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To start off with, I usually just practice walking around and exploring the dreamscapes. I plan on creating a training ground to train my water skills.
How do you train up for a skill?
It can be anything from learning to fly by flapping some wings, to shooting targets with fire balls.
Discuss if you wish :)
:bang: :poof: :sniper: :flyaway: :horse: :split:
I've had a lot of lucid dreams but most of mine are fairly short. I'm usually just happy to realize I'm dreaming then try to walk/float around and look at things as long as I can before it fades out. I would love to eventually be able to be there long enough to try other stuff though.
What would you like to try? Maybe learn to control an element? If you ever come across controlling an element, imagine a training ground, imagine some moving targets and shoot them as they appear :)Quote:
Originally Posted by imfivebyfive
I imagine practising an ultimate martial art, but I'm too good at it and no one can beat me :(
Maybe you should...un-train yourself? A challenge may be fun :)Quote:
Originally Posted by dutchraptor
Because I'm trying to extend my time once becoming lucid I would like to try a technique I heard of called the dream clock. Basically you find (or create) an old-time clock (with the hour, minute, second hands) after you become lucid and try focusing on freezing or slowing down the hands of the clock. I heard it has the effect of keeping you lucid longer as though you are slowing down time in your mind.
Sometimes I think of letting someone get a few punches at me, and then unleash my fury :D
Basically its a stabilization method. Sounds cool I'll give it a try.Quote:
Originally Posted by imfivebyfive
I usually do it the way they do it in movies, because when I've watched some amazing powers in a movie I'm so psyched to try it out for myself. A little passive control thrown in there and it's even easier (ie, do just like they do in the movie to use their powers).
Does anyone have experience with terraforming?? I can never do it :?
What is that dutch?
morphing the landscape around you in a big way. Like flattening a hill or filling a valley with water. Or even exploding a planet. My brain seems to have problems with controling large objects.
Oh that seems awesome. I'll try it sometime. Maybe you should morph into a giant first?Quote:
Originally Posted by dutchraptor
Thats what I was thinking, I just read that some people have success learning it by molding the landscape with their hands.
I don't really need practise... i'm pretty good at magic and stuff like that :)
But i created a dojo like place in my safe-haven cave, so i can learn some self defense there once i find my way to the cave.
By sleeping
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4...ybmwo2_500.pngQuote:
Originally Posted by LSDgarfield
Try fighting yourself sometime! That'd be interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by dutchraptor
That would be brutal :cheeky:
btw love the avatar ;)
I like to go around and see what I can do with what I have, or what I'd like to change. I haven't lucid dreamed that many times, but when I do, that's how I roll.
I'm just into it for therapeutic reasons. I want to fully integrate the conscious and subconscious minds. Thus, I'm unconcerned about dream 'skills' other than just becoming more fully lucid, and contacting the inner man.
Hi Lunatide! I have two bits of advice. The first is that you can help your lucid skills while awake. Training your brain through meditation designed for that purpose is in my opinion a very powerful tool. A very simple trick would be to pick one skill like flying and spend time day dreaming in as much detail as you can, about how it would feel or seem in a dream. This can be done each night as you fall asleep. Then when you find yourself lucid, it will be a familiar idea for your brain. You can also get into serious mental discipline, which in my opinion is the only way to get masterful at LDing. I am teaching a class that will give you the tools to do anything in a dream and do it well. The problem is, it takes a year or more to train yourself, and many years to begin to master the skills. However, one student was able to use her training to walk on walls and sit on the ceiling, after only a month or so. Here is the link to the class if you are looking to become a masterful dreamer (hard work) http://www.dreamviews.com/f157/sivas...-first-131397/.If you are not that motivated, do try the visualization trick, as it is simple.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lunatide
In the dream I do train skills. Here is my first suggestion. Start with training your skill of stabalization first and foremost. If a LD lasts 1 minute it is impossable to train. The skill of stablizing is needed before you can train other skills. The next thing to work on is stopping the random flow of the LD. this is not an easy skill, and so you must train it. If the DCs are randomly messing with you, and plot twists cause earth quakes or what ever, you will not have luck training.
So step one, get good at stablizing. Two, get good at reducing the actions of DCs and random story lines. Then you can pretty much train in the same way you would in a martial arts class.
I used to train with whoever challenges me, so far it worked. I had many challengers. Maybe me and dutch should share a dream and see who's better at fighting :D
All the more reason to practise. I think you will have a considerable harder time if you dont know how to fully communicate with the world around you. Also why would you not enjoy yourself on your path to contacting your subconscious.Quote:
Originally Posted by gloriousbattle
Not quite sure what you are saying. i do practice lucid dreaming, of course, and I try to do it as rigorously as I can without risking burnout, but I don't practice martial arts in dreams. Should I?Quote:
Originally Posted by dutchraptor
Off course, every interaction within you lucid dream makes you more connected to yourself. Truly meeting your "innerself" can take a while. Not sating you have to practise martial arts but you shouldn't limit yourself on your journey. Sometimes you might even get closer or learn things about yourself because the subconcious brain is pretty much unpredictable. Finding your subconsious can be fun, alot of minor religions encourage you to have fun in lucid dreaming alongside using it for enlightment.Quote:
Originally Posted by gloriousbattle
I barely realize my dream as a LD. Still need a practice. But when I grasp a bit of reality in my dream
ex) seeing a giraffe...
I try to stay calm as possible (taking a deep breath) from waking up. ^_^
Not only Martial arts, to be good in fighting in dreams you have to know some magic mixed with warrior fighting, and also trickery aka slight of hand without the cards :) This is what i do.
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Originally Posted by gloriousbattle
I'm sure you would be scared to fight me ;) You would have no chance :PQuote:
Originally Posted by hathor28
:laughhard: Yes i will be scared of you, just joking :laughhard: there is actually not much things scaring me in dreams anymore. :P
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Originally Posted by littlezoe
Moar dick measuring plox.
As for the OP:
No training is necessary for any skill once you understand the intricacies of dream control.
Maybe people should be putting their focus on training through waking life study instead of fumbling around in the dark.
Well, too bad i'm not a "thing", but another dreamer ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by hathor28
You gonna take that condescending smiley lying down, Hathor?Quote:
Originally Posted by littlezoe
That sneaky looking cat Littlezoe has for an icon could be very scary. I could see Zoe turning into a cat so big it could bat me around like a mouse! I wouldn't want to fight either of you! But, if you make it to my dreams, we can hold hands or something ;)
There are no lucid dreaming skills, lunatide; only the "skills" you develop during waking life that allow you to realize, through high levels of self-awareness and memory, that this place you are in is a dream and you can do anything in it that you wish to do -- skills be damned.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lunatide
To assume that you need specific skills in a dream is to assume limits to your imagination and ability to control your dream.
For instance: if you wish to terraform, Dutchraptor, just do it! There is no skill to flattening a dream mountain with no more than a glance ... as long as you let your imagination -- and not your inhibitions -- be in charge.