Questions of LD

Hi foks
I want to just have a little discussion with whats on my mind recently.

If lucid dreaming is looked at from the perspective that its a skill which can be learnt, then what can a master expect to do? Is there such possibilities as being awake all night through ( but with eyes shut ). And if such a case, does the body still sleep?, as in, does it get all the equivalent healing/repairing benefits and perhaps even memory solidation that would occur with normal sleep? How to define normal sleep? If one is awake during his sleep, surely he must still remain in a certain brain wave state to maintain the effects of sleep? And hence, does that brain state limit his abilities of thinking and reasoning? is that the challenge?

I've only ever had 2 tiny lucid dreams, which didn't last long, but i experienced the entering of the dreams very vivdly, perhaps its might be called a WILD, anyhow. I would like to be able to control when i have a lucid, as yet it seems only to be some sort of luck. Also another thing which i wonder, is if i was lucid dreaming the night through, would I feel tired in the morning or fit and well , as if i had normal sleep?

I don't know how my mind stayed awake during that night which i had an LD .. because last night i intentionally tried just that, and yet i'm here in the morning without experiencing one. I think that mb i am too weak, i think sometimes i lose patience, it seems patience is important, but i am often too tired when i go to sleep and so i lack patience and instead rather want to snuggle up under my covers and close my mind :D

Well, you dream when you're in REM (yes you can dream outside of it but I'm talking about vivid and stable dreams), which is affected by how much sleep you need, supplements and other stuff. You're only in REM for a certain amount of time. Therefore you can't have an everlasting dream from the moment you go to sleep until you wake up in the morning.

Most people (I think) have Lucid Dreams towards the end of their sleep cycle. Mine tend to occur on weekends when I have a chance to lie in a bit longer.

What I've started to do recently, a tip I got from a book, is set an alarm for 2 hours before I am due to get up, stay awake for 15-30 mins (read, have a glass of water) then lay back down to sleep. I slip into lucid dreams easily, in fact recently as soon as I've started to dream after doing this I've become lucid almost straight away. Not with any major sign or anything, I think having just woken up to increase the chances of Lucid Dreaming, then gone to sleep thinking about it, as soon as the dream starts I've went lucid.

Good luck. :)