Thread: How to make the best use of LD?

I am preparing for a competitive exam, at night I revise the concepts that I learned throughout the day, I often end up staying late.
I LD once in 10-15 days, I was wondering if I could train myself to LD regularly (at least on alternate days) so that I don't have to stay up late every now and then. My plan is to reach a stage where I am revising the concepts by LDing every night. Is it possible?

Here's a bit of irony for you, Unnu:

Originally Posted by unnu

I am preparing for a competitive exam, at night I revise the concepts that I learned throughout the day, I often end up staying late.
I LD once in 10-15 days, I was wondering if I could train myself to LD regularly (at least on alternate days) so that I don't have to stay up late every now and then. My plan is to reach a stage where I am revising the concepts by LDing every night. Is it possible?

I have a sneaking suspicion that, if you were to develop a mindset that welcomes a LD every night, you will find yourself much more interested in exploring the potentials of lucidity and your imagination than you will be in augmenting waking-life tasks. As you come to understand and recognize those potentials, both during your dreams and during the waking-life practice necessary to achieve that kind of consistency, I think you might just find yourself far more interested in exploring those potentials -- by going places and doing things that challenge your imagination and strengthen your very soul -- than you will in, say, revising concepts for school, or perhaps honing your sporting skills.

Sure, lucidity is a nice tool for augmenting your waking-life skills, but I question whether it is really worthwhile to use LD's simply as a way to find more time to hone your waking-life skills... why not use that time instead to discover new skills or activities that cannot possibly exist in waking-life, and simply find more time during waking-life to work on the mundane stuff?

Originally Posted by Sageous

Here's a bit of irony for you, Unnu:



I have a sneaking suspicion that, if you were to develop a mindset that welcomes a LD every night, you will find yourself much more interested in exploring the potentials of lucidity and your imagination than you will be in augmenting waking-life tasks. As you come to understand and recognize those potentials, both during your dreams and during the waking-life practice necessary to achieve that kind of consistency, I think you might just find yourself far more interested in exploring those potentials -- by going places and doing things that challenge your imagination and strengthen your very soul -- than you will in, say, revising concepts for school, or perhaps honing your sporting skills.

Sure, lucidity is a nice tool for augmenting your waking-life skills, but I question whether it is really worthwhile to use LD's simply as a way to find more time to hone your waking-life skills... why not use that time instead to discover new skills or activities that cannot possibly exist in waking-life, and simply find more time during waking-life to work on the mundane stuff?

I agree with you Sageous, in fact, that was my actual intention for getting into LDing. But after watching Tim Ferriss talk about how he utilized LDing for his training made me wonder if it is possible to do that on a regular-basis.

I would like to put it in this way "Instead of creating an alternate reality in which I am travelling the world, bungee jumping, trekking, cycling along mississippi and drifitng cars, I could work on my career to get a high paying job, after which I'll start a business and create an ideal lifestyle in which I am doing all that crazy stuff in real life rather than in dream life", how does it sound.

EDIT: my reply feels kinda offensive but that's not what I meant. I'll still dream about my ideal lifestyle every now and then. But from little experience in LDing I know that LDing has an immense potential, may be I'll come up with an even better idea for my business, or learn more skills so I get promoted faster.