LD Dictionary {safe, confusing and misused words organized}

[adraw]

I have seen many topics covering semantic debate, many topics which discussed terms like sleep paralysis and WILD and how people percieve terms differently. Let us start building our own communication protocoll, where everybody would understand what the other meant. Let us find words, where we have problems understanding ourselves, and let us use the words, which come from safe or well understood roots more often. As you will soon find out, safe terms are related to direct experiences and misused or confusing words are just mental constructs, which everybody understands differently. Let me start with set of words which everyone understands and uses without confusion: SAFE TERMS: These are terms which you can use and assume your partner will understand. Some of these terms may be understood only if you have experience related to them. Even without experience, they are well defined and are usually used without confusion. Concentration Attention (wikipedia) Dream Dream (wikipedia) Dream incubation Dream incubation (wikipedia) Dream journal (understanding improves with experience) Dream journal (wikipedia) Dream sign Dream sign (wikipedia) False awakening (not understood without prior experience) False awakening (wikipedia) Lucid dream (understanding improves with experience) Lucid dream (wikipedia) Lucid dream induction Lucid dream induction (wikipedia) Nightmare Nightmare (wikipedia) Non rapid eye movements sleep stages (N-REM) N-REM (wikipedia) Rapid eye movements sleep stage (REM) Rem sleep (wikipedia) Reality test/Reality check Relaxation Relaxation technique (wikipedia) Relaxed state REM atonia Rem sleep (wikipedia) Sleep Sleep (wikipedia) POSSIBLY CONFUSING TERMS: These are the words you will usually use to describe your dream experiences, but you cannot be sure if the other understands you well. These terms may be too general to be related to direct experience. Still these are words which are generally well understood and used. Awareness (general term) Awareness (wikipedia) Consciousness (general term) Consciousness (wikipedia) Energy sensations (vibrations, waves) (not understood without prior experience) Hypnagogic imagery (not understood without previous experience) Hypnagogia (wikipedia) Subconsciousness (general term) Subconsciousness (wikipedia) Trance (many levels) Trance (wikipedia) MISUSED TERMS: This are the words, which are often misunderstood and used outside context, they originated from. This words have usually more than one meaning or meaning is not always clear. Without further clarification and experience backbone, these words are meaningless or confusing. -ILD (dualism dream type/dream induction) Imagination (process, visual? ..., misunderstood) Imagination (wikipedia) Sleep paralysis (state/disorder/hag ....) Visualization (process, visual?, all senses ..., misunderstood) Please help with building this dictionary and add your own set of lucid dreaming related words organized into categories i created. Discussion open

[ninja9578]

This will help the dream guides out quiet a bit. We've been working on a full dictionary for a while now, but we've missed some

[adraw]

This will help the dream guides out quiet a bit. We've been working on a full dictionary for a while now, but we've missed some Yeah. The reason why i am starting this initiative is to identify, which words may cause {and often do cause} problems when they are used in overall communication in threads. Could you please add some of the dictionary entries into this word list from your dictionary and categorize them too. I will then update main list. Am really interested, what in your opinion causes confusion in overall communication on DV. Maybe we will find some words, which are used often and which are {unfortunately ) misused just as often. Please also clarify, what makes you thing, the words are confused just as it is stated in example

[Licity]

Some others: Hypnagogic Images(HI) (Possibly Confusing, hard to describe without prior experience REM(safe) N-REM(safe)

[adraw]

Some others: Hypnagogic Images(HI) (Possibly Confusing, hard to describe without prior experience REM(safe) N-REM(safe) Thanx for addition

[ollei]

great initiative Adraw! can't come up with any contributions right now but hopefully I will. A clean-up of the terms I think is very useful. keep it up!

[adraw]

Actually thats not my idea to clean the terms, it was inspired by Thor and his clarification of Sleep paralysis term in first place. This initiative was more or less always here, but was scattered everywhere in some extent. Thanx for nice words. I would also love to see any discussion about word categories themselves and about classification of words into these categories. Please. If you have some hints, or ideas, they are really welcome.