What would be the best method to have a lucid dream?
(For a beginner)
[QUOTE=Orkel;30501727]How vivid/realistic was your first lucid? Or the short moment of it.[/QUOTE]
My dreams are never very vivid. Even on lucids.
Basically, my dreams and mental images look like something through frosted glass at the edge of your peripheral vision.
[editline]16th June 2011[/editline]
Didn't really feel like real life, all I can do is see and hear, and I felt the air travel through my pinched off nose. That's about it.
[editline]16th June 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Trippeh;30504086]What would be the best method to have a lucid dream?
(For a beginner)[/QUOTE]
Build up your recall, then do reality checks a lot, until it's a habit. Eventually you'll fail a reality check when you try it in a dream.
[QUOTE=Trippeh;30504086]What would be the best method to have a lucid dream?
(For a beginner)[/QUOTE]
[url=http://www.dreamviews.com/wiki/DILD-Tutorial]DILD[/url] is probably the quickest way for a beginner.
[QUOTE=PotsYouPaint;30507067][url=http://www.dreamviews.com/wiki/DILD-Tutorial]DILD[/url] is probably the quickest way for a beginner.[/QUOTE]
Quick question. Do I have to be laying on my back(eyes on the ceiling) to have sleep paralysis or can I sleep on my side to dream easier?
This one dream I found myself having to show ID to buy a tub of salsa sauce.
Fucking bullshit.
[QUOTE=DJswitch;30508151]Quick question. Do I have to be laying on my back(eyes on the ceiling) to have sleep paralysis or can I sleep on my side to dream easier?[/QUOTE]
To be honest I've never tried SP, considering I move a lot trying to sleep and normally sleep on my side, so don't ask me.
i had a really awkward nightmare tonight, i was in my bed and i woke up from the doorbell
i went to the door and there were lodes of people outside and i knew all of them because they were from facepunch (dont know all of them for real but in the dream i did) and they just started laughing at me
i looked down and saw that i was butt naked and then i woke up
I've had some pretty epic dreams of late! In one, there was this tower manned by man wizards that shot magic across dimensions, and it was all related to the wheel of time series. And then some silver lady took me to the dimension of the afterlife and it was just a bunch of slides, up and down continually. She thought it was real tedious and all, but I told her that every climb is a victory and the slide down a reward and enjoyment. (deep)
Then I had one where there was a mix of wheel of time and lotr, with the hobbits being taken from their hometown by the people who take the 3 main chars in wheel of time from theirs. And then it was a tv series of the hobbit, and then I went to act as frodo. And liev schreiber was lan, one of the two people who take the characters away, and he was great. So I went to the place they're staying and so we went for a walk as buddy actors and ended up being in south Africa and shooting up this gang with guns we found on the floor. The guns had 007 on them too.
And finaaaally last night! There was this huge ass war going on, against aliens, in Germany, where I come from originally (NZ now). I was this badass crack soldier, and I was shooting up two or three of the ultra aliens with like laser beams from some badass test weapon. My dad and I and some family then went to a house, to escape all fighting. Apparently the house was open to lesbians but not gays! Anyway we stayed the night there. In the morning, a man came to my window and I shot him, then knifed him to death, and he was part wolf too.
From there we all agreed we were sick of the fighting - I'd really not wanted to kill that wolf guy, and had felt pretty sad doing so. So off we went on the road, to find a place of peace. In a scene just walking through a forest, I got called Mr Lubitsch, which is the name of a main char in a book I read recently - it's got a kind of post apocalyptic setting, and the country's never named, but he's polish by decent so it all made sense and shit - and that was the last I saw of that group.
It went back to the start of the road, where these topless religious fanatic dudes went and chased after us. Two girls went after them, apparently set to follow us. They went a bit up the road and then went into a little cave room, and talked with my uncle who had a moustache. He was happy of the knowledge. The dream then followed the girls who went to some ice cave where they fought monsters with lightning bolts, monsters from the water and with lots of tentacles.
Then I saw two politicians, meant to be in different countries, talking with each other. One was on platforms above water. They both agree they need to go to Germany, so one calls up a jet or something, and the guy in the platforms jumps down and does a lap in the water from excitement . Then theyre both together, somewhere. And that was the end! It was exciting as.
I think I've had enough reading and I want to try it myself. I wanted to experience sleep paralysis, but I think DILD may prove to be more succesfull. I know about reality checks but I've got one question about them:
What checks are the most... convenient? For example, I've read that lightswitches rarely work in dreams, but it's not exactly convenient to flicker the lights whenever I walk past a lightswitch. On the other hand, I could try examining my hands to see if they're normal, but there's nothing that could remind me to do it regularly.
I dreamt I passed all my exams with great marks
It's such a horrible feeling when you wake up and realize that it was a dream.
Ive had varying clarifies of lucidity personally. One time, the first time, was really good and I had a lot of control, and everything was extremely clear and all. Another time when I actually ran into my sub after yelling out that it is a lucid dream and trying lots of rcs, it was clear, until I felt a need to go to the toilet and had a false awakening. Then in another one, I woke up, I knew it was a dream, I was in a dark room lying down. I did the nose rc and it worked, then I woke up directly after, at a slightly different angle. Since then I had another two, one where it was super clear and everything was reaaally vivid, it was beautiful. In another one, I had a bit of a fuck around and woke up pretty quick.
But I have yet to have a full, proper one!
[QUOTE=zerosix;30495919]Sounds a lot safer then. Just wondering how long it will take for me to start DILDing. I've started a dream journal (using here and notepad on my computer) and I do reality checks whenever they're mentioned (like I just did).[/QUOTE]
It helps to learn about lucid dreams frequently and just think about it I guess. I've been keeping a very inconsistent dream journal for around 6 months but a couple months ago I just started reading dream views for a bit again and I've gone lucid around 4 times a month. Though not very vivid.
If anything, just check this thread and read the new posts every day.
So guys.. Oneironautics
has anyone check this out?
[URL]http://dream-guide.tumblr.com/[/URL]
Was also on kickstarter ([URL="http://www.kickstarter.com"]www.kickstarter.com[/URL] - a wesbite for funding cool little projects)
and is a book, instructing how to keep yourself asleep and dive deeper into your creative side.
explore your dream world, and bend it to your will. check it out.
[QUOTE=ZenX2;30505918]My dreams are never very vivid. Even on lucids.
Basically, my dreams and mental images look like something through frosted glass at the edge of your peripheral vision.
[editline]16th June 2011[/editline]
Didn't really feel like real life, all I can do is see and hear, and I felt the air travel through my pinched off nose. That's about it.[/QUOTE]
Aw. You should practise clearing up your dreams. Clarity tricks like imagining sunglasses on your face and taking them off to make the world brighter, and looking at your hands while rubbing them together for stabilization and clarity, and concentrating on all of your senses at once for vividness etc.
Had a lucid last night, extremely clear and vivid. Started on an aircraft carrier. Later on this happened:
[quote]Orkel: AHHAAHAHAHAHAHA
Orkel: had a lucid dream and found a vending machine in a shop
Orkel: it had a lot of sodas
Orkel: one struck my eye
Orkel: it was called "UGUU~" soda
eXperion: what
Orkel: it had brown top and silvery bottom
Orkel: a picture of donald duck on it
Orkel: and a warning label
Orkel: "do not use mince paper unless it is the edge area of the center area"
Orkel: it had the "UGUU~" in different languages too as I rotated the can of soda around
Orkel: like "UGYUU" and "LE UGUU"
Orkel: I fucking woke up laughing
Orkel: wtf brain[/quote]
[editline]17th June 2011[/editline]
I spent the lucid just exploring my surroundings, it usually leads into waking up to my own laughter because of the ridiculous shit that I find.
amygaaawwd
I just had like, nine freaking dreams last night.
I only remember 3.
two of them were recurring and were about a river park. The first time I was there with sometype of athletic team going tubing. It was fun as hell until I fell off and they didn't come back for me. I swam around the lake and found an awesome super soaker and I think I found a jetski. Maybe not. Thhe second river dream I was in a car going there with my friends, but I can't remember the rest.
The other dream was that I was part of a stock car racing team, only the cars were made mostly out of cardboard I didn't know how to do anything, so I tried to help, but the hot chick on our team yelled at me for being a dumbass :smith:
[QUOTE=horsedrowner;30513768]I think I've had enough reading and I want to try it myself. I wanted to experience sleep paralysis, but I think DILD may prove to be more succesfull. I know about reality checks but I've got one question about them:
What checks are the most... convenient? For example, I've read that lightswitches rarely work in dreams, but it's not exactly convenient to flicker the lights whenever I walk past a lightswitch. On the other hand, I could try examining my hands to see if they're normal, but there's nothing that could remind me to do it regularly.[/QUOTE]
I believe looking at your hands or the sky are good ones, but when I tried both neither were different so they didn't work.
[QUOTE=Orkel;30517231]Aw. You should practise clearing up your dreams. Clarity tricks like imagining sunglasses on your face and taking them off to make the world brighter, and looking at your hands while rubbing them together for stabilization and clarity, and concentrating on all of your senses at once for vividness etc.
Had a lucid last night, extremely clear and vivid. Started on an aircraft carrier. Later on this happened:
[editline]17th June 2011[/editline]
I spent the lucid just exploring my surroundings, it usually leads into waking up to my own laughter because of the ridiculous shit that I find.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I'll have to work on that.
Also I want to try Uguu now :v:
[editline]17th June 2011[/editline]
I'm watching Inception again, at the scene where it's the new architect's first day of training and everything starts exploding, I started freaking out and saying, "Why are you just sitting there?! Stabilize the dream! Rub your hands together! Do [i]something![/i]"
I need help. I'm just getting interested in lucid dreaming, I want to talk to my subconscious about things, I want to talk to HP Lovecraft and Carl Sagan inside of a supernova, and all that jazz.
So in short, what I need to do is begin writing down dreams I have as soon as I wake up, and eventually start doing reality checks? When I notice something is out of place, I could say, summon a console and type noclip?
And...does it seem real? Could you for example make a second in real life into a year in the dream, and recall each thing you did in the dream? The conversations you had? If you hug something, is it warm and realistic?
I'm confused. :ohdear:
[QUOTE=Nifae;30530864]I need help. I'm just getting interested in lucid dreaming, I want to talk to my subconscious about things, I want to talk to HP Lovecraft and Carl Sagan inside of a supernova, and all that jazz.
So in short, what I need to do is begin writing down dreams I have as soon as I wake up, and eventually start doing reality checks? When I notice something is out of place, I could say, summon a console and type noclip?
And...does it seem real? Could you for example make a second in real life into a year in the dream, and recall each thing you did in the dream? The conversations you had? If you hug something, is it warm and realistic?
I'm confused. :ohdear:[/QUOTE]
1. Do both. Keep a journal and do reality checks every now and then. Write the dreams down even when waking in the middle of the night, keep the journal next to your pillow.
2. A good quality lucid feels and looks precisely like real life. Every feeling/sensation is there, all of your senses are working at maximum. Crystal clear. But you can't really make lucids that last for a year, those are illusions or massive exaggerations. Almost all of them last somewhere between 2 seconds - 15 minutes depending on both your skill/experience and just genetics, I guess, as some people get long lucids easily while others struggle with even short ones even with similar amounts training.
[editline]18th June 2011[/editline]
Some advanced lucid dreamers also learn chaining techniques, where after waking up of a lucid, you instantly go back into a new one, making the combined dream longer that way. It's very hard, but it can be done, I do it sometimes. Like instead of getting a 5 minute lucid, after waking up, you use the technique and instantly go back into it, continuing where you left off.
[editline]18th June 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=ZenX2;30523325]
Also I want to try Uguu now :v:[/QUOTE]
I'll drink it in my next lucid
Will report back on the taste
[QUOTE=Orkel;30531231]1. Do both. Keep a journal and do reality checks every now and then. Write the dreams down even when waking in the middle of the night, keep the journal next to your pillow.
2. A good quality lucid feels and looks precisely like real life. Every feeling/sensation is there, all of your senses are working at maximum. Crystal clear. But you can't really make lucids that last for a year, those are illusions or massive exaggerations. Almost all of them last somewhere between 2 seconds - 15 minutes depending on both your skill/experience and just genetics, I guess, as some people get long lucids easily while others struggle with even short ones even with similar amounts training.
[editline]18th June 2011[/editline]
Some advanced lucid dreamers also learn chaining techniques, where after waking up of a lucid, you instantly go back into a new one, making the combined dream longer that way. It's very hard, but it can be done, I do it sometimes. Like instead of getting a 5 minute lucid, after waking up, you use the technique and instantly go back into it, continuing where you left off.
[editline]18th June 2011[/editline]
I'll drink it in my next lucid
Will report back on the taste[/QUOTE]
Is there any way to increase the chance of dreaming?
Oi, had a nice dream last night. Can't remember the backstory, but A bunch of people were escaping from people with far more advanced military technology. I was among those escaping. A lot of my friends were also escaping. I seemed to be one of the smarter ones when it came to surviving, example: Huge bomb drops, and I have to tell people to hit the deck. Shit was dope as hell. When everything was going to shit it was probably some of the most vivid shit I've ever seen/heard/felt/smelled/tasted. All of it. Absolutely beautiful. Towards the end of the dream I killed some bad guy and stole his big rig, filled it full of people, and drove it into my dream version of pittsburg by jumping the 18-wheeler over the roadblock.
Fucking
Awesome
Every night for the last month I've had the same dream/nightmare of me burning in a pit, with all of my friend and family standing watching me, with a strange man standing behind them, with his eyes gouged out.
The horrible thing is, is that I can feel the pain of the burning in the dream, causing me not wanting to sleep lately.
I tried that last night, haven't played the game long enough. I'll try it again today. God I love this game.
[QUOTE=DJswitch;30531550]Is there any way to increase the chance of dreaming?[/QUOTE]
Sleep earlier. Eat bananas.
[editline]18th June 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;30541770]I tried that last night, haven't played the game long enough. I'll try it again today. God I love this game.[/QUOTE]
Same, it's fucking awesome.
[QUOTE=Orkel;30531231]1. Do both. Keep a journal and do reality checks every now and then. Write the dreams down even when waking in the middle of the night, keep the journal next to your pillow.
2. A good quality lucid feels and looks precisely like real life. Every feeling/sensation is there, all of your senses are working at maximum. Crystal clear. But you can't really make lucids that last for a year, those are illusions or massive exaggerations. Almost all of them last somewhere between 2 seconds - 15 minutes depending on both your skill/experience and just genetics, I guess, as some people get long lucids easily while others struggle with even short ones even with similar amounts training.
[editline]18th June 2011[/editline]
Some advanced lucid dreamers also learn chaining techniques, where after waking up of a lucid, you instantly go back into a new one, making the combined dream longer that way. It's very hard, but it can be done, I do it sometimes. Like instead of getting a 5 minute lucid, after waking up, you use the technique and instantly go back into it, continuing where you left off.
[editline]18th June 2011[/editline]
I'll drink it in my next lucid
Will report back on the taste[/QUOTE]
You mean I'll only be able to talk to HP Lovecraft for a few minutes? :ohdear:
No recall, probably related to me going to sleep at 2 am.
Going to bed at 9 tonight.
[QUOTE=Nifae;30547499]You mean I'll only be able to talk to HP Lovecraft for a few minutes? :ohdear:[/QUOTE]
Probably less because you're new to lucid dreaming.
Start off small though, you have to practise dream stabilization and control before you can do something as advanced as talking to lovecraft inside a supernova, it takes months to get good.
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;30541770]I tried that last night, haven't played the game long enough. I'll try it again today. God I love this game.[/QUOTE]
wtf game are you talking about.
I wanna play, it sounds fun
[QUOTE=MasterG;30551924]Also, I dunno if any of you could explain this, but I sometimes have nightmares, but they're weird because i'm not scared. Like it'll be a typical nightmare scenario; running from a murderer through a forest, sitting in my house with burglars trying to break in, stuff like that, but I won't be thinking "OH SHIT! I AM SO SCARED." Instead I just sort of think "Okay, how do I alleviate this situation?" and i'm totally calm and rational about it, which is nuts because i'm not especially calm or reserved in real life.[/QUOTE]
It's a dream
[QUOTE=MasterG;30551924]Also, I dunno if any of you could explain this, but I sometimes have nightmares, but they're weird because i'm not scared. Like it'll be a typical nightmare scenario; running from a murderer through a forest, sitting in my house with burglars trying to break in, stuff like that, but I won't be thinking "OH SHIT! I AM SO SCARED." Instead I just sort of think "Okay, how do I alleviate this situation?" and i'm totally calm and rational about it, which is nuts because i'm not especially calm or reserved in real life.[/QUOTE]
I use things like that to practice being calm/reserved IRL. Or I'm always calm/reserved/happy when I'm not crushingly emotionally crippled.
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