Thread: I dont understand one thing ... I can remember 4 dreams at night

Originally Posted by iadr

You're absolutely correct adraw. The brain is not ready every time. And that's what makes anything involving dreaming or lucid dreaming so difficult.

The brain by its very nature learns and grows new dendrites, which are branches on nerve cells that receive and process information from other nerve cells that form the basis of menory, when it encounters something new.

Unfortunately though, when the brain recognizes an experience that it has already encountered before it gets sort of lazy and goes on autopilot, so doesn't work as hard.

This is why so many things work the first time you try them, but then never work again after the first time.

To keep the brain strong and active a person needs to keep it guessing by giving it new experiences.

This could be as simple as listening to a different type of recording or music each night instead of the same one every night.

I usually try to review the days events in my mind before getting into bed, because once I am in bed thinking about almost anything tends to keep me awake.

After getting an intiial 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours of sleep, I then practice other things such as changing myself from feeling heavy to light, expanding and contracting my energy, building a protective shield around myself, and transporting myself around my house in my imagination.

I'm still working on ways to give my own brain new experiences to keep it guessing because it is something I just learned from this latest book I just finished reading:

http://www.amazon.com/Keep-Your-Brai.../dp/0761110526

As for what i understand. It is important to build lucid dreaming skills under ever changing circumstances, so the brain has something new to process everytime we try LD. And as the brain processes the information, it also creates associations in brain concerning that information. And as there is always LD present in these associations, it covers bigger area in brain than it would, if we only repeated the same again. I thing... This could be named passive lucid learning or spreading LD across brain.

Your advice about doing relaxation tasks and other mental task after awakening is what i always searched for. I do relaxation at the evening and I cannot fall asleep then, becouse my brain is highly activated. But after having some delta sleep, my body is relaxed, and so is my brain. Activating the brain later helps, becouse it accelerates lucid dreamin. I am going to test it tonight. I feel it helps.

Thank you a lot for your experiences. This helps... Really.

NOw... Just to find the set of experiences to give a brain in late night.

Originally Posted by adraw

As for what i understand. It is important to build lucid dreaming skills under ever changing circumstances, so the brain has something new to process everytime we try LD. And as the brain processes the information, it also creates associations in brain concerning that information. And as there is always LD present in these associations, it covers bigger area in brain than it would, if we only repeated the same again. I thing... This could be named passive lucid learning or spreading LD across brain.

Now... Just to find the set of experiences to give a brain in late night.

Great summary adraw.

Understanding how the brain works can be helpful in understanding why things that once worked often stop working.

I think the biggest reason that things stop working is that the brain gets lazy once it hears something one time, so then goes on autopilot and just ignores it any time after that first time.

So, continuing to give the brain new experience to keep it guessing, and working to figure out what is going on, may be very beneficial in helping to become lucid.

I'm just beginning to experiment with this myself tonight also as I just realized this the other day after reading my latest book on the brain.

Let the experiments begin!

Originally Posted by iadr

Great summary adraw.

Understanding how the brain works can be helpful in understanding why things that once worked often stop working.

I think the biggest reason that things stop working is that the brain gets lazy once it hears something one time, so then goes on autopilot and just ignores it any time after that first time.

So, continuing to give the brain new experience to keep it guessing, and working to figure out what is going on, may be very beneficial in helping to become lucid.

I'm just beginning to experiment with this myself tonight also as I just realized this the other day after reading my latest book on the brain.

Let the experiments begin!

Yeah the experiments. They are crucial. I found that book. ANd am starting to read it. It seems to be lot of interesting and beneficial information. It seems that we actually dont have information how our waking memmory works and we are trying to manipulate our dream memmory. So I thing its all about taking the right steps one after another. First would be... Learn how normal memmory works. Next would be. Find correlations between dream and waking memmory. ANd the third. Use your dream memmory according to what you learned. Using it without studying first is like hit and miss. It might work, but it doesnt have to. So lets study and give reports to DreamViews. People here deserve the right anmount of information.

Adraw.

BTW> Tell me about your sucesses.