I'm glad this thread has been helpful to you, gbbr........it has been incredibly helpful to me as well to be able to write like this. |
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I am loving this thread. What you write is really inspiring to me, because I'm also working hard during the day for this. My frequency of LD has also increased but I'm still not at the phase of having stable controllable lucid dreams. Nevertheless I do feel I've made progress. |
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I'm glad this thread has been helpful to you, gbbr........it has been incredibly helpful to me as well to be able to write like this. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
Thank you for this! I'm going to try that out, I really like the idea of walking around looking for details. |
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Sometimes it feels as if the harder I seek lucidity the more I fail at it. Ardent effort must inevitably result in many failures and our consciousness tends to highlight failures over successes in those meta-cognitive moments. Those highlighted failures become ingrained seeds for more failure I think. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
Hi Lenscaper. I had my first LD back in 2004 and have been pursuing it off and on since then with varying degrees of success. It can be extremely frustrating at time. Sacrificing a good night's sleep with no results. Getting lucid and immediately waking up. Trying technique after technique which don't give reliable results. If you look at my signature it tells the story, I've had years where I worked so hard and years where I just gave up. Yet, I keep coming back to it because some lucid dreams can be so amazing. I've woken up from some amazing LDs and feel euphoric for several days after. That is what keeps driving me to find a method that I can stick with for the rest of my life, and gives me good results. I'm not greedy, I would settle for 1 good LD every 2 weeks. |
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Total LDs (some very brief) = 2004: 4 * 2005: 18 * 2006: 16 * 2007: 2 * 2008: 0 * 2009: 0 * 2010: 1 * 2011: 12 * 2012: 3 * 2013: 1 * 2014: 6 * 2015: 1 * 2016: 0 * 2017: 18 * 2018: 3 * 2019: 0 (so far)
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ~William Dement
Hey Tygar...thanks so much for your support! Your story is good inspiration. It is so good for me to hear from experienced folks like you in my quest to integrate lucidity in my life. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
lenscaper - are you keeping a record of your LDs? If so, be sure to post them in the dream journal. I really enjoy reading other people's LDs. It is inspiring and often very entertaining. |
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Total LDs (some very brief) = 2004: 4 * 2005: 18 * 2006: 16 * 2007: 2 * 2008: 0 * 2009: 0 * 2010: 1 * 2011: 12 * 2012: 3 * 2013: 1 * 2014: 6 * 2015: 1 * 2016: 0 * 2017: 18 * 2018: 3 * 2019: 0 (so far)
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ~William Dement
I have kept a pretty good DJ in general since I began this journey six months or so ago and my strong lucid events are labeled nicely for me to go back to. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
I was going to make new thread, but thanks to Sageous mentioning about falling in the DC trap, I'm going to post it here. |
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A lot to ponder over in your post. StarSeeker, and I hope to learn from the comments that come. But, if you don't mind, I'd like to pick up on one aspect of it because it has caused an important realization for me. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
I'm sorry lenscaper, I'll have to postpone my report, because I'm in the middle of important mind experiment and I will need a little more time. In meanwhile I have something interesting to post, because of new technique or one that I finally complete, this morning I had whole 12 lucid dreams in a span of 3 hours. The method is strange but easy to perform, before I was doing it incidentally, but with little help of a Guru, I finally completed it. The Guru words to me was "Let go of your Ego, stop trying to control everything, including death, everyone dies, that is the natural course of the universe. You have to surrender, only then you will be able to use your full potential." |
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Last edited by StarSeeker; 08-20-2019 at 12:06 PM.
That is fantastic success, StarSeeker!! |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
My nightly practice seems to be boiling down to a distinct set of specific exercises as I get closer to my goal of developing a nightly protocol that allows me to get the sleep I need while still achieving lucidity as often as possible. During the week I really only have seven hours to work with. Here is what I have been doing: |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
I have been trying to use the people who come into my office or who walk by my door as RC moments because I am trying to use DC's as DS's. When I have been successful at that in the dream, the Dream Character loses his or her grasp on me and lucidity springs up immediately. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
I am approaching month eight of my training and I have been sitting out on the back deck watching a few yellow leaves flutter down from the big butternut tree and pondering last night's dreams.........while I wrap my head around just what it is that I am doing and what I have accomplished. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
In my ongoing research into as many perspectives on LDing as possible I stumbled upon this interesting short paper. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
I have a hugely important meeting in my office in about an hour and, for some reason, I am nervous about this one. I will be presenting something bold....a little over the edge. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
So after immersing myself for a while in the dream yoga approach to ADA I decided to go all in for a bit. I spent the last couple of weeks practicing just "The Main Practice" as outlined in "The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep". It took a while to get into the flow and after spending months working on more active LD techniques like SSILD and the like, these passive protocols seemed, well, TOO passive. |
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Last edited by lenscaper; 09-09-2019 at 02:55 PM.
The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
Actually, just noticed you have a song called "Save your last dream for me." I assume that's probably inspired by your LD work. |
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First off, thanks so much for listening!! "Save Your Last Dream For Me" was written just a month after I started training hard. I had already realized that the last dream was always the most powerful of the night. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
Hi lenscaper, |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Hey FryingMan!! |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
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