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I've heard a lot about people, getting lucid by DCs telling them that they're dreaming. Would it be possible to talk to your subconsciousness, while lucid dreaming, and ask it to make sure that, in every dream you have, there will be a DC to tell you that you're dreaming?
Or maybe you could tell your subconsciousness that from now on, when you say the word "(insert special word here)", right before you go to sleep, you will get lucid?
Would any of this be possible, somehow? :huh2:
I asked this of my subconscious when I first started, it told me that I already have the knowledge and if I wanted I could enter anytime I wanted. It provided no help to me, so I would assume most people would have the same experience. It's a tool that you have to work for, not one given to you.
Your subconscious was very smart. If you would really believe in what you heard, you would have lucid dreams more frequently. ;) Worked for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nhuc
I asked mine to do it, and her answer (took the physical form of my grandmother) was that she could do it, but she won't.
Remember that when you ask your unconscious something, you are talking to yourself.
Your unconscious mind is a part of your own overall mind and psyche; it is not some separate entity that withholds and deals out information, wisdom, or performances at its whim, and it certainly isn't holding back some secret knowledge or abilities until you ask for them.
No, your unconscious is a part of your own mind, and it will work with you no matter what. It will not work on a question-&-answer or verbal basis, though. Think of it more as a CPU, and you need to program it properly in order to get the output you need. In other words, stick to the fundamentals, do your daytime work, and give your entire mind time to understand and properly adapt to lucid dreaming. There are no shortcuts! Until that programming is complete, anything you ask will go unanswered -- and you will be asking yourself!
That said, you certainly can ask your DC's questions, but try to remember that they cannot tell you something you do not already know, and that their answer will be gibberish until you feed their processors the information you want to hear.
I frequently ask dream characters (who are really just the subconscious) questions about life and nature in general. I have heard some interesting answers that I don't think I would have come up with myself. I haven't asked the subconscious to tell me when I'm dreaming, though. That's something I have to do!
I had been thinking about this for a while and finally got the chance to do it yesterday night. I didn't ask any DC in particular, but rather, made a statement to myself that I would lucid dream more often. I read about this in a book and it was referred to as "self-inception". I don't know if it'll work or not, but it would make sense to me if it did. I guess when it comes down to this, it's all about your belief: if you think it'll work, then it will.
Well, this is a tricky one.
Telling your subconscious mind to do something is exactly like talking to a mirror.
Go and try it. Stand in front of a mirror and say - You will have a Lucid Dream tonight.
Will it make any difference ? Exactly as someone pointed out - whatever you expect to happen deeply in your mind - that's exactly what will happen.
And, giving a strict order to a DC is also tricky. The question is - if you were that DC and you (as your waking consciousness) would give you an order - would you listen to yourself ? See, that's the tricky part. You would listen to yourself, but your subconscious mind is exactly what the name suggest - it is not CONSCIOUS. That means it cannot actually use any logic or something like that - all the logic comes from the outside world and from your consciousness. Hence the dream-logic is actually the logic of your subconscious mind - it actually is not logical at all, but flying on a rainbow unicorn makes perfect sense to your subconscious mind, because it has no logic on it's own until you program and insert some into it
You have to understand that your subconscious mind is like a Windows OS - and your conscious mind is a user. The windows has it's own logic - but all that logic has been programmed to it by the creators and by yourself when you customized your settings and so on. That's exactly what you need to do.
Also, everything you ask a DC - it's like you are asking yourself. However, at that time, you are in a dream, disconnected from the physical world completely - thus you are connected with your subconsciousness deeper than anytime else. That means - your conscious mind literally takes out the answer from your subconsciousness, and with the power of consciousness - it formulates an answer that you expect. However, your subconscious mind by itself is of no value - think of it as a mind of an animal. It acts exactly as it is trained to act and gives you exactly what you train it to give you over the time.
You have to program your mind - if every day you take 30 minutes and meditate about Lucid Dream, I guarantee you that after 25-30 days, you will start to have Lucid Dreams very frequently. This works with everything literally in life, if you make something a habit, it must, by law, give you the result you expect it to give you.