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I know some people don't like it but I do and I want to know if I can make them more vivid? I don't do it during class or anything important. So its not a bad habit and I was thinking that if I got better I could use it before I lucid dream to kind of fall into it. So if you have found ways to do this please tell me!
Things I don't want:
Drugs
People critisizing me!(i hate that)
Things I do want:
types of meditation
food that helps
actually answers
Any of your tips
Thankyou if you can help!
You can't. Well, you can increase the capacity of your working memory slightly, but that's about it. A daydream is not a true simulation of reality like a dream is. You really can't make it noticeably more real. Now, if you want to start talking about meditation, then that leads to WILD, but we're talking about daydreaming, not lucid dreaming.
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A lot of us out there are mapping that mind/body relationship of dreams. We're called the oneironauts. We're explorers of the dream world. Really, it's just about the two opposing states of consciousness... which don't really oppose at all. See, in the waking world, the neuro-system inhibits the activation of the vividness of memories. This makes evolutionary sense.It'd be maladapted for the perceptual image of a predator...to be mistaken for the memory of one and vice-versa. If the memory of a predator conjured up a perceptual image, we'd be running off to the bathroom every time we had a scary thought. So you have these serotonic neurons... that inhibit hallucinations... that they themselves are inhibited during REM sleep. This allows dreams to appear real... while preventing competition from other perceptual processes. This is why dreams are mistaken for reality.
Simply practice. Like anything else, the more you do it, the better you will get.
Phil Hine has some good advice on this from a religious perspective, but it may help you.
A good idea is to practice drawing objects into your mind. Find out which sense makes something real for you, and work on developming it. Concentrate on an object or place, imagine its smell, feel, etc. Probably your mind is either dominated by sight, hearing or touch. Find out which of these grounds you in day dreaming and concentrate on developing it.
A good technique is too be awake for atleast 24 hours. You will be feeling slight symptoms of sleep devripation, afterwards meditate for 30 minutes, to a song called Clear Blue Water, by oceanlab, on loop. You WILL feel slight psycosis.Quote:
Originally Posted by mandy2583