Thread: My Tutorial for extending Lucid Dream Time. Hours of LD.

Originally Posted by aLucidSkater

how about the wind hitting your body when your flying, does that help you out?

As long as it helps you focus on your "dream self" and ignore your sleeping body, yeah. The key to atkins513's technique is to engage all your senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch) during a lucid dream frequently enough that they anchor you to the dream.

Hope that helps.

Originally Posted by GavinGill

As long as it helps you focus on your "dream self" and ignore your sleeping body, yeah. The key to atkins513's technique is to engage all your senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch) during a lucid dream frequently enough that they anchor you to the dream.

Hope that helps.

Exactly. As simple as it may seem most people forget this series of critical steps as soon as they realize they are dreaming.

Very much agreed, I always tell people to take it slow when they first become lucid. I find tying my shoelaces a good simple way to comprehend how real and thought provoking dreams can be.

chewing gum. genius. also ive smoked before, marijuana and tobacco, and the mary jane helped=D

Superb tutorial

last night i realised the importance of sleeping with the sensitive parts of your body not in contact with anything. especially the palms of your hands. i had them on my chest, and kept having my attention coming back to my body because the hair was tickling them. it was all good in the end though because it just turned it into a lesson on how to keep going back into the dream

i tried to actively just smell the environment last night too but managed to fuck it up and just used my real nose somehow. that was probably lucky too though because i was at my grans house in the dream i have smelled flowers and things before though so im not sure how this went wrong this time

for me, whenever i focus too much on whats going on in the dream and try to bring myslefl closer to it, im reminded of how real it fels, which in turn leads me to thinking of my real body. is there some sort of thinking that you do to curve away from this thought?

Originally Posted by rajofthenee

for me, whenever i focus too much on whats going on in the dream and try to bring myslefl closer to it, im reminded of how real it fels, which in turn leads me to thinking of my real body. is there some sort of thinking that you do to curve away from this thought?

just practice and using as many of your dream senses as you can. try to pat down all your dream body which should keep your focus in it. or you could try to use a different shaped body in a lucid, but i think thats a bit trickier

thats very useful.. one problem is i notice if you pay attention on any one thing for over 3-4 seconds it will fade ultimately leading to you waking up. im ganna try the senses and when it starts to fade ill just remind my self the dremas going to continue. your mind controls everything in a dream and if you trick the mind i dont see why it shouldnt work

I have had very few LD's but one experience i felt on a couple occasions that i could switch from dream to waking life instantly. I was walking in a house one time, and became slightly lucid because i could FEEL my body, i saw visions of a dark room. I didn't know what part of my body i felt, but i felt something. It was really weird, has this happened to anyone else? I would love to hear form you

-Dreamchitect

Last night I had another lucid dream, but it only lasted a few seconds. I read this tutorial before, I started feeling stuff, looking around, but I guess I forgot to do the other things. I had my girlfriend appear in front of me, and just as I hugged her, I lost lucidity.

Did I create a dream plot and get lost in it? Or would I have been fine if I did all 5 senses? Thanks.

This is a little bit off topic, i usually listen to music when I'm sleeping. Yesterday I had a lucid dream in which I was listening to music that was playing on my mp3, to stop hearing this song and stabilize the sense of hearing the dream, I took a phone from my pocket pressed a button and the call was automatically transferred to the operator. I do not know who the "operador" represent but i asked her to stop listening to background music and a few seconds later it stop. I hope this information helps someone in the same situation.

By the way, I also asked the operator to get someone to take me to my dream guide and past what seemed like one minute, a DC came and got me in a motorcycle.

Hey! thanks for the tutorial, I think it definitely helped with my first lucid dream after joining Dream Views (it's in my dream journal, if you're at all interested), though I've noticed that I don't seem to actually have a sense of smell in my dreams. I don't have the greatest sense of smell in the first place, so maybe that has something to do with it?

Very well written. Its nothing new. But thanks

i actually had success with this. only problem is i forgot to do it again im sure my dream would have remained longer

In my lucid dream that I had last night I rubbed my hands, felt random objects, smelled the air, and tried to notice little details and these things made the lucid dream very long, vivid, and aware. Making for a very awesome lucid dream. Great tutorial!!!

It makes sense ill try it tonight... also breaking things seems to help me remember that im dreaming. Like something that doesnt break easy something small, a stapler or control.

i also agree with the senses thing, ive been woken up with the smell of food in my house from a lucid dream!

Very well written. I will give it a try next time I'm LDing. The only thing I'd say is that real time and dream time are nearly identical - LaBerge found this in his research. However, I do believe that the more your brain is involved in the dreaming the less focus it has on your body and the harder and faster it's working (involving all your senses would make it have to work harder to generate more dream content) which could make time, subjectively, seem longer. It would seem in real life time is mostly constant as you have the physical to deal with. Moving your arm in real life requires energy and a physical motion across a set physical distance - who's to say how long moving your arm in a dream takes as it's only the firing of neurons in your head?

Will definitely give this a shot next time, thanks!

I am glad I stumbled upon this tutorial bc when I find out im in a dream I get so excited I just start flying around and wake up within a few seconds..ill deff have to try these techniques. Thanks!

I will do this.

Also don't forget taste... Imagine tasting a pancake with strawberries and sauce and butter and syrup

This sounds really awesome man!!!
Next time I have an LD I am soooo trying that!!

Pretty sweet that someone typed this up. Before joining dreamviews I had the same idea and method that utilising your senses in your dream would plant you firmly in it. Haven't had much lucids though to practice this, but I said when i get lucid i'll definitely do it to prolong it. Today i got that chance to engage my senses, so I did that, for the first time heard detailed sound in my dream, and saw everything clearly, very vivid, and felt the ground etc, licked things, picked up this celery looking plant and ate a bit of it, tasted just like lettuce lol. I did all this, but this was kinda 'late' in the morning if i can say that, around 8ish. Sun was shining down on my bed, and for soem reason in the dream several cars appeared and I immdeiately lost lucidity and faded to black, seems like external stimuli f'ed me over here. Probably heard a loud car. I hope to block out external stimuli so this can work better.

Thanks for writing this up for everyone. Definitely works.

Had a really cool experience for my first full LD (everything was very detailed) because of this tutorial.

Great points in the tutorial. Well written all around. I just have one question. You said that you should not have any real life senses 'active' I suppose is the word. That certainly makes a lot of sense, but what about binaural beats? If you're hearing the beats, would that shorten the LDs or would the effect of the beats counteract the effects of activating a real life sense?