Thread: Ask me....well......anything.

I liked this idea (a la Howie and taltho) so: Ask me, basically, anything (preferably about myself, because that's easy) and I'll answer to the best of my ability.

What's your favorite color?

Originally Posted by Burns

What's your favorite color?

Blue.
Light blue is good, dark blue is better.

Hey, blue's my favorite too--at the ends of the spectrum mostly, like green-blue and blue-violet.

OK, here's what I really want to know: How'd you get so good at lucid dreaming?

Maybe that's not fair--but what would you say is the most important thing that you do that helps you?

So desperate, I know! As time goes on, I realize it is experience that matters, but I still want a short-cut.

OK, how about this: getting hot down there yet? You taunted us with the beautiful weather last winter...just waiting for payback time!

Do you like Ahser? JK - Thought I would put you in betwen a rock and a hard place.

In all seriousness.
What do you feel is the best exercise to improve you dexterity on the guitar?

Originally Posted by Howie

Do you like Ahser? JK - Thought I would put you in betwen a rock and a hard place.

In all seriousness.
What do you feel is the best exercise to improve you dexterity on the guitar?

First question:
Honestly? Yes, I like Asher. I have no reason not to like him. I do feel a little apprehensive in that I feel that his main dedication to DV might be to increase his field for advertisement, but I'm giving him the benefit of doubt. So far, I've seen him be pretty active in the community and he seems to give off a very likeable (sp) persona. Maybe I'm naive, but he doesn't give off the "Fuck you guys, I'm in it for the money" vibe, so I'll at least stick with him until I feel that from him.

Second:
Learn the barre chords for each key; learn to improvise your way through a scale in each key, in at least two octaves (which is as far as I've gone, now) and learn as many songs by pros as you can take in. It gets you to recognize the patterns that the pros use, and opens up the different ways that you can distort those patterns to make original work.

Originally Posted by tyrantt23

are you a figment of my imagination?

I can only, really, answer that with the question "Are you a figment of my imagination??
In other words: I may very well be but, based on the evidence I have now, I'm going to have to say no.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Hey, blue's my favorite too--at the ends of the spectrum mostly, like green-blue and blue-violet.

OK, here's what I really want to know: How'd you get so good at lucid dreaming?

Maybe that's not fair--but what would you say is the most important thing that you do that helps you?

So desperate, I know! As time goes on, I realize it is experience that matters, but I still want a short-cut.

OK, how about this: getting hot down there yet? You taunted us with the beautiful weather last winter...just waiting for payback time!

Honestly.....I got lucky.

I was one of those kids that was always plagued by nightmares. I mean always. (and I still have them, pretty often, which is obvious)
Pretty soon, I realized that, even though they were scary as shit, nightmares were just nightmares/dreams. After a while, I got tired of 'escaping' from my nightmares, by waking myself up from them, and decided to fight back. With learning that I could defeat my 'nightmare creatures' by putting my conscious mind to it, I learned that I could perform conscious actions (like flying and creating weapons) even if I wasn't having a nightmare and perform them whenever I realized I was just dreaming. I ended up learning that I could induce 'conscious dreams' by sleeping on my back, and that was the beginning of my lucid dreaming exploration. I'd sleep on my back (sometimes with one knee elevated, which I came to discover was a variation of the "one hand in the air" method advocated by LaBerge) to induce these "really cool dreams, in which I knew I was dreaming", and started experimenting with them, through middle school.
So, really, I can only chalk it up to experience. Kinda sucks that I can't offer you a quicker way to learn how I do what I do..I was just lucky enough to get an early start on experimenting with it.

Oh...and as far as the weather....
Yeah...It's hot down here...
....so hot that our "fire-season" has started a month or so early.
All we have around Central Florida now are brush fires. Step outside, and it's like you are walking into an enclosed BBQ pit - nothing but smoke because there are brush fires a few miles away. Really....It's bad, and we need some rain to put these fires out.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

I was one of those kids that was always plagued by nightmares. I mean always. (and I still have them, pretty often, which is obvious)
Pretty soon, I realized that, even though they were scary as shit, nightmares were just nightmares/dreams. After a while, I got tired of 'escaping' from my nightmares, by waking myself up from them, and decided to fight back. Yeah...It's hot down here...

That is fascinating. I figured it was just a matter of practice. You got an early start and had talent, a good combination. Also the writing skills to share it with other people.

Sorry about joking about the weather! I didn't know it was getting so bad down there.

are you a figment of my imagination?

Do you know Kung Fu? :0