Thread: Best thing to do when lucid? Nothing.

It gets boring, though. I've tried it. It's woderful to just sit there and soak everything up, but it really gets boring. Kind of like waking life. If you live a groundhog day, everyday, it's boring. When I'm lucid, I want to do stuff, not just sit there and soak things in, you know? I do that every day. I want to live, even if it's just in a lucid dream.

I tried this and it was one of my favorite LD's yet. I stared at the grass, and was amazed at how real it was when I ran my hands through it. The sky was the prettiest blue. Everything was just very bright and vivid. I look forward to going to sleep tonight so I can do it again!!

Hi, I have been trying to lucid dream for a long time now, mainly because I have alot of nightmares and they make me feel like shit when I wake up!

But, due to tips I have read on the net, I have actually started to get the hang of it. I figured out I was dreaming once when I jumped and I went really high, also when I looked through a view finder in a camera it was really dark looking, and when I has talking to someone on the phone they sound really distant.

Problem is, that even though I figure out I'm dreaming, I can't control it. I try to will things away, and for other things to emerge in their place, but it's not happening. I have noticed alot of people on this page talking about doing nothing and enjoying it. But what if I want to get anyway from it if it's horrible?

Can anyone help?

Originally Posted by carolann1975

Hi, I have been trying to lucid dream for a long time now, mainly because I have alot of nightmares and they make me feel like shit when I wake up!

But, due to tips I have read on the net, I have actually started to get the hang of it. I figured out I was dreaming once when I jumped and I went really high, also when I looked through a view finder in a camera it was really dark looking, and when I has talking to someone on the phone they sound really distant.

Problem is, that even though I figure out I'm dreaming, I can't control it. I try to will things away, and for other things to emerge in their place, but it's not happening. I have noticed alot of people on this page talking about doing nothing and enjoying it. But what if I want to get anyway from it if it's horrible?

Can anyone help?

Have you tried any other lucid powers or is it just manifesting/demanifesting that you've tried? that can be a tricky power to use... sometimes you need to wave your hand in front of you or make something manifest behind you or close your eyes because the mind has trouble manifesting/demanifesting something visually right in front of your very own eyes. I would suggest next time close your eyes and visualise where you want to be, imagine you are there and can sense the environment around you, then open your eyes. Alternatively, you could imagine the environment behind a closed door, and when you open the door you can walk on through into a different reality.

Originally Posted by Eonnn

Have you tried any other lucid powers or is it just manifesting/demanifesting that you've tried? that can be a tricky power to use... sometimes you need to wave your hand in front of you or make something manifest behind you or close your eyes because the mind has trouble manifesting/demanifesting something visually right in front of your very own eyes. I would suggest next time close your eyes and visualise where you want to be, imagine you are there and can sense the environment around you, then open your eyes. Alternatively, you could imagine the environment behind a closed door, and when you open the door you can walk on through into a different reality.

Thanks, I might try the door thingy. I have tried squeezing my eyes shut and willing things to change, but doesnt work. I might try it again but keep them closed for longer, though. But the door idea sounds like an interesting option. Now I just need to try and get into a lucid dream again! I can only get the hang of it sometimes! Oh well i will keep practicing.

thanks

Before I do this im gonna try and fly

Sounds more like dreaming to me.

I mean, it's not, but it's on a similar track.

Paying no attention to people sounds interesting. I have recently had my first longer full control lucid. I've analised the dream later and realised that even further stabilization and not minding what DC wanted me to do would be even better. I shall try to get total control, thanks for the post.

I don't think anyone can really put their mind around this, but even reality, is just a thought. So in essence, so what if you spent your entire life lucid dreaming, if you somehow can't tell the difference between the "real" world and the dream world. It's all the same.

Originally Posted by Pyramis

This may sound like the lamest advice you've ever heard, but bear with me for a moment.

Believe it or not, living out your wildest fantasies in living detail gets old after a while. When you wake up, you face the fact that all those sexy situations basically amount to masturbation. All those amazing conversations are just you talking to yourself. Sure, you gain access to creative and inventive parts of your consciousness that you don't normally connect to -- and don't get me wrong, that is wonderful and important! -- but you're still running up against the limits of your own mind.

It's time to go further.

The best part is, it's simple: Do nothing.

so true man. Plus, its really a requirement if youplan on doing anything else before waking up. Also, if you always do stuff, it won't seem real and exhilarating anymore. every now and then you just have to watch and stay still for a while.

Interesting concept. I'll have to try it out sometime.

Except that I have all of these other dream goals that I want to try out...

I'm doing this tonight.

Ill try this tonight. That is if im not by walmart

I shall try this tonight, too.

I'll give feedback.

i did this the other night on my couch after a false awakening. i was just sitting on the couch levitating different things and then walked around to see what else i could levitate. didn't do much in that dream at all but it was more vivid because i was just kinda sittin back and looking at everything .

boy i remember my last ld i just decided to mess with people and i found it kinda funner than all that supernatural stuff. I felt kinda like i was in the matrix

oh oops wrong thread

yea i did nothing because my memory was erased in my first ld and i actually found it really boring.

Got lucid last night, but I forgot about it
I'll do it tonight.

Another user mentioned "dream. Yoga" - do you have any knowledge or experience woth dream yoga or was this just your own idea? I've just begun my own conquest into the lucid dreaming min, but the most logical place I can imagine to start would be exactly what you suggest, calming and observing the minds parameters, build. My experience from the simple up to the extravagent. Yousaid whatss been on my mind recently, nice to know another person is on the same page

I tried this a couple nights ago here. I made the mistake of closing my eyes, and I almost destabilized the dream entirely. Maybe I should have gone that route; the results might have been interesting.

Great idea!
normally, i would go "woohoo! lucid dream! i need to fly now!"
but no! you need to sit there and pay attention to every single detail of your enviorment. that takes it from just feeling like your being hung in the air to feeling like a airplane. i need to try that.

Tried it multiple times but was never able to sit down more then 10 seconds without being distracted by... various activities