Lucid dreaming revived

[silenthunder]

I never was able to take on lucid dreaming, I'm not sure whether it was a lack of motivation or I just never got around to it. But last summer I spent 2 weeks in Canada, and every night before bed we would do Yoga for 30 minutes, and then a Yoga instructor would guide us through a trance that lasted about 15 minutes. Only 2 or 3 out of 10 of us were actually able to do it effectively, me being one of them. Now every once in a while I lay down in corpse pose and spend about 2 hours in my trance world thing (which is really between 15-30 minutes, but when your in a trance time feels different to you, so it's like 2 hours). Of course, you have to know how to do it properly or you could damage yourself physically and mentally. As lucid knows, I was abruptly woken up in the middle of one and became very sick. I couldn't leave my bed for 3 days.

Sorry about being so off-topic, but I felt it kinda fit in. I'd like to get a start on lucid dreaming, it sounds like a fun experience. If I remember correctly, one of the first steps is to do something repeatedly (like look at your hands or a digital clock) throughout the day, and then you will start to notice the action happen in dreams, right?

BTW where even did the original topic go?

[lucid]

Yeah that's a popular technique. Doesn't have to be your hands. Just look at them intermittently throughout the day when you are doing something mundane and when you do ask yourself, "Am I dreaming?"

Eventually you will notice that you will start to do this during sleep and it should trigger lucidity.

[Elvyra]

I can do it, but it seemed pointless as there was no challenge or goal to it. Sure, you can fly and make fireballs and stuff... but why?

[silenthunder]

I can do it, but it seemed pointless as there was no challenge or goal to it. Sure, you can fly and make fireballs and stuff... but why?

Why not? You never know what you could achieve, maybe you'll stumble upon the secret of using 100% of your brain consciously. Maybe you'll find out that you can use it to excel in real world subjects. As far as challenges go, I find it a very hard challenge to be able to do it. I'm finally starting to get somewhere, my dreams are becoming realistic and I'm having some conscious thoughts in them, but as far as memory goes I can barely remember any of them.

[parad0x]

I rarely dream and when I dream, in the morning either I forgets 90% of it or either I remember around 30-40% of it.

[silenthunder]

I rarely dream and when I dream, in the morning either I forgets 90% of it or either I remember around 30-40% of it.

Idk if you smoke or not, but marijuana is notorious for stifling your dreams. After I quit it was one dream after another, almost nonstop.

[parad0x]

Idk if you smoke or not, but marijuana is notorious for stifling your dreams. After I quit it was one dream after another, almost nonstop.

I don't smoke,drink,take weeds and stuff like that.
I believe in simple life and high thoughts.

[lucid]

there was no challenge or goal to it blah blah

Your wrong

[silenthunder]

I don't smoke,drink,take weeds and stuff like that.
I believe in simple life and high thoughts.

Take weeds? How do you take weeds? -.-

[Zesh]

Take weeds? How do you take weeds? -.-

By pulling them out of the ground? How can you say there isn't a challenge in lucid dreaming? Just go exploring in your dream world, I'm sure you'll come across something

[Stackprotector]

I can do it, but it seemed pointless as there was no challenge or goal to it. Sure, you can fly and make fireballs and stuff... but why?

The biggest point around lucid dreaming is understanding and subconscious exploration.

[Mordred]

I personally only managed to have lucid dreaming once. It was SO FUCKING AMAZING I woke up in literal tears of happiness. I don't remember exactly what was the scenery, but I do know for sure I was "floating" somewhere in space staring at various stars, black holes and other crazy stuff.

Unfortunately I was confused as to what was happening that I did something in the dream (I think I punched myself in the stomach or something painful like that) which instantly woke me up.

I would love to be able to do that again, but alas since then I haven't been able to.

[silenthunder]

FINALLY got somewhere last night!! Didn't manage to do much but it was awesome. It started as a normal dream, it was a terrible situation between me and the cops, my parents had me arrested, but I was conscious the whole time and was able to change a minimal amount of things, I didn't realize I was having a lucid dream until about halfway through it. As soon as I realized I could change everything, I tried to kill my mom xD. I threw a bottle of honey (the bottle was already there on the table) and made it explode, yelling random bullshit at her that she didn't respond to at all cuz she was too busy not making any sense.

One thing I noticed about it, you don't move like you do IRL. You have to think about moving and it's almost like you're in third person. If you try to physically move you'll wake up. I didn't really feel pain either, I could feel but when things hit me I just felt it, it didn't hurt.

I'm really excited about this now :DDD

[Zesh]

you're in third person

I seem to remember always being in 1st person. I do remember dreams where I have been in 3rd person so maybe the view you're in before you go lucid is the view you continue with...maybe you can change it.

[silenthunder]

I seem to remember always being in 1st person. I do remember dreams where I have been in 3rd person so maybe the view you're in before you go lucid is the view you continue with...maybe you can change it.

Well, it was first person, it just felt like it was third. Like if I were staring at a computer screen that was capturing the first person view of someone, except that screen took up the entirety of my vision, if that makes sense.