Thread: Lucid dreaming......What's the point?

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything: Josh Kaufman at TEDxCSU - YouTube

I have said many times on here that learning how to learn changes your life. LDinghas tthe same. Graph as other things, but it takes a little longer time to get to the place where you can sit back and just enjoy whioe getting better.

Great video. Thank you. so that information breaks down to this:

1. Deconstruct the skill (Break it apart)
2. Learn enough to self-correct (you know when you did something wrong and can fix it)
3. Remove barriers to practice (TV, Internet, etc.)
4. Practice for at least 20 hrs

• The major barrier to skill acquisition is emotional. (Scared, feeling stupid, etc.)

Questions: 1. how do you deconstruct the skill of Lucid Dreaming? To what parts can you break it down? 2. How do you practice those parts?

I do practice RCs, I also practice dream recall and journaling. What else?

Originally Posted by Tygar

Great video. Thank you. so that information breaks down to this:

1. Deconstruct the skill (Break it apart)
2. Learn enough to self-correct (you know when you did something wrong and can fix it)
3. Remove barriers to practice (TV, Internet, etc.)
4. Practice for at least 20 hrs/week

• The major barrier to skill acquisition is emotional. (Scared, feeling stupid, etc.)

Questions: 1. how do you deconstruct the skill of Lucid Dreaming? To what parts can you break it down? 2. How do you practice those parts?

I do practice RCs, I also practice dream recall and journaling. What else?

That is a few difficult questions.

Gimme a sec to answer...
4) 20 hours a week. I dont believe that that is what the video said... Now I have to rewatch it. Lol.

http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...-dreaming.html
^ up there I posted sageous breakdown and mine. Mine is still in the working and is hopefully going to answer everything when I am done with it (dry spells, naturals etc.)
So sage has sleep, awareness, and recall.
I have sleep, state awareness, and general dream awareness
#1… sleep consistently.
#2 think about LDing and dreams. Question your reality. Or for sage, be more aware. RCs, mantras, expectation, meditation, and visualization are all great for this.
#3 there are about a million things to make your recall go up. All of them take effort. The best is a consistent sleep schedule like we talked about before. There is a whole subforum on dream recall, and my DJ system is to find out what works best for you to increase your recall. After you get enough data, DJing itself becomes obsolete, because it is one that pays off a lot, but it is also the one that takes the most time.

That is my simple breakdown. I talk and ramble a lot more about LDing broken down in my thread in my sig (one is the DJ system, the other is BBs ramblings)

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

That is a few difficult questions.

Gimme a sec to answer...
4) 20 hours a week. I dont believe that that is what the video said... Now I have to rewatch it. Lol.

No, the video says "20 hours total." And that's to get "somewhat good" at something.

But dreaming is somewhat different from the rest of things that people want to get good at (playing the ukelele, learning French, etc.) in that there is a potentially long delay between taking action and observing an improvement. You can learn a new word of French or a new chord on the ukelele in a few seconds or minutes. However, you may not observe improvement in dream recall for days. You may not achieve your first lucid dream for months. With lucid dreaming, you're basically trying to "hack" your brain to change the way it operates, not simply just store data for later retrieval.