LuciD's impromtu guide to lucid dreaming

[Stackprotector]

I have practiced loads of in real visualization, like when listening to music, i can see fireworks, or i can imagine a man walking over the floor and really believing it comes with a almost frightened feeling.
I am going to look into this, i had once a dream (not so long ago) where i feld some kind of power/reality mix,   i killed the enemy's for the first time in my life, it felt good.

Thanks ,   maybe you could do some more writing on the technique parts?, i have experienced a way of meditating in the past, where you just go meditating and when in a state of mind you visualize a world, i takes loads of concentration but it works.

[lucid]

I have practiced loads of in real visualization, like when listening to music, i can see fireworks, or i can imagine a man walking over the floor and really believing it comes with a almost frightened feeling.
I am going to look into this, i had once a dream (not so long ago) where i feld some kind of power/reality mix,   i killed the enemy's for the first time in my life, it felt good.

Thanks ,   maybe you could do some more writing on the technique parts?, i have experienced a way of meditating in the past, where you just go meditating and when in a state of mind you visualize a world, i takes loads of concentration but it works.

Thats definitely the kind of mind control that you need in order to be able to lucid dream. Of course lucid dreaming won't happen the night after the day you decided to start thinking about it. Although it might. I think the smart people on this forum probably won't have too much trouble with it. As I've said before lucid dreaming in my opinion is hacking.

I'll compile more thoughts and post other helpful techniques soon, although, I'm not the final word on this subject.

[Wolf]

I started looking into lucid dreaming after night terrors became a real problem. Helped in some ways and made it worse in others. Some times I wake up and cant move or control myself for an hour or two... terrifying.
On the note of giving your brain commands tho, i feel like it's only a matter of time before we learn to literally crack the human mind the way we would a computer.... Now that's scary stuff if you think about how much damage you could do. you can't just reimage the human mind...

[lucid]

you can't just reimage the human mind...

Well I never thought about that part. Thats an interesting way to look at it. So far I haven't really done anything negative to my brain through lucid dreaming(Disputable).

Although on the subject of being paralyzed when you wake up thats happened to me before. I woke up and felt pressure and couldn't move, I also saw a girl standing over my bed clear as day repeating something to me in a low harsh whisper.......can't remember what she said. She disappeared and I jerked out of bed.

Never happened for an hour though that sounds scary...is it possible that there was a time lapse effect? Because when you dream even though it can feel like hours its only been five minutes.

[pl0tuS]

I felt that too.. But it happened with me only few times.
Sometimes my dreams repeat. And that's the point where I'm the king of my dream because i know what will happen next. It's like I can handle my dream.

And about that hacking of mind, you are right. When you know that it's only a dream then you have no fear. And you can do whatever you like.

[Deque]

@Wolf: A sleep paralysis usually takes a few minutes only and happens also to healthy people, more often to people who are not able to sleep regularly or about the same time (like shift workers). If you have been paralized for hours, it is either a dream or--in case it happens more often--you should visit a doctor about that. It can be a hint for an underlying condition.

[Wolf]

Lol, i'm a shift worker and an insomniac. So that explains a lot. And I will admit there could have been a time lapse effect, but still some scary stuff.

[lucid]

Interesting I didn't know that part about shift workers. I used to work the night into early morning shift for UPS. Also an insomniac. I guess that explains that

[atsuktuvas]

Inception anyone?
How do you relate lucid dreaming to the stuff happening in movie inception?
Are lucid dreams as real as the stuff in inception dreams?

[lucid]

I suppose inception might be a good example in the way that(again with enough power, energy, and concentration)you really can literally construct your own dream.

I only saw that movie once so I don't remember other details otherwise I might give a better explanation sorry. Although, I would say that trying to understand the concept of lucid dreaming by relating to it with a movie is silly.

[Z3R0]

I am a frequent practitioner of lucid dreaming. I usually have one about every month now (when I first started it was about every 4 months). The only thing I have to work on is my urge to beat the living fuck out of my dream citizens mortal kombat style.

One of my favorite times while lucid dreaming was creating a coastline, and watching a never-ending sunset. The level of control you have on everything when you lucid dream is retardedly addicting. I've flown in the air, created landscapes, killed people, long-jumped over the san francisco bridge, teleported, gained super powers etc.

There are, however, down sides of it. I once, "woke up," I guess, but I was still dreaming, and when I actually woke up I was extremely out of my mind that day. I've also reverted into possibly one of the most horrible nightmares of my entire life, and woken up with sleep paralysis, but other than that, it's a really awesome hobby to take up. I've most recently been having lucid dreams after a night of drinking alcohol, just food for thought if there might be a connection there. Any thoughts?

[lucid]

I've most recently been having lucid dreams after a night of drinking alcohol, just food for thought if there might be a connection there. Any thoughts?

Actually I've noticed that too. It at least doesn't stifle it like marijuana does.

[Stackprotector]

I started with learning , last night i used http://luciddreamingapp.com/android/

After a night you get graphs like this



Very nice , also there are many systems included like wild, mild etc.   

[lucid]

Wow. So has it worked?

[Stackprotector]

No, because it needs atleast 3 days of data before it can predict the best times to wake and do all.kind of reminders.
Also doing reality checks, however yesterday i did it in english but i.think its better to do anykind of this stuff in my native language.