Thread: concentration

sorry, but im bumping this thread. i just really need something to boost my concentration.

Do something to keep your mind occupied. Count each breath you breath out

ive not tryed that, so it might work, but it sounds like one of those things which my mind just wanders from.

Practise your concentration by doing daily exercices such as I've once read that you can use a rubber glove to pull on it and release for a minor-painful slap on the hand to keep your mind from wandering.

I drink a half cup of coffee. Otherwise I'm too groggy to concentrate.

Originally Posted by Control

Practise your concentration by doing daily exercices such as I've once read that you can use a rubber glove to pull on it and release for a minor-painful slap on the hand to keep your mind from wandering.

i dont think that will work, because its a lot like trying to remember to do an RC all the time, ill forget.

Originally Posted by Draoi

I drink a half cup of coffee. Otherwise I'm too groggy to concentrate.

i dont like coffee, but maybe something like lucozade? i love that stuff.

The key to concentration is practice. As with any other skill, lengthening your attention span will require effort. Why not try meditation? Breathe in and out, and focus on awareness (focus on your body, mostly. If other thoughts start to distract you, be aware of them, acknowledge them, and passively let them go). I particularly like this guide (it starts slow, because it's a workshop. But it is a Google employee workshop, so you know that it's for realz).

Anyway, start meditating for 10 minutes, every day. Try to lengthen it to 30 minutes over the course of a couple months. If you feel particularly distracted one day, you can shorten the session, but no shorter than where you were last week!

Once built, you can easily transfer this focus to anything you do, be it lucid dreaming or school, or work. Keep at it!

exelent, i dont know if ill have the time to watch it all just now, but ill watch some, then more later or tomorrow.

Meditation doesn't just clear up your mind either

For me, If also helps me remember dreams way much better like up to 3-4 dreams.

How? Well, I kinda gave up on lucid dreaming so I also gave up on meditating. After a month or so, I was usually remebering only 1 short dream or none.
I thought I was having a dry spell
but I meditated ONCE(10 minutes) and everything came back to me

i watched that vid, and i tryed it out, i can concentrate much better while im doing it, but after ive finished it just goes again, i take it i just need to do it more, and on a daily routine, i only need to concentrate while going to sleep, tats all. and the guy in the vid said that you can fall asleep while meditating, but you can be aware that your falling asleep, since meditation really is just being aware of what your doing and thinking, so it makes sense. so really, its just an easy WILD, i ought to try it out, it might work, meditating myself into an LD.

I heard meditation works, like yoga meditation

Originally Posted by Vans

I heard meditation works, like yoga meditation

good, a bit of clarification.

if you try it most likely you will be rewarded in some way, for me i can meditate and in minutes my legs get fuzzy and its like a low level high in my legs, its enjoyable and if i wait long enough my body starts to tilt into my bed. its fun and rewarding.

This should help:

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=70098

I had the same problem but finally managed to fix it! Like mentioned before, the key is meditation.

A very easy meditation technique to improve concentration is keep your attention on your breath 24/7. This way, you will train your concentration 24/7. (This is the technique Buddha used to gain enlightment according to the stories)

Originally Posted by ChaybaChayba

I had the same problem but finally managed to fix it! Like mentioned before, the key is meditation.

A very easy meditation technique to improve concentration is keep your attention on your breath 24/7. This way, you will train your concentration 24/7. (This is the technique Buddha used to gain enlightment according to the stories)

wow that would be hard, especially during my exams. but its great to hear that meditation should work

oh and by the way, im finding it a bit hard to do it today, ive got bad toothache (which was my fault, i keep grinding and pressing my teeth together really hard, cant help it)

Originally Posted by slash112

wow that would be hard, especially during my exams. but its great to hear that meditation should work

It's good to meditate before an exam (it has worked well for me!). If you can visualize yourself being calm and alert, then you'll be at an advantage (as opposed to taking a test without meditation). I meditate in between study sessions to make sure I have a good hold on the material. Of course, it is different meditation than in the google vid.

I use the google vid's method when I'm meditating for the purpose of meditating... Glad it's helped you so far!

Originally Posted by Abra

It's good to meditate before an exam (it has worked well for me!). If you can visualize yourself being calm and alert, then you'll be at an advantage (as opposed to taking a test without meditation). I meditate in between study sessions to make sure I have a good hold on the material. Of course, it is different meditation than in the google vid.

I use the google vid's method when I'm meditating for the purpose of meditating... Glad it's helped you so far!

i didnt mean just meditzting, i was talking about paying full attention on breathing 24/7

Originally Posted by slash112

i didnt mean just meditzting, i was talking about paying full attention on breathing 24/7

Yeah, I agree it could get bothersome. XD

gosh i really want to try meditating myself into a lucid dream, but my toothache is just so excrutiating, i dont hink ill be able to take my mind off it.

ok i did a bit of meditating a while ago, i took my mind off my toothache somehow. it was going normally, then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, i started to see and hear things, well, not hallucinations like, i knew they were in my head, i just saw imiges in my head of people i know, and i heard them talking, not through my eyes, it was just kid of like a really vivid day dream, but when i thought about how weird it was, they stopped, so it only lasted like 15 seconds. but it wa strange.

Go to a DENTIST !!


On a side note:
The fact we are all searching and have knowledge many others do not,
and that we are practicing and researching many areas of LDs and meditations etc, shows what a little knowledge and thinking away from the norm can do.
Amazing really, we have a little secret not many do.
We may be that bit more aware than others and utilise the most out of our lives.

nah my toothache is dieing down, ill be fine.

oh and i forgot to say that it was sort of my periferal vision that i saw the people, it was sort of to the side, i know that periferal vision means nothing when your eyes are closed, but you know what i mean.