Thread: Lucid Encouragement

The Dream
The book that changed everything for me and what dreams meant and also past life regression and how connected it can be. I started reading this book in my late-teens, and still have it. I read this book many many times and i am compelled that this is Kat Martin's best romance novel with a twist

Song-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdBgP...cbL_A&index=42

Movies-
Red riding hood
Total recall
Public enemies

Public Enemies was a good movie, my childhood book will always be "Huckleberry Finn"

Here are two other movies I really recommend.

Equilibrium - Equilibrium Official Trailer HQ - YouTube

(Very Matrix alike action and a really good action movie).

And

The Adjustment Bureau - The Adjustment Bureau Official Trailer #1 - (2010) HD - YouTube

(Awesome Inspiration for an idea of traveling in lucid dreams).

Enjoy!

Loved equilibrium, gunkata
Personally I find that books are my biggest inspiration for lucid dreaming. Reading a book is essentially identical to dreaming except with the story already made up for you. I guess that's why I've always loved Sci-fi and fantasy novels.
How much peter f hamilton has influenced my lucids is incredible. I have actually walked through the cities and places and lived through almost every event of his books.

I have listened to the music yall, I wish to read these books.
Equilibrium is pretty amazing.
No one I knew liked adjustment bureau except me. :/ I thought the doors were really cool.

Spoiler for not a very big spoiler:

I guess if yar having trouble teleporting in an LD you can just put a hat on and look awesome while you do it.

I know what you mean about books, it is like reliving them in your head. I never remember actually reading books, it is like living through a movie. speed reading makes it about the same amount of time as well. (And I am not talking about "skipping details reading" that has become popular)

Songs
Chasing cars - snow patrol (in my sig)
Stay awake - all time low
Super Honeymoon - Owl City

I feel like Owl City just has the best songs about dreaming.

I also like Of Monsters and Men, their songs are so descriptive, they always get a wonderful picture in my head. After I get a bit better at LDing I plan to visit songs like fireflies by Owl City, and Dirty Paws by Of Monsters and Men. That would be a wonderful thing to live through. Just my opinion though

Movies
Karate Kid (Mostly because I really want to fight a lot in my dreams)

I also recommend
Movies:
Mirrormask
Pan's Labyrinth

Video games:
Kingdom Hearts

Video games:
Kingdom Hearts

I shed some man tears at the end of that game, it was a really rewarding experience because I played it on the hardest difficulty my first play through, Maleficent was near impossible to beat and Sephiroth was just a nightmare.

I still haven't seen Pans Labyrinth! I really want to watch it though, maybe if I find time I will this weekend.

@Boss man
I forgot to say this earlier. I somehow missed the post about torrenting, probably because the page switchover. I watch on online sites like many a reader and I borrow from friends and library. They used to have tons of anime on YouTube, but that all got taken down. Also narutowire. I used to read a ton of mange before onemanga got shut down as well. They have really made a lot of messes with those copyright laws.

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

@Boss man
I forgot to say this earlier. I somehow missed the post about torrenting, probably because the page switchover. I watch on online sites like many a reader and I borrow from friends and library. They used to have tons of anime on YouTube, but that all got taken down. Also narutowire. I used to read a ton of mange before onemanga got shut down as well. They have really made a lot of messes with those copyright laws.

The entirety of the movie "The Fountain" is on youtube, I can't post a link now but I'm sure you can find it, not sure on the quality though. I have to see my anime in good quality so I always torrent them borrowing a DVD from a friend is the same thing has torrenting IMO, its both sharing in the end.

Although if I want to support the publisher I always buy it. Yeah I bought skyrim I did not torrent it!

The premise behind the Assassin's Creed series is kind of like a LD.

For songs, I'd say Paradise by Coldplay because of the lyrics and Minecraft Universe by Eric Fullerton because of a certain section of the song that gets really dreamy mostly, and, although you didn't say to add games, I felt the intense NEED to say that all games from the Myst series (Myst online is MASSIVE and free, but if I'm correct, it has a SERIOUSLY low playerbase, that being the reason why they demoted it to F2P.), and another one that's coming out called Dream are great LD'ing motivators. The dreamy atmosphere and feel of the world positively inspires you and invigorates you like nothing else! (made by Hypersloth, currently in Steam Greenlight, Pre-Alpha demo costs €25, entirely about lucid dreaming and dream interpretation but no actual dream control.) I don't believe I can think of any movies however. >.< AHA, I forgot about books. Waking Up by Andrea J. Buchanan. There's a minecraft map based off of the book in fact, which I found interesting.

EDIT: Apparently, I'm not the only one who posted games. That's rather comforting.

I agree about all the Myst games, they are totally dream like.

MYST , probably one of the best and most encouraging series ever, I've finished each one at least three times now the atmosphere is a little lonely sometimes though.

I think the whole reason Myst provides such good encouragement is because of the feeling of loneliness. Dreams also give off the same feeling, correct? I actually believe I got my "using a book to transport myself to persistent realms in my dreams" idea from a distant, subtle, unattached memory of Myst, as I used to play it as a wee boy years ago on Gametap. I had such an awesome choice of games. :3 Anyways, I'd also like to mention there's a game called "Dream" (developed by Hypersloth) that's Greenlit on Steam. It's a FPA based entirely around exploration pretty much and it's actually about dreaming. It's planned to come out in 2013 I believe and they're currently in Pre-Alpha. Definitely worth checking out. Oh and btw, if you're looking for encouraging books, I'd suggest the Pendragon series by D.J. Machale.

That sounds awesome. I need to look up this myst game. It sounds crazy awesome.

I don't understand why you guys feel so lonely in LDs. I have only had 57, so it might be different when you have more.

Chronicle

LOL Brandon, I've had like 7! What IS the feeling like for you exactly, I had a thread on the feelings of dreams posted somewhere, but I'm too lazy to look it up, maybe I'll edit it in if your interested. Either way, it seems most people feel that isolation. You're one of the first people I've seen who don't get it. Interesting, eh? P.S. Another song would be Round and Round by Imagine Dragons, particularly for the section in my signature.

I dunno. half the time I think DCs are real people, for instance, Harrison Ford trying to attack me. I was thrilled to share a dream with him and when I woke up, I was a little disappointed. I am alone a lot IRL, so maybe that is why I see no difference. I used to stay up late at night thinking of adventures, not knowing that I could go to sleep and actually have them.

I think that most of the time I just have happiness of being in a place without having to worry about anything. I am a pretty stress free guy, but I hate the clock. Lots of times in non LDs I will wake myself up because I don't want to be late to something. I wake up and am just baffled by how I wake myself up in non LDs without realizing I am dreaming.

I might feel alone, but I have never dwelt on it. I will LD tonight and tell you if I feel alone.

I never really feel lonely because I tell myself that it is my unniverse, and in my unniverse people are as real as I want them to be.

BrandonBoss,
You might actually like the MYST series, usually you either love them or hate them. It could get hard trying to get into it because the first myst is quite old but it really is worth starting from the beginning and following the story. Beware of the second one in the series it is probably the most mentally challenging game I have ever played.
I actually like the series so much I spent like a few weeks learning the language of the D'ni in the game
Definetely worth to check it out, but if you aint into hardcore puzzles and alot of walking I don't think you will enjoy it.

What system is it for?PC?

I love puzzles. My favorite goes are Zelda games, so if I could get a game like that but harder I would be fine.

Yup it's for PC and it might work on macs. Try it out, hope you like it

Cool cool I'll check it out. Not too expensive is it? -

If you have Steam, then the first, second, and fifth are really easy to access. There's also the entirely Free to Play URU Live Myst Online: Uru Live - Home which btw is HUGE as far as I've heard. It probably has a ridiculously large file, so be warned. As for the third and fourth games, they're not on Steam as far as I know, so you might have to do some searching for those. Steam doesn't have the first Myst game in its complete original form, but rather, graphical revamps as well as one version that contains an entire new "Age". (realMyst) Myst games 1-4 are all point and click adventure games and 5 gives you a choice of point and click or free roam. The URU Live thing is free roam though.

Originally Posted by kvxdelta

If you have Steam, then the first, second, and fifth are really easy to access. There's also the entirely Free to Play URU Live Myst Online: Uru Live - Home which btw is HUGE as far as I've heard. It probably has a ridiculously large file, so be warned. As for the third and fourth games, they're not on Steam as far as I know, so you might have to do some searching for those. Steam doesn't have the first Myst game in its complete original form, but rather, graphical revamps as well as one version that contains an entire new "Age". (realMyst) Myst games 1-4 are all point and click adventure games and 5 gives you a choice of point and click or free roam. The URU Live thing is free roam though.

You can get them on GOG.com which sells the first two DRM free I think.
It's definetely worth getting the 3rd and 4rt since they are probably the best ones.