how long have you worked on becoming lucid? |
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Tonight I noticed something. Life feels more real than ever. Ever since I started learning to lucid dream, life has seemed so much more... real. Its almost as if I've woken up in real life as well. Life itself is more vivid. I think its helped me to stop and smell the roses. Does anyone else feel this way? |
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how long have you worked on becoming lucid? |
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You're not alone, bro. I feel the same way now. I notice things a lot more. I feel good. |
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I think it is just the positive feelings of having something wonderful like Lucid Dreaming to focus on. Like, no matter how busy you are, you can still find time to try and lucid dream, and it is fun to talk about and read about. |
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"I feel my heart glow
with enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven; for nothing contributes so much to tranquillise the mind as a steady purpose--a point
on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." -
Victor Frankenstein
i feel the exact same way man. learning to lucid dream has really gotten me off auto pilot. one could say, Im lucid in waking life. |
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Law abiding citizen by day, breaking the laws of reality by night.
"How can you be aware that you're dreaming, if you're never aware that you're awake?"
interesting that you say it makes things more 'real' to you. |
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Life is better when you lucid dream because in order to be good at it, you have to practice being AWARE in the real world, questioning your surroundings, thinking outside the box, therefore forcing you to be completely in the present. Life not feeling real stems from not being in the present. |
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DILDs: A Lot
The better part of America won't be getting into lucid dreaming any time soon. There are so many bible bashing folks here, most would call it unchristian like and before you know it losers like Charles Stanley would be on the radio spewing more horse shit, asking you to buy his buy book on the evils and dangers of lucid dreaming. |
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"I feel my heart glow
with enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven; for nothing contributes so much to tranquillise the mind as a steady purpose--a point
on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." -
Victor Frankenstein
Some people it can make go loopy loop do. |
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As others have said, attempting lucid dreaming is giving me the ability to take in more in my waking life, to switch off auto-pilot and to enjoy life that much more (and my dreams). |
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i know what you are talking about. I think that this is because you have something to compare it to. It is like if you have only seen colored TV all you life, then you see black and white tv and realize how colorful normal TV is. Of course to me, LDs can be more real than real life. |
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Yup, all of the above. Becoming lucid in dreams makes you more lucid in life. It is a form of mental discipline that requires reining in the conscious mind quite a bit and blending it with the subconscious. It stands to reason that if you can take a piece of daily consciousness down into a dream, that a bit of the subconscious can surface into the daily world as well. That blending effect makes both states more real and vital. |
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Well that's definitely a good thing. Some people believe that lucid dreaming promotes escapism. As in people aren't too happy with the real world and lucid dream to get away. You are proof that it can also be the complete opposite. |
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lucid dreaming isnt escapism unless people are sleeping throughout the the day and arent doing anything else, because they cant deal with reality.(i dont know how many people actually do this, if so they must be really skilled at lucid dreaming) |
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Law abiding citizen by day, breaking the laws of reality by night.
"How can you be aware that you're dreaming, if you're never aware that you're awake?"
I recently started recording my dreams. One of the reasons they start coming to me in much more abundance than usual is because I've also taken the time to start recording the events that happen during the day as well. I think that recording what happend to you during the day in a journal will generally exercize your memory so that you're predisposed to remember much more about your dreams. |
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Always fight for what you believe in. Don't let anyone tell you that your beliefs are inferior. Have self respect and always embrace your dreams.
Ah! Very good point. I wholeheartedly agree with this. Plus, you could also use it as a way to correlate things that happen during the day and if/how they affect the dreams you had at night. |
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Lucid dreaming has done so much good for me. |
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I know how you feel, it's felt to me as though all of my senses (like touch, smell, sight) have all increased. We never did take the time before to slow down and examine what was around us. |
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Perhaps it's a sub-benefit, or it's the main, I'm not sure... but since I'm going down the route of Awareness-DILD, I started reading this online book that was linked in another thread... |
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yeah, it makes sense - it could also explain why lucid dreaming is so natural for children |
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There is generally more awareness in waking life. Particularly noticing how things translates into dreams. |
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