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

LoL, Ya, i read your TOTM's.. You just go straight for them lol.. but it looks like you do a good job.. I think the problem is that most people engage a sense, such as touch, to prolong the dream when they notice it fading, however, the real trick is to engage all senses as often as possible..

Also, During a Lucid, If i start to think about my physical body, or my body being in bed... I feel myself being pulled there... whatever I think about in LD, comes into fruition... So if I start focusing on the bed, being in bed, or what have you.. I end up there, either in a FA, or for real. This is why i say its very important to remove the senses from the physical body by blocking light, sound, and so on...

This is also why I say to focus on all 5 senses regularly. To continually over-ride the senses coming from the body. The senses of the physical body will pull you back to it. For instance, your running around having a great time in your LD and your alarm goes off... what happens, your sucked back into your body from the sense of sound.. I find it rare that I am able to hear the sound and understand its coming from the physical body and continue on.. I think some people may be able to, but even if you have this ability, its going to shorten your LD in my opinion. I would love to hear other's opinions on this as well, and i would really love to see how it works for many of you. I have found it flawless in my experience.

excellent tutorial, gary, thanks
i like the idea of a hand massage ball just to keep my senses engaged in those moments when i feel the lucidity slipping
your other suggestions could come in handy when want to increase the vividness too.

Originally Posted by beachgirl

excellent tutorial, gary, thanks
i like the idea of a hand massage ball just to keep my senses engaged in those moments when i feel the lucidity slipping
your other suggestions could come in handy when want to increase the vividness too.

Thank You. I hope this helps people and i would love to see people implement it and report back

Best Technique for me is to look at your hands every few sec no matter what you do during every action.

Good tutorial. The only thing I'd add is Don't get pulled into the dream plot. Stay detached.

Awesome! I'll definitely keep these things in mind.

Some would question if this is even possible. I say it is, because what we think of as time is actually two seperate things. There's time as in the spacing between events, the kind measured in seconds and minutes, which is constant. and then there's the subjective experience of time, which can and quite often does vary, when something seems to take more or less time. This is the one you're varying, so even though it is only, for example, 30 minutes, it seems like 2 hours, which is the only relevant part because it's the subjective experiece that counts in dreams...like, I suppose, in waking life.

Originally Posted by The Cusp

Good tutorial. The only thing I'd add is Don't get pulled into the dream plot. Stay detached.

I have had good lucids following the plot, you just need to keep the thought that this is a dream lingering in your head and use your dream senses, and like he said, don't focus on your dream body, I don't mean to be disrespectful to you, I am just saying that you can follow the plot if you try to stay lucid.

An edit to that would be that you can loosely follow the plot, but I only do it if I have a good idea what the end of the plot would be, then when I do it, is when I need to always keep occupied, and use proper techniques to hang onto the dream.

I still don't mean to be disrespectful, you, overally would know several times more about control than I do, and I'm only 14 so who am I to instruct you?

On topic, this is a really well organised and detailed tutorial on this, If I had a vote, I'd put it in the tutorial section.

Oh and the massage ball idea is genius, I'll make sure to use it and tell you how it works.