Exercise and LD?

Sooo I noticed something today.
First period i had Gym in school during which I did some aerobic exercises and weight lifting (which were pretty intense). Then after that, I had English during second period. And I've always hated English so I was bored in that class and start to fall asleep. So I was in and out of sleep trying to keep myself awake and before i knew it, I was hearing drum beats (because I was thinking of getting home and playing them) even though there was no one playing them. Obviously I was in HH and soon after that i was in a LD (from which i woke myself up because I did not want to be seen by the teacher). There are couple of amazing things about that. 1) I did not experience SP. 2) I wasn't trying to WILD or LD at all.

So is it possible that aerobic exercises and weight lifting can help induce LD?

Some things that I want to point out:

• I've tried to WILD during some free periods, but did not have much luck with them.
• I only get 6 hours of sleep everyday (so I'm usually sleepy in school)
• I was trying to focus on the book we were reading and the class discussion.

ps. sorry if it sounds a bit confusing. I am not good with organizing my ideas

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Originally Posted by rahim9876

There are couple of amazing things about that. 1) I did not experience SP.

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This is hardly amazing. The majority of the time you will not experience SP. People blow it way out of proportion and it's not really necessary to do anything. You can use it to WILD, but you can also never, ever experience it in your life and still be a lucid dreamer.

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Originally Posted by rahim9876

So is it possible that aerobic exercises and weight lifting can help induce LD?

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Unlikely. There was a thread on this. The essence of it was that association is not causation. One event also hardly defines a pattern.

hmm ok. But I'm still not going to dismiss it yet and do a couple more experiments on my own

When there's some boring lesson in school, I always try to sleep and I get HI most of the times and sometimes I even fall asleep even though lots of distracting things happen in my classroom (ppl talking and so on)..

i think it was the fact that you were in a lesson, and when in lesson's we automaticaly switch our brain for concentration. even if you find the lesson boring

yes that also sounds very reasonable. I completely forgot about that, thanks for reminding me.

This weekend im going to do some exercises with WBTB and then attempt to WILD. And we will see how it goes

I think that physical excertion can put the body closer to a state of unawareness of its surroundings, a sort of numbing of the sensations. When in this state the mind could be comparitivly more aware than the body and use it as a quick means of escaping the body briefly.
Don't get me wrong here, i do not believe that the mind is its own entity that thinks and acts outside of 'yourself', i just find it easier to give these qualities in examples. Think of physical exertion as a kind of anesthesia. Sometimes people who are put under for an operation still have full consciousness of what is happening to them, less the pain and perhaps this is what similarly happened to you in class.
The body was soo tired that the mind could just slip under and into a lil LD :D

yea that's what I was thinking too.

I just got back from jogging and going to go back to sleep now. Lets see how it goes :)

ps. your pic freaks me out man and it's very disturbing lol

Good luck! Let us know what (if anything)happens

ok so here is what happened.

First i fell asleep and had a very vivid dream for about half an hour. Then i woke up tried to V-WILD and it worked. That was probably the most vivid LD I've had so far. :banana: