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I have been reading up on lucid dreams and read that you can ask your subconscious about hidden parts of your personality and stuff. Can you do this? If you do will you get a valid answer or just the awnser you expect?
Also, how do you ask? Do you just talk to it (ask a question out loud) or do you have to ask a spirit guide or another dream character?
Hi Bella,
Yes this is certainly one of the deeper and potentially most useful aspects of lucid dreaming (appart from the endless sex :D ) Lol, just kiddin....
I personally have not succeeded yet (I end up doing other stuff) but it does make a lot of sense. Think of people who are under hynotic trances. How they are so asseptable to outside influence. This is due partly because the person is speaking directly to a portion of their mind that they don't have control over - the subconscious. When you're dreaming, you are IN this same arena of your mine - except, you ARE aware of what's going on!Quote:
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Ah, this is something that can be debated endlessly. How would you know? Many of us have the answers we seek already in our subconscious, we're just not aware of it. If you expect a certain answer, it could be that it's because you already know. Kinda tuff to really know for sure.Quote:
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This might be something up to you. You could try calling out your subconsious and have him/her appear. You could ask out loud or thinking it. The thing to remember is that the answer may also come in the form of a riddle or visually - and not be a simple "yes" or "no". This is simply because our dreams don't speak in such a simple language.Quote:
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If you want answers, communicate directly with the subconscious. Here's something interesting to try in your next lucid dream:
When you find that you're lucid, say that when you turn around you will see a person that represents your subconscious, then turn around.
Have a conversation with this person. Maybe it'll be quite interesting. Try asking him/her some questions that you may know the answer to already, and see if you get an accurate response. The difference is you're not using manual effort to come up with the answer, it's instead being automatically computed by the subconscious.
If a dream character is giving you the wrong, comedic, or sarcastic answers to simple questions, then it's probably not who you'd want to talk to if you're trying to communicate directly with your subconscious. I suggest making a point to summon a character that represents your subconscious.
We're looking for the character that can give accurate answers. These questions are used to determine if you're speaking to the correct character (or, the "know it all"–subconscious represented by the greater being).
So, once the questions are out of the way and you know you're talking the correct character, then you move on to the actual purpose for all this: To give direct orders to your subconscious. Maybe you could tell this person that you want to become lucid every time you dream, or that you want to have better recall from now on, and such. Also have the person confirm all these orders by repeating them, to make sure they're “burned” in memory. Don’t forget to thank him/her for his/her cooperation.
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