Thread: Myer- Briggs Type & Best LD Technique

Originally Posted by Zoth

Huge sorry if I deviated too much from your line of thinking MoonageDayDream, but the whole topic of lding induction is fascinating when you consider the variety of people that manage to achieve them with (seemingly) completely different methods....it looks just like talking: no matter what, we are all born with the ability to do it

No worries. I appreciate your respectful opinions. And while I do believe Myers-Brigg's is onto something, truth be told, I am minorly obsessed with it right now, and majorly obsessed with lucid dreaming - so why not combine the two and have some fun!

Originally Posted by Sageous

That's an interesting point. Instead of choosing a technique due to your personality type, it might be better to choose to LD, and let the techniques fall where they may, usually as a result of timing or convenience. As soon as you start elevating techniques above lucidity itself, then lucidity is harder, not easier, to achieve. I know I'm a bit of an outlier with this opinion, so I won't argue it, but I do feel that techniques really do not matter. Also, for what it's worth: LaBerge's test bore no real correlation between personality type and techniques chosen, or personality type and successful LD'ing.

I think it can go both ways (I know I need an intense focus in one area).

Originally Posted by Sageous

That said, the one time I took this test (at a LaBerge dream Camp, ironically), I registered as Fi (introverted feeling), and I'm fairly confident that I have never become lucid by focusing on intense emotions or dream signs. Indeed, I think I do a little bit of all the other things that OP listed; go figure.

Thanks for the information. I am also Fi, and also do not rely on emotions for lucidity - usually. Certainly not as dream signs. But nightmares (with intense fear) can trigger lucidity for me. Do they ever trigger it for you?

Originally Posted by Hukif

Oh I remember someone made a thread asking people about their type of personality and technique they used the most.

I don't understand that thing much, so will just leave "INTP" here and see if that helps you.

Thanks for your response. Any particular methods you like to use, or is this just something that comes naturally to you?

Originally Posted by MoonageDaydream

...But nightmares (with intense fear) can trigger lucidity for me. Do they ever trigger it for you?

I suppose they do, sort of. As an arguable side-effect to my LD'ing practice, I haven't had a full-blown nightmare in decades. Should nightmarish images or emotions appear these days, I immediately know that those images are not real, and that this is a dream, and the terror that accompanies a nightmare simply does not well up in me (I think you really must believe an image is real in order for it to truly scare you).

Also, it's been a while so I could be wrong, but I don't believe nightmares triggered lucidity for me back in the beginning (and I used to have them quite often when I was young).