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

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?

Now this is something I am going to try in my next LD. It's worth bumping up too, because it makes great sense, and seems to have helped quite a few people.

Originally Posted by FreddyKrueger

Now this is something I am going to try in my next LD. It's worth bumping up too, because it makes great sense, and seems to have helped quite a few people.

Holy shit, I just got an email from a subscribed thread, 3 years old... Wow, almost forgot about this site, thanks for bringing me back.

Well I did this. All it did was make me lose the dream. I was having a normal happy ld then i thought oh let me try to activate all my senses.It was fun at first but, then i thought about how you said not to think about my body...well it just made me think about my body and i started to wake up. I have never thought about my sleeping body before in a ld till then. I hope this does not persist. Please remove that part about not thinking about our bodies i think it creates a problem that in most cases never existed to begin with.

Edit: did not realize this thread was three years "ouch" sorry.

I'm glad this thread was brought back to the surface, it has been very helpful!

Originally Posted by terezrucker

Well I did this. All it did was make me lose the dream. I was having a normal happy ld then i thought oh let me try to activate all my senses.It was fun at first but, then i thought about how you said not to think about my body...well it just made me think about my body and i started to wake up. I have never thought about my sleeping body before in a ld till then. I hope this does not persist. Please remove that part about not thinking about our bodies i think it creates a problem that in most cases never existed to begin with.

Edit: did not realize this thread was three years "ouch" sorry.

It's a good criticism; the brain has problems dealing with negative affirmations. If you tell someone not to think about their body... Guess what? They're absolutely going to think about their body. = P

So don't feel bad contributing to a resurrected thread with valid, thoughtful input. You done good. = )

Can we sticky this... I'd hate to see this get buried

powrslave. It is in the wiki, so similar to stickied. If you refer it to people and send the link to people it shouldn't get buried easily.

I did something similar to this last night and I had the most vivid lucid dream of my 8 years practice.

This is great information which I will try to use in my next LD. Thank you.

Wow cool stuff, gonna give it a full read later.

Personally, I think that it's amazing to think that we have 10 senses. It also makes me think that there could be infinite amounts of them if we can be in more than one dream at a time... Only limit I guess is our parallel processing skills to handle the input of sensory information. After all, the brain does have its limits...

This is a fantastic tutorial though! I've got to keep these in mind when I'm doing meditations too... because I seem to always fall asleep. :/ It should be highly based on practice and technique though... depending on the technique it should bring faster results for the practicing. Well, or at least that's my outlook upon it. The brain works off of ideas down to the most basic level of creation, but to keep them active we need to notice them... Sensory information does the job. Thanks for the guide, I'm just new to performing lucid dreams, but I have been told that by my Reiki master that I have some incredible skill in it. I do have a deep interest in understanding how the brain works and how to bring out the possibilities it can bring. Again, thanks.