Dream Control

[AURON]

Edit: We're going to need to create most of the classes from scratch. After using my limited powers of necromancy I came to the discovery that I was mistaken about copy/pasting the old classes...because they don't exist. Also, once they're written out here, and approved, we'll split them off into the professor area.

[AURON]

Dream Control Intro-(if the class is in chat) Tell the class a little bit about yourself while waiting on the members to arrive. What is it- Manipulation of every possible aspect of the dream Becoming lucid gives you consciousness and allows you to have control over the dream. Dream control comes naturally to some people, but others require understanding and know-how to be able to do it well. Examples: Flying, Telekinesis, Scene changes, Mind and Weather Control, Summoning and Creating Objects Two Types of Control Active Passive Active Examples: Flying unassisted Making objects float Creating a Portal to another location Passive Examples: Discovering a plane in your backyard and using it to fly Taking a pill in the medicine cabinet that allows you powers of telekineses Traveling to a new location Advantages each Induction Technique has: WILD: Can shape the dream scene before it starts DILD: Can find themselves in locations they couldn't imagine Open Discussion General discussion of any recent lucid experience involving dream control. Homework Read the basic task of the month and come up with a way to actively and passively complete the task. Send me a PM describing how you became lucid (WILD Dream sign RC ect) and then stabilized the dream. Then walk me through how you completed the task in each manner. Visualization Importance-something regarding how being able to visualize whatever the person wants to happen, happen. Schemata Explain what they are, and explain why it's easier to make certain things show up at certain places. Confidence of results Importance- something regarding to the fact that anything you truly believe can happen will happen in a dream. Half assing it will increase chances of unexpected results, or none at all. Dream Goals Motivation to Obtain lucidty A way to keep the dreams fresh and fun Homework Think of a simple personal task to do and PM it to me. Every night before you go to sleep, remind yourself of the task and visualize yourself completing that goal. At the end of the week, PM an alternative way of completing that task. Will touch on dream incubation End of course Review course, look at what has been learned. Professor test student's knowledge. Any additional questions from students to be answered.

[Robot_Butler]

Is this the right place to discuss and edit these? Are you going to expand on the visualization section? I would stress the importance of rehearsing what you are going to do ahead of time. I worry about the homework requiring you to have a lucid dream. If the students don't get a lucid dream that week, can they just imagine/ tell you how they would complete the task? How they are planning on doing it? What are they rehearsing and visualizing? Maybe this is what the assignment already is, and I'm misunderstanding. Maybe an additional homework question could be: "What is one thing you have, so far, been unsuccessful in achieving in a lucid dream?" Then, we can assign them to somehow think of a new way of approaching their problem (assuming they have one).

[AURON]

more or less this will be the section where they're reviewed, and then they'll get split, or copied into another location (pofessor area). As for the visualization homework, it's not about actively getting lucid and completing those tasks. It's about the person running the scenario through their head and completing it while awake....almost like day dreaming. It's what I normally do whenever I think about doing a certain task...almost like a dry run so to speak. If the person is already thinking about how they're going to accomplish something in their dreams with two different types of methods, then they're that much closer to completing it then they realize. The first one is simple....just write out a little short story of how you would complete the TOTM. It's just another way to get the brain thinking about doing things outside of the box.

[louie54]

Should we include schemas? For example, I kind of think it would be hard to find an airplane in your backyard unless you live by the airport/own a plane in real life. Personally, I think schemas are a big importance in dream control.

[AURON]

You're right.

[louie54]

Ok this is looking good Akono. Good work Especially about getting to know each other at the beginning. It should be easier to teach once we build relationships with our students.