Thread: DreamViews Podcast Suggestions

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

That would be kick ass. How about I round up Jason next month after the April TOTMs are posted, and we could have a minisode on them. I like doing those, and giving members ideas on how to approach and succeed at the tasks.

Awesome!! I love the idea of having these going again!

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

All your other ideas are great too. Anyway, got skype and decent headphones/mic?

Skype I've got -- just added you. My mic is crap, but I'll get that fixed. If I call myself a gamer, there's no excuse for having a lousy mic anyway.

Yay I just acceptededed you.

RareCola recommended me this one if you're interested (bought 3 so my clumsy butt has backups):
Amazon.com: Logitech USB Headset H530 with Premium Laser-Tuned Audio (981-000195): Electronics

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Yay I just acceptededed you.

RareCola recommended me this one if you're interested (bought 3 so my clumsy butt has backups):
Amazon.com: Logitech USB Headset H530 with Premium Laser-Tuned Audio (981-000195): Electronics

Ah cool, thanks for the suggestion! I LOL'd at first at the thought of you buying three mics. "Why, who would ever need three microphones?"

Then I thought of my drooling, curious toddlers that disassemble everything. And my huge, crazy dogs. And the way that I tend not to look before I sit and then wind up crushing objects underbutt with my powerful glutes.

I'd be happy to guest some time, too, if a subject came up where I'd be useful.

¯\_(°‿°)_/¯

I'm loving the podcast so far guys keep up the good work! I listen every mornin and before I go to bed it helps keep my focus on the goals!

You know what would be wonderful? Having OpheliaBlue and RareCola doing a regular monthly DV podcast as usual, and having someone else doing monthly DV TotM mini-episodes. Two episodes per month, no one has to work too much (well, doing a podcast is a lot of work anyways), and if someone cannot make it one month we still have the other one.
By the way, I would love a podcast on how do the dreamguides and more experienced users in the forum lucid dream on a regular basis (schedules, techniques, timings, etc) That would be a lot of insight for us the newbies!

I was thinking of a suggestion.
What about a podcast on staying motivated with tips and tricks and personal accounts on how experienced users up a good spirit. Include mantras, reminders, activities and succes stories. Something us lucid dreamers can listen to when you start to lose motivation.

Originally Posted by dutchraptor

I was thinking of a suggestion.
What about a podcast on staying motivated with tips and tricks and personal accounts on how experienced users up a good spirit. Include mantras, reminders, activities and succes stories. Something us lucid dreamers can listen to when you start to lose motivation.

I agree. This is something that I think should be more important to us all since we lose a lot of people. It also might make more people (of the 400+ that watch us) sign up on here.

I apologize for the fact that I haven't actually listened to one of these podcasts all the way through even though I've really been wanting to. (What is wrong with me?!) lol.

Edit: I take my suggestion back because I just found the DropBox RSS feed and imported it to my podcast viewer on my phone.
So I'm gonna change my request, maybe place a link to the RSS in an obvious place so people can find it easily? I could just be blind and you already did I've been using Podcast Addict to listen to all sorts of stuff at work and it's so much easier for me to get updates that way.

Hey, guys! It looks like no-one's posted here in a while... Have you officially stopped making normal episodes on one subject and moved on to Q&A episodes? Well... if that's the case, could you just take this post as a Q&A episode question?

Anyway, you once made a suggestion in one of your episodes to do one on some of the less popular or well-known lucid dreaming techniques and methods, such as FILD and SSILD, if the idea got enough supporters, but I don't think you ended up doing that. Could you incorporate that subject into the next episode you do, please? I think it'd be interesting and I was personally looking forward to seeing an episode about the subject after I heard that bit.

I start listening to your podcasts and let me congratulate you for it.
However, I have a little sugestion to put a song on background. Someting relaxing, without lyrics and repetitive, but not one that will make you to feel sleepy. Kevin MacLeod has some nice free songs that can be used as background, like Sovereign by exemple.

I really wanted to make like an intro and outro tune for the podcasts. I'll ask CL next time we do one.

Listening to Kevin MacLeod's stuff and omg I wants...

Originally Posted by dreambh

You know what would be wonderful? Having OpheliaBlue and RareCola doing a regular monthly DV podcast as usual, and having someone else doing monthly DV TotM mini-episodes.
Two episodes per month, no one has to work too much (well, doing a podcast is a lot of work anyways), and if someone cannot make it one month we still have the other one.
By the way, I would love a podcast on how do the dreamguides and more experienced users in the forum lucid dream on a regular basis (schedules, techniques, timings, etc) That would be a lot of insight for us the newbies!

Sounds wonderful - might RareCola really also maybe make another appearance?
Great you'll do that for sure, Canis - you podcast guys and gals are all wonderful, actually!

gimmesmiley.gif

Hey guys I'm loving the podcasts, just started going through them all and I'm really enjoying it. Just a quick suggestion though, I'm glad you talk about all of the topics you've done so far but sometimes I just want to listen to a specific topic within the video but have to skip around to find the beginning of it. If it's not too much trouble maybe you could provide some links under the video that start it at the times when the topic changes, or even just text saying the time for each topic. That would be really helpful!

Good idea! So just say like "question 1 about stabilization starts at 5:32" like that?

Yeah just anything like that would be great to make it easier for people to jump right to a specific part of it. Thanks!

Pod-task! Assign a lucid task exclusively for podcast listeners, and give a shout out to the people who achieve it by the time you record the next one. Perhaps the task could relate to whatever topic you've just covered, like practising the skills you've been talking about.

For intro/outro music, there are some great royalty-free musical stings online. Some are free, some are like $2 to download. All different genres available.

And if you want suggestions for background music, list your genre and I'll give you some names! I listen to heeeaps of instrumental music when I'm reading/writing - some solo piano, some new-age relaxing stuff, and some more upbeat energetic music.

Really wanting to hear a podcast on SILD. Also, are there any talented LDers who have taken the "beyond dreams" approach to LD? That would be an interesting topic as well--what kind of spiritual experiences have people had. It could even be a kind of discussion--a member who is agnostic so to speak, or takes a materialist approach to dreams, and a member who feels there are objective experiences occurring--shared dreams, astral travel, etc. But really want to hear about SILD and the available supplements.

Originally Posted by ThreeCat

Really wanting to hear a podcast on SILD. Also, are there any talented LDers who have taken the "beyond dreams" approach to LD? That would be an interesting topic as well--what kind of spiritual experiences have people had. It could even be a kind of discussion--a member who is agnostic so to speak, or takes a materialist approach to dreams, and a member who feels there are objective experiences occurring--shared dreams, astral travel, etc. But really want to hear about SILD and the available supplements.

I've seen 'SILD' stand for a few different things... are you talking about SSILD? Or something else?

Beyond dreaming would be an interesting episode. I gather that Ophelia is a skeptic, Canis is somewhere in the middle... WakingNomad would be great, he's done podcast interviews before from the perspective of a true believer with lots of experience, but he's sick at the moment so I doubt he'd be up for it.
It's a topic that needs to be approached with caution, since it can put newbies off lucid dreaming if they think it's all lumped into the same category. But I think a debate format with open discussion would solve that problem nicely, as long as it's made clear that these are the opinions of the hosts, not the DV website as a whole.

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

I've seen 'SILD' stand for a few different things... are you talking about SSILD? Or something else?

Hi Dreamer. I mean supplement-induced. I think a breakdown of the different and available oneirogens, along with some "user feedback" would be very helpful. Most people are familiar with galantamine, B6, choline, and whatever, but what about trials with folk oneirogens, like calea zacatechichi and mugwort. Also, if there are any members who cycle supplements (or even use them occasionally), what are some good methods of application? What can new users expect from different cycles? Are there any combinations not to try?

Beyond dreaming would be an interesting episode. I gather that Ophelia is a skeptic, Canis is somewhere in the middle... WakingNomad would be great, he's done podcast interviews before from the perspective of a true believer with lots of experience, but he's sick at the moment so I doubt he'd be up for it.
It's a topic that needs to be approached with caution, since it can put newbies off lucid dreaming if they think it's all lumped into the same category. But I think a debate format with open discussion would solve that problem nicely, as long as it's made clear that these are the opinions of the hosts, not the DV website as a whole.

Oh, I think that would be great. There has been a big swing towards scientific inquiry and materialism in the past few decades (following behind Stephen LaBerge's research), but shamans, yogis, priests, and other practitioners have viewed dreams as a gate to spiritual realms for thousands of years. I would really like to hear from members who feel they have traveled to different (perhaps objective) worlds, had shared dreams, or precognitive dreams, and the like. Astral debate!

Originally Posted by ThreeCat

Hi Dreamer. I mean supplement-induced. I think a breakdown of the different and available oneirogens, along with some "user feedback" would be very helpful. Most people are familiar with galantamine, B6, choline, and whatever, but what about trials with folk oneirogens, like calea zacatechichi and mugwort. Also, if there are any members who cycle supplements (or even use them occasionally), what are some good methods of application? What can new users expect from different cycles? Are there any combinations not to try?

I would definitely be interested in an episode on supplements! There are so many varied opinions, it might be good to take a poll to vote on the efficacy. And definitely get suggestions for which supplements to review prior to the interview. A few I would like to hear about:
- Caffeine (NyxCC, Xanous and a few others have had good success)
- Silene capesis (Atras says it's more effective than calea and consistently produces highly vivid dreams)
- Apple juice (I think CanisLucidus & paigeyemps have some thoughts on how/why it works)

Edit: Something else I think would be good to cover is the 'anti-supplement' side - not people who just think natural induction is more honourable or whatever, but the people who believe that taking supplements can actually reduce the body's ability to produce its own chemicals (eg. taking melatonin supplements.) And anyone who has reason to believe that natural induction methods alone are more effective (eg. does relying on supplements tend to reduce a person's efforts to practice daytime awareness, etc?)

At some point, I'd also love an episode on external aids, eg. audio cues, binaural beats / isochronic tones, Remee, and the NovaDreamer 2 (out soon!)

Great suggestions, everyone, thanks! Dreamer, that pod-task idea is gold!

Yes pls do one on supplements, most of the stuff on the podcasts I know and have experienced, but the various benefits of taking supplements is something I haven't researched myself so it should be interesting.

Yeah!

Let's do another one CL pleaseohpleaseohpleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase???


.