Thread: Telling your Subconscious to obtain a skill

One of my main goals with lucid dreaming is to be able to set up a virtual simulation for practicing various things, like working in laboratory, so that the next day, I can do everything with ease.

But taking into consideration of homologous association that dreams tend to be fabricated from the start, it might be a bit difficult at first. But with the repetition as people posted before in this thread, eventually the links will start to come together, and through persistence and devotion, and eradicating the mental barriers that dreams are merely an abstract collection from the unconscious sublimated into an "experience," I can see that telling your subconscious to obtain a skill might be possible.

Of course, you actually have to practice it over and over until you are sure you'd get it, so telling it to obtain it should only be a supplement towards your goal.





























Unless you have a Dissociative Identity Disorder, and can somehow have parts of your mind learning things in dreams without your conscious effort to acknowledge it, then you might not have to try so hard...but even if that's possible, there would be some kind of error when you try to make yourself whole again, in the dream that is, because you might find blanks in pieces of your recall when you wake up.

What I'm trying to say is that with seeing several personalities/parts/splits of yourself in dreams, and relying that they will handle certain parts to break down tedious tasks into smaller pieces, the same way we process and organize information, learning something, and telling your subconscious to obtain it might provide a greater efficacy. (but this time, it's just taking that a bit further with more chunks that can be associated quickly for later use).

What I've said just now is clearly obvious: Doing that will dilute your sense of reality in the dreaming world, but with practice, and if you're crazy enough......wait never mind, this is ED, so I'll stop before get off-topic with Beyond Dreaming fundamentals. =/

It would be nice to utilize Eidetic memory, augment its efficacy in retaining information, and being able to practice it both in waking life and dreaming life (logical practices of course...not creating fire balls from your hand and expecting it to show up in waking life).

So if you tell people in general that you do that to learn new things, they'll obviously laugh and think you're a psycho

I guess trying to obtain a skill from your subconscious, and then practicing it over and over is possible, assuming you can have a stable lucid dream with time being dilated enough until you can learn it gradually. But you don't see that many people here on Dream Views claiming to be able to do so, or at least provide evidence of their experience with dream recall.

But if you're excluding dreaming aspects of it, and relying only on laws and rules of waking life, it's like saying an egg in front of you is going to boil right there and then, it's just not going to happen, unless you actually put the effort in boiling it....or deus ex machina.