Thread: Here is a Comprehensive Video Series on Dreams and Lucid Dreaming.

Originally Posted by sivason

I will have to watch them and read more of what you write, but it seems we are both using a very similar approach. That is that I look at it in terms of VR computing interface. You must learn to interface with the hardware, our neural system, and the software, our learned reality.

Thanks, Sivason. I look at dreams as a recursive feedback loop on a thought reactive canvas of the mind. When we close our eyes we see the blank canvas and our thoughts are the programming language, the subconscious mind the super-computer that does all the heavy lifting to output the final rendered product of the dream experience. I view neurological atrophy and psychological inhibitors as barriers we need to address and train to correct deficiencies in cognition with regards to dreaming. Dreaming is a skill that can be trained so it requires some discipline like any skill. I don't believe there are short-cuts ie... lucid dream in 3 easy steps. Or take this drug and blam you are a lucid dreamer. For a long-term lifestyle choice, it is an ongoing act of participation and skill development to master the Art of Dreaming.

As evident in 32 years of dreaming, dreams are a thought process, a language between our waking self and the subconscious. Once we know how to think in this language we can program our dreams and literally experience anything we desire. My motivations to be a lucid dreamer stems from the nerdy nature of my love of movies, arts and video games so Genre Specific Lucid Dreaming for Entertainment is fine by me. I love to recreate fantasy/sci-fi experiences in this rich medium of the mind which has made my dream life it's own Virtual Reality System on Steroids. Best of all, it is the only other place I can be fully awake and self-realized as I am here. Since life is short, I feel that time and conscious self-awareness cultivated through lucid dreaming adds to my over-all conscious experiences gaining time rather than losing 30% of my life to amnesiac sleep like those who haven't trained this skill as a lifestyle. I've easily cultivated over 10 years worth of conscious experience through lucid dreaming and that is my intrinsic reward, and what keeps me at this Art. (That and often my dreams are BTL or better-than-life as they should be, I worked hard to make them that way).

That in a nutshell is my view and perspective on this ability, also why everything I do is free. It was free for me, all it took was one Stephen LaBerge article to light the torch. I want that to be the same for others who may have financial challenges restricting access to information that otherwise could have helped them on their journey. Open-Source dreaming is my core intention in all this. Free of ego and the usual what's in it for me attitude.