Wow, I think I've found my major struggle with LD'ing in the first picture |
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Last edited by FryingMan; 02-06-2015 at 05:12 PM.
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“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Wow, I think I've found my major struggle with LD'ing in the first picture |
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I've been working on incorporating Sageous's advice from his excellent recent thread, "Memory: the forgotten fundamental". For the 2nd time in a LD I affirmed that my waking body is asleep in bed out there in the waking world, and that this entire dream experience is a fantasy taking place in my mind. It resulted in a visual-quality save (things got suddenly blurry, an I "realized" I was wearing glasses which were causing this, took them off and visuals were fine again), and indeed in a super-vivid bright ultra-HD experience following. I succumbed to caveman mode after that but still I think that the experience was longer and higher quality than it would have otherwise have been without this realization. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
I've had epics two nights in a row now, with last night being perhaps my new favorite dreaming night of all time. Fights, weird beautiful fish, lots of girls, semi-lucid flying a jet plane over a breathtaking vista, wow... |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
I am looooving micro-WBTBs. More sleep time & more dream time. I don't seem to see a lucidity boost from get-out-of-bed WBTBs, just get more tired & frustrated. Maybe I'm just getting better at relaxing my body and mind in getting back to sleep[*]. A short lucid late this morning, as I seemed to recognize in-dream that I was missing opportunities to get lucid (haha!). Very waking-like situations in late morning, almost nothing odd to grab on to (except for the gale-force winds blowing in from the department store's front door….doh!). |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
and yet another back to sleep success and more dreaming after a late morning waking from wife's alarm and son S2's noisy heading off to University. Late to bed (tsk tsk!) though and in a not good mental state after making an ill-thought-out foray onto the non-dreaming portion of DV where rudeness and insults rule the day, meant non-ideal dreaming. Some nice sexy moments here and there and an aware struggle with access to memory in one case made it a decent night in the end. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Confidence is interesting, and tricky. The best results clearly arise when you can establish a positive feedback cycle of good results -> higher confidence -> even better results -> even higher confidence, and round and round, until there is no question in your mind that your results will *always* be good. It becomes a part of you. Yes you must still expend the effort, but you do it just *knowing* you'll have great results. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
I've been using autosuggestion in two forms lately. I have two playlists on my iPad nano. One for recall and the other for lucidity. I also installed a subliminal message app on my PC and I have the same affirmations on it. Now the audio is not subliminal and I play it low so I can just hear it. I figure one reinforces the other. The PC app can be found at Mind Of A Winner and it's a free download. It's simple but functional and hasn't caused any issues on either my home PC or work laptop. |
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Last edited by JustASimpleGuy; 02-21-2015 at 12:18 PM.
Did a proper WBTB, first in a little while, attempted a WILD using an anchor of repetitive moment (walking dribbling a basketball, playing basketball at the park where my old junior high girlfriend MB used to watch me), and I dreamed about (crazy) basketball. The first dream (I think) after the WBTB I did get lucid but lost it/transitioned quickly. It took a massive oddness for me to grab lucidity (an owl was standing on my window, entered the room, and turned into a 4-foot tall thing that walked around the room). |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Congratulations on LD #100, an impressive milestone! I rejoice for you! |
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My aspirations for dreaming:
May I always use the dream state to develop positive, virtuous qualities that will bring benefit to all beings!
May I always recognize the dream state and use it to develop wisdom, love, and compassion!
FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Celebrating another back to sleep moment. Late this morning: found the discipline to finally focus on the breath, continually letting go of all trying/effort/tension and decided "well at least I'll have a nice little meditation session if I don't fall asleep," and once I finally made the decision to stick to it, and after returning from a few distracting trains of thought, I fell asleep pretty fast! I'm continually amazed how well that works. There must be a way to merge this ability into WILD practice: just somehow fall asleep slightly less quickly, with just the tinyest smidgen of awareness intact. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
I have to think there is a connection. When I'm deep in meditation I notice a couple of things. 1) I have a lot of hypnagogic imagery gong on but I usually don't pay it much attention because it's a distraction from breath. I treat it just like a thought or other distraction. 2) My body, especially my legs, arms and hands, feel very heavy and almost numb like they aren't there, and there's a subtle vibration or resonance going on. |
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Last edited by JustASimpleGuy; 02-24-2015 at 02:33 PM.
Another bed-ejection FA: it is really nice to have such obvious cues! |
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Last edited by FryingMan; 02-25-2015 at 02:05 PM.
FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
how is it going frying man? i just started reading this thread today and really do enjoy reading all the updates you post. i noticed a definite change about halfway through all your posts. A much more confident set of posts! i look forward to your next update |
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New goals TBA
DILD: 8 WILD: 2 DEILD: 1
Thanks for reading! I've been planning my February update. Dreaming in February was fantastic, but again not much in the way of lucids, just a couple. Meditation: just not getting it done D-/F. Confidence: C+, kind of wavering. WBTB: C, not noticing wakings much. Recall: A- some really great dreams but a slow period at the end. |
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Last edited by FryingMan; 03-05-2015 at 11:22 AM.
FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
To me there's really no difference except a different object of attention. Of course one object might feel more natural to attend than another for a given individual. Maybe that's the trick? On the other hand the more difficult the attending, the more gain can be had. More of an exercising of awareness. |
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I read about noticing sensations at the nostril opening but just can't seem to do it, there just isn't much or any sensation there for me. When a nun was showing us how to meditate she told us to follow the breath and as we got more relaxed to notice it going deeper down, so I don't think you'd be admonished for anything. |
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I too am starting meditation and breathing awareness techniques. It has been short so far so ill have to wait and see how it goes. Ill keep with it for a while unless it works great and ill continue |
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New goals TBA
DILD: 8 WILD: 2 DEILD: 1
I managed to get myself to do another full 24-minute (well more like 31 since my cat got up and started wandering around the room and scratching at the door, so I got up and put her out and restarted, and re-started my 24-minute timer) session of following the breath. Just like the previous ones I've done I came out feeling great, and I wasn't constantly thinking "how much time is left?" like when I started last year. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
I hear ya! I can physically and mentally/emotionally feel the afterglow for hours, and like you I no longer anticipate the end of the sitting. In fact I'm usually surprised when the timer goes off and if the sitting is particularly pleasing I sit through it for another 5, 10 or 15 minutes. |
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Today was a good day for following the breath and staying mindful. Certainly, I was aided in that I was in non-routine places and doing non-routine things today, but still I managed to maintain mindfulness with very frequent breath and foot/leg/step and location/strange object focus more or less continually for the entire afternoon into the evening. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Glad to hear from you again so soon. I tried meditating the other day and before i knew it, 20 minutes past in what felt like only 10. It is hard for me to make it to 10 without a thought coming into my mind still. in fact, every 2 breath cycles something slips in, though i try not to pay it attention. keep up with it and i will try too! |
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New goals TBA
DILD: 8 WILD: 2 DEILD: 1
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