The 'Lets Practice Waking Lucidity' Thread

In the spirit of dream yoga,I'm sure most of us can use a little help in practicing lucidity in the waking. I know I can!

Take a few moments to recall your day as you would a dream. How well can you recall everything? Is your waking memory just as foggy as a dream? Can you remember any specific car you saw on the street today, or are cars in your memory just generic? Can you remember any of the faces of strangers you saw? Random things they said? How foggy or clear is your waking recall? Were you as aware as you could have been?

Can you remember any moments today that you could have done a reality check, but didn't? Or, did you do a good job reality checking today, and when and where did you?




There's quite a few times I could have done a reality check today that I missed. I went to the park today and I saw a really strange bug. It was bright vermilion. Big and fat. It had long dangling legs, and hovered perfectly. I couldn't even see it's wings, only hear a hum. It was alien looking!! And scary, I don't even know what kind of bug it is. Wasp family? Beetle? But I was already imagining the worst, that this thing, what ever it is, has a really big stinger!!

It faces me for a few seconds before disappearing in the leaves.

This was a good moment too reality check because I didn't know what this was. Imaginary stinging bugs have showed up in my dreams before! When I recall this waking moment, it follows just like a dream.

Another great moment I missed a reality check was a sign we saw halfway through the park. First off, there wasn't any sign like this early on in the park. But halfway through there's this sign that basically says WARNING DANGEROUS WILD ANIMALS! Then it lists all sorts of wild animals that might jump out of a bush and eat me, including mountain lions. I just wanted to burst out laughing. Mountain lions? Here, you gotta be kidding me. I mean, I wasn't even that far out into the wild, I could still here the traffic on the other side of those trees!

The sign also said to mind your surroundings. Which was even funnier when you take into account that right next to the sign was a BBQ area complete with a roof and rows of wooden tables. Yes. What better way to mind your surroundings and look out for man eating mountain lions then to be fully focused on your food and whether or not you've burned it :shadewink:

I should have reality checked!

Another time I should have reality checked was when on one specific path I became obsessed with moving. As in, I was too afraid to stay still because the ground was crawling the biggest and reddest ants I've seen in years! With really really fat heads. The fear of staying still, the fear of something biting me, that might as well have been a dream. I think I should reality check every time I'm scared something is going to bite me.

Next time!

great post! today i awoke to learn that my partner's co-worker died suddenly, and it really changed the course of our day (and week) considerably. at one point i thought, this feels so surreal... but i didn't think to RC.

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Originally Posted by juroara

I think I should reality check every time I'm scared something is going to bite me.

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Good idea! Seems like a dream sign for waking life!

I love being lucid while awake! It is just as fun as being lucid while dreaming. The same bright colors, the surreal things happening. The same feelings in the body. If you pay attention, there are lots of wierd little dreamsigns everywhere.

I find it easiest when I am walking for some reason. that is when I can really be present with the actual moment of life I am living now and can consciously respond to every perception. I open up my vision so that I am aware of all my peripheral vision and I kind of focus on the whole field of vision as one thing. Then I do the same with my mind. I feel it empty but with one focus and that is on the moment, but very relaxed like.

And then I am lucid, I am lucid awake. And then the really interesting things happen. As long as I can remain lucid there are dreamsigns and coincidences.
For example, when I was driving back from Atlanta yesterday I was practicing my lucid driving and lucid listening to the radio. I turn on the radio and the song is "Dream On" by Aerosmith and it is that one part where he says "Dream on! Dream on! Dream until your dream comes true!" It makes me even more lucid so I lucidly press seek and "Dreams" is on the next station by Fleetwood Mac. I kept doing this and every song I heard for 6-7 songs mentioned dreams. I past a real estate company with a banner out front that said "Find your dream house" but the word house was blocked by a tree at first.

It was like being in a lucid dream. I think that we can be lucid 24/7! But I think it takes a lot of vigilance but the funny thing is:
When you are lucid, everything is so effortless.:)

I'm the same. I can pay attention to everything when I'm walking, and try to notice where every little sound has come from and what new sounds are happening.

Just so easy to do.

Nice thread :)

Yeah today, we had a big earth quake (I couldn't feel it... I was driving) and when I got to my aunt's for easter dinner, everyone was all like "hey did you feel the earth quake"? The situation was kind of distracting and I forgot to reality check.

What's even more frustrating is that ironically, I had a dream about earthquakes last night (I think it was from watching a Bones episode were they briefly mentioned earthquakes in California).

I will remember to reality check more though. I really have been lacking lately, and I will also be sure to practice more wakefulness during the day which I do remember to do every now and then.

I would think when you recall an event where you should have RCed you should do an actual physical reality check there and then?

Thanks, this is something I have to improve on. It's really rewarding when you get into it.

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Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

Good idea! Seems like a dream sign for waking life!

I love being lucid while awake! It is just as fun as being lucid while dreaming. The same bright colors, the surreal things happening. The same feelings in the body. If you pay attention, there are lots of wierd little dreamsigns everywhere.

I find it easiest when I am walking for some reason. that is when I can really be present with the actual moment of life I am living now and can consciously respond to every perception. I open up my vision so that I am aware of all my peripheral vision and I kind of focus on the whole field of vision as one thing. Then I do the same with my mind. I feel it empty but with one focus and that is on the moment, but very relaxed like.

And then I am lucid, I am lucid awake. And then the really interesting things happen. As long as I can remain lucid there are dreamsigns and coincidences.
For example, when I was driving back from Atlanta yesterday I was practicing my lucid driving and lucid listening to the radio. I turn on the radio and the song is "Dream On" by Aerosmith and it is that one part where he says "Dream on! Dream on! Dream until your dream comes true!" It makes me even more lucid so I lucidly press seek and "Dreams" is on the next station by Fleetwood Mac. I kept doing this and every song I heard for 6-7 songs mentioned dreams. I past a real estate company with a banner out front that said "Find your dream house" but the word house was blocked by a tree at first.

It was like being in a lucid dream. I think that we can be lucid 24/7! But I think it takes a lot of vigilance but the funny thing is:
When you are lucid, everything is so effortless.:)

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I really enjoyed reading that...and coincidentally, a minute later I just realised that the song playing on my shuffled iTunes as I was reading your post was one called Shattered Dreams.

Very interesting article. this really demands awareness doesn't it?

This practice is similar to that of 'mindfulness' endorsed in particular by Zen Buddhism. I have seen somewhere on the tutorials secion that minfulness can help attain lucidity, simply by being more aware of you surroundings, smells, noises, feelings, tension in muscles or whatever it may be, when dreaming this awareness should transfer over, therefore making it more likely that you will realise you are dreaming. Mindfulness is just focussing on what is happening in the current moment and how it feels both physically and mentaly. You would probably find a better description of mindfulness than I can offer by doing a google search.

Skepticsnake

I would rate my recall of today a 7/10. I definitely could have done more reality checks. I remember some cars and strangers.

So anyone else been noticing really weird things lately in the supposed waking state? ;) Yesterday I saw a green fire extinguisher taped to a tree. I have no idea. It was hard to reality check since I was in the car. The most I can do is just make sure I actually have feet on an actual pedal.

7/10! That's great, I'd give myself a 6/10 :cheeky: It's hard to remember work, I don't pay attention to costumers at all. But I've slowly been noticing more things in my environment that makes me say "How long has that been there?" First I noticed the power lines. Seriously! You live with them day in and day out. We know they are there but how often do you actually look at them? Its so easy to stare at a pretty patch of trees and completely ignore the power lines sitting on their leaves.

After noticing power lines in a way I haven't before, I then saw these MEGA power line things. I don't even know what they are are. I can see why I've never really noticed them before, THEY'RE HUGE. And I'm so short, I have a tendency to not notice things after a certain height. They're lining up around my entire neighborhood towering everything. I don't remember actually, maybe two to three times taller than the rest of the power lines? They have huge bases bigger than all the trees around here. How could I not have noticed them before :shock:

The only reason why I finally noticed them was because of the workers who had to climb all the way up there!

So what surreal things in your own neighborhood have you taken for granted? :shadewink: No? Nothing? Look again.

Sometimes my dreams are more vivid than reality for me.
I practice awareness in both states.

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Originally Posted by juroara

So what surreal things in your own neighborhood have you taken for granted? :shadewink: No? Nothing? Look again.

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I notice something new about a few times a week.

Today, for whatever reason, I've been obsessed with RCing. Much more than normal. I think I've done 25-30 today - not mindless RCs, but just a huge number of actual RCs. Hopefully, it'll translate into an LD for me tonight. (I haven't had one yet - I've done an RC in a dream, but I was violently awaken before it fully dawned on me that I was in a dream.)

Today after I was at the book signing I was in a very dreamy mood. It was dusk out and the weather was balmy outsied the bookstore. There were two musicians hanging out talking. One was an older beatnik looking guy with a guitar and a bald head with some hair over his ears. He kind of looked like a clown. The guy talking to him was a young guy in his early twenties sitting on the curb of the sculpture on the sidewalk, he had a guitar also.
The older man was telling him a story about when he was in california while he was tuning his guitar to his harmonica. It was a very relaxed feeling. The guy was talking slow with spaces in the story to blow his harmonica. The younger guy was listening very patiently and I think we were all in some timeless space. It became EXACTLY like a scene from Waking Life. I swear it was taken right from the movie!!! The way the people looked and everything.
A homeless guy walked up and said "Can I hang out with y'all?" "Sure" was the answer and the homeless guy took out all these sculptures he made with shells and set them on the sidewalk. Whenever someone would walk by he said "pick one out." Most people looked at him and didn't see the shells and thought he was crazy.
The older guy played some very very beautiful songs with a lot of heart.
I was in the lucid feeling so I looked at my surroundings exactly like I do when I'm lucid dreaming. I noticed that someone spraypainted POTS on the back of a stop sign. I also noticed the birds on the power lines and the clouds in the sky and the neon light from a restaurant sign called "Zambas" a Tapas restaurant.

I walked very slowly and leisurely down the sidewalk noticing every detail. I WAS LUCID! I was aware of things as they were about to happen. People would hurry past me as they were late to a dinner reservation of getting ready to go out to the bars. Most people looked at me kind of weird because I look like I am lucid dreaming with my green silk Afghan robe jacket. But one woman looked at me curiously, not weirdly, and she smiled as if she understood that I'm not weird, just happy.
I stayed like that until I got in my car and started driving. That is when I lose it, almost always! It is hard not to go into trance when driving.

Hah!! Power lines... I noticed them a while back, and discovered they're often astonishingly beautiful, but nobody ever notices!!! Here are a couple of pics I took of them... I did a whole series I call Power/Lines:


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Click on a pic to see them on Flickr. Once there you can click All Sizes over any pic to see it bigger.

People would really give me funny looks when I was taking the pics... they couldn't IMAGINE why I was aiming the camera up in the air. I've actually had people try to guess what I was taking pictures of - they thought it must be a bird, because they couldn't understand why on earth I would shoot the power lines!! :lol:

Nice pictures. I especially like the last one. maybe because it is the only one in color, but also because it implies perspective.

Anyway, I guess there hasn't really been anything for me to reality check on lately. Hmm... Maybe the fact that I haven't seen my fish very much lately (I know he still alive, I check on him) but I already had a dream about him recently.

Maybe next time I feed them, I'll reality check (and probably check on them :P).

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Nice pictures. I especially like the last one. maybe because it is the only one in color, but also because it implies perspective

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Thanks! Yeah, that's one of my favorites... I think because of the way the telephone pole is nestled right into the tree.. half hidden. On the others, I find taking black and white pictures helps to turn it into a slightly abstract composition... when you look at them big you notice the shadows of power lines wrapped around the telephone poles (this was with actual black and white FILM... anybody remember film? :shadewink:).

Dude you should go and look at the powerlines in Japan..

You'd splooge your pants!

:( I was fooled again!! I was so sure I was awake!! Last night before going to sleep I wrote down different dream signs to look out for. I know that when ever I do this, my dream gives me my dream signs twice fold. My dream had a little of everything, a bug attacking me, my pants were missing, I was late for school, school? I don't even go to school!

At one point while getting ready for my new college class I seriously considered that this was all a dream. I even consciously reminded myself that the only times I get ready for school these days is in a dream. I tried to recall the day but I had false dream memories of signing up for a new college course. If only I had recalled even further, and remembered falling asleep. I fooled myself into thinking that this had to be reality and I'm only wishing it was a dream!

A moment later I instantly wake up. I was startled actually. Because I really thought I was awake, and then to actually wake up, messes with my head!

Me need more waking lucidity!

Maybe instead of trying to prove myself that the dream is reality, I should instead try to prove to myself that reality is a dream

Cool thread, inded a practice of dream yoga. I don't do this enough, I'm to busy dreaming while I'm awake, or sleeping while I'm awake.

[QUOTE=Darkmatters;1431399]Hah!! Power lines... I noticed them a while back, and discovered they're often astonishingly beautiful, but nobody ever notices!!! Here are a couple of pics I took of them... I did a whole series I call Power/Lines:

The only time i'm looking at power lines is when i'm flying. I like to avoid them.

Hmm... I guess my recall today is a 5/10. I didn't much pay attention to strangers at all.

The only thing that was really abnormal (that I noticed) was when I was on the train, coming in to work. It's fairly normal to see a person nodding off, but it's less normal to see 5 people nodding off... at 4:00 in the afternoon! Everyone nodding off were slouching with their heads laid back, noses in the air.

I thought about dreaming, and how weird it was, but didn't reality check. I guess if I were dreaming, this would have been close to pre-lucidity today :P Story of my life :)

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Originally Posted by juroara

Maybe instead of trying to prove myself that the dream is reality, I should instead try to prove to myself that reality is a dream

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That is my method of waking lucidity, and reality check!

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Originally Posted by eternalstar01

Hmm... I guess my recall today is a 5/10. I didn't much pay attention to strangers at all.

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That is a very interesting thing about dreaming awake, or lucid waking, is that random people that you pass throughout the day that you don't really pay much attention to are in fact like random dream characters. It can be very surreal and fascinating to look at these people as dream characters, and use them to become lucid during the day. To pay close attention to them and try to notice the details about them. I believe this helps during the dream also to notice your dream characters.

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Originally Posted by juroara

my pants were missing, I was late for school, school? I don't even go to school!

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Whenever that happens to me I think that I am either dreaming or I am drunk.:lol:

Just kidding.

That's very, very good advice :)

Alright, so today, while on the train, we did a very weird stop approaching one of the platforms. It wasn't really abrupt, but there were loud clunking noises. Usually at times like these in a dream, I think something, which influences the plot of the dream, so I did that. Nothing happened. I engaged all of my senses and went through some checklist of where they came from (ex. "I have an after taste in my mouth from the hotdog I ate before getting on the train." "I have my backpack and my mp3 player with me. I can feel my uniform, on my skin, which I remember washing earlier today, before my shift." Etc)

I forgot to RC at seeing the 3 cops in the parking lot while walking from the train to my site. Granted, they were in their own lot (there's a police station next door to me), but regardless, it's abnormal to see 3 of them standing out there. :? I remember thinking, "Huh, that's weird," and just walking on by, which is the story of my life when it comes to missing lucid opportunities :P

Also missed RC-ing at the new TV screen on the wall at work. Although it plays commericials of previous ad campaigns, so it does make logical sense. But that is another problem of mine. I dream about work a lot and I never reality check when somethig is new or out of place.

4/10 today :(

I like reading all your posts. Very thought provoking.

Today was a very bad day at work for me, one of the worst. I totaly was out of my normal self. It was like i was in a type of nightmare. Got mad at my coworker and a customer. I was out of my usual self composure. When things got weird i did not even do any of my usual techniques to ground myself and check for lucid dreaming etc, i totally lost it. Am going over the day to see what triggered my unusual demeanor and do some healing work. I hope my boss does not find out. I question myself and what i really want from the job, from my life...do i want to get fired or quite? Am i looking for reasons to move on and start new chapter in my life? I do want changes and i want to be the one to make them consciously and willingly. Bad behavior is no excuss.

Ahhh those new things always sneak up on us! I think a lot of people forget to RC when ever they see new things, but that's always a good time to.

I had inventory today at work. I started to laugh as I thought for a few moments that maybe this was all a dream, and how terrible it would be to wake up right here right now, and do inventory all over again!

Let's just say I'm glad inventory really did take place in the waking :cheeky:

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Today was a very bad day at work for me, one of the worst. I totaly was out of my normal self. It was like i was in a type of nightmare. Got mad at my coworker and a customer. I was out of my usual self composure. When things got weird i did not even do any of my usual techniques to ground myself and check for lucid dreaming etc, i totally lost it. Am going over the day to see what triggered my unusual demeanor and do some healing work. I hope my boss does not find out. I question myself and what i really want from the job, from my life...do i want to get fired or quite? Am i looking for reasons to move on and start new chapter in my life? I do want changes and i want to be the one to make them consciously and willingly. Bad behavior is no excuss.

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Very good. All the more reason to be lucid. ANd it sounds like you are.
Events happen in our lives that seem random,
but if we are lucid we can see how we create those events.
We can create them either lucidly or not, just like in dreams.
Dream control is also life control.
Asking yourself about why you are behaving unlucidly
is like that pre-lucid questioning of reality in dreams.
What is it that you really want?
You want change? You will get it!
Be clear on exactly what kind of change that you want,
then create that with awareness.
Any method of dream control can work also in life,
but the results take a little longer, and of course
it is hard to believe in some things like shape-shifting and flying in waking life,
but it is not unheard of, just kind of unbelievable.

Hypothetically,
in order to be realistic,
let us take an example of how we can chunk up to a realistic goal of lucid waking life control.

For example, let's say that you want to be able to fly in waking life. Good luck! Let us assume that you are unsuccessful at this and you begin to doubt that it is possible (of course I assume that you doubted it all along, if not consciously then at least subconsciously). You can either give up on the whole idea of waking life control, or you can set more realistic goals. I do this by asking the question: "why?"
"Why do I want to fly?"
"Because it would be fun."
"Why would it be fun?"
"Because it would prove that something I thought was impossible is actually possible."
"Why would it being possible be fun?"
"Because I would expand my own limitations."
"Why would expanding your limitations be fun?"
"Because I don't like being limited by circumstances beyond my control."

When you can no longer ask "why?" you have come to the core issue. This is the truth of the matter. You can try to go deeper by asking a different question, like "what?"

"What can you do in order to expand your limitations? What can you do to take more control of your life?"
"I can listen to what I really want instead of being distracted by my impulsive desires."
"What is it that you really want?"
"I really want to have my own space where I can be me."

Once you come to another core issue then you can switch to the question "how?"

"How do you get your own living space where you can be you?" etc.


You see what I mean? All these desires are like dream desires that keep us hypnotized and unlucid. By asking ourself these essential questions we cut through all the unlucid crap and get to the core issues which are our true needs in this life. This is waking lucidity. Asking these questions to ourselves are waking lucidity reality checks. Because even in waking life we can be in unreality or in reality, it is up to how aware and honest we are with ourselves.



Sometimes I think that we are all talking about different things!

Great stuff Oneironaut. I can relate to what you wrote, really. I am familiar with that type of questioning and discovery.

I forgot to include the very magic of the whole thing!

When it comes down to finding what you really want, it is always something like this:

I want to be happy.
or
I want to be free.

And then this is where true lucidity happens! This is when you ask: "Can anything outside of me make me truly happy?" or "Am I not free already?"

This is finding what you really need and want inside you, rather than 'out there' in the waking dream world.

Trying to get anything out of this world to make you happy will only cause more suffering. ANything! If you are lacking something to make you happy and you look for it outside of yourself, you will only cause suffering for yourself and others. It is ALL within you. And this is what we discover during lucid dreams, and this is what we discover during waking lucidity.

PS. I just realized that I am getting this thread confused with Stretch Your Thingy thread.

All the same, it's wonderful to share this, Dannon :)

Okay so today's report...

The whole entire day was entirely out of normal (and thus, dream-like), so I pretty much had to keep all the senses "turned on."

I was at a formal do with some family (supporting my BF's cousin), and there were many, many "DC's" around :) So I watched them and noticed them as if they were DC's. One lady even started talking to people as she washed her hands in the washroom :P

I'd have to say that overall, today was fairly successful, about a 8/10. I didn't have any prompting to RC, other than just thinking about it. So, if today were like a dream, then I would have lost lucidity a few times but I would have gained it back without anythiing really strange needing to provoke it :D

Had some really good intense moments of waking lucidity today. Again, my reminder to do this was spurned by not much more than just people-watching on the train. But today it actually felt like the way it feels for me when I'm lucid in a dream... it made me think of something...

For me, when I become lucid in a dream, it's something that I have to consciously hold on to. By that I mean, using my dream body's senses, reminding myself that it's a dream as I'm going along and to try not to get too caught up in the plot, for I may lose lucidity by doing so (though that's not to say it is hard to enjoy a plot while reminding myself it's a dream... it's very easy in fact. What I mean more is.... there's a point just before discovering the lucidity that sometimes something happens and it sweeps me away, losing that moment of discovery and taking me back to a regular dream).

What it made me think of was being on auto-pilot in waking life. It feels that way in regular dreaming, too. Just being on auto-pilot and watching the dream slide by, just like during the course of my waking day, reverting back to auto-pilot and vaguely watching my day slide by. I tried to be conscious of when I had "lost lucidity" today by getting swept up in what was happening; reverting to auto-pilot.

I want to know how everyone else is doing :) Someone else post your efforts and observations :)

@Dannon: if reality is a dream, then does it make sense to look at our dreams to see what they are telling us?

i am wondering because i had this very strange dream last night with many of my significant girlfriends over my life rotating in and out during a dinner party. Meanwhile, my partner was having dinner with his new girlfriend and feeling very divided about not paying attention to me. Then i got stuck in a garage and my father (with whom, IRL, i was estranged for the latter part of his life) tried to rescue me from a flood.

I am wondering if this is worth "analyzing" or if in the Tibetan view, it's "meaningless". Do the Tibetans ever analyze their dreams? And of course the next question might be, to them, is reality "meaningless"?

I haven't been doing so well on it. I have been busy moving, packing, unpacking, cleaning, getting an alignment on my car and tires rebalanced, paying bills, turning off utilities, turning on utilities.
The only time I remember to be lucid lately is in the evening when I sit on my porch and relax,

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@Dannon: if reality is a dream, then does it make sense to look at our dreams to see what they are telling us?

i am wondering because i had this very strange dream last night with many of my significant girlfriends over my life rotating in and out during a dinner party. Meanwhile, my partner was having dinner with his new girlfriend and feeling very divided about not paying attention to me. Then i got stuck in a garage and my father (with whom, IRL, i was estranged for the latter part of his life) tried to rescue me from a flood.

I am wondering if this is worth "analyzing" or if in the Tibetan view, it's "meaningless". Do the Tibetans ever analyze their dreams? And of course the next question might be, to them, is reality "meaningless"?

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According to the Tibetan Dream Yoga, dreams have as much meaning as you give them. The meaning is not in the dream, but in you. Kind of like that the dreams are like Tarot cards and it is you that uses them to access your own intuition within you. And yes, they do analyze and interpret dreams for sure. They use them for healing, prophecy, etc...

Reality, also, has whatever meaning you give to it. Wait, what is Reality? You mean the world? The Universe? Yes, it is meaningless. All meaning comes from you. That is the amazing thing! The past doesn't exist, the future doesn't exist, only 'Now" exists. Why? Because that is where YOU are. It is YOU that brings lucidity to dreams or waking. YOU are the only real meaningful thing. But of course YOU are not a thing, but everything. YOU give meaning and reality to everything that you contact. Reality is contagious. Meaningfulness is contagious.

It is hard to put into words, I hope I did it justice and was understandable.

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Originally Posted by Serenity

I want to know how everyone else is doing :) Someone else post your efforts and observations :)

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Well I realize now I really do not pay attention at all to people! It's a good thing that you are and I hope it makes you lucid. I'm good at observing my surroundings like it's a dream. But people? I still couldn't tell you what that stranger I met just a few minutes ago looked like :cheeky: Could be work. I have an attitude where I try to avoid costumers as much as possible. But, I think I'll try looking at strangers as if they are DCs! Sometimes I like to make my DCs lucid like me. Do you think if I observe strangers as DCs, a stranger will observe me as a DC too?

One of the things I've noticed from my people watching is now strangers remind me of dreaming and cause me to RC. Which... is a really good thing for me, because I always, always have many DC's in my dreams. And until now, I didn't have a way to use them as a way of becoming lucid.

Well, I was trying to be aware today, but, like you juroara, I have many reasons for ignoring customers and focusing on each one can get very tiring and I can't afford that. Anyways, two weird things happened today. First, I saw a cart moving on it's own across a parking lot and up a small hill. It's likely due to wind since we did have some high wind, but, I did RC incase. Second, some blood on my hand disappeared after cleaning it but I couldn't find the sour e of it, so, I RCd and no dream unfortunately, otherwise, my day was "normal" :)

I got my car fixed today. It is funny going to the mechanic's garage in the South here. Such good ol' boys. I was wearing my japanese shoes with the separate toe on each one so they look like hooves and I saw them good ol' boys look at me very strangely. I wanted them to do a reality check. That made me become lucid, and I think that is why they fixed my car so good and so fast and for so cheap!

Here is a link to an article on Tibetan Dream Yoga.

http://www.tricycle.com/feature/3652-1.html?page=0,1

My wife and I went to a street fair sunday. It is a great time to practice waking lucidity. Alot of DC's. I only noticed a few things that seemd odd. First of all, i tell myself i am dreaming and i know that i am dreaming. Then i think to myself , "whats odd here, what do i need to know etc,"

So there was a guy, so old you could not tell how old he was. He was playin one of those one man-band old-time things . It was straped to his back, harmonica his mouth, playing a banjo, and his feet were attached ropes that played drums and cymbols as he moved his feet up and down. It looked like he ws dancing. I droped some mone in his case.

A lady politely asked my wife to move so this lady could look into a mirror.

A swarm of bees were flyng in a tornado like motion and kept going higher. Alot of people stoped and looked at the bees as they flew up into the sky.

I like looking at peoples t-shirts and seeing what they say.

I had an awesome dream (sunday night, monday morning) but did not attain lucidity. I was with my old girlfriend. The dream lasted a few hours (dreamtime) and had quite a few different episodes. I enjoyed being with her so much in the dreamtime i did not want to wake up, nor did i realize i was dreaming until i attained waking consciousness.

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Originally Posted by beachgirl

@Dannon: if reality is a dream, then does it make sense to look at our dreams to see what they are telling us?

I am wondering if this is worth "analyzing" or if in the Tibetan view, it's "meaningless". Do the Tibetans ever analyze their dreams? And of course the next question might be, to them, is reality "meaningless"?

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Alot of people recieve benefits from interpeting their dreams. The trick is to make a distinction between just mental purging etc and dreams that have meaning. I'm no good at it. I treat most dreams as mental purging etc; except when i attian lucidity or "spiritual" dreams. So...i guess one has to set up the types of dreams one wants pay attention to. Program your self to deliver only those dreams that meet certain requirements. It helped stop alot of unwanted dreaming for me and it doesnt work all the time...yet

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and I think that is why they fixed my car so good and so fast and for so cheap!

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Lol! Are you scaring people again?

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Second, some blood on my hand disappeared after cleaning it but I couldn't find the sour e of it

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That's pretty dream like if you ask me, and kind of gross. What if it wasn't your blood? :shock:

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A swarm of bees were flyng in a tornado like motion and kept going higher. Alot of people stoped and looked at the bees as they flew up into the sky.

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Nature is always great for waking lucidity. I love to watch the whirlwind of leaves as I eat my lunch.

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Lol! Are you scaring people again?

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I guess so, but, you know, they kind of scare me also!