Thread: MasterMnd's Guide on Being and Attaining Lucidity

Hm please don't get me wrong. I agree that meditation is very beneficial in many ways. I do it every day too. But in my opinion one should not fall asleep while meditation.(exceptions might be when you meditate for 12h straight or meditate through the whole night but that are exceptions for people who have decades of experience). When you fall asleep in formal meditation you do something wrong because meditation is an act of focus and concentration...
I also agree that one should fall asleep conscious and not just pass out. Therefore are different approaches to stay aware and focused but I wouldn't call this formal meditation.

Awareness is indeed the key for having present and vivid dreams. (just considering the benefits for the night, there are a lot more for your waking daily life itself) and attaining lucidity!

And as I said I don't want to attack you but I notice that you really love to blog your gained knowledge and talk a lot about it that's okay for me. Everyone can choose to read your stuff and make ones own mind about it.
But you seem to have nearly every week a new epiphany and new enlightenment so I am just curious, like you say not just talking but action:
Tell me something about your LD count and rate stability/lenght. How successful you are actually with all your epiphanys considering lucid dreaming over all the years of intense practice like you say? (I don't mean at all all the other benefits for your daily life that I am sure you have and I really think that you are on the right path and think in the right direction) but really concerning your lucid dreaming.
Because i at least have the feeling that you don't lucid dream that regular and not on a daily basis and since you are doing it that long now with that much of activity and effort here in DV one could say you could be successful or at least there are other that are more successful with less talking?
I just want to hear your opinion to that.

Originally Posted by RelaxAndDream

Hm please don't get me wrong. I agree that meditation is very beneficial in many ways. I do it every day too. But in my opinion one should not fall asleep while meditation.(exceptions might be when you meditate for 12h straight or meditate through the whole night but that are exceptions for people who have decades of experience). When you fall asleep in formal meditation you do something wrong because meditation is an act of focus and concentration...
I also agree that one should fall asleep conscious and not just pass out. Therefore are different approaches to stay aware and focused but I wouldn't call this formal meditation.

Awareness is indeed the key for having present and vivid dreams. (just considering the benefits for the night, there are a lot more for your waking daily life itself) and attaining lucidity!

And as I said I don't want to attack you but I notice that you really love to blog your gained knowledge and talk a lot about it that's okay for me. Everyone can choose to read your stuff and make ones own mind about it.
But you seem to have nearly every week a new epiphany and new enlightenment so I am just curious, like you say not just talking but action:
Tell me something about your LD count and rate stability/lenght. How successful you are actually with all your epiphanys considering lucid dreaming over all the years of intense practice like you say? (I don't mean at all all the other benefits for your daily life that I am sure you have and I really think that you are on the right path and think in the right direction) but really concerning your lucid dreaming.
Because i at least have the feeling that you don't lucid dream that regular and not on a daily basis and since you are doing it that long now with that much of activity and effort here in DV one could say you could be successful or at least there are other that are more successful with less talking?
I just want to hear your opinion to that.

After this long post and my style of writing I get that you are critical and that is good. I am as I said in the beginning of the post NOT claiming to be a master (damn you username..). And yes I do love to talk about new epiphanies as if they grow on trees. The reason for that is simply because I used to be very negative, so I basically brainwash myself to see everything as positive, it's one of my tricks to stay commited and motivated, since a blog isn't research and most likely isn't read by that many people I don't see that as something wrong. There is a reason to why I named my blog "MasterMind's EGO". Anyway I am not claiming that meditation gives you lucid dreams every night, there are other factors affecting our state of mind such as taking care of the responsabilities of our life. But when I share for knowledge I don't write about things that just sound good, I actually try things out and when I find a pattern of something reocurring I disect the very experience and identify the key factors that produce result. In this case, meditation.
To truly understand, to know, to grasp something is to have experience of it and understand patterns.

In my life for any path of growing your consciousness or performance in anything the simple answer is meditation. I seek the impossible then I begin the slow painful journey of attaining it. Things that people used to doubt and tell me wasn't possible such as becoming an attractive man without having to be good looking, rich or have status and basically just look at a girl in the eyes and see attraction getting sparked, doing push ups and doing 4 claps in front of and behind my back before landing on the ground, and then of course to become aware of dreaming while dreaming and experiencing an environment where you can be a GOD in your own universe. ALL of this can be achieved through cultivating energy (in my case through sexual energy transmutation) and meditation. It all sounds so complex but the answer to everything lies in focusing your mind. So amazingly beautiful and simple.

The reason to why I love this simplicity is because I have dabbled in all of these activities for YEARS. I got motivated when I realized that I could recall my dreams by just waking up and remembering them, then I got lucid dreams but I got a bit unmotivated when I realized that they only last for a few minutes, unless you sleep in during the morning. I am as I said in the other wall of text, a guy that doesn't want to be reliant on anything not on the external world for happiness and not even on my BRAIN for DREAMING and LUCIDITY. Might sound crazy or naive, but what can I say, I like the challenge.

But to answer your question. No I am not having lucid dreams on a regular basis simply because to stick to what is required to do that, just like for getting result in the gym, eating healthy or simply meeting many different girls and date them in a manner that doesn't hurt anyone and still leaves everyone happy, well all that takes DISCIPLINE and TIME. (A little bit of a rant here) Something that most people aren't willing to sacrifice so they get fat, eat shitty food, either get lonely or rationalise loving someone from a frame of needyness or just simply become an irresponsible player and for attaining different states of mind they turn to DRUGS. I am slowly learning to live with a long-term, drawing state from within mindset and moving away from short-term thinking.

Lucid dreaming is as you can see not my ONLY hobby in life, because I also focus on living my DREAM LIFE. Therefore I dabble from time to time, but now after this guide I am quite excited because of the SIMPLICITY in the solution. Because I actually know how to (atleast for myself) regularly attain high degrees of awareness in my dreams. And for ld count, well I don't count my lucid dreams, that would be disrespectful to the practise itself, I love the practise which is also why I write so passionately about it, I am in this for the long haul so no matter what happens it is AWESOME. Might not be totally true, but it's a helpful mindset to have.

The following might be a strange comparison but everything I learn in meditation I use for everything else, it is the same brain we use for everything after all.
But when I go to a club do you think I point at a girl and think "I am having sex with that girl!" or that I count the number of people I sleep with? No of course not that would be to degrade the person to a sexual object for my ego. What I do is that I socialise with everyone and let everyone in on my party of FUN, then as an inevitable result I have lots of girls attracted to me. In the same way I just go to sleep to enjoy the night and the act of practising lucid dreaming itself that way I also attract more oppurtunities for lucidity. Over time (It's still early in my practise) this mindset will allow me to get a sense of what works but I'll also enjoy discovering it. If you think about what lucid dreaming actually is, you'll realize that it is actually a very odd and strange type of practise, "Hacking a naturally healthy unconscious state in order to gain the lessons of what your unconscious mind wants to show you, to instead trigger awareness and achieve control" well 5 years of practising that is nothing! It takes time, and my personal victories so far is more than enough to keep me going. The magic pill type of methods that actually attract most people like "Having an alarm wake you up in REM sleep" (used to be me) well that is what produce questions in the forum such as "How do I know that I have reached sleep paralysis" .... So what gave birth to this thread was actually the desire to put long-term thinking in my own mind (and other people's mind) again.
Just like I know that regularly going to the gym produces result, I know that regularly cultivating energy/awareness and meditating produces result.
Do you have any idea of how annoying it is to have pinpointed the formula for SUCCESS in ANYTHING but then realizing that you lack the self-discipline to use it!

It's sort of like that for me but writing this post is the start, and I'll keep fighting. The rest will become history. Expect me!

So knowing what to do is simple, to actually have the strength to do it, that's another matter..

There are probably people out there that are more successful lucid dreamers than me, and they are free to speak up, I am not competing. (I am even citing some of their work and books in my posts) I am simply expressing my perspective for the sake of expressing in itself. It's fun. Maybe I should apologize for the long post, but if you ask me something I can't help spilling my mind on paper..

Hopefully someone find it valuable. If it doesn't click with you, you are also free to make the choice of ignoring it.

Peace!