Thread: Activating the left brain hemisphere to attain lucidity

I am unable to do it again. It only worked the first time and I have tried about three times over the following 24 hours with no luck.
Is there some kind of long recovery period or what now?

Originally Posted by Avalanche

I am unable to do it again. It only worked the first time and I have tried about three times over the following 24 hours with no luck.
Is there some kind of long recovery period or what now?

Avalanche, omg !
Same happened to me.. I can't get it to work again..

-_- .. (first time i pulled off 2-3 lucids with it) now i can't even tickle myself properly ..

If I try to think about my dream experiences, I would say logic and rationalization are not completely suppressed.

I have many memories from past dreams which include a process of thought that seems reasonable in retrospect.

It seems to me as if a different mechanism makes us not realize that reality around us is nuts.

One of the things that works mysteriously differently in dream land is memory.

Last night I had a lucid dream and I became lucid while looking at the mirror at my half shaved beard. I became lucid when I suddenly realized I do not have a beard that looks like that and the dream kind of cracked open into a lucid experience.

My point is that if dream memory includes a weird looking beard but provides no access to anything that would suggest it ain't OK, then that beard is perfectly "logical".

It was only when memory of my real life face trickled in, that the dream cracked open and I became lucid.

I think we mainly use logic to rationalize what we see, not to doubt it.

For example, If I hypothetically go into the kitchen and find an empty cooking pan burning on the stove with no recollection at all of putting it there, I am likely to rationalize that I was extremely distracted when I put it there, even if such a thing has never happened before, and not that it was put there by aliens from Mars.

Now, if such a thing happens in a dream, memory would make it appear perfectly normal that such a pan is burning on the stove, so there would not even be a reason to do a reality check.

btw, it is interesting to note, that just as it is difficult to recall the events of a dream in waking life, it may be difficult to recall waking life memories while in a lucid dream.