Lucid dreaming
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The Curator
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that happens to almost everyone. It takes a deep sense of awareness to relax into that feeling. Intent can only be built by intending, like a muscle it has to be exercised.
I used to be really interested in this, but every time it actually happened I'd just "oh i'm dreaming!" and then wake up. Didn't take long for me to stop caring
Stupid fucking phone.
I used to be really interested in this, but every time it actually happened I'd just "oh i'm dreaming!" and then wake up. Didn't take long for me to stop caring
This is why you need Mickys special concoction (see above). This helps keep the reality, but at the same time mask te reality. The sleepers keep you asleep.
For you my friend, $5.
ps. it is not above now because of my phone. Now it is above above.
carltonbell1991
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i usually have them when i lay on my back. i have them quite often.
moonshine7000
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One of these Pewep like threads again
The Curator
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I have a friend who swears by the teas, I don't take them because I know it's a big sales system, with no ways to verify the herbs used.
I have sleepytime tea bags for $5 a piece if anyone wants one!! LMAO
I have sleepytime tea bags for $5 a piece if anyone wants one!! LMAO
HoneyHelper
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here's a serious answer dude!
try playing guitar for half an hour a day!
hope that helps
try playing guitar for half an hour a day!
hope that helps
I can't pm yet but I'll send you as fast as I can.
AbeloHost
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I was really into it in my teenage years. At some point I was able to do it every night (closer to the morning after my deep sleep) and I've had experiences that felt like hours. I've done pretty much anything I could think of, like eating food (yes, you can taste food in your dream, which is remarkable) to gradually learning skills that defy laws, like flying, and setting towns of fire. Met interesting people, even went on a quest to find the wisest person. Found him in a cave but he didn't want to speak to me. Probably because I set those towns on fire, haha.
You feel like everything in your dream is part of you (clearly), but you don't feel like you're consciously creating anything of it. You can of course introduce things to "your world" but this is not required. Everything is already ready for exploring. Some places left me speechless, and it really makes you question the creative potential of your mind. You can also find yourself in uncomfortable places, which happens more frequently with people that have nightmares. This is a good moment to tell yourself that your the creator and that you're powerful enough to make any change. Unlike the real world, the dream world adapts to the ways that you confidently believe in.
And no, never took any substances. A lot of people will market these pills of african root herbs. Never tried them and wouldn't suggest you do. It's more fun to gradually learn it yourself.
It goes away if you're not conscious about wanting to do it. I'll admit that I rarely lucid dream now and have little desire to since it takes away from a peaceful sleep.
I've only implemented two techniques that made me lucid dream: when you go to bed, instead of curling up and passing out while letting your brain run, lie on your back, clear your head, and just relax. Just be aware and grow your consciousness. Don't move (this is often very hard for people to do but you gotta learn it), and your body will eventually "fall asleep" while you stay wakeful.
Have patience and do this whenever you can. Do this for 30 minutes/1 hour and then go to sleep if you haven't already. When you wake up in the middle of the night, push yourself to repeat the process. It will be much easier to reach this state. The other technique is an addition to this one, which is to take a cold shower at 3AM and then repeating this method.
I've had moments where I remained wakeful while falling asleep, and the process is basically that while your brain starts creating a scenery of your dream, your body slowly fades to a point where you don't feel it at all. Then the scenery strengthens and your brain simulates your body in that scenery, and boom, you're lucid dreaming.
If you haven't already, I suggest you read up on REM sleep, or better yet, read Exploring The World of Lucid Dreaming by Dr Stephen LaBerge. Although I've read it after I had already learned it, it's a highly dense text that covers pretty much everything you need.
REM will basically explain why you are unlikely to lucid dream in the first 4-6 hours of your sleep.
Once you start doing it, all you're going to focus on is prolonging your experience, and a method that worked for me was rubbing my palms in my dream. No matter what happens, stay calm or it'll abrupt your experience.
You feel like everything in your dream is part of you (clearly), but you don't feel like you're consciously creating anything of it. You can of course introduce things to "your world" but this is not required. Everything is already ready for exploring. Some places left me speechless, and it really makes you question the creative potential of your mind. You can also find yourself in uncomfortable places, which happens more frequently with people that have nightmares. This is a good moment to tell yourself that your the creator and that you're powerful enough to make any change. Unlike the real world, the dream world adapts to the ways that you confidently believe in.
And no, never took any substances. A lot of people will market these pills of african root herbs. Never tried them and wouldn't suggest you do. It's more fun to gradually learn it yourself.
It goes away if you're not conscious about wanting to do it. I'll admit that I rarely lucid dream now and have little desire to since it takes away from a peaceful sleep.
I've only implemented two techniques that made me lucid dream: when you go to bed, instead of curling up and passing out while letting your brain run, lie on your back, clear your head, and just relax. Just be aware and grow your consciousness. Don't move (this is often very hard for people to do but you gotta learn it), and your body will eventually "fall asleep" while you stay wakeful.
Have patience and do this whenever you can. Do this for 30 minutes/1 hour and then go to sleep if you haven't already. When you wake up in the middle of the night, push yourself to repeat the process. It will be much easier to reach this state. The other technique is an addition to this one, which is to take a cold shower at 3AM and then repeating this method.
I've had moments where I remained wakeful while falling asleep, and the process is basically that while your brain starts creating a scenery of your dream, your body slowly fades to a point where you don't feel it at all. Then the scenery strengthens and your brain simulates your body in that scenery, and boom, you're lucid dreaming.
If you haven't already, I suggest you read up on REM sleep, or better yet, read Exploring The World of Lucid Dreaming by Dr Stephen LaBerge. Although I've read it after I had already learned it, it's a highly dense text that covers pretty much everything you need.
REM will basically explain why you are unlikely to lucid dream in the first 4-6 hours of your sleep.
Once you start doing it, all you're going to focus on is prolonging your experience, and a method that worked for me was rubbing my palms in my dream. No matter what happens, stay calm or it'll abrupt your experience.
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The Curator
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Another technique that will accelerate your over-all dreaming ability and I use dreaming in a larger sense than just lucid dreams, I recommend laying down and looking at the back of your eyes. Notice the blackness before your vision. Look at it as though it were a curtain, a swirling curtain. Every time your mind drifts and your attention drops, nicely, calmly turn your attention (as though it were a laser pointer) back towards the inky dark curtain and look at the darkness as though it was a 3 dimensional object.
After awhile you will notice a few things, one your thinking calms down, two you will start to see things, three your sense of self will start to expand beyond your body. Allow the feeling to progress by keeping aware of the dark curtain.
During this training your mind will drift thousands upon thousands of times. It is important not to get angry, impatient, or disturbed, the real learning begins after you move beyond these feelings. You must look at the mind drifting inquisitively, learn WHY your mind has drifted to certain topics as you bring back your attention. You might go through a typical scene like work situations etc. soon or later after your training you will gain "silent knowledge" about why you think about things, or why you think the way you do about certain things.
When you do this exercise you can get tired quickly because this is a workout like at the gym. You are using a muscle you don't normally use, the attention. You can only wield your attention if you possess enough awareness. The more awareness you have the more grasp of your attention you will have, and the more you will be able to "attend" to by intending with your attention.
As your awareness grows you will be able to "catch" yourself dreaming like Abelohost says. That's when you start to gain "knowledge" about dreaming and how you dream and enter into the dreaming awareness.
For more information on dreaming I would go to prismagems and check out the Carlos Castenada quotes there. Very deep and altering if you posses enough awareness to look into their meaning...
After awhile you will notice a few things, one your thinking calms down, two you will start to see things, three your sense of self will start to expand beyond your body. Allow the feeling to progress by keeping aware of the dark curtain.
During this training your mind will drift thousands upon thousands of times. It is important not to get angry, impatient, or disturbed, the real learning begins after you move beyond these feelings. You must look at the mind drifting inquisitively, learn WHY your mind has drifted to certain topics as you bring back your attention. You might go through a typical scene like work situations etc. soon or later after your training you will gain "silent knowledge" about why you think about things, or why you think the way you do about certain things.
When you do this exercise you can get tired quickly because this is a workout like at the gym. You are using a muscle you don't normally use, the attention. You can only wield your attention if you possess enough awareness. The more awareness you have the more grasp of your attention you will have, and the more you will be able to "attend" to by intending with your attention.
As your awareness grows you will be able to "catch" yourself dreaming like Abelohost says. That's when you start to gain "knowledge" about dreaming and how you dream and enter into the dreaming awareness.
For more information on dreaming I would go to prismagems and check out the Carlos Castenada quotes there. Very deep and altering if you posses enough awareness to look into their meaning...
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OnlinePartimer3241
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Don't like it. The ending for me is terrifying because when I realize I'm dreaming, I wake up I have and have some form of epilepsy where my body spasm a few seconds. Then for a few moments I know I'm awake but can't move my body, it's like I'm suffocating because of my slow breathing because my body is saying that I'm still sleeping, after a few minutes I gain control on my body.
Called my doctor on this and he said in that current situation, my body doesn't realize that I'm finished with the REM thing and continues to be on sleep mode. He told me that's how sleep paralysis works. My dumb brain can't tell when I'm sleeping and when I'm awake, the suffocation is frightening
Called my doctor on this and he said in that current situation, my body doesn't realize that I'm finished with the REM thing and continues to be on sleep mode. He told me that's how sleep paralysis works. My dumb brain can't tell when I'm sleeping and when I'm awake, the suffocation is frightening
richjtf
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I used to suffer from sleep paralysis everyday when i was 12-14. It was scary as hell for me and i could never learn to control it, sometimes i'd be paralized and i'd try running away from my bed and get pulled back to it, it seemed real as hell and at the end i would always start saying a prayer and somehow that's when i could always start moving and would run to my moms bedroom, some would say i was dreaming but the next day i would always wake up at my moms bed so i could never really tell if it was real or it wasn't. I really thought something was trying to take me, when i reached 15 i stopped having these dreams, i would also lucid dream from time to time though never the scary kind thankfuly, i hadn't had this type of dreams since then and now that i read this whole posts and the sources on it i'm getting a lot of chills, which i read in a book could be something entirely different and now i'm scared as fuck. Never again going to open this kind of threads, thank you guys for making me skip tonights sleep.
I used to be catolic back then, i'm an agnostic now and usually nothing get's me, i'm really cold. This is probably getting me because it is linked to a bad childhood experience so i can't control it.
I used to be catolic back then, i'm an agnostic now and usually nothing get's me, i'm really cold. This is probably getting me because it is linked to a bad childhood experience so i can't control it.
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No problem.
I've read things about OBE and stuff, and people who master it make use of this situation. When they are at that point (Waking up from a Lucid Dream) they can get an OBE real quick
(Which I've heard is better than lucid dreaming).