Thread: Several strange occurrences.

I think that you might have accidentally hit the right things needed for a lucid dream to occur, like many do before they know what lding is about. Lucid nightmares are usually caused by stress or anxiety. If you can cut those out of your life, they will usually go away. This is of course taking away the idea of recurring dream, which, I imagine, is connected with nuetral pathways like an idea and a schema. If you go through that same one over and over, then when the thing that was causing you to go through that schema disappears, then you still end up in that schema, like water going down a worn pathway. Make sense? I hope so. I am going to sleep. Haha.

Also, with the mushrooms, I think that stabilization, vividness, and many other things can be accomplished through dream control, and so it makes sense to me that you can find something that works for ya like that. I have a watch that I push a button and it stabilizes the dream and makes it more vivid.

Originally Posted by Sensei

I think that you might have accidentally hit the right things needed for a lucid dream to occur, like many do before they know what lding is about. Lucid nightmares are usually caused by stress or anxiety. If you can cut those out of your life, they will usually go away. This is of course taking away the idea of recurring dream, which, I imagine, is connected with nuetral pathways like an idea and a schema. If you go through that same one over and over, then when the thing that was causing you to go through that schema disappears, then you still end up in that schema, like water going down a worn pathway. Make sense? I hope so. I am going to sleep. Haha.

Also, with the mushrooms, I think that stabilization, vividness, and many other things can be accomplished through dream control, and so it makes sense to me that you can find something that works for ya like that. I have a watch that I push a button and it stabilizes the dream and makes it more vivid.

I have one recurring dream but that doesn't worry me much because I could easily face it in lucidy and now that I think about it, I'm gonna have to, thank you! It's only scary in non lucid dreams and it makes perfect sense to just work on it while I have control. I also think that lack of anxiety in real life will limit the amount of lucid nightmares and that they can also be approached in a different way when your mind is calmer in a dream.
It's a cool method with the watch, do you use it for other 'powers'? I couldn't do it because when I look at my hands in my dreams they look like chicken feet and it amuses me so much I cannot focus on the rest. Btw, that's another thing. I never got this looking at hands reality check method, I think that if you expect your hands to look normal they should, right?