The old Should Have, Shouldn't Have of ego leading to Not Good Enough or Something's Wrong mentality. We all go there from time to time. And you're right, it's not productive and actually self-sabotaging. |
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@ Memm |
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The old Should Have, Shouldn't Have of ego leading to Not Good Enough or Something's Wrong mentality. We all go there from time to time. And you're right, it's not productive and actually self-sabotaging. |
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Nice! I like this! |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Being thankful is a really good point and something I've been neglecting, which might be why I'm struggling the last week, so thank you for bringing that up. |
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I had a fairly long, vivid non-lucid dream this morning that I wanted to describe as "boring" but I will avoid doing that since I do not want to form any negative associations with dreaming. It was pretty cool in fact because I was thinking a lot about things, the scenario though was fairly "mundane." |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
I'll concur with what you and Memm said about being thankful. A little technique I picked up a while ago and having nothing to do with dreaming is practicing gratitude. Just pick little things throughout the day and be grateful for them. Simple things like waking up, having a roof over one's head, food on the table, etc... It builds appreciation for the things we do have. |
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Good attitude on the negativity! |
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Wow am I glad I made this thread -- so much great input and so many wonderful, helpful suggestions. I started my current WBTB splurge when very caught up on sleep and now after several failed back-to-sleeps and other life-messing-with-my-dreaming/sleeping (don't you hate when that happens!?) situations, I'm now behind on sleep so just need to recharge and then continue. I absolutely love getting at least two solid bunches of recall, waking around 5 hours, and I'm determined to learn the gentle art of falling asleep (it takes iron will as I love to daydream after WBTB which keeps me up) after WBTB. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Yes it can indeed mess up your life and routines. There's no reason of course to wear yourself out, slow down when you need to. And I completely agree recall is almost always doubled for me with WBTB, it works great! |
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I have just now placed a sticky tab with a "B" written on it on the top middle of my monitor to remind me to maintain a "multi-tasked" thread of attention on the breath. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
So one thing I noticed is I can't trust myself, haha. |
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Last edited by Memm; 01-20-2015 at 02:42 PM.
Also, a full 24-minute breath attention session yesterday with no distractions, went pretty well, I was a bit surprised how much my mind wandered but I haven't done a session that long before. I never went very long though before noticing and bringing back attention to the breath. Was quite comfortable at the 24-minute alarm and could have gone longer. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
He is talking about a different topic, but this part seems very much relevant to not losing mindfulness. |
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Unplanned WBTB last night. Still catching up on sleep. 6th hour waking, recall, pee, and can't sleep for 30 minutes. Get out of bed and go to kitchen, drink milk, chat with Sensei on laptop, bitch & whine about not sleeping, really starting to feel sorry for myself, then I start to feel really tired about 1.75 hours later and run to the bed, fall asleep in about a minute, and have a really fabulous final REM cycle (in my DJ) |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Hey FM, that's some pretty impressive dream recall!!! |
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Only this one as far as I know: |
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Thanks! I've focused a lot on dream recall from the very beginning. My approach to dream recall is always reach for recall every single time I find myself awake, always. No breaks from dream recall! And to be thankful for recall. Keep it up and over time the recall will grow and grow. I think having good recall is critical for LDing since it really develops the feeling of "presence" while in the dream. You can't get lucid unless "you" are there to begin with! Dream recall and day awareness work together to build this "presence" in the dream. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Yup! Right now I'm not really concerned about having an LD or when it will happen. Of course that's my goal, but right now my main focus is dream recall and secondary is LD-specific awareness practice during the day. |
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Great plan. A lot of people get frustrated with lucid dream training and often give up pretty quickly. |
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So I've been trying to narrow down the exact mental "properties" that lead to having an LD and I had a spontaneous DILD yesterday and 2 unfortunately short WILDs this morning (which would have been amazing and decent length if my sister's kids weren't staying over and waking me up with their noise while I was trying to WILD). |
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Last edited by Memm; 01-28-2015 at 07:45 AM.
FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
^ what he said! |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
I definitely will, just want to make sure it's 100% repeatable, but right now I'm quite confident since I did the exact same thing twice in a row and got the exact same result twice in a row, that's why I'm teasing haha. |
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, aw c'mon, let us help you test your theory! There's a competition on and the nights are slipping by! As the Scotsman said to the fly who landed in his pint, "Spit it oot, lad, spit it oot!" |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
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