Thread: Complete Stability (discussion)

This is a typical lucid dream of mine:

I start to wonder, could this be a dream. I look at my hands. Hmm, 7 fingers. I realize I´m dreaming. Everything is unstable, but I start to fly. Soon I wake up.
Conclusion: Short and sh*tty.

Just about all of my lucids are like that. It pisses me off. Here are the things I want my lucids to be...
-Long
-Realistic
-100% Lucid

So, the purpose for this thread is:
Let´s gather all the ways we can influense our LD lenght, realism and lucidity. Everything. What should we do INSIDE the dream, and what should we do OUTSIDE the dream. All of it. Dream body stimulus, supplements, routine to do when we realize we are dreaming, anything.

I will personally gather lots of these ways. But help me by adding your knowledge to this thread.

NOTE:
If you don´t understant what I´m asking, please ask me to clarify. Oh yeah, and I prolly have lots of grammar mistakes.

Spinning has always greatly increased my clarity, and going to bed early makes longer lucids, for me at least.

You can try spinning as Higurashi said... and hand rubbing. They do not work for me though. What definitely works for me is focusing on something. I just stare at something every once in a while, if things get hazy I quickly go grab something in the dream and focus on it, see how it feels, what it is, what it says, etc.

Okay. So now we have...

Hand Rubbing
Spinning
Focusing on detail
Good sleep

More, more

Eh, I read somewhere If you shout "I'm dreaming", that might help.

Originally Posted by ca1um132

Eh, I read somewhere If you shout "I'm dreaming", that might help.

This is a major one used in emergencies!

I look at my hands. Hmm, 7 fingers. I realize I´m dreaming.

You shouldn't stop there! Try looking at every detail of your seven fingers.

Originally Posted by Mertruve

You shouldn't stop there! Try looking at every detail of your seven fingers.

will that work, the details (for me anyway) keep changing because my hands wave about aswell.

The tutorial!

Originally Posted by Shift

The tutorial!

Hi shift. I read the tutorial. Very interesting.

However, I'm still not sure that spinning and hand rubbing are best used for "dream stabilisation". I guess it depends on what you mean by this.

Both will help you remain in a dream if you wake up and the dream fades.
However, there is a good chance the dream scene will change.

Because of this, if your enjoying a nice dream location, and want more clarity, you probably don't want to be spinning/rubbing hands.
In this sense, having the scene change under you is not what I would call clarification.

Do you see what I'm getting at?

And if so, could the tutorial do with updating to reflect the difference?

Originally Posted by moonshine

Do you see what I'm getting at?

Why in the world would rubbing your hands cause a dream scene to change? I've done it a zillion times and done nothing but felt the texture and warmth between my hands while staying in the exact same location.

Spinning I adding grudgingly, because some swear by it while others don't. I don't. But it works for some, so it was included.

This is a very good thread.

Here's what I have to input:

When I realize I'm dreaming, unless I foolishly decide to plunge headfirst into a lucid adventure, I usually sit down, close my eyes, reorganize my thoughts, take a deep breath as a calming effect (these help to prevent waking up from the realization, as well as granting increased lucidity and stability). I also rember to affirm to myself that I am dreaming.

<.<

And then I go have lucid adventures, like a power-hungry fool. One time I got in a "lucid power" battle with someone.

But that's another story.

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