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| How to Lucid Dream | |
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| Topic Started: Nov 13 2006, 04:39 PM (258 Views) | |
| Panther III | Nov 13 2006, 04:39 PM Post #1 |
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3.2 HOW DO I LEARN TO HAVE LUCID DREAMS? The two essentials to learning lucid dreaming are motivation and effort. Although most people report occasional spontaneous lucid dreams, they rarely occur without our intending it. Lucid dream induction techniques help focus intention and prepare a critical mind. They range from millennium-old Tibetan exercises to modern methods developed by dream researchers. Try the following techniques and feel free to use personal variants. Experiment, observe, and persevere - lucid dreaming is easier than you may think. 3.2.1 Dream Recall The most important prerequisite for learning lucid dreaming is excellent dream recall. There are two likely reasons for this. First, when you remember your dreams well, you can become familiar with their features and patterns. This helps you to recognize them as dreams while they are still happening. Second, it is possible that with poor dream recall, you may actually have lucid dreams that you do not remember! The procedure for improving your dream recall is fully detailed in EWLD and A Course in Lucid Dreaming in addition to many other books on dreams. A brief discussion of the methods involved is available on the Lucidity Institute web site. The core exercise is writing down everything you recall about your dreams in a dream journal immediately after waking from the dream, no matter how fragmentary your recall. Record what you recall immediately upon waking from the dream; if you wait until morning you are likely to forget most, if not all, of the dream. In A Course in Lucid Dreaming we advise that people build their dream recall to at least one dream recalled per night before proceeding with lucid dream induction techniques. 3.2.2 Reality Testing This is a good technique for beginners. Assign yourself several times a day to perform the following exercise. Also do it anytime you think of it, especially when something odd occurs or when you are reminded of dreams. It helps to choose specific occasions like: when you see your face in the mirror, look at your watch, arrive at work or home, pick up your NovaDreamer, etc. The more frequently and thoroughly you practice this technique, the better it will work. 1. Do a reality test. Carry some text with you or wear a digital watch throughout the day. To do a reality test, read the words or the numbers on the watch. Then, look away and look back, observing the letters or numbers to see if they change. Try to make them change while watching them. Research shows that text changes 75% of the time it is re-read once and changes 95% it is re-read twice. If the characters do change, or are not normal, or do not make sense, then you are most probably dreaming. Enjoy! If the characters are normal, stable, and sensible, then you probably aren't dreaming. Go on to step 2. 2. Imagine that your surroundings are a dream. If you are fairly certain you are awake (you can never be 100% sure!), then say to yourself, "I may not be dreaming now, but if I were, what would it be like?" Visualize as vividly as possible that you are dreaming. Intently imagine that what you are seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling is all a dream. Imagine instabilities in your environment, words changing, scenes transforming, perhaps you floating off the ground. Create in yourself the feeling that you are in a dream. Holding that feeling, go on to step 3. 3. Visualize yourself enjoying a dream activity. Decide on something you would like to do in your next lucid dream, perhaps flying, talking to particular dream characters, or just exploring the dream world. Continue to imagine that you are dreaming now, and visualize yourself enjoying your chosen activity. 3.2.3 Dreamsigns Another dream-recall related exercise introduced in EWLD and further developed in A Course in Lucid Dreaming is identifying "dreamsigns." This term, coined by LaBerge, refers to elements of dreams that indicate that you are dreaming. (Examples: miraculous flight, purple cats, malfunctioning devices, and meeting deceased people.) By studying your dreams you can become familiar with your own personal dreamsigns and set your mind to recognize them and become lucid in future dreams. The Course also provides exercises for noticing dreamsigns while you are awake, so that the skill carries over into your dreams. This exercise also applies to lucid dream induction devices, which give sensory cues--special, artificially-produced dreamsigns--while you are dreaming. To succeed at recognizing these cues in dreams, you need to practice looking for them and recognizing them while you are awake. 3.2.4 Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (MILD) The MILD technique employs prospective memory, remembering to do something (notice you're dreaming) in the future. Dr. LaBerge developed this technique for his doctoral dissertation and used it to achieve lucid dreaming at will. The proper time to practice MILD is after awakening from a dream, before returning to sleep. (Modified from EWLD, p. 78) 1. Setup dream recall. Set your mind to awaken from dreams and recall them. When you awaken from a dream, recall it as completely as you can. 2. Focus your intent. While returning to sleep, concentrate single-mindedly on your intention to remember to recognize that you're dreaming. Tell yourself: "Next time I'm dreaming, I will remember I'm dreaming," repeatedly, like a mantra. Put real meaning into the words and focus on this idea alone. If you find yourself thinking about anything else, let it go and bring your mind back to your intention. 3. See yourself becoming lucid. As you continue to focus on your intention to remember when you're dreaming, imagine that you are back in the dream from which you just awakened (or another one you have had recently if you didn't remember a dream on awakening). Imagine that this time you recognize that you are dreaming. Look for a dreamsign--something in the dream that demonstrates plainly that it is a dream. When you see it say to yourself: "I'm dreaming!" and continue your fantasy. Imagine yourself carrying out your plans for your next lucid dream. For example, if you want to fly in your lucid dream, imagine yourself flying after you come to the point in your fantasy when you become lucid. 4. Repeat until your intention is set. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until either you fall asleep or are sure that your intention is set. If, while falling asleep, you find yourself thinking of anything else, repeat the procedure so that the last thing in your mind before falling asleep is your intention to remember to recognize the next time you are dreaming. 3.2.5 Napping Two observations led LaBerge in the late 1970s to develop morning napping as a method of lucid dream induction. First, he noticed that lucidity seemed to come easier in afternoon naps. The second suggestion same from several lucid dreamers who noted that certain activities during the night appeared to induce lucid dreaming. The diverse qualities of these interruptions: sex, vomiting, and pure meditation, piqued LaBerge's curiosity regarding what feature each might possess conducive to lucidity. The answer proved to be quite simple: wakefulness interjected during sleep increases the likelihood of lucidity. In fact, the nap technique, refined through several NightLight experiments, is an extremely powerful method of stimulating lucid dreams. The technique requires you to awaken one hour earlier than usual, stay awake for 30 to 60 minutes, then go back to sleep. One study showed a 15 to 20 times increased likelihood of lucid dreaming for those practicing the nap technique over no technique. During the wakeful period, read about lucid dreaming, practice reality checks and then do MILD as you are falling asleep. The Lucidity Institute's training programs include this technique as an essential part of the schedule, one of the reasons why most participants have lucid dreams during the session. Of course a bit of luck never hurt. ;) |
Remember... Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.." | |
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| Link_of_animals | Nov 13 2006, 05:22 PM Post #2 |
Master of Cows, MASTER..OF THE WORLD!
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What is a Lucid Dream? |
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| Naoko | Nov 13 2006, 05:34 PM Post #3 |
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A lucid dream is a dream where you REALIZE you're dreaming, so you can manipulate your dream and do tihngs more willingly in it. Panther, what site did you get this from? |
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| Panther III | Nov 13 2006, 07:59 PM Post #4 |
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lucidity.com |
Remember... Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.." | |
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| CaLeB- | Nov 13 2006, 08:15 PM Post #5 |
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Here is one site with good information. http://brain.web-us.com/lucid/luciddreamingFAQ.htm |
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| Cheese_lover | Nov 14 2006, 05:25 AM Post #6 |
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That's getting so old, we can read that brain is in the URL |
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| CaLeB- | Nov 14 2006, 07:09 AM Post #7 |
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What are you talking about Cheese? You think it's a shocksite or something? Wow, that ticks me off you thinking I'm doing something like that. 
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| Naoko | Nov 14 2006, 07:53 AM Post #8 |
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No, he didn't think it was a shocksite. He thought it was another one of those "Melon the Zombie has eaten your brain! He's eaten 52 brains. Your's was soggy." sites, like Melon kept posting, and like what was in Rikid's siggie. |
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| Link_of_animals | Nov 14 2006, 01:36 PM Post #9 |
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It wasn't though! XD I did a lucid dream once I think.. But I don't really remember.. |
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| Game Freak | Nov 14 2006, 07:12 PM Post #10 |
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wow that sounds really cool i wanna do it XD. i do some of that stuff too and i know when it is or isnt a dream. who's bad! but i end up forgetting my dreams until i have deja vu. |
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| Panther III | Nov 14 2006, 09:13 PM Post #11 |
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The url does look like a brain eating one. XD http://brain.web-us.com/lucid/luciddreamingFAQ.htm |
Remember... Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse.." | |
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| CaLeB- | Nov 14 2006, 10:13 PM Post #12 |
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I loved to Lucid Dream when I found out what it was even though I'm a natural at it. At random times, I'd lucid dream without even trying. Those moments are when I'm just in a dream and a thought pops up to mind saying "I am dreaming." Heh, last year I was so into it. I have no time to do it since I got to get up for school in the morning. Maybe I'll get around to it when it comes to summer again. |
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| Millumi | Nov 15 2006, 02:47 PM Post #13 |
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i can have lucid dreams only if i try though... |
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