Thread: So you think you can't LD?

You have a very inspiring view of lucidity. Guess lucid living is what living's all about. I think I'll give it a go

I have written 'Awareness!' on the back of my hand red, so that it will almost always be in my peripherals.
This reminds me to be constantly aware of my surrounds and what reality is.
It sort of puts the awareness thought to one side in my mind and it will be there all day.

Nice Philosophy.

We must be totally in anything.

in eating, drinking, thinking, watching, singing..

when we try to be totally in a fact, I imagine my self ( all my body ) in that act?



Tonight A will get my first FULL LUCID CONTROLL VIVID DREAM.

yeah, it's lovely.
check "the power of now" and "tibetan yogas of dream and sleep"
great books!

Originally Posted by Electro_Dreamer

You have a very inspiring view of lucidity. Guess lucid living is what living's all about. I think I'll give it a go

agreed, very inspiring indeed.

i feel the same way about making a commitment to not sleep-living again. once i even HEARD about LD'ing, i was hooked. it's such a shame that millions and millions of people will never experience this... ever.

the reality checking alone kind of makes us some of the more "aware" people on the face of the earth... comparatively (and ESPECIALLY compared to the general American population, if you happen to live here).

I don't believe in this because i'm who i am in my dreams...

I can feel the ground, the air, i can speak, i can think what to do, i just act normal...

The only thing is that i don't know that i'm dreaming...

Almost 100% of my non lucid dreams are so vivid than real life...

Okay, let me just try to make heads or tails of this discussion in a simple way that is applicable to increasing lucidity, dream control and freedom.

The use of terms like "awareness" and "detachment" remind me of meditation. Meditation is a great way to increase awareness and detachment in real life, and I can swear that the majority of my lucid dreams were only possible because I meditated. (I used to think that I couldn't get lucids unless I listened to binaural beats, completely engaged in the sound, but since it has been scientifically disproven that binaural beats have any effect on brain patterns, I've concluded that the fact that I was actually meditating while listening is what carried on to my dreams.)

With my American lifestyle/upbringing and using the internet a lot, it seems very hard to be clear headed and disengaged from my emotions in the whirlwind of daily life, but what seems to make it really easy, really fast is reading scientific articles about how our brains chemically and electronically process senses from the outside world, our emotions and our reactions. That way, when you're walking down the road, you get caught up in thought about how your brain in real time plays back visual or audio memories while you sense the world around you, therefore becoming detached from everything.

Unless, of course, thinking about the brain distracts you from realizing that you're in a dream....

To put it in a nutshell, you're saying that if you want to have an easier time becoming lucid at night, you have to live your real life with undivided awareness of everything, neutrally observing sights, sounds, smells, etc with keen attention, not just listlessly ignoring everything in the freight train of abstract thoughts and feelings. Then that same process carries over in dreams, for what are dreams but a personification of what your habitual thoughts are in real life?

You should live life like a big reality check, stopping for a moment and really studying the present moment for what is really is.

This is the best I can untangle the concept right now. Become aware in real life = become aware in dreams. It's really simple.

LOL

I agree with everything that was said by everyone after my previous post