Hello Dreamers, |
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Hello Dreamers, |
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I usually get lucid after I wake up and go back to sleep even though I've had enough sleep, so I am usually in fact light asleep. My LDs also aren't vivid or long because of that. I sometimes slowly feel myself becoming aware of my body while LDing and wake up soon after that, do you recognize this? |
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Yess, I experience the same thing, it feels kind of as if my mind was checking to see if my body is still there in my bed but each time it does I'm a little more awake or I wake up completely. |
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WILD takes long to master antoinette, but you should read some info through. Apparently WILD is more vivid so you shouldn't have a problem there. Never had one myself though. ): |
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I had lucid dreams two nights in a row and both times they were right before waking up. I've experienced the half-awake thing too, for like a few seconds. Yesterday there was a moment when I was wondering whether I was dreaming or awake and just thinking. I think I had been dreaming and then reached the borderline. I don't know what to do about it...when you don't need any more sleep it's kind of hard to stay asleep. Sometimes I relax in my dream when I feel like I'm about to wake up and it seems like I can hold onto the dream longer, but relaxing means not doing anything so I can't enjoy the dream like that. |
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Ohh! Good info sivason. Thanks. I guess I was typing when you posted that or I just missed reading it. That's good to know. Thanks again. |
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I think at first almost all lucid dreams happen in the lightest times of sleep. It is easy to understand why. The idea we all share of drifting into sleep can be applied to starting to wake. You just start to reach a mixed state where you get a vague amount of waking awareness but you Are also still more asleep than anything. In attempting to lucid dream you have created an intention to watch for this very thing. |
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Nice advice! I got a "lucid in darkness" dream last night (walked into a dark room, became lucid, lost all visuals), I was just standing there lucidly like a dope trying to think of what to do until I woke up. I had even rehearsed in waking life doing a "lucid in darkness" action: doing a dance or patting my body down with my hands but didn't remember to do them, I think what I tried was "looking at my feet" trying to make them appear. But the hand in front of the face and I think the "patting down the dream body" which doesn't require any visuals to perform also nicely focus attention on the dream body. Wish I had remembered that! While looking at the hand, also perhaps add rubbing the thumb against the fingers repeatedly (like trying to rub salt or crumbs off your fingers) which adds a tactile element to the visuals. |
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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 can attest to this, I don't usually have a LD until its close for me to wake up for the day. Recently my LDs have been spontaneous, I can't say stabilizing isn't a problem for me as I'm still experimenting. When I wake up I honestly don't what causes that, the intensity is always there and I've balanced out the excitement. |
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DILD: 150 | DEILD: 8 | WILD: 20
I am having the same problem. If I go to bed intending to dream about a certain thing, I usually do and I recall small bits, I am lucid too but it is very weak and I have very little control. |
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Also, sivason, thank you for the timetable of LD experience progression! I was starting to think I could only LD during those close-to-waking times. It's really good to know that moving on to solid REM LDs comes with experience. |
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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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