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You nailed that one. Still no solution? :(Quote:
-and then bored yourself?
-and then you were stupid in your dream?
-and forget everything you planned to do, including perhaps to increase vividness etc?
-and can't see clearly?
-and lost lucidity very shortly afterward?[/b]
Okay guys, I think I got it a bit wrong, I was remembering this, and I explained it pretty indirectly. :D
Here's a better explanantion of what I'm talking about, a quote taken from 'Exploring The World Of Lucid Dreaming'.
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The critical faculty
A part of your mind has the job of “reality testing, “ that is, determining whether stimuli are of internal or external origin. Oliver Fox called this critical reflective system “the critical faculty” and he regarded it as typically “asleep” in ordinary dreams. He also believed this fac*ulty to be fundamental to the attainment of lucidity. In order to become lucid in a dream, wrote Fox:
... we must arouse the critical faculty which seems to a great extent inoperative in dreams, and here, too, degrees of activity become manifest. Let us suppose, for example, that in my dream I am in a cafe. At a table near mine is a lady who would be very attractive—only, she has four eyes. Here are some illustrations of these degrees of activity of the critical faculty:
(1) In the dream it is practically dormant, but on waking I have the feeling that there was something peculiar about this lady. Suddenly, I get it—“Why, of course, she had four eyes!”
(2) In the dream I exhibit mild surprise and say, “How curious that girl has four eyes! It spoils her.” But only in the same way that I might remark, “What a pity she had broken her nose! I wonder how she did it.”
(3) The critical faculty is more awake and the four eyes are regarded as abnormal; but the phe*nomenon is not fully appreciated. I exclaim, “Good Lord!” and then reassure myself by adding, “There must be a freak show or a circus in the town.” Thus I hover on the brink of realization, but do not quite get there.
(4) My critical faculty is now fully awake and refuses to be satisfied by this explanation. I con*tinue my train of thought, “But there never was such a freak! An adult woman with four eyes—it’s impossible. I am dreaming.”1
The challenge, then, is how to activate the critical faculty before bed so that it remains sufficiently primed to func*tion properly when it is needed to explain some strange occurrence in a dream.
Paul Tholey has recently derived several techniques for inducing lucid dreams from over a decade of research in*volving more than two hundred subjects. Tholey claims that an effective method for achieving lucidity (especially for be*ginners) is to develop a “critical-reflective attitude” toward your state of consciousness. This is done by asking yourself whether or not you are dreaming while you are awake. He stresses the importance of asking the “critical question” (“Am I dreaming or not?”) as frequently as possible, at least five to ten times a day, and in every situation that seems dreamlike. The importance of asking the question in dream*like situations is that in lucid dreams the critical question is usually asked in situations similar to those in which it was asked during the day. Asking the question at bedtime and while falling asleep is also favorable. We have incorporated these hints into the following adaptation of Tholey’s reflec*tion technique.[/b]
My earlier opinion was my resolution of this, but I still believe it's true. We simply have to exercise this 'reality check/test' more efficiently and often. Even in difficult and involved situations, such as an academic test or party.
I don't think this 'Critical Faculty' is a certain hemisphere of our brain, though.
Perhaps you could try to WILD every night, or do constant reality checks until you go to sleep. With practice, you won't have to do this much more to become lucid.
I found a podcast on the internet, which was about a lady who could induce lucid dreams at will, simply by years of practice. All she did was lie in bed, stare at the ceiling, wondering if she was dreaming, constantly catching her awareness whenever she felt she'd fall asleep. And eventually, her eyes would become heavy, and she'd fall asleep with those thoughts in mind, resulting often in DILDs.
What do you think?
Got any more advice from a book that I can't get my hands on.
I got the HTML version of this enitre book. There's a topic somewhere on this site which provides the link to it. Sorry I have no link to either.Quote:
Originally Posted by person
Do more reality checks.
Improve your memory - play memory games.
Try, and always be motivated.
Maybe we can make a List of things/activities that arouse the Mind. That way there'll be some oversight and this will stay ontopic.
I recommend listening to SKA music to arouse the Mind ;) It does arouse my mind in a very happy way.
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-SKA
-Stimulants; Coffee, Tea, Energy Drinks...etc
-Sexual arousal: I mean as in Sex: Sex can really arouse the Mind cause it is really exciting. Masturbation isn't very exciting at all, is it?, and thus it will not have the same impact and sexually arouse your Mind as much as Sex does.
-An experience that has lead you to have an Adrenaline rush: a day of rollercoasters, Running around the block fullspeed with an MP3 player playing Mad Drum N Bass/Breakbeat music in your ears, Dancing madly on Music you love( Ska is my music of choice for this; it's very dancable)..etc be creative.[/b]
Neuroscientist J. Allan Hobson has hypothesized as to what might be occurring in the brain while lucid. The first step to lucid dreaming is recognizing that one is dreaming, this recognition might occur in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex which is one of the few areas deactivated during REM sleep, and where working memory occurs. Once this area is activated and the recognition of dreaming occurs the dreamer must be cautious to let the dream delusions continue, but be conscious enough to recognize them. This process might be seen as the balance between reason and emotion. While maintaining this balance the amygdala and parahippocampal cortex might be less intensely activated.[7] To continue the intensity of the dream hallucinations it is expected the pons and the parieto-occipital junction cortex to stay active. In order to verify the predictions of this hypothesis it would be necessary to observe the brain during lucid dreaming using a method such as a PET scan, which captures a snapshot of the blood flow brain. As of 2007, no such experiment has been performed.[8]
-wikipedia