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      Version 1: Listening to a Noisy World.
      Level 1) Sit in a some what quiet setting, but not a place free of sound. At first just get comfortable and quickly with no special effort determine if any sounds are already being consciously perceived. Sit and just notice which noises you where aware of before paying attention. Now, with your eyes closed, casually explore each noise starting with the most obvious ones. You may first have been aware of the sounds of children playing, and traffic from a near by street. Listen to any of the obvious ones for a moment. Try to visualize in a casual and light manner, what each sound is. Now, your only goal in level 1 is to move around your environment not physically, but with your sense of hearing. You should acknowledge the sounds that were already obvious, then move your awareness of sound around. Try to pick up on the sounds you had not been fully aware of. They will be sounds that are not extremely quiet, and will be easy enough to find. You are simply trying to become aware of the fact that while the sounds were there the whole time, you did not consciously perceive them until you focused.
      In an average attempt at this meditation I can often identify about 8 sounds my brain was choosing to ignore. Make a list in your head that tells you which noises you had clearly been aware of and any new sounds that you begin to perceive while meditating. You will find that at most times the world is full of sound we are choosing not to hear.
      Level 2) Repeat the level 1 meditation, but this time you will attempt to maintain aware focus on as many sounds as you can. Take the most obvious noises and pay attention to them. Think to yourself about what you are hearing, then while continuing to listen add the next most obvious noise. You may experience something strange here. This level is actually much harder! At about the time you are aware and focusing on 4 or 5 noises, and when you are scanning for more noises, your brain will attempt to ignore the first most obvious noises. Do not get frustrated; just watch the process with interest. Do not stress or become intense. This level may be practiced for years. You are learning to force your brain to acknowledge multiple sensory inputs. Try to get to where you can stay relaxed and keep a full awareness of 8 sounds at one time.
      Level 3) To complete this version get to a point where you can perform daily actions while maintaining the same level of awareness as level 2. Here is an easy example. While a person is walking, they will almost always blank out the sound of their own feet hitting the ground. In level 3 do something like go for a walk. While your eyes are open and your feet are moving start to go through the process involved in #2 above. You will be surprised on how foreign trying to hear your own foot steps is if you do not allow your focus to be taken off other things. It is not enough to be able to walk and hear your foot falls. You need to be able to walk casually, hear all the standard noises, and maintain awareness of the sounds of your own feet. If you get good at that add in one more item. Listen to all the normal noises, while being aware of the sound of your feet and the sound of the air moving past your ears, or some other subtle noise your body would normally ignore.
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      Version 2: Feel an Intense World. I should be able to go over this one quickly as the concepts are the same as above. However this version will deal with the sense of touch.
      Level 1) Sit in a quiet setting as above. Now notice the physical sensations that come to you as obvious and that you already were aware of before starting. The normal touch related sensations we are aware of are itching, pain, hunger, cold and those impulses that warn us that we should change our environment. List in your mind all of the most obvious sensations, such as back pain, dry mouth, itchy nose. Now close your eyes, and start noticing the subtle sensations you had not been fully aware of. Notice obvious things at first, like the pressure of your bottom sitting on a surface, then move to subtle things such as being aware that your left sock has slipped down, or that one shoe is tighter than the other. List in your head at least 12 things you were feeling and had not been fully aware of.
      Level 2) Repeat level 1, but try to maintain full awareness of as many of these touch related sensations as you can at one time.
      Level 3) Repeat level 2, but this time with your eyes open and other distractions to make it more challenging.
      Level 4) Lay in bed before sleep and start this meditation. If you fall asleep before you are done that is fine. Start by trying to feel your left foot, then your right foot, and in order, your knees, you hips, your shoulders, elbows hands. Do not move them about in order to feel them. You should be able to feel the bedding or gravity or dry skin at each place. You never really focus on being aware of what each small part of the body is feeling.
      Level 5) Repeat level 4 however, you should now work on being able to move through every portion of your body, and perceive the sensations from every small joint and part all the way down to you little toes. Work your way through your entire body starting with the toes. Get to where you can become fully aware of any physical sensory impulse from even the most minor contact with part of your body.
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      Version 3: Mixing it up.
      Level 1) Place a hard candy in your mouth. It should have a strong taste like peppermint or lemon drops. Your goal in this meditation is to maintain awareness of the candy and its flavor. Sit comfortably and close your eyes. You may now day dream or listen, but maintain focus on the flavor of the candy being in your mouth. You are allowed to play with the candy or worry it using your tongue. What you are not allowed to do, is space off paying attention to the candy being in your mouth. Do this long enough to realize why this is difficult. After your taste buds are covered with the flavor for long enough, your brain will try to erase the taste. It always happens during normal life. You basically lose track of the fact that your mouth is covered with a strong flavor.
      Level 2) Repeat level 1, but this time you should take the finger nail of your right thumb and gently rub it across the tip of your right middle finger. You will now attempt to maintain full awareness of both sensations. Your body will attempt to erase the subtle feeling caused by your thumb. Stay fully aware of both sensations.
      Level 3) Repeat level 2, but this time you will have to be walking while attempting this. Keep fully aware of the candy in your mouth, and the sensation caused by your thumb nail. Here is the big challenge! Do not bite the candy! At levels 1 and 2 you can chew the candy, but to finish level 3 you must maintain full awareness of the candy, the feeling from the thumb nail, while walking, and you must be so aware, that you do not accidentally allow yourself to bite down on the candy. You have succeeded when you can stay aware of both things, while walking, until the candy has completely dissolved.

      The above material is going to provide students with plenty to focus on. I will be releasing new lessons fairly often, but I want everyone to spend time practicing. Start your notebooks now, and feel free to post questions in them.
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      Diffuse Vision: This skill is a little out of place at this point, as most of Lesson 2 is going to be about developing awareness of the mind. This is not just a physical talent, but requires learning a new mental state, so it could kind of fit here. However, I have already taught some of this in a few student workbooks, so I am posting it now.

      I googled searched this skill to find out how other teachers explained it. The thing is, I could not find any refrences to "Diffuse Vision" except for one. Hmmm, I guess this stuff may be a little more secret than I realized. However, in todays world why shouldn't it be taught to anyone who wants to learn? The one reference to it was that "Diffuse Vision" was a skill used by Zen Warrior Horsemen. It did not tell you how to do it, but just described what they could do with it. So,,, I will attempt to teach you all. I hope I am up to it. Here it goes...

      Level 1: Simply do not look at any object ahead of you. This can be done while sitting or walking, but does not work well laying on a bed. Relax your eyes and have the eyes pointed ahead of you. You want to bring your awareness to the edge of your field of vision on either side. A very good way to practice this is when you are a passenger on a vehical. Here is what you are after. You should try to be aware of what is in the edge of both sides of your visual field. You will likely try to look at something directly in front of you, or your eyes will attempt to move towards one side and focus on something over there. Your goal is to hold two objects or moving scenes in your awareness without allowing your eyes to move towards the side. You also want the eyes to be in a relaxed state and not shift to an object in front of you.

      Level 2: Place an object like a coin, pen, crystal, about half an arms length (you can hold it) directly in front of your eyes. You are now supposed to look directly at the object for a moment in normal vision. Then relax the eyes. You must learn how to over ride the fine muscles that cause the eyes to focus, as well as the gross muscles that control binocular vision. Diffuse vision does not use binocular focussing. Look at the object, but do not allow your eyes to come into focus on any object. You should look like the vacant faced stoner or an android. The entire portion of your face involved with eyes should relax. You want to be fully aware of the object, but fight the impulse to let your eyes focus on anything using binocular focus. You should attempt to stay unfocused for over 2 minutes. At that point you may start to experience visual distortions. These distortions are used in other mystical skills like aura vision and crystal ball/ reflexion gazing. For now, just notice them. It is not part of this lesson to see the distortions, so do not worry if you do not. Try using diffuse vision on a tile floor that has dark grout lines and you should see distortions and weird stuff within the two minutes.

      Level 3: Simply combine the first two lessons. With out employing binocular focus, be aware of the object right in front of you, and an object on either side. Try to understand what mental impulse is trying to make this hard to do. Something in your mental state will fight you and try to force your eyes into focusing on an object or spot. I can not "teach" this part of it. You need to identify what in your mental state keeps forcing you to "look at something" rather than "just seeing something." You may spend years working this out. In the end learn to supress that part of your mind. Learn to not have to comply with the demand, that you do things the way you have always done them before. Mental discipline is the needed thing; develop it.

      Level 4: The true goal! Use the type of vision you developed in lesson three and attempt to watch a colorful or action packed movie. I would suggest that your eyes rest off to one side of yhe TV by a few inches. Your goal is to sit and see the show, enjoy the show, and understand what you are seeing, for 10 minutes, without succumbing to the impulse to look at the screen (or anything) using binocular focus.

      I will be suprised if most people do not find this to be very challenging. I am not pretending these skill I am teaching can be learned in a few weeks. Develop all these skill over the years. For now, post in your workbooks anything you feel is worth commenting on, any cool experiences, or if you think you understand why I want you to learn this.
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      Wandering Mind Recall:

      This mental state awareness skill is pretty straight forward. It only has one step. Simply sit comfortablly or it can be done during a walk or bike ride. You are going to attempt to keep one thought in your mind. The thought should be something worth repeating. I use the thought "Thank You" or any short positive phrase like "I am going to have a great LD tonight" would work. It could be anything.
      Now for a period that should increase as you practice, say 2 to 10 minutes, you want to stay aware of you thinking this thought. With the normal mind the way it is, you will probably also think about many other things. If you notice a thought that is not the phrase, do not be upset, just go on and refocus on the thought.
      Now, when you are done with the time you planned on doing the exercise, try to write down what the thoughts were that distracted you. Do not attempt to remember them while doing the exercise! You would then NOT be focusing one the phrase you chose. Try to recall as many distracting thoughts as you can, only after you reach the time you planned on.
      That is it! Very straight forward. Try to go longer times and see if you can figure out how to reduce the amount of distracting thoughts.
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      Be Here Now:

      Follow the same format as "Wandering Mind Recall" but the allowed thought is now going to change. You no longer get the benifit of one clearly defined thought to keep distracting thoughts at bay. This time do not repeat any phrase or mantra. You are allowed to think any thought, as long as it has only an attachment to what is going on this very moment. If you find that a thought is not about the current moment, do not get frustrated, just pick something from "the here and now" to think about.

      Here is an example of correct thoughts. "My butt is falling asleep,, I should shift my weight or stand up,, there that is better,, now, can I hear anything?,, oh say, that sound is a woodpecker,,"

      ok, now an example of the thoughts going wrong. "yes it is a woodpecker,, doesn't really sound like old Woody the cartoon,, how did his laugh go?"

      Ok, so the train of "Be Here Now" thoughts above got derailed by Woody. Now the thoughts should hold no blame or frustration, like so. "Woody is not here and now,, let's see,, a catapillar is crawling across the deck,, I wonder if it is fuzzy,, let's look closer"

      It is only when the time choosen is up, that you would attempt to recall the non-now thoughts that snuck in. During the whole exercise practice as much awareness of your surroundings as you can. You are supposed to be discovering how your mind works, and really experiencing the moment, not the past or future.
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      Mantra Awareness:
      The idea here is that certain sounds have the ability to create effects in us. An easy way to put this is that we get specific feelings from specific sounds. In this exercise you are not going to learn much about mantras. Instead I just need you to identify the way some sounds make you react. As humans we have identified this and used it in our technology. Think about the "busy signal," it is designed to make you hate the noise, the ringing noise is designed to attract attention but not negative feelings, and on games we know what sounds mean "good job."
      Sit and relax, then become aware of your general state of feeling. Now vocalize an "A" sound. There are at least 3 ways the "A" sound can be modulated to cause emotional response. Think of a mom who finds her child cute and she goes "Awe," that sound is clearly expressive of an emotion. Now, think the child who is told he can not have something, and in disappointment he goes "awe." Finally, think about someone in the throughs of extacy who calls out "Awe!" Those three versions of the basic sound are drastically different, just by vibrating in slightly different manners. Play with the A sound and try to intone it in a way that resonates. Then explore other basic sounds in various manners. Try to identify any sounds that cause a response in you.
      You should also start trying to notice what it is about various sounds and music that cause reactions in you. Try to learn how to make basic vowel sounds resonate and feel powerful.
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      Mudra Awareness:

      This exercise is a lot like the Mantra Awareness. A Mudra is a hand gesture. The position of your hands effects the flow of energy through your body. It can also effect the way you feel. Common Mudras are the Christian prayer hands, and the waving hand.
      Sit in a relaxed state and become aware of how you feel in general. You should now take your dominate hand and make a tight fist, then relax it and unfold the pointing finger, and point. Then open your palm and turn it so the palm is up. Now go back to tightening your fist. All three of these gestures should cause a subtle shift in how you feel.
      As soon as you can detect a difference in how you feel when making those gestures, I want you to explore other hand gestures on your own. Feel free to try either hand or both. Interlock your fingers or anything that seems like a standard way to position your hands. Strive to detect your very subtle reactions to the hand positions, and report in your work book if you make any interesting observations.
      If you get into a relaxed state like meditation, you will have an easier time finding the subtle difference in feeling I am trying to show you.
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      Hi everyone, Many of you have read this material before. If so, then you have a head start. Some of you are probably suprised I called the basic skills basic! I know this stuff can take months or more to get good at. Here is your first mega-challenge! Visualization training. Do not become frustrated if you seem to stall at even the very first steps involved. The intermediate skills take months of work. I hope everyone, whether posting in work books or just studying on the side, will be able to accept that this is an art and will take a long time to develop. It is an amazing skill, that really makes you start to question.
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      There are many ways to go about this and I encourage you to come up with a few that suite you through experimentation. I will share my two favorites with you so you can get started.
      This will make WILDing and DILDing much, much easier, I am actually suprised it does not get talked about on this forum too much. What it will do is give you an active way to develop the part of your brain that controls dreams. An activity you can do while awake to furthur your goal other than endless reality checks.
      Here is the idea. Take sight for instance. In waking life, light energy in various wave lengths hit the rods and cones in your eye. That causes neurons to fire and the message goes to the brain creating your visual perception. In a dream there is no light energy. Something must stimulate the neurons, but what? You are going to learn how to stimulate the visual perception with out light energy. The untrained mind has only the limited random ability to do this, like in a random dream. You can hone in on the something that fires the neurons and develop it like a muscle, through repeated use. Every sense can be harnessed the same way. The sense of touch in waking life is from a object or heat/cold exciting a receptor that then sends a nerve inpulse. In a dream no object is needed. What then is the source of the nerve impulse? Again you can learn to hone in on that something, and develop it. The end result is that the parts of the brain used in dreaming become highly developed.
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      1) Visual. Lay in bed in the dark while fully awake and aware. Close your eyes. It is not really black is it? If you only see black, be patient, most people will start to see tiny specks of color or even blurs and dots of color. Perfectly normal at this point. I have only met one person who could not see some tiny flecks moving around. Step one: Just watch them for a couple nights. Become more aware that the colors are there. Step two: Try to cause one color to be more prevelant. Some colors will be more natural for you. If the most common random color is blue, start with blue, and so on. While watching the normal flecks, start thinking about things of that color. For blue maybe day dream about looking into the ocean. For red maybe day dream about looking into a glass of red wine. Watch the visual field as you do this. You should notice that the amount of that color will increase, maybe even appearing as whole sections of the visual field having that color of light shone on them. This may take awhile, or be very easy. Step three: Get to where you can increase the amount of two more colors, and try switching back and forth between them. Now more red, switch to visualizing blue and so on. Step four: Try to cover the entire visual field with mostly one color. Step five: Now picture common geometric shapes. For instance, two crossing lines, or a circle. At first any color randomly, then when you get that, the color you choose. Step six: Get to where you can create a shape of a chosen color on a back ground of a chosen color. After that make up more steps on your own.
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      2) Tactile (touch) Lay in bed fully awake. Step one: Try to feel your fingers without touching them. You are recieving impulses from every part of your body, but filter out most of it. Get to where you can preceive each of the fingers of you right hand with out moving them. Step two: Slowly open and close your right hand. Really pay attention to how it feels. Try to experience it in fine detail. Now stop actually doing the movement. Try to remember how it felt. Go back and forth between doing the movement and trying to recreate the feeling of doing it. Step three: after you can actually clearly picture how the motion should feel, try visualizing each finger moving one at a time. Go back and forth between really moving it and trying to recreate the feeling of moving it. Step four: Now do the same thing, but move your whole arm and hand. A simple waving motion or something like that. Go back and forth between actually making the motion, and trying to recreate the feeling. After you get that far, make up other similar moves on your own.
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      Intermediate Skills Lesson 2: Creating a Feeling of Motion
      Step 1: Get good at being aware of each part of your body as learned in basic skills. When you can feel the subtle way each part of your body is receiving impulses, such as the effect of gravity, the fine hairs on your arms reacting to the air, or the feel of your clothing touching each part of your body, you have completed step 1.
      Step 2: Sit or lay in meditation. Focus your attention high on your forehead. After you can feel the skin on your forehead at about the hair line, shift your attention to your left ear. After you can feel your left ear, shift your attention to the place where your spine touches your skull. Next shift your attention to the point where your neck and right shoulder touch. Finally shift your attention to the top portion of your breast bone. Stay at this step until it is very easy for you to focus on and actually feel these five points.
      Step 3: At this stage repeat the process, but this time you should feel as if your attention is like a cursor you can drag fluidly using a mouse and your body is the screen. Do not literally picture a computer or cursor, but that is how I am going to describe the idea. You should drag your attention across the surface of your skin as it moves from each point of focus. You should do this slowly and be sure you can move your attention through the entire circuit fluidly.
      Step 4: Repeat the cycle in a loop, but do not connect the last point with the first. Fluidly move from forehead, to left ear, to base of skull, to the place the shoulder meets neck, to upper breast bone. Then jump your attention back to your forehead and repeat. While sitting gently sway your body in the direction of the point of focus. You should time the sense of touch in an area to you leaning veery slightly in that direction. You should add a couple more points at this point. Pick a spot that is lower than the last and in the correct direction of the circuit. Left armpit, middle of back right side where the ribs end, belly button will work. Extend the circuit to include these points. When you reach the belly button, jump your attention back up to your forehead. You should be swaying in time with the rotation of your focus. Viewed from above your head and shoulders should be going around in a continuous circle.
      Step 5: This is the final step in the intermediate skill level of this. After you have got good at timing the swaying of your upper body with the progressively moving point of attention, you should stop actually moving your body and using the visualization skill learned in the last lesson, attempt to recreate the feeling of swaying in a circular pattern. Now you simply drag the point of attention to each point as rapidly as you feel comfortable with and visualize the sensation of swaying.

      This may not seem too exciting at first and it may not be easy to complete step 5, but this skill will be essential to some advanced skills. You should end up being able to honestly feel as if you are still swaying like you did in step 4 without moving at all. Just to hint at how this skill will be used, I will tell you that one advanced skill will involve creating a storm and another with transformation.
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      Intermediate Skills Lesson 3: Energy Flow Simulation


      In this lesson please regard this as simulating an experience through mental visualization and tactile manipulation. This is in fact a lesson that could be considered super-natural training if looked at incorrectly. For the purpose of this class, all training in questionable material will be conducted in the Select Topics.

      I will teach you to be able to create the experience of energy flowing through your body. In the context of this lesson we will view this as tactile manipulation and visualization. If your religious views do not allow mystical pursuits do not worry at all. While this could be used in a mystical system to teach students the first stage of energy work, that is not what we are doing here. Feel at ease in that this lesson is simply teaching a visualization trick that will be needed in many advanced skills. You must learn this skill very well so you will be able to do the following advanced dream skills: healing magic, fire balls, TK, lightning and I may even teach a few others.

      Those interest in actual energy training will want to master this so we can go into energy training in a select lesson, that nobody needs to read if their religion would frown on it.



      Step 1) You should already be good at the basic skill where you feel each part of your body. Start by feeling the base of your skull with your attention. You will now repeat the process described in intermediate lesson 2 that involves dragging the point of attention from one point to another. Move your attention to your right shoulder feeling the point of attention as you focus briefly on every point between the base of your skull and that shoulder. Now drag the point of attention down the deltoid, the biceps, the elbow, the upper forearm, lower forearm, and finally the palm of your hand. Get to where you can actually focus in on and feel each point along the way easily.



      Step 2) Move your attention from point to point as smoothly and quickly as you can. You are attempting to create the sensation of something moving from the base of your neck to the palm of your hand by mental trickery. You should be able to actually feel each spot using basic skill learned before. Then by rapidly shifting attention in a sequence it should trick your mind into feeling as if something moved along that path of points.



      Step 3) To be done each day in the shower. Stand facing away from the shower head and allow mildly warm water to spray into the base of your skull. Shift just as needed to cause some of the water to run down your right arm. Keep your arm out a few inches from the side of your body and slightly bent at the elbow. Your elbow should be turned slightly outward and your hand open and relaxed. Now while the water flows down your arm and drips off your fingertips repeat step 2. You should be able to use the sensation of the water mixed with step 2 to reinforce the feeling that you are moving energy down your arm. You need to do this often enough to be able to almost recreate the same feeling without the aid of the shower water.



      Step 4) Go outside or in front of a window were heat from the sun can shine directly on to your body. Stand with the sun’s warmth shining on the back of your head and neck. By this point you should be able to recreate a feeling almost like what the shower causes. Enjoy the warmth of the sun for a minute, then begin the process of shifting attention from one spot to another down your arm. Try to convince yourself that you are actually feeling the warmth of the sun on each point you focus on. The end result should be the ability to feel as if the sun is doing the same thing the shower head did. You should be able to almost feel sunlight warmth flow down your arm and drip from your fingers.



      Step 5) Using the memory of how step 4 feels, practice recreating the feeling, without being in the sun. You move your attention swiftly down your arm and feel as if a warmth from sun light has moved from your neck into the palm of your hand.
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      This is perhaps one of the most advanced of yogic activities. In my own opinion it is far harder than anything I have presented so far. It is often the stated goal of many schools of meditation. The truth is that even after decades of practice I have a long way to go to suppress all thought for more than a minute or so.



      The good news is that you do not need to master this skill to use it in lucid dreaming!


      If you get good at the basic concepts involved it will greatly improve your control over the random elements of your LD.
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      The way it works requires understanding why random crazy things take place in your dreams.

      In a normal (not shared/astral) dream, every element comes from thoughts you have had. You do not have acute enough awareness to detect the thoughts without training, in most cases.

      The thoughts can be subtle doubts you have in your ability, wandering thoughts about movies you have seen, or random crazy nonsense.

      When you are dreaming any random thought can derail the course you wish to set, manifesting into any number of stumbling blocks. Any doubt you allow to be expressed as thought can prevent you from using super powers.

      The purpose in this lesson is first to develop the ability to detect a forming thought before it can take place as internal monologue. Then to give you tools you can use to suppress emerging thoughts. After getting some skill at this while awake, you will then be able to use the skill in an LD to prevent DCs from appearing or interacting with you, and prevent random plot twists and events.

      You will likely sometimes choose to allow the dream to be random for self-reflection or entertainment value. However, if you are attempting to practice a skill or complete a task, it is important to prevent the random elements from derailing the flow of the dream.
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      The actual lesson is pretty short; the path to achieving the goal is a many year journey, but you are all planning on lucid dreaming the rest of your life, aren’t you. If you get good at suppressing emerging thoughts, then you will be able to increase your control by many degrees.

      Here is a portion of one of my recent lucids where I was able to use this ability twice, and as you will see, a great deal of my control stems from using this skill.


      Quote Originally Posted by sivason View Post
      I decided to play with a female DC. I was not feeling sexual, but to accomplish a quick and pleasant dream control task, this seemed like a reasonable task. I flew up alongside a sky scraper and knew there would be people inside. I saw into an office and focused on a DC that was a woman at a desk. Not especially pretty, but that is easy to change. I phased through the side of the building into a hall/stairwell and then walked into the office. The DCs had little animation and were almost just my puppets, but that was ok (I was preventing them from interacting with this skill). I went to the woman and gently placed my hands on her sides and encouraged her to stand. She responded to light pressure from my hands and walked with me back out into the hall. My brain tried to spice things up by placing two male coworkers there who would have tried to stop me. I saw the formation of the idea, and used mental control to prevent the thought from developing. The DCs just froze into scenery. I took the woman out onto a balcony and tried to take her flying. I floated out between the buildings with her, but my mind tried to tell me levitation is harder if you carry someone. We started to float downward. I suppressed that thought and up we went again, but I decided just to land on the next building.
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      Step 1: Become familiar with how quickly thoughts form. Sit and watch the hands of a clock. You will do this only 15 seconds at a time. Try to avoid any thoughts by saying the number corresponding to the second hand in your head. It is unlikely that while awake you will make it to 15 without a thought forming. Work on this until you can get from 1 to 15 with only a single interrupting thought. You must stop thinking about whatever the thought is, as quickly as possible by focusing on the next number. You will notice that despite using your inner monologue to count, you still can form thoughts. In this part of the lesson I simply want you to experience how quickly you get interrupted by a random thought and increase the speed with which you can suppress that thought by focusing on the clock and the next number. You can move on as soon as you can only have 1 random thought in the 15 seconds and refocus on the clock before the 15 seconds expires.

      You may still attempt the next steps before you achieve that goal, but also keep working on this until the goal is met. You may need to almost yell the next number inside your head at first to over-ride the random thought. If you can stay focused on the counting and avoid thinking at all for the whole 15 seconds, then give yourself a hand. Even 15 seconds without thinking, while using the crutch of counting, is a great accomplishment.
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      Step 2: Spend a couple minutes doing the “Be here now” meditation. It is described in an earlier lesson. Simply interrupt any random thought that does not apply to things you are experiencing with your sensory awareness, by using your internal voice to narrate what you are seeing or experiencing. If you start to think about your job, then force your mind into describing or commenting on something taking place at the moment.


      It will go kind of like this (I will underline the thoughts that are to be avoided),,, “I really need to get new shoes”…. Interrupt with “These shoes are worn out. The laces are almost broken. I probably should get some boots.” Interrupt this with, ”I see little fibers sticking out where the laces are frayed.:”
      In this step you are spending time seeing how quickly you can identify a thought that is random. You should work on being able to distinguish the first hint of an off topic thought, and then interrupt the formation of the thought. In the case of the thought "I probably should get some boots" some process will have led to that thought. It may have been a flash of memory about stepping in mud, or an image forming in the mind's eye of a boot. The image of the boot is one step before the formation of the thought, but the recognition of a flash of memory would have been even before the image. Note that this is taking place in fractions of a second.

      Here is a very important thing to clarify. You must get to the point when you recognize that a thought is forming while it is still subtle imagery somewhere in your mind’s eye, before it becomes internal speech. You can do this with practice. All thoughts have a moment when they are emerging, yet have not reached the stage of being fully expressed as language internally.
      Step 2 should be practiced as long as it takes (months even) for you to start recognizing the very earliest part of your brains workings that lead to a formed thought.
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      Do steps 3-5 in a meditation state or while falling asleep, until you have developed confidence, then try them while external stimuli is happening (such as riding the bus.)

      Step 3: Repeat a simple mantra that has a basic meaning to you inside your head. I often use the phrase “Thank You” or “I am dreaming.” Attempt to stay focused on the mantra. If a thought forms, see how quickly you can interrupt it by refocusing on the mantra.

      Step 4: Take away the advantage of suppressing a thought with a concept. Sit and try not to think at all. When a thought arises, attempt to interrupt it with a non-sense sound in your internal voice. Use a sound that is completely meaningless to you. Examples are the sound of your tongue clicking, the sound of a single letter such a ‘s’ or ‘p.’ Any sound can work as long as it has virtually no meaning to you.

      Remember that in the end you cannot stop thinking, by thinking about it!

      Step 5: Remove the advantage of using your internal voice to interrupt the emerging thoughts. Do this by learning any of the intermediate lessons and using a simulated sensory experience instead of your internal voice. If you can get to a point where you can simulate motion or the flow of energy, it can be used to suppress the forming thoughts. I can create a sense of pressure gently pushing from the inside of my head out. When a thought attempts to form I can use the sensory experience of gently applying pressure to the portion of the brain that seems to contain the bud of the thought. Another method would be using the simulation of energy flow. You can pulse energy out your palm to cause enough sensory experience to interrupt the formation of the thought.


      Step 5 is very advanced and may take decades to perfect. I do believe some yogi or monks may be able to reach a step beyond suppression of thought. Perhaps they can reach a point where they just shut down the process that forms thought. However, I have never met anyone who claims to be at that level, and considering it has taken me 30 years to get kind of good at level 5, it is likely beyond attainment for most people.
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      Meditation is a term for a broad range of practices that develop mental skills and personal awareness. Here are three examples of types of meditations and how they can help you on your lucid dreaming path.
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      Sensory Awareness Meditations: They are any mental practices were you try to stop the mind form thinking about things that are not taking place in the present moment, and instead truly feel and experience in various senses. By closing your eyes and paying close attention, you come to realize that your brain has been ignoring most of the world around you. The benefit to LDing is that you become keenly aware of how being awake truly feels, and you will then notice when any subtle thing is not right in a dream, thus increasing the effect of a reality check. Also, when in an LD you will have increased the amount of detail your brain can process, which leads to more vivid and life like dreams.


      Related lesson: http://www.dreamviews.com/f157/dream...on-1-a-131666/
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      Visualization Meditations: This type of mental exercise involves developing the portion of your brain that is used in reproducing a real life sense in a dream or in meditation. The most straight forward type is called a guided meditation. In these a narrator describes a basic scene and helps you relax and imagine the scene. This is very effective at training the imagination and can lead to truly seeing the scenes described. More advanced visualization meditations involve learning to actively harness the ability to recreate sensory stimuli by intent. Visualization meditations are very useful in LDing as a means of mastering dream control and changing the scene into one of your creation. They are also very useful in WILD attempts, as visualizing can take the place of thinking, to keep your mind aware, but not over stimulate your waking mind.


      Related lessons: http://www.dreamviews.com/f157/dream...aining-133302/, http://www.dreamviews.com/f157/inter...motion-135326/, http://www.dreamviews.com/f157/inter...lation-135329/
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      Mental Discipline Meditations: In this type of meditation you learn to keep the mind from wandering. The type of discipline worked on can vary from trying to only think about a single subject or word, to trying to avoid thinking at all. The benefit to LDing is the ability to eliminate the random aspects of your dream, such as annoying DCs and events you did not consciously choose to create. It is also very important in WILD attempts, as you will be able to stay aware, but avoid thinking about the stresses of your daily life.

      Related lessons: http://www.dreamviews.com/f157/advan...oughts-139475/, http://www.dreamviews.com/f157/dream...on-2-a-132235/
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      Just the Lessons- No Comments- Class Summery

      This is going to be a very short lesson. The idea is simple, but the practice is going to be more than some of you will be willing to endure. It is the kind of thing most Yogi will master in the first few years.

      Here is the idea. One of the ways people loose lucidity is a reaction, often refered to as getting too excited. Your brain catches on to the fact that you are in a dream and the body responds with adernaline. It amps up the body and you are suddenly awake. Also, if you make it past that, and get lucid, you can still have an adernaline reaction to things in the dream. This causes the dream to be confusing and adds things like a rush of fear or worry, that can spoil the mood.

      How to prevent it? That is what this lesson is for. The need is to learn to control your adernal response and overcome the 'normal' way of reacting to stress. Any of you who are fighters (boxing, mma, and such) or who have had basic training in an army setting, will have learned this by now. For those who still need to develop the ability to suppress adernaline and change our response to sudden suprise I will just suggest a couple ideas. use them, or make up other ways of reaching the same goal.

      Try this one if you want the fast track to the skill. Learn to not react at all to sudden cold water. You do not want to be the one who inches into the pool. You want to be able to keep talking in a calm voice and show no discomfort walking swiftly into the pool. Here are the steps I took to get there:
      1: In the shower slowly adjust the water to cold. Build up over a few days. Just go until your body flinchs or your brain reaccts with a sudden powerful impulse to pull away or stop.
      2: Speed up how fast you can adjust the temp to cold with out such reaction.
      3: Run the warm water over the crown of your head, when you feel ready. Suddenly shut off all of the hot water at one time. Try to breath normal. Go ahead and make silly whooping noises, or any reaction that helps, such as stamping your feet. You need only endure this for a few seconds.
      4: Repeat 3, but try not to react. Do not move on to 5 until you can turn the water to pure cold all at one time, stay calm with out flinching long enough for the cold water to rinse any warmth off you head and neck.
      5: Develop the skill so that you can then calmly allow the stream to hit your back and slowly down your spine to the bottom.

      Do not worry about subjecting yourself to even a few minutes of cold! The point here is not to develop endurance or any toughness. The goal is a retraining of how you respond. This must be repeated for about a month, at least 3 times a week. By that point your brain should be adapting.

      I will just give one more example. I think the idea is more important than how you do it.

      In the second example, I have used sudden loud or unpleasent sounds as training. Does the sound of nails on a chalk board create a bodily reaction from you? Train yourself to get over it. Can you turn your back and have a friend do something very sudden and loud with out you flinching? Learn to stay calm when guns are fired or fireworks go off behind you suddenly. this is not something i can really teach from far away, but I hope you get the idea.


      The whole idea is to train yourself to not flinch or over react to sudden intense stimuli. Train your body not to produce large rushes of adernaline when suprised or shocked and you will no longer loose lucids to excitement or shock. You will also not have the feeling and mood of your dream redirected due to your body producing chemicals as a response to exciting events.
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