• How To Lucid Dream
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[URL="http://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreaming/comments/1gi2mk/one_simple_change_has_given_me_lds_pretty_much_at/"]Found on Reddit[/URL]: [QUOTE]One simple change has given me LDs pretty much at will Sleep sitting up. Not the whole night, just the latter half. What you need to do is sleep 3-4 hours in your bed, wake up (with an alarm) and go finish your sleep in a recliner or deck chair that has head and neck support. I used to only LD once every few months, now I have them whenever I drag myself to the recliner (a few feet from my bed) in the middle of the night. It works because your body, being exhausted, will easily fall asleep, but your mind senses (through the vestibular system) that you're in an upright position and so remains aware. The bottom line is that you're asleep, but the higher mental processes that are usually offline at this time such as planning, working memory, attention, problem solving, and self-referential mechanisms are prevented from being shut down. Most of these functions are located in the prefrontal cortex, so I'm guessing that specific part of the brain remains active while sleeping upright and shuts down while asleep in natural positions. Also, you don't go into the deep sleep stages, so you remain in the sweet spot between waking and coma-like sleep. A few notes -Every single one of the LDs I've had from this method (which is more than 70 now) begins in a replica of my room (the place where my recliner is). As such, my room functions as the loading dock of my entire LD universe. -This method produces LDs that are very high level. -As the creator of the technique says, make sure you support your lower back with a pillow. If you're not comfortable, you won't fall asleep. -Also helps to have a pillow behind your neck so that you're facing forward like you are in waking life. -The recliner/deck chair should be roughly at a 120-130 degree angle. -Put the alarm on the other side of the room to make you get out of bed. -If you're having a hard time falling asleep after waking up, I've found that sleep deprivation (30 hours+) works just as well with no need for WBTB. What you do in that instance is stay up for about 40 hours then go straight to the recliner/deck chair rather than your bed. This results in sleep paralysis which you can then convert into an LD. For some reason, going to the recliner in the first half of the night doesn't work without sleep deprivation (rem rebound?). -If you have trouble falling asleep and don't want to use sleep deprivation, I guess you can only sleep 2-3 hours before WBTB. I'd still strongly recommend you use sleep dep if you can't fall asleep after 3-4 hours sleep, as I haven't experimented with 2-3 hours (because I fall asleep fine on 3-4). -Whatever you do, don't turn on the lights. That makes it much harder to fall asleep. If your laptop/computer has to be on, download F.lux to eliminate blue glare. -This technique has made lucid dreaming a choice for me. What I mean is that before I struggled and struggled with little to show for it. Now I simply ask myself, do I want to LD tonight? Y/N? If I'm too tired, have an early wake up or a hectic schedule the next day, I just decide that I'll LD the night after. If I'm not zonked out and don't have any commitments the next day, it's a go. I'm now on the choice side of the LD equation. I simply have them when I want to have them rather than just desperately hoping for them. -This is the chair I'm using, just to give you an idea: [url]http://www.tesco.com/direct/tesco-textilene-recliner/492-0126.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=492-0126#BVRRWidgetID[/url] I picked it up for £24. You don't need an elaborate la-z-boy set up. It just has to be comfortable enough for you to sleep in.[/QUOTE] Gonna try this...
I might try this, but I want to see how others fare first.
I usually lucid dream by noticing something out of place or would never happen then that's when the hookers and blow come out.
I sometimes have control over what happens in my dreams, but I don't control what i control, if that makes sense at all.
I usually lucid dream and have for a few years. I never get to choose when though, sometimes when i'm having a dream I realize it and just do what the fuck ever. Happens once or twice a week normally. I was, and still am, surprised I can seeing as how I never actually tried to learn how to.
I've actually been working on this for a few months now. Had some successes the past few weeks. The thing that has been the most important for me (as silly as it sounds) is keeping a dream journal (or dream log if journal doesn't sound manly enough). As soon as I wake up from a dream I write it down until I feel like I've remembered all of it. This helps you become familiar with recurring elements of your dreams. So that when you see a certain location or object, or find yourself in a certain situation, it helps you realize "Hey! I'm dreaming." I've also found that falling asleep thinking about old dream locations helps a lot. One funny/interesting thing I've noticed, when I realize I'm dreaming, and say it out loud to other characters around me in my dream, they will almost always laugh and tell me "No you're not". The first few times this happened they actually convinced me. So close, but foiled! In any case, lucid dreaming is very interesting... I encourage everyone to try it.
The only true lucid dreams I've had always have one thing I can't control. First time, an eyeless screaming little girl followed me around. Second time, everyone was dressed a s a cowboy. Literally everyone, they didn't even act it, though. They were just dressed as cowboys.
Any tips to help remember dreams? I've been trying to do this for some time and seem to fail to even remember dreams. Ive tried dream journal but im always to lazy to write the few dreams i do remember down. :v:
i had a semi-lucid dream once i was playing bf3 and controlling my character what a fucking waste
[QUOTE=abananapeel;41075494]Any tips to help remember dreams? I've been trying to do this for some time and seem to fail to even remember dreams. Ive tried dream journal but im always to lazy to write the few dreams i do remember down. :v:[/QUOTE] I have to do it literally as soon as I wake up, otherwise I forget things too. Don't try to remember everything all at once. Write down every little thing that pops into your head, even if its out of order. The content is more important than the sequence. You'll usually remember more as you go too. It takes effort. But like anything else, the longer you work at it the easier it gets.
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i did it and all what happened was scary faces :(
I prefer using the watch method. Where you just wear a watch in your normal life to a point where youll dream of yourself in a dream wearing one. Time barely holds any concept to yourself in a dream so it's usually all lost makes no sense, so in a dream your watch may be going absolutely crazy in all sorts of directions and that breaks the logic of your dream world allowing you to become aware that you're in a dream.
[QUOTE=mysteryman;41092090]I prefer using the watch method. Where you just wear a watch in your normal life to a point where youll dream of yourself in a dream wearing one. Time barely holds any concept to yourself in a dream so it's usually all lost makes no sense, so in a dream your watch may be going absolutely crazy in all sorts of directions and that breaks the logic of your dream world allowing you to become aware that you're in a dream.[/QUOTE] thats some inception-level shit right there
I fail everytime, later i get tired as hell and then i'm like "forget the lucid dreaming just sleep"
I've only LD'd ONCE, and I woke up immediately after realizing it. I shaved that day, and when I was dreaming I looked in the mirror and notice I hadn't shaved and thought, I thought I shaved this, I must be dr*WAKE UP*
[QUOTE=GentlemanLexi;41092065]i did it and all what happened was scary faces :([/QUOTE] Can you elaborate?
I've been lucid dreaming and actively researching my dreamworld for several years now. And I can tell you that this technique posted on Reddit is most probably not going to work well, if at all. Here's some tips if you want to lucid dream, and you totally should because it's the best thing ever: [B]1. Keep a dream journal.[/B] Every single morning when you wake up you need to write your dreams down. Write down every single detail you can remember, and yes this can take some time so just set up your alarm like 20-30minutes earlier than usually. Well why do you need to do this? The answer is quite obvious, if you have a lucid dream the dream is not stored in your "long term memory", so if you can't remember your dreams, you can't remember your lucid dreams. [B]2. Do reality checks.[/B] If you do reality checks in real life they will transfer into your dreams. The simplies reality check is pinching your nose, closing your mouth and trying to breathe. Now if you do this every 2-3 hours every day for couple weeks this [B]will[/B] transfer into your dreams, and you will notice that you are dreaming. [B]3. Have fun in your dreams[/B] If you notice that the dream starts to fade away, you can rub your hands together. Or even say spells like "visibility 100%", and you will probably notice something change. Remember that you can do everything in your dreams. :wink: Some links: [url]http://www.dreamviews.com[/url] [url]http://www.ld4all.com/[/url]
[QUOTE=Minimole;41075029]I usually lucid dream by noticing something out of place or would never happen then that's when the hookers and blow come out.[/QUOTE] I don't think I've ever lucid dreamed. Although I've had vivid dreams, more or less controllable and memorable, and sometimes no dreams at all. But that what you said just somehow sounds so.. bullshit. Although if it's as simple as sleeping while sitting while having your back and neck comfly, then.. go on now Facepunch. For science. [QUOTE=The_J_Hat;41075027]I might try this, but I want to see how others fare first.[/QUOTE]
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