Thread: Getting into a lucid dream

Originally Posted by topten35

I've only had one lucid dream, ever since then i forget to realize that i'm dreaming. So my question is, how do you remember to realize that you're dreaming?

First of all noone can remember to realize that one is dreaming. It isn't remembering that one is dreaming but to remember to do a certain action, reality checks when one encounters a dreamsign or something that you remember shouldn't be happening. It is a habitual thought pattern that can be cultivated.

IMJ

Originally Posted by imj

First of all noone can remember to realize that one is dreaming. It isn't remembering that one is dreaming but to remember to do a certain action, reality checks when one encounters a dreamsign or something that you remember shouldn't be happening. It is a habitual thought pattern that can be cultivated.

IMJ

Whaaaat? I find that remembering to realise that I am dreaming has gotten me quite a few DILDs, or am I misundertanding what you mean by this?

Originally Posted by archdreamer

Whaaaat? I find that remembering to realise that I am dreaming has gotten me quite a few DILDs, or am I misundertanding what you mean by this?

I think you might be recognizing the feeling of dream consciousness, even if just on a subconscious level. Ever notice how a dream, lucid or nonlucid, has that quality to it that makes it feel a little less real?

Originally Posted by archdreamer

Whaaaat? I find that remembering to realise that I am dreaming has gotten me quite a few DILDs, or am I misundertanding what you mean by this?

There must have been something that told you that you were dreaming, a 'realise I'm dreaming program' that you implanted to 'realise'. Dreams are a fabrication of the mind and to remember something from waking life, the dreamer would have to incubate the memory to 'realise' by MILD,VILD or any that induces DILD, it's unlike reality where memories are independant from the environment and you suddenly realise you are dreaming out of the person's own initiative. I'm not saying that lucid dreaming is fake just that to 'realise' that one is dreaming...that part needs to be 'created' not 'realised'.

IMJ

I'm decidedly unconvinced. Nevertheless, carry on.