06-11-2012, 11:27 AM
This thread is aimed towards those interested in the art of lucid dreaming
For those not aware of lucid dreaming (being able to control your dreams) I've come here to inform and educate.
What lucid dreaming basically is, is being able to control your dreams and in those controlled dreams - being able to do anything you could possibly ever want to do. The possibilities are endless. You can fly, talk to deceased relatives/friends, climb mountains, everything really. So since I have nothing else to do, I'll be informing, helping, and encouraging those who actually try this out (everyone should be doing this lmao). In this thread, I'll be giving my methods, tips, and tricks as to how to lucid dream. So let's get started!
Basic Information
As I've stated above, the most basic definition of lucid dreaming is being able to control and contort your dreams into anything you desire. With determination, practice and resilience; you will be successful (as with life). Before I get into the logistics of what lucid dreaming actually is, allow me to explain the brain functions when you're sleeping. Usually, it takes like what? 30-45 minutes to fall asleep (for me anyways)? During this process, you probably have noticed many unusual things happen. For instance, you know those sometimes bright lights behind your closed eyelids? That's called Hypnagogia Imagery. It's your brains way of sending signals to the optic nerves of your eyes already trying to form a dream. How about weird noises or even voices when you're trying to fall asleep? This is your brains way of trying to figure out if you're actually asleep or not. You might hear voices of laughter, taunting, or just general chatter but you know it's something. You might hear your doorbell, a knock at the door or something of the sort (your brain be trolin). Now, lucid dreaming isn't a one night thing. I wish I could tell you that by the end of this thread, you will will able to go to bed tonight and lucid dream instantly. It doesn't work that way and never has. But, sometime in your life, you've probably already lucid dreamed and not know it. At night when we all fall asleep, despite some people's opinions, you dream constantly throughout the night. Every single minute/second/hour you're dreaming. Some people say they don't dream - no, they dream but they just have bad dream recall (or a certain section of their brain is malfunctioned [srs]). The only reason we don't remember all of our dreams is because the only time we actually recollect in depth is when we just woke up either in the middle or right after a dream. We have peaks when we are in a deep sleep or a weak sleep. Usually 4-5 hours into the night is when we're in our deepest, and gradually when the hours progress - we go less and less into a deep sleep.
Reality Checks, Dream Recall, and Dream Journals
In this section, I'll be covering reality checks, dream recall and dream journals.
Firstly, reality checks are little signals you give yourself on a daily basis to remind yourself that you're not sleeping. It may sound stupid but just make it a habit. What this does is if you make it a daily ritual and a habit, your dream self will, in turn, do it without thinking. Let's say you have a watch, and your watch is set to beep every hour. Once it beeps, ask yourself out loud "Am I dreaming?" Keeping your watch next to you when you sleep, once you hear that beep, your dream self will ask himself if he's dreaming and boom. Your brain recognizes the signal and you'll realize you're dreaming. It sounds weird but it works and it a definite method with nothing but positive benefits.
Dream recall is basically the ability to remember your dreams. People have good dream recall, some have bad. If you don't remember half your dreams every night, don't worry - in due time you can enhance your dream recall and make it better. To make it better, you have to at least try to remember any little insignificant detail about a dream you had just woken up from and write it down. Sometimes you'll remember, sometimes you won't.
Dream journals are what will makes you successful in lucidity. What dream journals are is basically you writing down whatever dream you had that night. Every little detail, every little everything. What was it like? was the son bright? was it dark? were there people around you? if so what were they talking about/doing? etc. doing this will not only enhance and build up your dream recall (seen above) but it will (somehow) help with lucid dreaming. I'm not exactly filled in on the facts on why it helps, but it's been proven. Can't argue with results. You don't have to write them down, but it's whatever. It won't hurt to try.
Lucid Dreaming Information
Again, successful lucid dreaming tactics require determination and and perseverance (and practice). You won't lucid dream tonight but like with anything to get better, try and try again - keep at it. Now, there are many ways to lucid dream. But, since I'm the one spreading knowledge; I'm going to explain the method I've used for a couple of years. Before going to bed tonight, or whenever you crazy kids go to bed nowadays, I highly suggest meditating for even 10-15 minutes just to clear your mind and put yourself in a calming state. It may seem weird and freakin stupid but trust me son, it's some deep ass crap. So, tonight after you've meditated (if you did) and cleared your mind, hop into bed. Get in a relaxing position and be prepared to stay in that position for awhile. Make sure you have everything set, you're comfortable; once that's good, you're ready to begin. Once you started the process, you CAN NOT MOVE A MUSCLE AT ALL. The reason being is because you're tricking your brain into thinking you're sleeping. That's when the brain starts throwing some trickery at you to fool you. The most common one is feeling the uncontrollable urge to switch sides and move around. Like I said, you can't move a muscle. Through the process, weird things will begin to happen. Your arms will feel as if they're floating or just cut off and gone (normal). You will begin to see more Hypnagogia Imagery as the night progresses. Keeping still and relaxing, slowly trying to fall asleep, you'll begin to notice shapely figures that you recognize (i.e cars, landscapes, your room, a house etc). This means that you're very close and need to keep doing this crap. You're close into crossing lucidity. But, yes but, before you cross you will have to deal with Sleep Paralysis. SP is (basically) the shutting down of your muscles (you can't move your head, hands, arms, legs, feet etc). If you have to experience this (98% of you will) you will need to relax and calm down. Because you will also experience hallucination (things that are not there). Generally speaking, all hallucinations are terrifying to go through. Because - when you're sleeping at night, what do you associate dark with? evil, right? So your brain makes that connection and you'll be seeing demented crap everywhere. The worst case scenario is you waking up. Nothing can happen and nothing will happen. It's a figment of your imagination. Nothing more. All you need to do is stick through it, RELAX YOUR PUSSY ASS, and know you're literally a couple seconds/minutes away from lucid dreaming. So yes, once you experience this scar-for-life encounter, if you haven't woken up, you'll be lucid dreaming. Look around your room/shack/shanty or whatever you're in right now. When you're lucid dreaming - it feels just like that except 100x more vibrant and amazing. You can walk, talk, eat, drink, run, jump, throw, fudge, kill. It's a free-for-all. You control it. However, since it's your first night, you won't last five minutes. Sorry but that's the truth. Once you've successfully lucid dreamed, you'll be filled with excitement that you'll end up waking yourself up. It's unavoidable unless you go in there with a sense of poise. Because really, you need to set your mind on the goal for that night - YOU'VE COME TO LUCID DREAM. But to avoid this pitfall, just relax a bit and look around the world you're inside. Go outside, feel the grass, breathe in the fresh air. Look up at the birds, see the people walking by. Do anything to relax yourself knowing that limits is just a word. If you feel yourself losing lucidity, here's a couple of things to keep you inside: spin in a circle, rub your hands together, jump up. These keep you hooked onto your lucidity because all of your focus is being put onto doing one task (instead of your mind wandering to different places).
Misc. eBooks, Tools and Websites About Lucid Dreaming
I have over fifty eBooks on lucid dreaming that I've collected for awhile. They contain work from many scientists of the study (such as LeBerge, Allan Wallace, Charles Tart and so on). I also have a lucid dreaming binaural beat I found awhile back (click here for information.) Both the eBooks and binaural beat can be attained by simply PMing me and asking for them. Simple as that.
http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/i...aming.html
http://www.lucidity.com/
http://www.dreamviews.com/content/what-l...eaming-16/
I'll be updating this thread daily with information I left out or information I feel the need to be added.
For those not aware of lucid dreaming (being able to control your dreams) I've come here to inform and educate.
What lucid dreaming basically is, is being able to control your dreams and in those controlled dreams - being able to do anything you could possibly ever want to do. The possibilities are endless. You can fly, talk to deceased relatives/friends, climb mountains, everything really. So since I have nothing else to do, I'll be informing, helping, and encouraging those who actually try this out (everyone should be doing this lmao). In this thread, I'll be giving my methods, tips, and tricks as to how to lucid dream. So let's get started!
Basic Information
As I've stated above, the most basic definition of lucid dreaming is being able to control and contort your dreams into anything you desire. With determination, practice and resilience; you will be successful (as with life). Before I get into the logistics of what lucid dreaming actually is, allow me to explain the brain functions when you're sleeping. Usually, it takes like what? 30-45 minutes to fall asleep (for me anyways)? During this process, you probably have noticed many unusual things happen. For instance, you know those sometimes bright lights behind your closed eyelids? That's called Hypnagogia Imagery. It's your brains way of sending signals to the optic nerves of your eyes already trying to form a dream. How about weird noises or even voices when you're trying to fall asleep? This is your brains way of trying to figure out if you're actually asleep or not. You might hear voices of laughter, taunting, or just general chatter but you know it's something. You might hear your doorbell, a knock at the door or something of the sort (your brain be trolin). Now, lucid dreaming isn't a one night thing. I wish I could tell you that by the end of this thread, you will will able to go to bed tonight and lucid dream instantly. It doesn't work that way and never has. But, sometime in your life, you've probably already lucid dreamed and not know it. At night when we all fall asleep, despite some people's opinions, you dream constantly throughout the night. Every single minute/second/hour you're dreaming. Some people say they don't dream - no, they dream but they just have bad dream recall (or a certain section of their brain is malfunctioned [srs]). The only reason we don't remember all of our dreams is because the only time we actually recollect in depth is when we just woke up either in the middle or right after a dream. We have peaks when we are in a deep sleep or a weak sleep. Usually 4-5 hours into the night is when we're in our deepest, and gradually when the hours progress - we go less and less into a deep sleep.
Reality Checks, Dream Recall, and Dream Journals
In this section, I'll be covering reality checks, dream recall and dream journals.
Firstly, reality checks are little signals you give yourself on a daily basis to remind yourself that you're not sleeping. It may sound stupid but just make it a habit. What this does is if you make it a daily ritual and a habit, your dream self will, in turn, do it without thinking. Let's say you have a watch, and your watch is set to beep every hour. Once it beeps, ask yourself out loud "Am I dreaming?" Keeping your watch next to you when you sleep, once you hear that beep, your dream self will ask himself if he's dreaming and boom. Your brain recognizes the signal and you'll realize you're dreaming. It sounds weird but it works and it a definite method with nothing but positive benefits.
Dream recall is basically the ability to remember your dreams. People have good dream recall, some have bad. If you don't remember half your dreams every night, don't worry - in due time you can enhance your dream recall and make it better. To make it better, you have to at least try to remember any little insignificant detail about a dream you had just woken up from and write it down. Sometimes you'll remember, sometimes you won't.
Dream journals are what will makes you successful in lucidity. What dream journals are is basically you writing down whatever dream you had that night. Every little detail, every little everything. What was it like? was the son bright? was it dark? were there people around you? if so what were they talking about/doing? etc. doing this will not only enhance and build up your dream recall (seen above) but it will (somehow) help with lucid dreaming. I'm not exactly filled in on the facts on why it helps, but it's been proven. Can't argue with results. You don't have to write them down, but it's whatever. It won't hurt to try.
Lucid Dreaming Information
Again, successful lucid dreaming tactics require determination and and perseverance (and practice). You won't lucid dream tonight but like with anything to get better, try and try again - keep at it. Now, there are many ways to lucid dream. But, since I'm the one spreading knowledge; I'm going to explain the method I've used for a couple of years. Before going to bed tonight, or whenever you crazy kids go to bed nowadays, I highly suggest meditating for even 10-15 minutes just to clear your mind and put yourself in a calming state. It may seem weird and freakin stupid but trust me son, it's some deep ass crap. So, tonight after you've meditated (if you did) and cleared your mind, hop into bed. Get in a relaxing position and be prepared to stay in that position for awhile. Make sure you have everything set, you're comfortable; once that's good, you're ready to begin. Once you started the process, you CAN NOT MOVE A MUSCLE AT ALL. The reason being is because you're tricking your brain into thinking you're sleeping. That's when the brain starts throwing some trickery at you to fool you. The most common one is feeling the uncontrollable urge to switch sides and move around. Like I said, you can't move a muscle. Through the process, weird things will begin to happen. Your arms will feel as if they're floating or just cut off and gone (normal). You will begin to see more Hypnagogia Imagery as the night progresses. Keeping still and relaxing, slowly trying to fall asleep, you'll begin to notice shapely figures that you recognize (i.e cars, landscapes, your room, a house etc). This means that you're very close and need to keep doing this crap. You're close into crossing lucidity. But, yes but, before you cross you will have to deal with Sleep Paralysis. SP is (basically) the shutting down of your muscles (you can't move your head, hands, arms, legs, feet etc). If you have to experience this (98% of you will) you will need to relax and calm down. Because you will also experience hallucination (things that are not there). Generally speaking, all hallucinations are terrifying to go through. Because - when you're sleeping at night, what do you associate dark with? evil, right? So your brain makes that connection and you'll be seeing demented crap everywhere. The worst case scenario is you waking up. Nothing can happen and nothing will happen. It's a figment of your imagination. Nothing more. All you need to do is stick through it, RELAX YOUR PUSSY ASS, and know you're literally a couple seconds/minutes away from lucid dreaming. So yes, once you experience this scar-for-life encounter, if you haven't woken up, you'll be lucid dreaming. Look around your room/shack/shanty or whatever you're in right now. When you're lucid dreaming - it feels just like that except 100x more vibrant and amazing. You can walk, talk, eat, drink, run, jump, throw, fudge, kill. It's a free-for-all. You control it. However, since it's your first night, you won't last five minutes. Sorry but that's the truth. Once you've successfully lucid dreamed, you'll be filled with excitement that you'll end up waking yourself up. It's unavoidable unless you go in there with a sense of poise. Because really, you need to set your mind on the goal for that night - YOU'VE COME TO LUCID DREAM. But to avoid this pitfall, just relax a bit and look around the world you're inside. Go outside, feel the grass, breathe in the fresh air. Look up at the birds, see the people walking by. Do anything to relax yourself knowing that limits is just a word. If you feel yourself losing lucidity, here's a couple of things to keep you inside: spin in a circle, rub your hands together, jump up. These keep you hooked onto your lucidity because all of your focus is being put onto doing one task (instead of your mind wandering to different places).
Misc. eBooks, Tools and Websites About Lucid Dreaming
I have over fifty eBooks on lucid dreaming that I've collected for awhile. They contain work from many scientists of the study (such as LeBerge, Allan Wallace, Charles Tart and so on). I also have a lucid dreaming binaural beat I found awhile back (click here for information.) Both the eBooks and binaural beat can be attained by simply PMing me and asking for them. Simple as that.
http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/i...aming.html
http://www.lucidity.com/
http://www.dreamviews.com/content/what-l...eaming-16/
I'll be updating this thread daily with information I left out or information I feel the need to be added.