Thread: So this helped me A LOT when attaining lucidity! Give it a try

Originally Posted by Avalanche

Can you sum up the video for us? I watched most of it but I wasn't sure what the exact relation it had to lucid dreaming.

Also congrats on the 4 lucids in one night, hope you got everything you wanted to do done in that time.
So what your saying is basically if you stave off from sexual activity you are more likely to have a lucid dream... but why?

what the video is saying all your actions and decisions are commanded by your mind seeking the feeling it gets as a result of the brain producing "dopamine" and releasing it in the brain. And its saying the biggest things that trigger the most dopamine which is what humans are after is things like sex and orgasim, extreme sport, adreline rush, food etc etc. Its also saying how if you keep relying on anyone source for dopamine e.g porn, orgasim, masterbation etc it will make the receptors in your brain num and damages the receptors required to recieve the released dopamine, so it only recieves limited amount of dopamine. Theres only 2 ways to get more dopamine at this point. One way is to get more dopamine is to find a new source which is more exciting or makes you happier, e.g you might play video games then when you had enough your sub councious is looking for the next thing which would give it higher level dopamine then playing games, Might be eating food, seeing friends, playing with pet etc. But your sub councious woint go back to video game at least after searchign for a better source. e.g if you masterbate when your done, you woint want to masterbate and urge woint come up for a little while at least, but if suddenly a hot girl came layed next to you could do it straight away and your brain gets triggered cuz it recognises there oppertunity for much higher dopamine release then just masterbation. 2nd option is not to do the activity for some time, depending of how much dopamine you get from the source determines how much time is required for the urge to come up again where the mind seeks dopamine from that source. The higher the reward the less time its required.

So what the other guy is trying to say with masterbation is, that masterbation provides amongst highest possible release of dopamine, so if you masterbate and go to bed LD isnt exactly big on the sub-counciouse mind regardless of how much you want it counciously, so it reduces your chances of success. But if you stop masterbating your mind is desperate for the feeling it gets when dopamine is released, so at that point it recognises LD as a good potential source, where if you have the support of your subcouncious inorder to achieve LD it will significantly increase your chances. i tried it after a drought and it worked will try again tonight, but basically thats the link between the video and LD