Thread: How do YOU practice Lucid skills?

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

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.

Originally Posted by imfivebyfive

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

I imagine practising an ultimate martial art, but I'm too good at it and no one can beat me

Originally Posted by dutchraptor

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

Originally Posted by dutchraptor

I imagine practising an ultimate martial art, but I'm too good at it and no one can beat me

Try fighting yourself sometime! That'd be interesting.

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.

Originally Posted by imfivebyfive

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.

Basically its a stabilization method. Sounds cool I'll give it a try.

Sometimes I think of letting someone get a few punches at me, and then unleash my fury

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.

Originally Posted by dutchraptor

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?

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

Originally Posted by LSDgarfield

By sleeping

That would be brutal
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.

Originally Posted by gloriousbattle

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.

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.

Originally Posted by dutchraptor

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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?