As I am fond of saying - If it were easy, everyone would be doing it! |
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I think it's like any skill -- some people have a knack for it, and some don't. That doesn't mean the knack-less have no hope of achievement, it just means they must work hard and put in consistent effort. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
As I am fond of saying - If it were easy, everyone would be doing it! |
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LD #186 DJ entry |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
LD #187 DJ Entry |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Exciting stuff FM! Perhaps you can integrate the beyond caveman goals into the beginning of those rhymes you make to remember lucid goals. If the remembering of goals tends to occur further into your LD then at least it reinforces those goals and then you can also integrate it into your initial lucidity ritual (pat down etc that you do or did in the past). |
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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 haven't been doing any sort of "just got lucid" rituals, either practicing in waking or doing them in dream. I need to return to those. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
If you find it easy to get back to, great. If you find it overly complicated, maybe try simplifying it or reducing the steps (while I sit here and tell you to add a step - of this goal in question, lol!). You know all of this of course, but we all probably need reminders at one time or another…I know I do. |
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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
Summer 2016 competition post links/summaries |
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Last edited by FryingMan; 08-03-2016 at 02:51 PM.
FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Sending good lucid dreaming vibes your way FryingMan to help break through the jet lag! |
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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
Well finally another big night, tons of dreams, 3 (maybe 4) LDs, one particularly vivid/present/bright & clear and long-ish. I took a one-a-day multivitamin before bed (but I do that fairly frequently) and took 2mg melatonin after struggling to fall asleep for about 30 minutes since it was a very stressful day and was having trouble quieting my mind. Despite the stressful day I had great recall, it was a "dreaming all night" kind of night, my favorite. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Congrats on your excellent night of dreaming and lucid dreaming!!! |
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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
On this infamous day I had an awesome night: TOTM LD, 1.5-2 epic non-lucids, and a couple new firsts! Haven't had any new firsts in a while... |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Congratulations FM!! I have always really liked your idea of celebrating firsts. I think it is a great way to keep LD practice fresh by taking note of new achievements and I think it is also helpful to have a workbook to log it in. |
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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
Had a really good September: 10 LDs in September, and 2 already in October including a TOTM success last night in a super vivid, bright, fun LD. I bit shorter than I'd like, but aren't they all? This one was about 1.5-2 minutes: DJ entry. Dreaming is vivid, and recall, in the high part of the cycle at least, is very good, lots of detail and variety across multiple wakings. LDs are coming earlier in the night. I tend to be lucid while it's still dark outside now. When I have time, I'm almost always making it back to sleep now via my combination of a variant of SSILD, relaxation breathing, and continual letting go. I also mix in dream yoga visualizations. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
October 2016 competition summary |
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Last edited by FryingMan; 10-16-2016 at 03:36 PM.
FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Woohoo 600 DJ entries |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Getting slowly back into dreaming. Had a LD two nights ago and a long dreaming night last night, very vivid, lots of visual and experiential recall, very present dreams, DJ here |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
With such an awesome night of vivid dreaming last night, I'm really looking forward to tonight! I *will* get to bed by midnight! |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Getting back into the swing of practice. Re-reading Holecek from the beginning. Had a nice lucid walk today. Noticed a number of things that had changed (areas of the park now fenced off, a pier missing from the river). Doing peg mnemonics for remembering certain moments (did 1-gun: guy sitting on a stump, 2-shoe red haired woman with curly hair, 3-tree a pharmacy sign next to a tree, so far today). Trying to have a lot of "just two breaths" heightened awareness moments to get back into the swing of self-awareness and mindfulness. Sleep patterns remain a challenge: I like reading about and working on other hobby stuff late into the night. How'd I get here? By what path? A PM target of "every time I see a taxi" that I did a few days ago is still with me strongly and triggered a few times today already. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
^^^ let's do this shit together, lucid as fuck, living a sharp life that we consciously choose! |
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Woohoo, I managed to get to bed before midnight, set solid intention before bed, had a fairly long dreaming night (early recall a bit hazy as I did not record in the night) with some very vivid "you mean *that* was a *dream*!?" dreams, and even a short stint of lucidity following a double-take RC (nose pinch, continue, WAIT a minute...I could breathe? Nose pinch again, yup, then, unfortunately, "hey babe!" and lost lucidity shortly after that haha (but didn't wake up!)). |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
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
Atrocious bedtime last night (3am?), but I slept in and had a great dreaming night last night, including a lucid after a late-ish morning unintentional (long phone call) WBTB. Some very vivid, present dreams. Starting to get some of my former recall abilities back at long last. Building excitement for dreaming again. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Atrocious bedtime does not work all of the time! Same late bedtime last night and no recall! So it's a roll of the dice. Regular & early-ish bed time (how many years now?) remains a challenge and is still very important for recall for me. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
I almost WILDed this morning trying on a lark the "The Phase" indirect method via phantom limb wiggling! Check it out, video link in the DJ entry. Book link |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
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