Thread: 10+ Questions

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1. You can definitely ski and snowboard in a lucid dream. Heck, you could ski down the rings of Saturn or snowboard up a slope if you wanted to. And of course, you could wear anything you want, from wearing full ski attire to riding stark naked!

2. You can have as much detail as real life pretty much anywhere you go. If you've never been there in real life, the locations of things might not be how they are in real life, but it can be as close to the original as you can imagine, with all the realism of any real location.

3. If you expect a skiing instructor to show up, they most likely will. Sometimes dream characters (DCs) can be tricky when it comes to giving you straight answers, and they can't really teach you raw facts that you don't already know yourself. But if you know a lot about skiing already, they should be able to give you some helpful advice or different perspectives on how to use the information you already know.

4. It's highly unlikely everything you learn in a skiing lucid dream will immediately transfer over to waking life, but perhaps minute details such as coordination can be improved. There have been some studies that show that coordination-related activities such as piano playing or surgery can be practiced in lucid dreams, but more physical activities such as skiing may not entirely carry over due to various physical factors (for example, gravity can feel a lot different in dreams than it does in real life). Still, it'll still be fun, and definitely encourage you to learn more about skiing in real life.

5. Just be sure to start with the basics and stabilize your dream in order to prolong its length (so you don't wake up within 2-3 minutes). Other than that, don't be too upset if you don't get it 100% right the first time. A lot of lucid dream control is adapting to your situation, so if you try to ski down a slope, but your skis fall off or don't seem to work right, just keep going with it, pretend like everything is working fine - often your surroundings will change to match whatever you're trying to accomplish if you just stick with it.

Hope that helps, and feel free to leave any additional questions.

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I don't understand. You mean like in the dream?
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Think of lding like the ultimate supplement, a direct link to your unconscious mind. Remember however that this is a supplement. You will need some waking schema to put it together. You are not going to have a bunch of knowledge from your dream that you know nothing about. Ski, study, LD.

I am not going to test this out as I have never skiied, so doing so in a dream would be a pointless exercise being exactly like I expect it to, and I would have no way of knowing if it made me better since I have never skiied, and even if I did afterwards, I still wouldnt have any way of knowing if it helped unless I added lding in a time where I do ski.

Make sense? I have practiced other waking things in dreams, and it seemed to help immensely, but I already knew the basics of them, because I don't believe in any knew knowledge in a dream, just wisdom or understanding.

As for practicing sports in dreams, I have recently downloaded someones doctoral thesis on exactly that, I havent gotten around to reading it just yet though. Also Paul Tholey, german professor for psychology and sports science, appearently has used LDs to practice skateboarding and snowboarding, also working together with top atheletes. I m not experienced enough yet to vouch for it.

The instructor thing is really pointless, because all he can tell you is what you already know
However, the subconscious mind tends to soak up more informations (as the conscious mind might filter it), so if you read about it or watch stuff, an instructor might be helpful.
I wish you good luck on your endeavour of skiing down huge cliffs without dying

Haha thanks! I am now motivated to start trying to lucid dream, and currently, I am experiementing with the DIELD Technieque.

I've had a ton of skiing dreams. In fact it was a major dream sign of mine for a while. They're great fun, but I'm just an average skier in waking life.

Having vivid dreams is a matter of changing your way of being: the dreaming self mirrors the waking self. If in waking life you start consistently paying attention to your experiences, your dreaming self will soon start doing the same (there is some lag time before waking habits move into dreaming, so don't expect instant results, but the results will come if you stick with it). Since we remember best that to which we pay attention, your memories of your dreaming experiences will become much more clear and vivid over time.

Also, develop the habit of recalling your dreams as the first thing you do after waking. Over time, your SC will get the message and start delivering more and more dreaming experiences to you.