Thread: Is extraction real?

If you mean doing this to someone else, I don't know about that.

But you can ask your own mind. Lucid dreaming - Gateway to the inner self by Robert Waggoner talks about that.

If you're talking about asking questions to someone in waking life while the person is asleep.
Then yes, you can ask them questions, but they don't always make sense. Last summer me and my friends went to Croatia and one of us is a very deep sleeper and dreamer, he talks in his sleep and so on.
But when we asked him questions it didn't make any sense, sometimes we couldn't even understand what he was saying. Also the fact that he was busy doing dream things it was hard to get him to focus on us without waking him up.

You mean like in Inception right?,
I'm afraid that's not possible, for now. Maybe in the future they might find a way to link people's dreams but for now that only happens in movies
But 'extracting' things from your only dreams is possible like Gap said Robert Waggoner talks about it in his book Lucid dreaming - Gateway to the inner self.

Originally Posted by gab

But you can ask your own mind. Lucid dreaming - Gateway to the inner self by Robert Waggoner talks about that.

Really? I'm afraid I can't get my hands on the book, but that's intresting. Self-Extraction, could I recieve more information on this subject? My main Dream Goals for a while have been to learn more baout myself, and delve into who I am, asking questions, and trying to find self-answers. Could it actually work, Self Extraction?

Sure Jay. You can ask a Dream Character questions. They are extensions of your subconcious mind, that part of Inception is true. It's then up to you to decern what the information means through dream interpertation.

Originally Posted by SilverJay

Really? I'm afraid I can't get my hands on the book, but that's intresting. Self-Extraction, could I recieve more information on this subject? My main Dream Goals for a while have been to learn more baout myself, and delve into who I am, asking questions, and trying to find self-answers. Could it actually work, Self Extraction?

Try library, they may have a copy.

Instead of extraction, think of it as talking to your higher self, to your soul, to your mind and memories, to YOU.

I believe, that our soul retains all memories of everything what we ever experienced, even from past lifetimes. If you don't believe in reincarnation, that's not a problem. Our mind still knows more than we know consciously. That's where intuition and gut feeling comes from.

If there is something you would like to know, it's possible to ask this question before going to sleep. Ask the question out loud and direct it towards your higher self - your mind, while saying that you are asking for help in understanding, or you are asking for help with something. If you believe in God, Universe, Creator, you can direct your question to any of them. Describe your problem. Talk to yourself and expect an answer. It doesn't hurt to say thank you and be appreciative and have good feeling about it.

Then you may have a dream, which will hint a solution to your question. It may be figurative.

For example, I was contemplating switching jobs and I expressed my wish to have a dream about it or to receive some kind of help. So I dreamt that I was at the huge pomelo tree (fruit resembling grapefruit). There was a huge amount of ripe fruit on a tree. Someone told me not pick, it will be picked for me. But I didn't listen and moved some stick and knocked down like 30 tiny, unripe, green fruit. I took it, that my idea of switching jobs is not ripe yet and I should wait.

This dream surprised me, because nothing like this ever happened before. It could have been a coincidence. But who knows.

And when in a lucid dream, you have direct line to your subconscious mind. So you can just yell out any question you have and see what happens. Wagonner in his book mentions dozens and dozens of his own and his students experiences with talking to his higher self in LD.

Good luck

I will say that I never have detected a limit to what could be done with LDs. I imagine the extractor would be a very rare person. I do not for see 1 in 1000 LDs gaing this abitity, if it exists.

No, won't work. That inception scenario is based on the idea that you can actually enter somebody else's dreams. But that's not what happens in a shared dream. Each individual creates their own version of the dream based on their own personal paradigms.

You can't find the specifics of another person, it will always be filtered through your own personal conceptualizations.