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Hello everyone, I'm Solpic. I'm a college student and I've known about and have been on and off practicing lucid dreaming for a couple of years. Near the end of high school and the beginning of college I have slacked off significantly but due to some personal revelations over winter break, I came back into it with a renewed enthusiasm. |
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Lucid Goals
- Have a 10+ minute lucid dream
- Take tequila shots with a DC
- Use the force
- Teleport to dream castle by making a portal in dream
- Practice flying
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Thanks for your detailed response. I think for now I'm going to stick with a combination of MILD and meditation as my main techniques, because it has been working fairly consistently so far, I think I just need to fine tune it and stick with it. Also I tend to get really excited about new techniques and drop the ones that I have been practicing successfully to try out new things; I think consistent practice, uninterrupted by school, sickness, or too much partying is what I need right now. |
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Lucid Goals
- Have a 10+ minute lucid dream
- Take tequila shots with a DC
- Use the force
- Teleport to dream castle by making a portal in dream
- Practice flying
I had an interesting experience last night. For some reason I was unable to remember ANY of my dreams last night but then about thirty minutes after waking up I realized I had a strong conviction that I had a very successful lucid dream last night, which didn't really make any sense to me because I couldn't even remember any of my dreams from last night. When I thought about it a bit more, I realized that if I did have a lucid dream, I probably would have flown, because that is something that has been really interesting to me lately in lucid dreams. So I sort of imagined what it would have been like to be flying and then parts of the dream came back to me. I had definitely flown for over a minute without crashing into anything, which is a first for me, and I distinctly remember some details about the flying like the straps on my parachute (yes I fly with a parachute) but for the life of me I can't remember what happened before or after that 10 to 20 second clip in my mind of flying, despite this conviction that I have that the LD was pretty successful in terms of vividness, control and length. |
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Lucid Goals
- Have a 10+ minute lucid dream
- Take tequila shots with a DC
- Use the force
- Teleport to dream castle by making a portal in dream
- Practice flying
That sounds awesome. Parachute - hehe, that's a good one. Once I flew as if I was sitting in a reclining chair. |
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Haha that sounds interesting but a little bit frightening. I don't know how comfortable I'd be flying feet first. But I don't think I explained clearly what I meant. I fly wearing an unopened parachute because I have a tendency to go really fast or get really high in the air and then look down, get scared and fall out of the sky. The parachute stops me from dying and waking up. |
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Lucid Goals
- Have a 10+ minute lucid dream
- Take tequila shots with a DC
- Use the force
- Teleport to dream castle by making a portal in dream
- Practice flying
That parachute trick is pretty neat. It can help people ease their fear of flying, or should I say falling. |
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So I had some successes last night. I wasn't very optimistic because I had spent most of the weekend partying and had literally remembered nothing but a single fragment for the entire weekend. Additionally I was experiencing a bout of insomnia and wasn't able to fall asleep until at least 5 am. However I managed to have a short LD where I did just about nothing. The cool thing was that the location of the LD was the same location as a normal dream that I had just left. At first I was about to just go crazy flying around and doing stuff but then I remembered to stabilize the dream but for some reason the stabilization made me wake up. I posted a thread about it because I finally had a realization about why it might have me wake up (that sort of waking up because of stabilization has happened before). However even though that LD was kind of terrible, I almost pulled off a DEILD without realizing it. I hadn't opened my eyes or moved after waking up from the LD because I didn't want to forget what happened. It had been about two minutes and I've never had a DEILD that didn't happen within the first 10 seconds or so after waking up so the idea was completely out of my mind. However at around two minutes I started feeling the unmistakable physical sensations of a DEILD and I was so surprised that I kind of jolted out of my bed and forgot most of the LD, but still, I've found out that even if the DEILD doesn't happen immediately I can get some sort of faux-DEILD if I wait just a little bit. I'm guessing that I was at the end of a REM cycle and that's why I wasn't able to do a normal DEILD but since I literally didn't move at all my mind and body thought I was just still asleep and moved on to the next REM cycle. I'm looking forward to increasing my DEILD chances with this new realization. |
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Lucid Goals
- Have a 10+ minute lucid dream
- Take tequila shots with a DC
- Use the force
- Teleport to dream castle by making a portal in dream
- Practice flying
About DEILD - it's only DEILD, if you stay in REM. And if you move or open eyes, that's a signal to your body you are awake and it will end that REM. But if that REM has ended for whatever reason (moved, it was the end of a sleep cycle), you can still go for a WILD. And since your body is still very relaxed, it will be shorter than normal WILD. |
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Yeah that's also what I was thinking. I know my mind has a tendency for self-sabotage, which becomes especially pronounced in my lucid dreams, so I'm probably just going to stay away from that stabilization technique for a while. It's pretty common for my mind to actually create monsters in my lucid dreams shortly after I become lucid. |
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Lucid Goals
- Have a 10+ minute lucid dream
- Take tequila shots with a DC
- Use the force
- Teleport to dream castle by making a portal in dream
- Practice flying
That's interesting. Try to think during day how you control your dreams and all you need to do is think something and it will happen. It may start happening in your dreams, even in non-lucids. make a plan what to do when you see a monster, how you gonna tell him 'hey man, you are a good guy and I love you". I did think like this and I remembered to do it in a lucid and to my surprise in non-lucids as well. |
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Last edited by gab; 03-03-2013 at 06:16 AM.
Haha that's a cool idea. If it becomes a problem again I'll definitely give it a try. I've kind of gotten my mind wrangled a little bit through meditation and other methods so it hasn't been a problem for a while. |
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Lucid Goals
- Have a 10+ minute lucid dream
- Take tequila shots with a DC
- Use the force
- Teleport to dream castle by making a portal in dream
- Practice flying
So I've decided after a long time of pursuing other methods that I should come back to the vanilla DILD with MILDs and RCs. I had been trying SSILD for a while but I didn't like the fact that I would almost always need an extra hour and a half of sleep when using it, and I also am not a big fan of waking up in the middle of the night, because I usually feel less rested the next day. At this point in time my recall isn't fantastic, but it's not horrible either. I can usually remember my dreams but not many details of them. I would say my biggest strength is my overall awareness, although it's not necessarily awareness of the dreaming state. That sounds pretty weird, but what I mean is that I meditate a lot, and that gives me spontaneous lucid dreams, but whenever I actually do a technique I almost always have lucid dreams. Like with SSILD or MILD in the past, it pretty much worked for me the first night. So I'm pretty confident about the future using MILD, RCs, and dream recall. |
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Lucid Goals
- Have a 10+ minute lucid dream
- Take tequila shots with a DC
- Use the force
- Teleport to dream castle by making a portal in dream
- Practice flying
Welcome back! gab is still around, mostly working on other parts of the forums. I don't consider DILDs vanilla at all. Most of my LDs are DILDs and I find that they give me so such a variety of scenarios for me to become lucid in. Let us know if you are having any challenges that we can work through together and we will try to help. |
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Something important for every newbie: http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...-read-imo.html
Listen while you work or before bed? http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-podcast/
More great audio: http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-audio/
My lucid dreaming journey: http://www.dreamviews.com/members/fo...boutme#aboutme
Yeah I guess that is one really nice thing about DILDs, you always end up in an interesting dream scenario instead of your bed. In the past week I've started to become a bit more consistent with my DILD practice, although for various reasons, work and dietary changes, my sleep has become less consistent. However I think it balanced out a bit because in the past week I think I've had about 5 LDs, although none of them lasted more than a minute. One of them was kind of a WILD too, which was pretty crazy because I never have really WILDed before, it just kind of happened. I am a little bit worried about how bad I am at stabilizing, but I figure that will just get better over time, especially as I get more consistent about having LDs. Right now I'm doing the whole examine one tiny detail really closely for a while if the dream feels like it's falling apart, which has worked wonderfully, I think the main problem is I always try to have sex and then wake up. If only I could will myself not to try to have sex. My dream recall has stayed pretty much the same, I feel like that's mostly because I haven't been getting consistent sleep though. |
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Lucid Goals
- Have a 10+ minute lucid dream
- Take tequila shots with a DC
- Use the force
- Teleport to dream castle by making a portal in dream
- Practice flying
Congrats on all of those LDs!! You are back indeed!! |
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Something important for every newbie: http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...-read-imo.html
Listen while you work or before bed? http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-podcast/
More great audio: http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-audio/
My lucid dreaming journey: http://www.dreamviews.com/members/fo...boutme#aboutme
I would be very interested to hear what you have to say about SSILD, I'm definitely not done with it - I just think I need to approach it in a healthier way, i.e. keep a consistent sleep schedule most of the time and then only do SSILD on weekends or something, at least until it stops keeping me up. |
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Lucid Goals
- Have a 10+ minute lucid dream
- Take tequila shots with a DC
- Use the force
- Teleport to dream castle by making a portal in dream
- Practice flying
Exactly what I had in mind. You can learn how to make it work for you on weekends or anytime you can sleep in. It may not be for everybody, but I think it has a good effect on quite a few people. I adjusted the way that I did the cycles after some time and I think that process of experimentation and adjustment helped me to get to sleep easier most of the time. To borrow from a recent PM description, I do a rapid SSILD cycling going through each of the 3 senses with each breath (visual breathing in, audio at the top of the breath where the ringing in the ears sound is easiest to focus on, and feeling while breathing out). I do this around 5-7 minutes. |
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Something important for every newbie: http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...-read-imo.html
Listen while you work or before bed? http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-podcast/
More great audio: http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-audio/
My lucid dreaming journey: http://www.dreamviews.com/members/fo...boutme#aboutme
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