Thread: Lucid Encouragement

I just watched the movie with two of my nephews, one is 8 and the other 10, we all loved it We also watched Wreck It Ralph. It's like Rise Of The Guardians, equally childish, equally inspiring and equally awesome!! If you liked Rise Of The Guardians you should really see it and vice versa

Yeah! Wreck it Ralph has a pretty good way of getting to different worlds too. Just go to the power outlet!

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

Yeah! Wreck it Ralph has a pretty good way of getting to different worlds too. Just go to the power outlet!

You should try it out! You're good at this kind of stuff

You anime guys got to check out a new anime out there named Attack on Titan, you can watch it directly from animecenter for super quality. I don't know if this will inspire people to lucid dream or not but after so much time I came here and saw all this mentions to anime and I just couldn't resist, it's awesome like that.

By the fifth episode it has become one of the best out there and I've watched a lot of anime. And... truth be said, with the emotions it might awaken on you it might as well provide some nice encouragement. If you do check it out report back for fun's sake.

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

Books
Divergent - Virginia Roth

What's funny is, Divergent really works for me. I usually have lucids when I read Divergent before going to sleep.
And it's Veronica Roth, not Virginia, by the way.

ive been meaning to watch either oblivion or olympus has fallen, both look good and look like i'd probably want to have an LD that involved the film in some way

Simcity 4. Not the crappy new version; that one blows, and is more of a nightmare to contend with, regarding the bugs, incomplete state, and generally ham-handed approach. Furthermore, the graphics are less than impressive, and I've had waking hallucinations of cities more lush and realistic than this poorly cobbled together excuse for a game can come up with.

Parkour/Free Running: If you're able to do some of these things IRL, imagine what you can do in a lucid dream!

Music/Groups I find particularly encouraging when it comes to dreaming/lucid dreaming:
Any of the Buddha Bar album compilations
Karsh Kale
James Asher
Bombay Dub Orchestra
Thievery Corporation

Movies:

Inception (of course)
Tree Of Life (2011)
Anything with a stupid amount of explosions and violence; plot not necessary. If your subconscious is powerful enough, it should provide a sufficient amount.
ie: Battle for LA, Transformers 3, ID4, etc.

Travel:

If you can't quite travel, then I suggest looking at photos of distant places online. There's this particularly nice website I like filled with images of European cities:
Brodyaga (Can't post links yet)

Travel to not so touristy places, or if you do, seek out the places where the locals dwell, and fewer tourists manage to get to. These are often more visceral, raw, and complex than the disneyfied, manicured touristy areas.

Wikipedia: Start looking up exotic and wonderful places, particularly before bedtime. This can seed some pretty nice environments!

Architecture: Of all kinds! New, old, sci fi, etc.
Archdaily (Can't post links yet! too new!)

Just watched "Source Code" - great idea well executed. Definitely worth a watch!

Brodyaga looks like the exact place I want to fly over in an LD. Thanks!

Thanks guys for the awesome encouragement.

to everyone posting here. Feel free to post pictures of awesome encouragement.

Originally Posted by rmadlal

Brodyaga looks like the exact place I want to fly over in an LD. Thanks!

BTW, my icon is an image I took when I was in Tel Aviv/Jaffa Israel! Shalom!
I've had many dreams (lucid and not) that have been directly or indirectly affected by my travels, including to Israel (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, etc). Beautiful country!

Originally Posted by Sirocco

BTW, my icon is an image I took when I was in Tel Aviv/Jaffa Israel! Shalom!
I've had many dreams (lucid and not) that have been directly or indirectly affected by my travels, including to Israel (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, etc). Beautiful country!

Haha, cool!
I've had multiple dreams in the US as well

This morning I watched Amelie for the second time. It's not directly related to lucid dreams but the movie is very simple yet, or therefor, really beautiful, (so is the music) and it might sparkle your imagination. It's an original movie and I don't know why but it might inspire some lucid dreaming.

And if you want to watch it, don't go and first watch some $%$#%#$%trailer or review but JUST DOWNLOAD IT AND START WATCHING you probably don't have anything better to do anyways. It really spoils the fun...

And if you have more free time you should try The Fountain, I've seen it a couple of weeks ago. IMDB says this (lol it's not a spoiler): Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world. It also has amazing visuals and there is a high chance it will inspire some cool dreams

One or two people have mentioned it but the X-men films are excellent for ideas. So many different mutants with so many different abilities, and control over so many different elements!

Has anyone mentioned John Lennon'd Imagine and the song Castle on a Cloud from Les Miserables yet?

I watched El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) and it's a great movie in itself and also contains some lucid dreaming inspiration

My current lucid dream inspiration song is Jonsi - Go Do. Here's a link with lyrics, since they're hard to understand:
Jónsi - Go Do [Lyrics] - YouTube

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

Been meaning to watch vanilla sky.

Please do, it's amazing. In fact, I'm rewatching it with my girlfriend this friday, and I think it'll be as moving as it was the first time I saw it.

As for my contribution to the thread, The Dreamer by I the Mighty is an epic song...directly about lucid dreaming

Thanks for all the extra encouragement!

@JoannaB
I love the song castle in the sky! Les Miserables was one of my favorite books reading, and their newest movie was incredible.

Originally Posted by Micael

You anime guys got to check out a new anime out there named Attack on Titan, you can watch it directly from animecenter for super quality. I don't know if this will inspire people to lucid dream or not but after so much time I came here and saw all this mentions to anime and I just couldn't resist, it's awesome like that.

By the fifth episode it has become one of the best out there and I've watched a lot of anime. And... truth be said, with the emotions it might awaken on you it might as well provide some nice encouragement. If you do check it out report back for fun's sake.

This, this, 1000x's THIS!!

I can't wait for a Shingeki no Kyojin themed lucid dream. Its going to be better than sex, haha!! Its near the very top of my "plan to do" list of lucid dreaming activities.

Anime is my number source to make me want to lucid dream that much more, especially the anime bleach its awesome

Originally Posted by azoller1

Anime is my number source to make me want to lucid dream that much more, especially the anime bleach its awesome

Nice, I've had several Bleach related Lucid Dreams. Fun stuff!!

I personally would love to have a LD where I can bend like in "The Last Airbender", or to perform great feats of wizardry, which is the inspiration I have in my LD journey

Little off topic, but watched an episode of that attack on titan show and wow its awesome, it also does encourage me so its not completely off topic