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

i will try this. thanks gary. and my favvorite that makes things vivid is to make some food appear and eat it. so good.=D

It helps if your "dream self" chews gum during the lucid dream. You're senses of taste and touch are kept engaged and act as effective anchors.

Thanks for the guide.

Its not meant to be "time dilation" as most people think of the word, however, since most lucids for a lot of people are very short, this increases them substantially. And yes, it really is about stabilization but thats where it all starts, even time dilation methods.

Originally Posted by GavinGill

It helps if your "dream self" chews gum during the lucid dream. You're senses of taste and touch are kept engaged and act as effective anchors.

Thanks for the guide.

I wonder if smoking would work too? Probably. I've always used physical movement like walking for an anchor.

I'll try but I am a bit confused.
I will try most of it tonight, since I have nothing better to do.

Nice guide, but in the dream do you have to do something "realistic" like in WL in order to make it feel hours or can you follow this guide and also fly and do crazy "unrealistic" things? Ya get me?

You can do "unrealistic" things as long as you take care to enjoy but not to get overly excited. Excitement and the physical changes of the body that come with it are known to quickly end the best LDs lol

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

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

this is a great efort cheers. i agree fully about taking of anything like watches. i really seem to still have a strong link to my body, even in pretty strong lucids. i put a sleep mask on this morning, went into a lucid, but my link to my body was so strong still that my vision was obscured in the dream! so odd. next i need to learn how to turn a lucid into a more out of body experience so i can reduce the link because i really feel like it holds me back at times, probably for my own good though

ill add this because it may help someone, but i had a very long and stable lucid the other night, by floating around with legs tucked up in a sort of lotus position. served as a constant reminder of where i was and because i was just floating rather than tearing up to the sky, it stayed very stable. ive tried the ball thing and smoking too and can vouch for those as great methods aswell. holding an umbrella thing worked for me once too, because i never use one in reality

Just wanted to say, these simple techniques are awesome!

Indeed!

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?