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      Lucid Quote

      In that moment, he realized that the dream plane did not differ from reality. Rather, becoming lucid was to acknowledge the reality of the dream plane. A drab, non-lucid dream was merely the refusal to accept that you weren't awake.
      This comes from one of the characters in my book, and I thought you guys might enjoy it
      Do you have any more cool quotes about LD'ing?
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      You get there by realizing you are already there
      The original quote didn't mean it the way I'm thinking about it. You reach lucidity when you realize you're already in dream state, hence, practice practice practice. Just throwing something out there
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      From Inception...."They come here every day to sleep?: No. They come to be woken up. The*dream*has become their reality. Who are you to say otherwise?"
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      This is a whole chapter from "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
      It's an autobiography of Prof. Richard Feynman, the Nobel prize winner for physics/quantum mechanics and the below is how he taught himself LDing without knowing that it exists, also how he got SP in waking from them. There's another part further in the book where he describes how he wanted to try out hallucinations and didn't dare take LSD, but (successfully, he's also got OBEs there) experimented with K and went into isolation-tanks at Dr. Lilly's. Insatiably curious man that he was...
      Long read, but maybe somebody is interested.

      Spoiler for beginning of chapter:
      After I had written the theme I continued to be curious, and I kept practicing this watching
      myself as I went to sleep. One night, while I was having a dream, I realized I was observing myself
      in the dream. I had gotten all the way down into the sleep itself!
      In the first part of the dream I'm on top of a train and we're approaching a tunnel. I get scared,
      pull myself down, and we go into the tunnel--whoosh! I say to myself, "So you can get the feeling
      of fear, and you can hear the sound change when you go into the tunnel."
      I also noticed that I could see colors. Some people had said that you dream in black and white,
      but no, I was dreaming in color.
      By this time I was inside one of the train cars, and I can feel the train lurching about. I say to
      myself, "So you can get kinesthetic feelings in a dream." I walk with some difficulty down to the
      end of the car, and I see a big window, like a store window. Behind it there are-not mannequins, but
      three live girls in bathing suits, and they look pretty good!
      I continue walking into the next car, hanging onto the straps overhead as I go, when I say to
      myself, "Hey! It would be interesting to get excited--sexually--so I think I'll go back into the other
      car." I discovered that I could turn around, and walk back through the train--I could control the
      direction of my dream. I get back to the car with the special window, and I see three old guys
      playing violins--but they turned back into girls! So I could modify the direction of my dream, but
      not perfectly.
      Well, I began to get excited, intellectually as well as sexually, saying things like, "Wow! It's
      working!" and I woke up.
      I made some other observations while dreaming. Apart from always asking myself, "Am I really
      dreaming in color?" I wondered, "How accurately do you see something?"
      The next time I had a dream, there was a girl lying in tall grass, and she had red hair. I tried to
      see if I could see each hair. You know how there's a little area of color just where the sun is
      reflecting--the diffraction effect, I could see that! I could see each hair as sharp as you want: perfect
      vision!
      Another time I had a dream in which a thumbtack was stuck in a doorframe. I see the tack, run
      my fingers down the doorframe, and I feel the tack. So the "seeing department" and the "feeling
      department" of the brain seem to be connected. Then I say to myself, Could it be that they don't
      have to be connected? I look at the doorframe again, and there's no thumbtack. I run my finger
      down the doorframe, and I feel the tack!
      Another time I'm dreaming and I hear "knock-knock; knock-knock." Something was happening
      in the dream that made this knocking fit, but not perfectly--it seemed sort of foreign. I thought:
      "Absolutely guaranteed that this knocking is coming from outside my dream, and I've invented this
      part of the dream to fit with it. I've got to wake up and find out what the hell it is."
      The knocking is still going, I wake up, and . . . Dead silence. There was nothing. So it wasn't
      connected to the outside.
      Other people have told me that they have incorporated external noises into their dreams, but
      when I had this experience, carefully "watching from below," and sure the noise was coming from
      outside the dream, it wasn't.
      During the time of making observations in my dreams, the process of waking up was a rather
      fearful one. As you're beginning to wake up there's a moment when you feel rigid and tied down, or
      underneath many layers of cotton batting. It's hard to explain, but there's a moment when you get
      the feeling you can't get out; you're not sure you can wake up. So I would have to tell myself--after
      I was awake--that that's ridiculous. There's no disease I know of where a person falls asleep
      naturally and can't wake up. You can always wake up. And after talking to myself many times like
      that, I became less and less afraid, and in fact I found the process of waking up rather thrilling--
      something like a roller coaster: After a while you're not so scared, and you begin to enjoy it a little
      bit.

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      Thank you Steph! That was a very interesting read! My only contribution for the time is in my signature…on the playful and less remarkable side...
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