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    • Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views




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    1. Taffy's Avatar
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      Wow, that was awesome. Sounds like really epic dream.
    2. ashraen's Avatar
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      thanx guys
    3. funnky's Avatar
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      thats awesome
    4. Robo's Avatar
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      Great Job man! Congratulations!
    5. Somniloquist's Avatar
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      I don't think I've ever heard of the light switch test, but it sounds like it would work. I often find if I'm scared of something in the dark in a dream, none of the lights will turn on

      Good luck trying some techniques to help maintain your lucidity
    6. ashraen's Avatar
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      i do a few checks like making numbers change, but my favorite is making myself or someone else levitate. i figure if i can make someone float in the air, then i am 100% sure it's a dream

      i have also heard "flip a light switch, because you can't turn on lights in dreams." i'm not sure i believe that tho, cus when i flipped the switch last time, it got dark in the room i was in (then i made the light switch melt into goo just to be sure!).. so maybe you can't turn them on, but i know for a fact you can turn them off! my problem isn't so much that i don't believe the RCs. i do. i just sometimes have trouble trusting that belief for longer than a couple of dream minutes. it's like i just need to "make sure again that i really am dreaming."

      i feel like this is probably just because i'm only partially lucid. it's also because i'm often doing something that would be a REALLY BAD idea if i were in the waking world (like evading arrest from a cop or something). i'm definitely going to try some of techniques on the site to help with this problem. it only happens about half the time tho
    7. Somniloquist's Avatar
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      It's crazy that even with all your DCs and subconscious telling you that you're dreaming, you still don't fully believe it. I haven't had many lucid dreams, but I struggle with lucidity sometimes too. I recently realized I had been skipping one important LDing step--I never bothered to do any regular reality checks after becoming lucid. Do you do any simple little checks after gaining partial lucidity, like plugging your nose, or double-checking numbers to see if they change, or counting your fingers? I was going to try that next time to see if it would help make my lucidity last longer.