dreamcatcher81

Great documentary about lucid dreaming, for those that havn't seen it i have posted it in hopes that u can pull something for your own use in lucid dreaming. namaste.

So i tested Dr. Pillai referenced statement ( Dream Yogi's) regarding the best time to lucid dream. I didn't become lucid but i had some golden double take opportunities to become lucid and my dream recall was a little better than usual. I remember seeing things that i know to be incorrect but didnt probe. namaste.

I initially wanted to call this a technique for re-entering a collapsed lucid dream, but it really is not a technique, just a piece of advice that has always worked for me 100% to re-enter a dream that collapsed on me before I could re-stabilize it. But first, a little about what I do to lucid dream in the first place.

Now, my technique for lucid dreaming in general is WBTB, I can WILD pretty often or DILD 100% of the time without any type of problem when I WBTB. When going to sleep at night, I don't even bother to attempt lucidity because my mind and body are too tired to be as aware as I need to be to become lucid.

Dreaming in general uses energy, but being lucid in a dream uses even more, and if you don't have enough because you had a long day, you won't realize you are dreaming and will simply accept whatever comes up. Spending a good hour (minimum) awake after sleeping initially, allows me to enter a dream and immediately know I'm dreaming because my body and mind are rested enough to be completely aware, but can still rest longer. I spent a while figuring this out. I would lay in bed after waking for 10 minutes then sleep, and I would dream, but would not recognize that I was dreaming, no matter how bizarre things were in the dream. If I was awake for 30 minutes either lying in bed or after getting up, I might become lucid but my chances were less. Over the course of 3 or 4 weeks, I found that the following allowed me to lucid dream every single time:

I sleep for 6 hours (4 x 90 minutes), get out of bed, get dressed, and engage my mind for 1 - 3 hours (usually 1 1/2), writing down my lucid dream experiments and goals for the upcoming session, and then I head back to bed. I lay on my back, with my limbs spread out so that I'm just completely comfortable and then I contract every single muscle I can for as long as I can hold them contracted, then release and do not move them afterwards. After 10 minutes or so, I can no longer feel my body, and my only focus is my goals for the lucid dream, and my breathing. After another 5 - 10 minutes I start to see swirling colors and images, and within another 10 minutes, sleep paralysis/sleep itself and I enter a dream. Within seconds I know that I'm dreaming and I stabilize the dream by doing the following:

1. Spinning. I always spin to my left and when I'm done spinning everything around me is very vivid and crystal clear, no haziness. After that I...

2. Engage my senses by touching and feeling objects, I lick some objects to bring the sense of taste into full force, I smell the air, listen to the sounds and try to determine what they are and the direction they are coming from, and I scan the area looking at as much detail as I can.


NOW FOR THE ACTUAL TIP FOR RE-ENTERING A COLLAPSED LUCID DREAM

After I have spent a short while doing these things, I am free to do whatever for good lengths of time. But once a dream starts to collapse on me, and I am not quick enough to re-stabilize it via spinning, I just let it collapse, and have found a way to re-enter dreaming and becoming lucid again within just a few minutes:

When a lucid dream collapses on you, DO NOT OPEN YOUR EYES, and DO NOT MOVE A MUSCLE. The only thing you should even think about doing, is breathing. If you stay completely still without opening your eyes, within minutes (1 - 5) you should (for me it's "will") start dreaming again, and should be able to become lucid in seconds. The scene itself may be different, but once you have stabilized the new dream, just express your intent to return to your previous dream and it will happen.

100% of the times I have done this, I was dreaming again shortly, so in the span of an hour and a half two days ago I had 10 lucid dreams one after the other until I decided it was time for me to get up and get on with the day. This is now very frequent and I've felt empowered to be able to attain lucidity with such ease, and to immediately go back into those dreams I thought for sure I wouldn't be able to go back to later on.

I encourage everyone to try this for re-entering dreams that suddenly collapsed on them and let me know how it goes.

I've been going over a lot of threads and noticing a trend. People are constantly worried about their methods. They're worried about following instructions to the polished details, when it's that very persistent attitude that I believe is failing them.

Everyone is different, no doubt about that. We all learn differently. And similarly, we all have our own - questionably unique - techniques when it comes to attaining lucidity. Some use WILDs while others might prefer a MILD (I love these acronyms!). But beginners, like myself, have studied other users' methods with hopes of achieving a lucid dream on the first try - most often ending up with a disappointing and demotivating failure.

There is no "perfect" method! The real trick is figuring out what method works the best for you! Of course, beginners need to learn from somewhere - I'm not saying don't learn, I'm saying don't look at it with such a focused eye. Try a few different methods, vary it up a bit, and see what sticks!

For those who are just starting out, here is what I believe is important - remember, I'm not claiming this to be The Method, I just think it makes logical sense:
What is required to have a lucid dream? Well, we need to be asleep. We need to fall asleep before we can be asleep. And we need to be asleep before we can realize we're asleep. If we're focusing so hard with falling asleep, it's never going to happen. If I said, "Don't think about peanut butter!", then you'll start thinking about peanut butter. Likewise, if you're thinking about trying to fall asleep, then you probably won't be falling asleep anytime soon, as you'll be too caught up in thought.

Instead, go to sleep as you naturally would! Cross your arms, cross your legs, curl up into a ball -whatever!- and just relax. Find a way to keep your goal in the back of your head (not forgetting it, just not thinking about it) and let your thoughts drift as they naturally would each night.

Be sure to have plenty of sleep! Go to bed at a reasonable time to ensure you get enough sleep with time left in the day to use on trying your techniques. If you try to have a lucid dream at 9pm, just going to bed, then more than likely you'll fall into a deep sleep because your mind hasn't had a chance to unwind.

Oh! And just because a particular method doesn't work one night, doesn't mean it won't ever work! People have dry spells with lucid dreaming, so it might not have been a good night to try anyway.

Once again, this is all my own opinion. I hope this helps and that you give a few different methods a try and that you find your perfect technique!

I'd really like to hear what you all think