Ok....not really ignoring them....more like choosing to not let them affect the dream. |
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Hey, it finally happened! I've been waiting for you guys to connect for months; I knew you would. I suggest you stay in touch with each other as your paths -- and your drives -- seem remarkably similar to me! |
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Ok....not really ignoring them....more like choosing to not let them affect the dream. |
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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 the last couple of months I have started writing down some of the things that have been working for me. I want to have a record of these things so I can revisit them from time to time and possibly even revise them as I learn more. These "white papers" are really just notes to myself. |
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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?
Into month nine...... |
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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?
Awesome, lenscaper, what a great achievement! I do hope to get back to something close to this myself in my own practice. In fact, I do believe *presence* in the present moment experience is the key to lucidity in both the waking and the dreaming states. Because if you are not there in that experience -- you with your self-awareness, memories, intentions, goals, and reflective ability and experience -- just who is it that is going to get lucid in that dream? |
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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
Wow, it's pretty crazy reading this. I too have gotten back into awareness(and lucidity) after having quit the usage of nicotine. That's beside the point though. I have come to the same conclusion of pure presence. This is the phrase that describes it perfectly that I, for some reason, did not even think of. I always described it to myself as a state of a natural flow of awareness blended perfectly with a soft amount of constant attention. I don't even think that's a good definition of it even now as pure presence leaves it in the dust. |
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"If we doubted our fears instead of doubting our dreams, imagine how much in life we'd accomplish." ~Joel Brown
"Your background and circumstances may have influenced who you are, but you are responsible for who you become." ~Darren Hardy
Goals:
-Become Lucid in every dream every night
-Perfect the time dilation watch
-Continue to have a dream plan for most of my lucid dreams
I'm thinking that this type of awareness may be the key to incorporating lucidity into everyday life....establishing a routine that can fit into any lifestyle. It is beginning to feel self-sustaining as the more present and aware I feel in my dreams, the clearer and more alive I feel during the day....which then leads to even stronger presence and lucidity in my dreams. |
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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 awoke this morning from a night of no dreams. That probably had something to do with the wedding that I attended yesterday. |
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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 realized this morning that it has been weeks since I practiced a traditional LD induction technique. Instead I have remained immersed in a somewhat personalized version of the more esoteric techniques of dream yoga as those techniques seem to have slipped into the fabric of my life much more easily. |
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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 come to an interesting place in my dream regimen. Dream Yoga induction techniques have become an intrinsic and automatic part of my nights even as I slip in LD techniques as well. I am sleeping very well every night, even as I get up two or three times to write in my journal. I have established a natural rhythm between deep sleep and extremely clear dreams. My dreams have begun to reflect the effects of this protocol in a very interesting way. |
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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 doing an exercise....a meditation really....that I am calling Collapsing Inward. |
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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?
Great advice! It's not what most people normally do, because it's not easy. We mostly just look at superficial aspects of things. |
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Last edited by Zthread; 11-01-2019 at 05:51 PM.
So it's like you're controlling the dream, but in a very spontaneous way? That is, not "overthinking" things, which can make the control of the dream become a bit "clunky" or "heavy handed"? It's like doing improvisational theater rather than conventional theater. You're in control, but the control is very spontaneous, not pre-planned. Maybe you're letting your true self (maybe your subconscious mind) do the controlling? |
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Could you say more about how you do that? Do you just focus all your attention on that area below your navel? Do you also repeat a mantra, or anything like that? |
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I like that comparison to improv theater a lot. For quite a while now I have been working to establish a very basic level of underlying lucidity in my dreams rather than to achieve strong and actionable lucidity. My goal is to create a very strong foundation for a life time of lucidity. |
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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?
Good way to do it! The way lucid dreaming is often done suppresses some of the most interesting aspects of regular (i.e., non-lucid) dreams in exchange for the ability to do fun things. That sounds like a criticism of how lucid dreaming is often done, but it's not. There's nothing wrong with doing it that way, but there are other ways to do it that are totally different and possibly more fulfilling, at least to some people. |
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Last edited by Zthread; 11-02-2019 at 12:57 AM.
Yeah....I definitely thought about a black hole. I also considered visualizing a singularity like the grain of sand that was the beginning of our universe. The neutron star image keeps the energy more accessible than a black hole and somewhat more controllable than a big bang type of singularity. |
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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?
Some dreams are just so real and....lucid....that they just stick with you in vivid detail, right? |
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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?
All of that actually happened....exactly that way....every little nuance. When that little girl in the white dress locked eyes with me I felt certain that I was in a dream. Then, on the way back that second family in the exact spot on the path......incredibly dream-like. |
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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?
What I truly think is happening is that I am beginning to succeed in creating an unbroken continuity of consciousness between my waking life and my night time dreaming life. For me this is a very important goal. I am beginning to truly inhabit my dreams as the very same person that I am when I am awake. I make decisions....I have memories.....I have the same personality. Not all the time, of course.......but when I am that way I wake up feeling as though I am now living a much more expanded existence. |
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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?
Really? |
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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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