Sunday, October 25, 2015
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Lucid Dreaming | Is it possible to dream while awake?
I know that's the whole premise behind lucid dreaming in general, but that's not exactly what I'm talking about. I mean like, can you be walking down the street and just suddenly start dreaming? Just like do-do-do minding my own business and then bam! you find yourself in a lucid dream. K, done with that, now I'll go into this store, etc. etc. Is that possible? Or do you have to be in bed completely asleep, immobile, the whole nine yards? I ask this because I've been able to consistently lucid dream every night now for a while but I've seen to sort of hit a plateau and unsure of how to proceed. I don't get out that much either so this question has always bugged me. I've always wondered if I'm always just left at home alone hallucinating on my bed while everyone else is out enjoying the real world. It's really starting to freak me out. I live with my parents, and even when they go away on vacation or to work or something I'll be able to still dream myself downstairs and they'll be right there like they never even left. It's really weird. Or maybe they are just AI bots or something like that, either way sometimes it's just too weird to dismiss. As I don't go anywhere, if I'm anywhere else than my room at home I know I'm dreaming. This has worked for me thus far, so I take it that if I find myself flying out my window or something like that it's pretty safe to assume that I'm lucid dreaming by that point?
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Lucid Dreaming | Just a thought...
I know becoming lucid takes time, and effort, and I'm not going to give up! I have only been trying for about 12ish days now. But over the last few days I have had two dreams about dreaming. (NOT lucid dreams!)
The first one was that I was showing my brother my dream diary.
The second one, just last night was that I was walking on a road, thinking, "If I ever have a lucid dream, I will fly over this place!" The place I was thinking I would fly over was a place in a different dream that I had a few months ago.
This is progress, right? It's just so weird and annoying because in that dream last night, I was SO close!
Is this progress, and should I do more reality checks? Thanks in advance!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
The first one was that I was showing my brother my dream diary.
The second one, just last night was that I was walking on a road, thinking, "If I ever have a lucid dream, I will fly over this place!" The place I was thinking I would fly over was a place in a different dream that I had a few months ago.
This is progress, right? It's just so weird and annoying because in that dream last night, I was SO close!
Is this progress, and should I do more reality checks? Thanks in advance!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
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Friday, October 23, 2015
Hi guys, I have a rather annoying problem that makes it hard for me to optimally practice lucid dreaming - I am always afraid that all the lucid dreams that I have might be my last one.
Basically, whenever I have a lucid dream I will feel great at first, but then a while later I get these destructive thoughts like "...what if it is the last one I will ever have...?".
I don't even know why I worry so much about this, because I actually seem to be quite successful when I put some effort into it - when I get back into it I will usually have got about 4-5 lucid dreams after the first month, which is actually quite decent, but I still have this frustrating feeling that it might be "only temporary" and that I will suddenly lose my lucid dreaming abilities some day.
I usually like to tell myself that mastering lucid dreaming is kind of like mastering an extremely challenging video game - that is, you can never be sure that you beat that one particular super-hard stage on the first try no matter how good you are, but you know that you will beat it after a couple attempts.
Maybe you could you think of lucid dreaming like this?
Anyway, do you recognize these concerns?
Basically, whenever I have a lucid dream I will feel great at first, but then a while later I get these destructive thoughts like "...what if it is the last one I will ever have...?".
I don't even know why I worry so much about this, because I actually seem to be quite successful when I put some effort into it - when I get back into it I will usually have got about 4-5 lucid dreams after the first month, which is actually quite decent, but I still have this frustrating feeling that it might be "only temporary" and that I will suddenly lose my lucid dreaming abilities some day.
I usually like to tell myself that mastering lucid dreaming is kind of like mastering an extremely challenging video game - that is, you can never be sure that you beat that one particular super-hard stage on the first try no matter how good you are, but you know that you will beat it after a couple attempts.
Maybe you could you think of lucid dreaming like this?
Anyway, do you recognize these concerns?
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Why Should You Get a Ham Radio License?
Several of the authors you read on Hackaday are ham radio operators and we’ve often kicked around having a Hacker Chat about “Why be a ham today?” After all, you can talk to anyone in the world over the Internet or via phone, right? What’s the draw?
The Radio Society of Great Britain had the same thought, apparently, and produced a great video to answer the question. They mention the usual things: learning about technology, learning about people in other parts of the world, disaster communications, and radiosport (which seems to be more popular outside the United States; people compete to find hidden transmitters).
In addition, they talked a lot about how hams get involved with space communications, ranging from talking via satellites, to talking to people on the space station, to actually building small satellites. As the narrator says, there are “hundreds of ways to have techie fun” with ham radio.
One thing we noticed they showed but didn’t say a lot about, though, is the educational opportunities. You can learn a lot, and working with kids to help them learn is often very rewarding (and you usually learn something, too). Just to forestall the comments that this post isn’t hack related, we’ll note two things: there is a Raspberry Pi shown and just past the two-minute mark, there is a very clever hacked together Morse code key.
We talk a lot about ham radio, ranging from Arduino-based digital modes to putting together portable stations (you can see a similar one in the video, too). One other thing we noticed they don’t mention: it is generally much easier to get a license today than ever before. Most countries (including the United States) have abolished the Morse code requirements, so while some hams still enjoy CW (hamspeak for operating Morse code), it isn’t a requirement.
Video below.
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