It's an interesting idea, B. Many of us should start doing reality checks just to see if we are still alive! :-) |
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A few months ago on here there were a few threads started about mindfulness/lucid living. A lot of people seemed to be making the commitment to living life lucidly/mindfully with the purpose being to increase their chances of becoming lucid while asleep. |
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My LDing record, if you want to hear about it, is about 4 WILDs, 1 DEILD, and the rest DILDs.
It's an interesting idea, B. Many of us should start doing reality checks just to see if we are still alive! :-) |
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Yes Dawg, I know a lot of people made quite a substantial commitment to it so it will be interesting to hear what they say. |
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My LDing record, if you want to hear about it, is about 4 WILDs, 1 DEILD, and the rest DILDs.
I personally have never succeeded with "lucid living." One of the greatest periods of LDs came from a time when I barely thought about LDing and I didn't write down any dreams at all. I even often get a lucid when I return from vacations, in which I rarely record dreams or think about them. But then again I can't seem to use RCs to induce lucidity. I'm sure it must work on others, for I've heard them talk about it. |
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Lolwut.
It's very difficult to remain mindful for long periods of time; it requires a great amount of will power. My approach to mindfulness now is to do it only when it adds to the quality of an experience. For example, if I'm walking through a forest the experience is enriched if I become aware of the smells, the birds singing, the wind rustling the leaves etc. |
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My LDing record, if you want to hear about it, is about 4 WILDs, 1 DEILD, and the rest DILDs.
I've been doing reality checks and so on for a while, had some positive experience. It's not worth it. I just think about it occasionally these days and somewhat more intensely before going to sleep. Works like magic. |
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in my experience, i have had times where i was being exceptionally mindful of my waking experiences as a part of buddhist practices. i once had a lucid dream when not doing any kind of lucid dreaming practice or even dream journaling because i was so mindful constantly while awake that it transferred to my dreams and i just knew it wasn't real. recently i gave up on lucid practice because of low yield and also i was moving to a new location and frustrated. then i started being very mindful with buddhist practice again and once again i had an epic lucid with an amazing amount of control. my overall goal in life is to live mindfully so i imagine when i finally accomplish this as a constant thing i'll have lucid dreams frequently. a buddhist monk actually told me that he has dreams where he knows he's dreaming. he wasn't interested in lucid dreaming but i think we came to the agreement that mindfulness was the shared factor. |
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