If I maintained awareness of my breath all day long would this awareness eventually lead to consistent lucid dreams?
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Saturday, July 2, 2016
Lucid Dreaming | Would this work?
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Friday, July 1, 2016
Lucid Dreaming | Can I Lucid Dream in a car?
Obviously, I won't be the one driving the car but say I'm going on a long road trip and I want to try to lucid dream. In my case, my family is leaving for Miami from Georgia and we will leave at around 1-2am, so I can easily fall asleep in the car. If say I wake up after a couple hours, possibly in my REM stage, can I still lucid dream? More specifically, can I do the FILD technique while in sleeping in the car? I've been trying to FILD for around 2 weeks and haven't done so successfully. Can I do this technique while sleeping in the car? I think I've had dreams before while sleeping inside a car or a bus but it's usually at random times.
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Lucid Dreaming | FILD Help?
So I've been trying to lucid dream with the FILD method for about 2 weeks now and so far I can't seem to get it to work for me. I've been setting my alarm about 5-6 hours after I sleep and when I wake up I do end up tired and I can easily go back to sleep after maybe 5 minutes. When I do feel tired, I would roll over and try to do FILD. Now the finger movement is the most confusing part to me.
Do I move my fingers in a way that they press down on the mattress or do I just make sure that they move but don't press down that much? Like I watched some videos and they would say that your fingers shouldn't move at all and you should only think about moving your fingers but don't actually move them. So what am I really supposed to do??? Am I supposed to lie down on my back and try to FILD or do I do it sleeping sideways? Also when I do the finger movement, am I supposed to let myself fall asleep or do I try to let my body fall asleep but keep my mind awake? Because I think after 30 seconds I usually just end up sleeping before even doing an RC. And also I find that even after like 7 or 8 hours of sleep I still find myself tired so I would try it if my first attempt at 5-6 hours doesn't work. How many tries can I do before I should just give up on the technique that day and just wake up and get out of bed? One last question, can I do this while I'm sleeping in the car? Like say I'm going on a long road trip and I fall asleep, can I do the FILD there? (Just curious)
Better yet, can someone tell me how YOU do the FILD technique if it works for you? Because the tutorials I've seen sometimes aren't clear or somewhat different from others so I don't really know which is the right one to follow. So can someone help me please? Thanks!
Do I move my fingers in a way that they press down on the mattress or do I just make sure that they move but don't press down that much? Like I watched some videos and they would say that your fingers shouldn't move at all and you should only think about moving your fingers but don't actually move them. So what am I really supposed to do??? Am I supposed to lie down on my back and try to FILD or do I do it sleeping sideways? Also when I do the finger movement, am I supposed to let myself fall asleep or do I try to let my body fall asleep but keep my mind awake? Because I think after 30 seconds I usually just end up sleeping before even doing an RC. And also I find that even after like 7 or 8 hours of sleep I still find myself tired so I would try it if my first attempt at 5-6 hours doesn't work. How many tries can I do before I should just give up on the technique that day and just wake up and get out of bed? One last question, can I do this while I'm sleeping in the car? Like say I'm going on a long road trip and I fall asleep, can I do the FILD there? (Just curious)
Better yet, can someone tell me how YOU do the FILD technique if it works for you? Because the tutorials I've seen sometimes aren't clear or somewhat different from others so I don't really know which is the right one to follow. So can someone help me please? Thanks!
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Lucid Dreaming | Different Dream Journal Perspective
Most dream journal conversations that I have read revolve around the idea of keeping a journal to encourage our mind to remember that we are interested in our dreams. They give us links back to our dream journeys long after they would have faded from our waking minds. And they present the possibility of deriving dream signs to help us with our lucid challenge.
What I have come to realize, I think, is that the dream journal has a much more fundamental effect on our unconscious, if given the opportunity to function more fully.
It is an accepted truth, I believe, that if you journal, you develop a better memory of your dreams when you wake. Given that, when I tell myself to remember my dreams as an evening mantra, I also remind myself to note them down. This has helped me motivate myself in the wee dark hours to actually sit up and make the notes, to not just wake enough to realize I was dreaming and then fall back asleep.
The unconscious seems to have little trouble reminding us that we want to journal, that we want to remember our dreams. If we are more specific in our pre-sleep preparation (re MILD or other) in regard to journaling plus the need to wake up slowly to make notes, it could provide easier access to our critical awareness at an opportune time.
I know the concept of waking up slowly isn't a new idea. It's the incorporation of remembering to journal that is the difference for me. The reason I push the dream journal idea as the impetus for this approach is that it seems our unconscious mind already likes the idea of the dream journal and is happy to accommodate our interest. In other words, we are traveling down a path already cleared of many obstacles rather than having to start the path from scratch, so to speak.
Perhaps others have already gone down this path and have some interesting results. If that's the case, I'm just reinvigorating an idea. Either way, enjoy your dreams.
What I have come to realize, I think, is that the dream journal has a much more fundamental effect on our unconscious, if given the opportunity to function more fully.
It is an accepted truth, I believe, that if you journal, you develop a better memory of your dreams when you wake. Given that, when I tell myself to remember my dreams as an evening mantra, I also remind myself to note them down. This has helped me motivate myself in the wee dark hours to actually sit up and make the notes, to not just wake enough to realize I was dreaming and then fall back asleep.
The unconscious seems to have little trouble reminding us that we want to journal, that we want to remember our dreams. If we are more specific in our pre-sleep preparation (re MILD or other) in regard to journaling plus the need to wake up slowly to make notes, it could provide easier access to our critical awareness at an opportune time.
I know the concept of waking up slowly isn't a new idea. It's the incorporation of remembering to journal that is the difference for me. The reason I push the dream journal idea as the impetus for this approach is that it seems our unconscious mind already likes the idea of the dream journal and is happy to accommodate our interest. In other words, we are traveling down a path already cleared of many obstacles rather than having to start the path from scratch, so to speak.
Perhaps others have already gone down this path and have some interesting results. If that's the case, I'm just reinvigorating an idea. Either way, enjoy your dreams.
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Lucid Dreaming | Does anyone know?
Last night i was making a zombie gaming montage which took about an hour....then ofcourse later that night zombies were in my dreams.
Im wondering how much does the last thing you watch before sleep effect your sleep? Maybe i should read and watch lucid dream videos before sleep instead of in the day? Thanx
Im wondering how much does the last thing you watch before sleep effect your sleep? Maybe i should read and watch lucid dream videos before sleep instead of in the day? Thanx
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