ha seems, we both are unable to keep up with our RL duties and discuss this at the same time. I heard opium can aid in lucid dreaming. As I have little fear of the law (ones I do not believe in), I will try this one since I know I can get it pretty easily. At the very least, there is also an opium file in Idoser. |
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Once upon a time a disciple went to his guru and asked him, 'Guru, what is life?' To which the guru replies, after much thinking, 'My Son, life is like a fountain.' The disciple is outraged. 'Is that the best you can do? Is that what you call wisdom?' 'All right,' says the guru; 'don't get excited. So maybe it's not like a fountain.'
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For me, both are involved, staying awake and falling asleep. Really for me, the main challenge is staying awake in the right way as the rest of me falls asleep. Different senses seem to go to "sleep" or disconnect at different times. It is important to let them disconnect from my consciousness while still keeping a thread of consciousness going. I often do the following but in life lots of different things happen when it comes to lucid dreaming: |
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The long worn out traveler was just now crossing the invisible film of clarity.
He found instantly that the lights were brighter and the grass really was greener.
This is trully a response to many of my questions. Your definition of sleep is pretty much what i searched for many days. Maybe this new view will help me to achieve my first WILD. |
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Well, I maybe can help you some, but not completely. I know that getting the body into a disconnected state (most people call this "sp" I gather) is a key step for me. For many years, it held me back, or more specifically a certain part of my body would hold me back, sometimes my leg or sometimes my neck, not the other part(s) :-) Anyway, I more often than not will become lucid after being very physically relaxed. I have found that if I am not very physically relax, then it won't work. Therefore, I often do some serious stretching and/or yoga before attempting to become lucid. It is part of a routine I do and is pretty much a must for me (although I have been lucid many times without doing stretching, if I am trying to WILD it is almost always something I have to do.) So, I suggest doing some serious stretching to help your body relax. This might help you enter SP better. Another way that I learnt how to get my body disconnected was to pretend that I felt like I was falling. If you try these two things, you might have more success. |
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The long worn out traveler was just now crossing the invisible film of clarity.
He found instantly that the lights were brighter and the grass really was greener.
I have had a thought come to me of a way to explain “disconnecting” to make it easier to understand. First of all, let me mention again that something that is common for me to do when becoming lucid is to: |
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The long worn out traveler was just now crossing the invisible film of clarity.
He found instantly that the lights were brighter and the grass really was greener.
Really a comprehensive answer to many of the questions. You have the ability to formulate your ideas into sentences pretty well developed. Its cool. SO you just let your body falls asleep.One part after another. And you mentioned some techniques, which aid you in your work. And these techniques are used to somehow make you concentrated somewhere else than you actually are. |
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Something Else, I really get a lot out of your postings! Please keep sharing your experience/knowledge! |
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I am pleased to be here and having a discussion. Like anyone I guess, I just want somebody to tell me all the answers NOW about everything I don't know, but I also love sharing what I have experienced and learnt. Whether my ideas in the end turn out to be completely right, well, that remains to be seen, but it makes sense to me. I have to say though, there must be a lot of people that know more than me, and I hope some of the wiser people chime in. I am really figuratively "starving" for some serious discussions about the nature of lucid dreaming and the techniques used to have them. I have just read about DEILD and FILD and have been experimenting with them. My experiments show promise but have not been completely successful yet. |
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The long worn out traveler was just now crossing the invisible film of clarity.
He found instantly that the lights were brighter and the grass really was greener.
I've actually been really interested in the subject for a while. It's called biofeedback. By recording bodily processes and being actively told what your body is doing, you can gain complete control over automatic processes that take place in the body. You can learn to fall asleep instantly, control your breathing to an insane degree, and even stop your heart for minutes at a time, then turn it back on. Here's a wiki article for you dudes who have never heard about it. |
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"I'd rather have a mind opened by wonder rather than closed by belief." - Gerry Spence, "Postponement fertilizes fear; action cures fear." - Schwartz
WILD: 29
Supposed OBE: 6 (29th Jan, 3 on 10th August, 2 on 5th November)
DILD: innumerous
So for you. The ultimate way, how to get into sleep is to think abstractly? Thats nice. Maybe we should check what people use to fall asleep. Abstract thinking. Nice. Could you please tell, why is that. Have you some personal reasons for that? Is it so boring, or so tiring for you? |
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As i've said before in a post earlier I guess my way to fall asleep is to just stop thinking (which is very hard), eventually I will end up in a day dream and then fall asleep. |
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umm... can someone answer this small quesiton? |
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100+ Nights of LDs in my high school days.
Starting again after almost 10 years.
I don't know if this is the same, but it seems like we lack basic problem solving/logic ability. Or, in other words common sense. Like 2 nights ago, I was in a hockey game. No benches and coaches, so obviously I was some sort last second replacement or something. I don't play hockey. Everything was accurate. There was a commentator on the loud speakers and I could also hear a crowd. The ref's called a good game. Since there was ref's I just logically came to the conclusion I was playing in the NHL. |
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Once upon a time a disciple went to his guru and asked him, 'Guru, what is life?' To which the guru replies, after much thinking, 'My Son, life is like a fountain.' The disciple is outraged. 'Is that the best you can do? Is that what you call wisdom?' 'All right,' says the guru; 'don't get excited. So maybe it's not like a fountain.'
LDs of 2008: 50, WILD: 3
LDs of 2009: 1, WILD: 0 (resolution: 100 LDs)
That happens to me a lot. I often have short little bursts of lucid dreaming only lasting a second or two, as a matter of fact, I just had a couple in the last hour, but I was just taking a nap/meditation and not really trying to LD. What a difference between these burst of HI and a real LD forming for me is that when I do WBTB I can relax much deeper and longer. I also have momemtum in WBTB that builds over time. It is almost as if my dream energy cycles and builds as I go deeper into relaxation. Like I said, it starts off with simple 2D, then more complex 2D, then 3D. While this HI fades in and out, it gains momemtum. If I get enough momemtum, then I can LD. |
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The long worn out traveler was just now crossing the invisible film of clarity.
He found instantly that the lights were brighter and the grass really was greener.
The long worn out traveler was just now crossing the invisible film of clarity.
He found instantly that the lights were brighter and the grass really was greener.
What do you thing, is the base function of this energy. What do you thing? Why do we need this energy? Is it some form of regulation or is it just an abstract theory covering instability and stability of dream? |
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I'm not sure but I gather that a person has to have the right energy level going into their sleep to WILD. Too excited and the person will have their mind racing and not go to sleep. To drowsy and then a person will just fall into their sleep and not remember that they've dreamt. So I think that there should be a target medium that needs to be had going into a dream. I have tested different emotional states but not been able to figure out the right "recipe" for me. Things I have tried have included with being positive and trying to build an excess of energy through love, hope, or excitement. I have also tried being passive and just tried to go with the flow of the energy by being attentitive and receptive to good possibilites. Whatever the right balance, I am still trying to find it so that I can enter into a dream with the right energy. |
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The long worn out traveler was just now crossing the invisible film of clarity.
He found instantly that the lights were brighter and the grass really was greener.
Okay, I'm pretty new to intentional WILDs, but I can share what I've found to be true so far. |
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Have you visited Astral Dynamics.com? Robert Bruce talks a lot about Energy work and Energy Raising. He focuses on using these for healing and Lucid Dreaming/OBE. |
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why am I always the thread killer? |
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