determined by chance any more and it would be more predictable.



every one is welcome to join!!!!:):):)



the technique:

1- doing the SSILD cycles

2- after each 2 to 3 cycles, we should think about a dream we had before and then we visualize we are lucid in that dream.

3- we continue step 1 and 2 until we fall sleep.



to prevent falling sleep prematurely, you can raise your arm and do the step 1 and 2 and 3. Then allow your arm to fall and do some extra cycles and then sleep.



good luck:D





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Lucid Dreaming | Why does simply writing down my dreams in the morning increase my lucidity chances so much?

I have noticed a very interesting "trend" in my case - whenever I go to bed at a reasonable time and then wake up a few hours before I want to get up, I almost always get some form of False Awakening, and usually become lucid, if I write down my dreams in as much detail as possible before falling asleep again.

However, if I don't do this, then I will simply have an ordinary dream and not become lucid.



Why does my writing down my dreams have this much of an effect on whether or not I become lucid when I fall back to sleep?



I always stay in bed while writing down the dreams, if that matters.





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Chess Puzzle | 11/22/2014 - Pinned But Still Wins





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Friday, November 21, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | Still Cannot WBTB

I posted a thread explaining on how for some reason I always go back to sleep when I should WBTB. Someone recommended drinking a lot of water before going to sleep, which I did. I woke up some time during the night, went to the bathroom, went back to sleep. I was at most 25% conscious and in the morning I barely even remembered it. What can I do to solve this issue? I can't make any progress if I can't even WBTB.





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Lucid Dreaming | Words to Trigger Reality Checks

Welp, I made a thread for this! I'm not sure if this is a well-known method so I apologise in advance if it is.



So I've noticed that I've set triggers to certain words, and that causes me to reality check or try to use telekinesis on various objects when I think, hear or say them. Sort of like a sudden jolt of awareness. Words that I've used are words like lucid, dream, weird, strange, odd, impossible, or any other variations of these. I think that if I keep making these words triggering, then it will eventually get me lucid.



Perhaps this may be useful to you guys too? You can even change the words to your liking. Not gonna lie, I've only been using it for a couple of days and I have yet to get lucid since a while ago, so you have the right to be skeptic. I just really wanted to post this. Oh, and NyxCC has some excellent ideas on what else this method could do:




Quote:




Originally Posted by NyxCC View Post

Makes you more aware of what you are saying and thinking plus gets you into the habit of frequent RCs. Come to think of it, word triggers opens a wide area for RCs. One could use very specific triggers or frequent triggers such as "me" and "I" which means even more frequent RCs. Me? Who is that, where was I, etc.




Thoughts on this?





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Lucid Dreaming | Recognising the people in HIs

I've been doing an experiment where I try to recognise the people who appear in my HIs as I'm drifting off to sleep. I will verbalise their name - for example, "it's Paul!" The action has carried over to my dreams to some extent but I'm not sure how to tweak the practice so it makes me lucid. I'm also recognising the speech that appears in my HHs. It's usually quite strange, but intelligible. Hopefully it will lead to a new technique.





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Chess Puzzle | 11/21/2014 - On To The Next





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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | Virtual reality might have crippled my lucid dreaming capacity!

Hello! I've been practicing lucid dreaming for a while now due to a project I worked on back in college. So here is some background on my problem. When I dream, particularly during nightmares, I perform my reality check which consists of counting my fingers and trying to make something unusual happen. However my dream self seems to get confused with the results. Its hard to explain, but basically I fail a reality check, realize I'm not awake, but cant seem to fully process what that actually means. I will then continue on the dream sequence aware that I can influence everything but not entirely sure why I can do it.



Or even stranger still, I wont perform a reality check, but if something becomes frustrating or scary from within my dream I suddenly acknowledge I have the capacity to take control of or change the situation on command, but my dream self can't figure out why, or what even led me to realize I can influence the world around me in the first place.



But here's the kicker, even though I'm aware I'm not awake, I AM NOT aware I'm asleep! For example when things become not to my liking from within the dream I know I can, and I often will just outright stop the dream and wake up (I'll still be sleep paralyzed however).



So how is this possible..? I mean, if you know your not awake then of course that means your asleep, right? I mean what else could you be? dead?



I have a theory. You see I'm a video game designer and I'm very use to getting immersed in my team's projects and changing the game "on command" in order to design a compelling experience. It doesn't help that the last game I developed was related to dreaming and designed to follow the flow and logic of dreams, and was on the Oculus Rift (virtual reality). Naturally, my dreams began to take place in the space of the game, and during the dream I didn't acknowledge I was dreaming, it felt like I was in virtual reality playing our game! And this is where I think my capacity to lucid dream broke. My mind is still carrying the conventions of virtual reality.



So to tie it all together: I recognize I'm not awake and not in control of my physical body, but not that I'm asleep (virtual reality?) I recognize I can regain control of my body at any time by simply ending the sequence I'm experiencing (virtual reality?) I recognize I can influence and control the sequence to create an ideal experience (virtual reality designer?) Because I worked on a virtual reality project directly tied to the imagery of dreaming, I now cant recognize dream signs as dream signs and cannot gain full lucidity. I'm simply existing in my dream space as one would exist as a virtual avatar in a virtual world. :whyme:



What should I do now?





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Chess Puzzle | 11/20/2014 - White to Draw





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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | Can you Attain Lucidity just by looking at a Picture before Sleep without saying Mantras?

I've tried to say a bunch of mantras over and over as i fall asleep. Ranging from "I will remember.." and "I will look at my hands and realize" and also mantras about what i wish to dream about. But it gets tedious having to use my mouth to say them or to

constantly say them in my mind. It gets confusing.



Can i just make a picture with the written sentence and pictures of what i wish to do or what i want to dream about, and just stare at it without thinking or saying anything? Will that be enough?





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Lucid Dreaming | Why in most Dreams, when I'm dreaming, I fail to Lift my hands and Look at them?

I've only had about 2 lucids and in those lucids i did lift my hands and put them in front of me and look at them. But 2 lucids in 3 years.... That's tons of nights when I didn't look at my hands(or at the mirror or anything).



Why is it? Why I can't THINK in my dream and remember to look at my hands?

I do alot of mantras and meditation in waking life telling myself that i will remember to do it.



Are some people justs don't have a good memory and that's why we don't remember to do it?

Maybe that's the difference between people who h ave daily Lucids and people who don't.





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Chess Puzzle | 11/19/2014 - Mate in 4





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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | False Awakenings every single morning

This feels pretty exciting.

I started practicing lucid dreaming again for real 3 days ago, and my routine so far has been to perform serious Reality Checks during the days, go to bed reasonably early (that is, before midnight, or close to it) and write down my dreams before falling asleep again.

I have always woken up about 4-5 hours after falling asleep so far (which is when I write down my dreams for about 10-15 minutes or so, although I tend to do simple drawings instead and make quick notes about them when necessary), and every time I fall asleep from there, I get at least one False Awakening.

This isn't really something that bothers me, in fact I find them to be great signs that I am making progress, since I always have lucid dreaming on my mind when they happen, and I got lucid in one of them - but they usually tend to fool me, since they are so realistic and feel so convincing.

How can I get around this, and how do I make the best out of it?



I have considered trying to count ten minutes while falling back to sleep the next time, and then open my eyes and see if that lets me "catch" the False Awakenings more easily, then experiment with this and see how long I need to count before checking again.





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Chess Puzzle | 11/18/2014 - Mate in 3





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Monday, November 17, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | My lucid dreams are becoming increasingly deceptive

It seems lately my lucid dreams are becoming so so so realistic, ordinary and vivid that I can hardly convince myself that it's really a dream. This night I became lucid while watching outside a window of my room, but what happened next was unexpected. I tried dozens of reality checks to confirm it to myself but they all failed?!



Looked at my hands, nothing special here.

Tried to put my finger through my hands, nope.

Tried to breathe to my nose while I pinched it with my fingers, nope.

Tried to recall when I had waken up, I did in my dream.

etc. etc.



Has anyone experienced this extreme deceptiveness from your own dream?

Expectations influence it heavily but my expectations failed me this time.





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Chess Puzzle | 11/17/2014 - M.Adams vs Jeroen Piket, Wijk aan Zee, 1993





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Saturday, November 15, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | My goal is to achieve 100 lucids until the end of 2014

Hey there, this is my public commitment that I'll do my best to achieve 20 lucids in upcoming 47 days till the end of this year. So far I've 80 lucids. :tornado:



Further I've made some pretty exciting discoveries about lding and I have done few cool mesurements which I'm gonna public soon.



I'll be in touch.:tonguewiggle:





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Morse Decoder’s Lean and Sexy Search Algorithm

Often the Morse Code centered projects that we feature are to help you practice transmitting messages. This one takes a tack and builds an automatic decoder. We think [Nicola Cimmino's] project is well worth featuring simply based on his explanation of the Digital Signal Processing used on the signal coming in from the microphone. Well done. But he’s really just getting warmed up.


What makes this really stand out is a brilliant algorithm that allows conversion from Morse to ASCII using a lookup table of only 64 bytes. This provides enough room for A-Z and 0-9 without chance of collision but could be expanded to allow for more characters. Below is a concise description of how the algorithm works but make sure you take the time to read [Nicola's] project description in its entirety.



The algorithm can be decribed as follows. Have an index inside the lookup string inizialied to zero. Have an initial dash jump size of 64. At every received element (dot or dash) halve the initial dash jump and then increase by 1 the index inside the lookup string if a dot was received and by dash jump size if a dash was received. Repeat until a letter separator is reached, at that point the index inside the lookup string will point to the ASCII corresponding to the decoded morse.



Have you heard of this technique before? If so, tell us about it in the comments below. Before you jump all over this one, realize that Magic Morse uses a different technique.




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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

$2 FM Transmitter for Raspberry Pi

We love re-purposed consumer gear. [Tobias] sent us the link to his project to that uses a cheap, discontinued cellphone gadget to create a Raspberry Pi controlled FM radio transmitter.


The Sony-Ericsson MMR-70 radio transmitter apparently used to connect to a cell phone and broadcast music. But the Walkman cellphones in question are a little bit old in the tooth, so one can buy the transmitter units for cheap on the resale market. What makes the transmitters even more interesting is that you can activate and deactivate the radio, change frequency or output power, and even send RDS station and song information.


It turns out (link in German) that the radios have an AVR ATMega32 microcontroller and a NS73 radio transmitter module, which can be entirely controlled over I2C. (Schematic here as PDF.) The units also have handy test points strewn all around. Once the test points were mapped out, one could completely ignore the on-board AVR microcontroller and control the FM transmitter module directly using the Raspberry Pi’s I2C outputs.


And that’s where [Tobias] stepped in. He wrote an I2C daemon for the Raspberry Pi that lets you control the FM transmitter via simple commands. All you have to do is solder up a bunch of test points, install [Tobias]‘s software, write a batch script, and you’re on the air. For instance, this makes building a FM radio retransmitter for online streamed audio a one-day project. You can see his working example on youtube. Of course, you’ll want a web-based remote control interface to go with that.


If you’re interested in hacking along, and don’t have a Raspberry Pi application in mind, Sparkfun used to sell the NS73 radio transmitter so you can find lots of good information about the chip. We’d love to see a stand-alone broadcasting gizmo that actually utilizes the onboard AVR chip, but our hats are off to [Tobias] for making the Raspberry Pi version so accessible.




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Lucid Dreaming | Any alarm apps for Android which activate for about 5 seconds and then switch off?

I am trying to DEILD and I can only wake up in the middle of the night by chance, so I'm looking for a way to wake up during the night by using an alarm, but it has to deactivate by itself, and only goes off for about 5 seconds. If any fellow DEILDers know any apps, or if any non-DEILDers know any, some recommendations would be appreciated! Thanks :)





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Lucid Dreaming | How can I teach my body to wake up randomly during the night for DEILD?

Hello lucid dreamers! So I accidentally did DEILD a week ago, and it gave me a really vivid lucid dream. It was really easy so I looked into it, to see if there was any easy way to do it, but all I seemed to find was the same thing, because DEILD is pretty simple. So what I'm asking the rest of you on here is if you do DEILD often, and if you have any tricks of how to wake up during the night. Thanks in advance!





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Lucid Dreaming | which tehcnique do i use?

i see a lot of the tutorials here and it's all pretty overwhelming and have no idea which one i should use. i am a newbie and have zero experience inducing lucidity intentionally. help please? :)





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Transmitting Data Long-Distance with Morse Code

[Konstantinos] wrote in to tell us about his CDW project: a digital encoding scheme for ham radio that uses CW (continuous wave) Morse code for digital data transfer. CW operation with Morse code is great for narrow-bandwidth low-speed communication over long distances. To take advantage of this, [Konstantinos] developed a program that takes binary or text files, compresses them, and translates them to a series of letters and numbers that can be represented with Morse code.


The software translates the characters into sequences of Morse code pulses, and plays an audio stream of the result. His software doesn’t support decoding Morse from an audio stream, so [Konstantinos] recommends using one of many existing programs to get the job done. Alternatively those with a good ear and working knowledge of Morse can transcribe the characters by hand.


After receiving a broadcast, the user pastes received characters back in the software. The software re-assembles the binary file from the Morse characters and decompresses the result. [Konstantinos] also added a simple XOR encryption feature, but keep in mind that using encryption on ham radio bands is technically illegal.




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Chess Puzzle | 11/12/2014 - M.Adams vs Eric Lobron, Brussels, 1992





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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | How specific does needs to be target in MILD Dream Sign Intention?

Hi Dreamviews,



I've got a quick question relating to MILD and Dream Signs

How specific does Dream Sign have to be?



Let's say for example a straight one would be seeing a cowboy in red hat

And not so specific would be seeing human.



I'd like to use for my MILD Attempts doing reality check whenever i see any human and i'm not sure if something so unspecific would work ;-)

Example: 'Whenever i see any human i'il remember to do reality check or try to recall what i was doing before to figure out that i'm dreaming'



- Thanks





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Lucid Dreaming | new Dreamer checking in! (my experience and ramblings)

Hello all,



I've recently begun my quest for lucidity and have had some success. I've been at it for about two months on and off.



I used to haunt the Lucid4all forum but i find the community there to be not as vibrant as here, so I have registered here and plan on seeing how it goes.



There seems to be a lot more activity here in terms of replies and discussion. One user in particular db_fts was very helpful on the other forum, I hoped to open a larger discussion there but it didn't transpire.



I'm not sure if posting that discussion breaks forum rules, but i'll add the disclaimer that I only seek to enlighten readers of this thread to said discussion, with a view to continuing it here.



A little help with WILD



Basically I just want to be part of the community and use your wealth and experience to assist my own quest for lucid dreams. I had primarily been attempting to use MILD, as written in La Berge's ETWOLD. I have compiled a dream journal of at least 30 dreams, some vivid some not, and have categories the dreams and was working on prospective memory exercises. This went on for the best part of a month with the only tangible success in that sometimes, my dreams are more vivid, and I am making a conscious effort to remember them. I decided to use MILD due to the fact that I have a very hectic life, I am a father of two and work days, my son wakes frequently in the night.



Then I found a great blog by Jamie Alexander Lucid Dreaming Experiments where he talks about using meditation to help raise awareness, something that I sorely lack. I have thus far day dreamed through my life, and in my dreams this is evident as I stubbornly refuse to entertain the fact I am dreaming, even in the face of complete absurdity.



This was really my first (excluding la berge) introduction to WILD, being used in the WILD so to speak. So I decided to maintain my DJ, and meditate every night at bedtime to raise my awareness. One night, I sporadically got my first lucid dream after the baby had woke, I went back to bed and within a couple of seconds of repeating my mantra, I was in a dream. But the dream is foggy, faded, not clear, no sound, but I definitely had awareness, because I knew I was dreaming and I was in control of my actions in that context.



I tried again for a week or so but could not replicate the Lucid Dream.



I then discovered a tutorial on here that actually resulted in my second lucid dream. As explained in the other thread, it was the CANWILD method. I set my alarm to go off at 90 minute intervals, and at the second alarm the same thing happened, I was whisked into the dream world, attempted some stabilization techniques, but still, the reports of LD being as reall as real life are not reflected in my dreams as yet. Funnily enough, I seem to have a vivid Normal Dream following every lucid dream, where the details are much clearer than my lucid dreams.



So thats where im up to, I try the CANWILD attempts wherever possible (my wife works nights and sometimes the baby sleeps more than 3 hours), i'm yet to have a MILD or DILD, which is very frustrating, although last night, I had a dream where my son was running, and I knew he is unable to walk, and I did sense an inkling that that wasn't right, but I couldn't make the connection. I remember thinking something along the lines of, "is this real? my son is unable to walk, perhaps ill wake up and he can walk." Hopefully this is a sign of my awareness being slightly raised after all this time.



So that's me anyway, if you read this far then thank you, I welcome any discussion on how I can improve, particularly from people with busy hectic lives, that found a way to make lucid dreaming a regularity.



Cheers!



DD.





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Chess Puzzle | 11/11/2014 - Mate in 2





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Monday, November 10, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | BE a Lucid Dreamer

I think that I have discovered not only what keeps people from having Lucid Dreams but also how to break the cycle and become a successful LDer. I've have heard other ideas that danced around this idea both on YouTube and on this site. However, I have never heard anyone articulate it quite the way I realized it tonight. This idea is so deceptively simple you may be inclined to blow it off, but I encourage you to really mull it over and see how you could start to use this for yourself.



A little intro first... I've been hearing a lot that techniques don't work, that we need to learn mindfulness instead. But why don't they work? Many of these techniques promise to teach us mindfulness, so how can they be bad? Then it hit me; even just having the idea that we need a technique is setting ourselves up for failure!



We only need a technique if LD is hard. If LD is hard then it is because we are struggling against something to become lucid. The only force that we could be struggling against is our own mind. We are setting up a battle in our own mind. We are fighting ourselves and thus can never win.



If we allow ourselves to believe that LD is unnatural or difficult then we are feeding that information directly into our subconscious. We are telling our mind that the conscious and subconscious must battle each other for control. This way we are almost guaranteed to never become lucid because our conscious mind is turned off during sleep and now our subconscious mind is actively seeking to keep it that way. If we do succeed in becoming lucid we find other difficulties. We lack stability and dream control, our DC are hostile, we end up waking up, or we simply lose lucidity again.



What if we taught our whole brain, the conscious and subconscious, to work together to actively achieve lucidity?! So far I only have a very basic theory on how to achieve this. I believe it can be done through auto-suggestion/meditation/self-hypnosis. Whatever you want to call it.



For the next month I will be doing a collective of one hours mantra meditation per day. I say collective because I may not be able to do it all at once. So I may do 30 min in the morning and 30 min at night, or maybe six 10 min intervals throughout the day. Just so long as it's at least one hour. The key idea I will be focusing on is that "Lucid Dreaming is easy because my mind wants to be lucid."



I will tell myself things like:

My dreams want me to be lucid.

My dream characters want me to be lucid.

I always know when I'm dreaming.

My dreams help me to become lucid.




I would really love if other people joined in and gave their feedback. I want to know things like:

How long you meditated.

How you meditated.

What ideas you focused on.

When you meditated.

What your LD rate was before and after.

If you noticed and increase in LD.

How quickly you noticed the increase.

If you were using any other new methods at the same time (preferably not).

If you noticed a change in the length of your LD.

If you noticed a change in how much control you had in your LD.

If there was a change in your dream vividness and/or recall.



Let me know your opinions, feedback, further ideas below!!!





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Chess Puzzle | 11/10/2014 - Mate in 2





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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | Ready to give up. Again.

Some of you may remember I posted this a few months ago. I've tried everything. Reality checks before bed and during the day, binaural beats ( which I had some success with when I was able to remember a few dreams at the beginning of the year ) and Celea Z. I didn't really feel any different when taking Celea Z. I took two capsule before bed and nothing. Are they meant for WBTB? I'm considering making a dream inducer device or downloading an app. Are there any good cheap apps for IOS seven IPhone 4s? I could dream so much (or at least I think I did) when I was younger. How can I get dream recall back and have my first lucid?





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Lucid Dreaming | Should I change anything to become lucid?

I am wondering if I should attempt to use methods such as WILD, DEILD, and many others to lucid dream. I've never looked at them really, but I often see people saying they are going to try one of the different methods. Are they doing it to see what is best for them or to simply experiment? I've always felt like how you get there isn't important, it's actually the dreaming part that's the 'awesome' part, which is why I never cared to look. But maybe that's not true?



For the past few years, I have dreamed lucid every month or so. That has increased to about weekly or more in recent months, happening in about half or 1/3 of my dreams (on school nights and weekends when I have an alarm to wake up and immediately get up I tend to forget or just not lucid dream). Should I rely on the steady increase that has been happening or should I try to learn new techniques to make it happen possibly more reliably? I just don't want to try something new and then have difficulty attaining lucidity in the way that I once did. I don't want to mess with something that's working (depending on what you would consider "working"). And to clarify, my method is just "waking up" when I feel I'm more alert in my dream or want to change something. It always feels pretty smooth and easy.



Maybe instead I should just put focus on writing in a dream journal so I can remember them more often. What do you think?





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Friday, November 7, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | Secret to frequent lucid dreaming (supposedly)

Found this post by Robert Waggoner on another lucid dreaming site, which I don't think I'm allowed to post a link to, so I'll paste the post here




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The Secret of Frequent Lucid Dreamers by Robert Waggoner

Why do some dreamers immediately take to lucid dreaming, while others struggle to achieve lucidity even once?



I thought about this question recently when interviewing a young Norwegian woman, Line Salvesen, for The Lucid Dream Exchange. She claims to have about fifteen hundred lucid dreams a year. For most of us who average three or four lucid dreams a month, fifteen hundred per year sounds incredible!



She’s not the only person, though. Over the years, I have met a number of ultra-frequent lucid dreamers, on-line and in person. Curious about their ability, I began to search for some common characteristics – something to explain this high frequency. I noticed how they often assumed everyone dreamt lucidly, and felt shocked to learn this was not the case. In some cases, their frequent lucid dreaming could be traced back to persistent childhood nightmares where they learned how to achieve lucidity to deal with nightmare scenarios. In other cases, their frequent lucid dreaming seemed connected to certain waking mental habits.



Recalling my carefree college days studying behavioral psychology and reading Carlos Castaneda, I went from 3 to 8 lucid dreams a month to a high of 30 lucid dreams per month at my peak – all of which I nicely charted as a budding behaviorist. Some of this increase I could attribute to the use of the MILD technique. But decades later, when I began meeting ultra-frequent lucid dreamers, I began to feel a bit deflated, quantitatively speaking. How did they achieve lucidity so frequently?



Then a mini-epiphany came to me.

One day, reading an email from an ultra-frequent lucid dreamer, and feeling a tinge of envy mixed with curiosity I responded, “How? How do you become lucidly aware in almost every dream?” The lucid dreamer wrote that she had a consistent habit of asking herself repeatedly, “What was I just doing?” This mental habit carried over to her dreaming awareness, such that in the dream she would pose this exact question to herself, “What was I just doing?” Searching her mind, she realized she had been preparing for sleep, so therefore, she must be dreaming!



At that moment, a little light went on in my brain. Ultra-frequent lucid dreamers develop a lucid mindset.

A lucid mindset means a persistent mental habit of re-examining one’s perceived environment or state of awareness. Whether it involved memory or vigilance (e.g., Am I safe here from nightmares?), these ultra frequent lucid dreamers repeatedly checked or analyzed their current situation.



For some, numerous nightmares apparently reinforced the need to differentiate waking from dreaming, and allowed them to become highly attuned to dream state cues that would prompt lucid awareness. This habitual need to examine their state (waking or dreaming) naturally led to lucid dreaming, as a positive way to handle nightmares. Done with consistency over time, a lucid mindset developed, which became an unconscious and routine part of their dreaming life.



As for the lucid dreamer who consistently questioned herself to remember her last action, we find another type of lucid mindset. Here, she performs not so much a ‘reality check’ as a memory check that leads to a reality check! Her questioning leads her to re-examine more thoroughly her environment or current state, and she becomes lucid. Whatever the underlying motivation, certain habitual mental patterns lead these ultra-frequent lucid dreamers to examine their perceived environment or current state more closely.



So how can you use this knowledge to become a more frequent lucid dreamer? How can you work towards developing a lucid mindset? Or do you have a touch of a lucid mindset already, which you just haven’t noticed?



Next, we’ll explore these ‘critical questions’ and see how we can develop our lucid mind.

When you read the papers of the late Gestalt psychologist and lucid dream researcher, Paul Tholey, you discover a pioneer in developing a lucid mindset. (Again, I define a lucid mindset as a persistent mental habit of re-examining one’s perceived environment or state of awareness. This re-examination naturally leads to conscious awareness in the dream state.)



In 1959, Tholey wondered if he could bring conscious awareness into the dream state by asking himself numerous times during the day, “Am I awake, or am I dreaming?” Reasoning that this question would occur to him in a dream, he then might become critically aware and conscious in the dream. After about a month’s consistent repetition of this question, he succeeded with his ‘Reflection Technique’ and became lucid.



Some lucid dreamers have begun to call Tholey’s, “Am I awake, or am I dreaming,” the Critical Question.



It definitely seems ‘a’ critical question about one’s state – but it does not appear to be the only one, or the only one that leads to lucid awareness.



As previously mentioned, one ultra frequent lucid dreamer routinely asks, “What was I just doing?” This memory check prompts her lucid awareness, as she realizes she had been going to sleep, so this must be a dream. For her, the ‘Critical Question’ that elicits greater critical awareness is a memory check about activity.



Other ultra frequent lucid dreamers appear to develop greater vigilance as a result of frequent nightmares in childhood. Apparently, they habitually scour the perceived environment to determine if they are dreaming, and therefore possible prey for nightmarish figures. Perhaps their ‘Critical Question’ might be, ‘Am I safe here?’ or some expression of vigilant awareness which naturally leads to lucidity.



A lucid dreamer from the Ukraine told me of dream-mapping or trying to map out the dream locale of each lucid dream. Those who practice this technique frequently become lucid by asking themselves in a dream, “Where am I? What is this place?”



I imagine that young Buddhist monks learn to develop a lucid mindset when they repeatedly hear, ‘all of this is like a dream.’ If you consistently consider all perceived environments to be ‘like a dream,’ then you may enhance your ability to discern dreaming as being ‘like a dream’ and become consciously aware in it.



In my experience, I began to develop a lucid mindset after reading the works of Jane Roberts, who put forth that our perceived experience came as a direct outgrowth of our beliefs, thoughts and feelings. Therefore, understanding our experience required an investigation of our beliefs, thoughts and feelings. So when something notable would happen in my waking life, I would wonder, “Why did I create this? How does this relate to my beliefs, thoughts or feelings?” Like Tholey, these same questions began seeping into my dream life, prompting lucid awareness, as I re-considered an outlandish event and determined ‘This could only occur in a dream!’



These examples show how a lucid dreamer can easily develop a lucid mindset. By consciously adopting a Critical Question that appeals to you and requires you to re-examine your experience and by using it consistently during the day, it transfers to your dreaming and causes you to re-examine the dream experience. This questioning mindset naturally leads you to lucid awareness.



The Critical Question does not have to be philosophical; it can be simple, like ‘What was I just doing?’ or ‘Where am I?’ However it must be used consistently during waking hours.



Imagine an entire society and culture persistently asking a Critical Question. Maybe over time, lucid dreaming will lead to a worldwide lucid mindset,



Robert Waggoner



What are your thoughts on this? The woman's Critical Question of "what was I just doing" reminds me of Sageous' reverse reality check. Has anyone here tried this critical question thing until it occurred in their dream and made them lucid?





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Lucid Dreaming | Recognized I was dreaming but..

I couldn't become lucid. For whatever reason, I was into probably 5 minutes of my dream and I kept saying "I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming" but everything was still blurry.



I've also been listening to binaural beats for lucid dreaming and hoping that would help me to lucid dream.





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Chess Puzzle | 11/7/2014 - Corner Pocket





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Thursday, November 6, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | Fear of the Unknown- Preventing My Lucidity

For the past couple of years, usually when I try to gain further control of my lucidity in a dream, I am faced with a menacing entity in some shape or form that prevents me from expanding lucidity.

I once remember a dream where I was walking along adventurous paths through heavy woods and having a feeling of a greater awareness and felt if I could just continue on the paths and reach the destination, I would achieve full consciousness in the dream and could go wherever and do whatever I desired.

But a wolf appears on the path, and tries to intimidate me with it's teeth and deep growl.



I am a believer in the Law of Attraction and that whatever thoughts you have, will manifest. I must not worry or focus on my fear of the unknown and I need to just roll with it. It is much easier said than done.



Sometimes when I'm faced with a closed door in a dream, I focus too much on the thought of "I don't want there to be something scary on the other side of this door" and just thinking that thought, makes me hesitate on opening the door because I am focused on a negative thought that could manifest in my dream if I don't stop thinking about it. So I try to change my thought pattern and usually the entire dream changes as a result and I find myself distracted with new surroundings or scenarios and completely forgetting that I am in a dream.



My hope is that just writing this before bed will give me the courage to face the unknown and unlock a much deeper realm of lucid dreaming to be able to be able to dip into more experiences of it's infinite possibilities.



If there are others out there who have found tricks or would just like to share their experience on how they got over their fear of the unknown in the dream realm, please share :)





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Lucid Dreaming | recalling my dreams less vividly?

Like a month ago I could recall my dreams so vividly and heavily describe them but no I feel like I don't dream at all. what could be issue. I have been eating chocolate before bed, could this affect it





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Lucid Dreaming | Experimented with SSILD to get the feeling, had pretty interesting experiences...

Now the very first thing I'll say, is that I did not WBTB before doing this. It was during a nap around noon this morning. I just thought I'd try doing cycles to see what I get. I wasn't expecting that much.



So I started doing cycles, mostly in random order as I could not remember exactly what order to do them in. It did keep me aware however. After a while my hands started getting heavy, and while I could feel my bedsheets, I could not feel the texture of it anymore. The hand laying on my head was almost as if it was floating in space in a cocoon.



Amongst the patterns of light in my eyes, I got flashes of imagination, mostly random. It was hard to concentrate during this period. I eventually flashed to a dream scene where I was in my hometown, flying towards a water tower. I then went inside the water tower, and the water tower turned into a rotating restaurant sign. Right after that, I felt almost a zap, and that dream ended. I had a few more dreams during this, but was never able to enter them.



In the end, I got up, did a few reality checks (which said I wasn't dreaming), and then wrote them all down in the dream journal.



These dreams, while quite defined, were almost like daydreaming. I didn't feel in any way like I was in the dream at all. I could still feel I was in my bed.





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Lucid Dreaming | Simple but effective awareness exercise

Hey there DV,



most of you will know how important meditation (conscious awareness) is for lucid dreaming,

in case you don't know;

I answered this to someone who was confused about meditation and awareness




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There's no definite technique involving thinking that will guarantee you to become lucid, Iriba.



Since you seem to be confused why to meditate I'll try to explain it logically.

So, whether it is the dreaming or waking state, the mental block to lucid dreaming usually originates from a dull awareness.

This undertrained awareness is the result of people being caught up in their head all day. They rotate from one thought chain to the other and are barely ever present in the moment, which is the only reality.



Think about it, what is reality (real-ity) for you at this moment?

It's not what happened 3 days ago, it's not what will happen tomorrow, it is what is happening at this moment.

I notice you trying to rationalise everything with your mind, but if you're in your thoughts you're not experiencing THIS moment.



Meditation is all about finding the off button in your mind so you stop getting caught up in your head and rather start experiencing the only reality, the present. Now, what do you think is the one thing that keeps people from becoming lucid?

It's the lack of awareness of the present in the dream. You're always caught up in your mind, making it unable to become aware of the true nature of your environment. It's not even about critical thinking or reality checking. Most of the time when I come to my senses in a dream (due to habit of.. you guessed it.. meditating) I already know it's a dream.

EVEN from there you HAVE to stay present while lucid because if you get caught up in the bad habit of excessive thinking again you'll lose your lucidity because you get caught up in the dream again.



The whole point of dream yoga (which is actually just regular meditation with lucid dreaming as a specific goal) is to stop thinking and start feeling the present. If you do this daily, the habit will eventually pass on to the dreaming state where you suddenly snap out of your thoughts into the present moment and you'll magically realize you're not in the waking state.



Now, for you it's time to stop asking questions because the point is to shut your mind down and start perceiving without judging.







So to get back to the subject,

I meditate a lot myself and I often think of ways to test and train my awareness in a practical and effective way and I've managed to create a nice little technique.

Sometimes when I eat certain candy I want to keep it in my mouth as long as possible but I often catch myself biting the candy and eating it before I even realized.



This gave me an idea! If you take, for example, a piece of chewing gum and put it in your mouth without biting it while doing something like watching television or browsing the internet.

The goal is to consciously keep yourself from chewing or biting it. This requires your awareness because if you drift off into auto pilot chances are high you chew on it as a conditioned reflex.



The reason I suggest doing something else at the same time is because in a dream you also have to maintain the awareness pf the fact that you're dreaming while you get involved in the dream scenery.





I don't know if this works for others but I've definitely benefited from it so I thought it was worth sharing it.. :)





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Chess Puzzle | 11/6/2014 - Mate in 4





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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | Help me get motivated to LD again

Hello my fellow DViewers



I haven't had any Lucid Dreams or tried in over a year. :( Became a bit of a pot head and dream recall went out the window, lost motivation to try to lucid dream. Stopped smoking the herb for a bit, started to remember dreams a bit better but now I just have no motivation to try again.



What are some motivational tips you guys and gals use to start trying again? :)





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Monday, November 3, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | Meditating with mantra?

Do you think meditating while repeating a mantra like "I lucid dream every night" is a good idea? The goal would be to relax physically and mentally while repeating the mantra and not getting lost in thoughts. Do you think it would help increase focus and maybe implant the idea into the subconscious?

Must say, I am a fan of meditating in silence or with some sort of white noise in the background, but my concentration has gotten darn poor, makes staying awake for WILD very difficult, need to improve focus somehow..





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Sunday, November 2, 2014

Lucid Dreaming | Recording yourself reading a book to help visualize?

I have been working on lucid dreaming for about 2 weeks, using WILD during a nap and before bed. I can get to the hypogenia (I don't have the slightest clue how to properly spell this word) but I can't ever get any farther. My body feels weird, like if you flip the antenna on a car, the way it bounces and moves? I assume that's the vibrations some feel. But that's as far as it goes.



I think I try too hard to look with my eyes, and not my mind. I'm an avid reader, with no difficulty picturing things in my mind. But when it comes to daydreaming, or visualising on my own, I fail.



Anyway, I was wondering if I recorded myself reading a book, replacing the main character's name with my own, and listen to it while trying a WILD if I would be able to get lucid? That's the only point I fail, is visualising. I'm on mobile so excuse any errors. Thanks! :3





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Chess Puzzle | 11/2/2014 - Darwin Yang - Michael Mulyar, Tulsa, 2008





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