Thread: Lucid Dreaming Is Fascinating

Hi everyone,

I'm extremely fascinated with the concept of lucid dreaming. I can remember doing it once or twice in my life, but not completely taking full advantage of it (controlling everything, staying lucid for a longer period of time). I read all of the articles lastnight, and I think I've got a good idea of what to do.

How many people have not lucid dreamed before and have later become exceptionally good at it?

I know I'm motivated, and I really want to experience this dreaming.

I've experienced dreams that I really wanted to remember, so I wrote them down. Only a few though.

About a month or two ago, I had a dream where I knew I was dreaming about my favorite book, although the dream was nothing like the book at all, regardless, it excited me. I wasn't controlling it, because I'm not used to and I didn't really even know the concept of completely being in control of your dreams was possible. Now though, I know it is.

There's nothing else I want more than to be able to experience lucidity. I admire all of you who can, and I'm looking forward to hopefully being able to achieve it fully myself.

By reading these pages (absolutely fascinating, great read) I've gathered that I need to become experienced at dream recall first.

There are a couple things I personally have - ADD and not being able to sleep to music, at all. Do you think these will at all effect my ability to have lucid dreams?

Thanks for reading, I'd really, really appreciate some suggestions or comments.

-Martin

I don't think that ADD will effect you while you are sleeping, though that is a good question. If you cant sleep to music, you might as well just not listen to it when you are going to sleep.


Motivation is the best way to get yourself to become lucid more often. When you really REALLY want to do it, its a lot easier.

-Rob

Keep at it ALWAYS!!!!!!!

Just stay motivated...

you may be really motivated for the first month or so but that feeling may go away if you continually have no results...

It took me a month and a half to have my first lucid and i still havent had too many since then...

well it took me abot 2-3 months before my first true lucid, and since then (only a few days ago) I have had 5 lucid dreams. It may take a while, but it's worth it.

And about the ADD thing, I have ADD too (not too severe a case) and I am still able to lucid dream. So the main problem I encounter is when trying to relax for a WILD and my mind keeps racing from thought to thought. After a while it gets easier to relax, though.

Originally Posted by cidus

well it took me abot 2-3 months before my first true lucid, and since then (only a few days ago) I have had 5 lucid dreams. It may take a while, but it's worth it.

And about the ADD thing, I have ADD too (not too severe a case) and I am still able to lucid dream. So the main problem I encounter is when trying to relax for a WILD and my mind keeps racing from thought to thought. After a while it gets easier to relax, though.
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A WILD?

You remind me of me.

I'm telling you though, your subconscious has a mind of it's own. You have to break into your dreams the way it feels comfortable.

i.e. My cousin when he was really young, had a subconscious which delivered him recurring nightmares that would cause his blankets to tighten around him, and huge lights would come and blind him, as if examining it...

Now his subconscious needed him to smash through the barrier, (so I theorize) as one night, he decided that if it happened, he would throw off the blankets and grab the lights and smash them. He did so, and has been in constant control of his dreams every since.

I think there is a barrier you hit with them... a barrier your own subconscious sets for you, that you have to beat. Something weak in you, that your brain knows will be the hardest, and working past it.

When you do so earlier in childhood, of course it will be easier, due to the naivete's about the world you carry, but as you go on throughout life, it can become increasingly difficult.

I have found this to be a pretty solid theory, and it also explains why my brain won&#39;t let me touch base... >_<

It wants me to stop smoking weed, and to beat anxiety/impatience/frustration...

Suggestion: Watch the movie "Waking Life" ... purely amazing movie.

Originally Posted by OneRyt

You remind me of me.

I&#39;m telling you though, your subconscious has a mind of it&#39;s own. You have to break into your dreams the way it feels comfortable.

i.e. My cousin when he was really young, had a subconscious which delivered him recurring nightmares that would cause his blankets to tighten around him, and huge lights would come and blind him, as if examining it...

Now his subconscious needed him to smash through the barrier, (so I theorize) as one night, he decided that if it happened, he would throw off the blankets and grab the lights and smash them. He did so, and has been in constant control of his dreams every since.

I think there is a barrier you hit with them... a barrier your own subconscious sets for you, that you have to beat. Something weak in you, that your brain knows will be the hardest, and working past it.

When you do so earlier in childhood, of course it will be easier, due to the naivete&#39;s about the world you carry, but as you go on throughout life, it can become increasingly difficult.

I have found this to be a pretty solid theory, and it also explains why my brain won&#39;t let me touch base... >_<

It wants me to stop smoking weed, and to beat anxiety/impatience/frustration...

Suggestion: Watch the movie "Waking Life" ... purely amazing movie.
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Waking life is what got me interested in this.

I&#39;ve watched it twice in the past 2 days, and I&#39;m about to watch it again.

I loved it especially because I was sitting there.... And all of a sudden people started talking about stuff I talk to myself about all the time... Just things I theorize about n&#39; stuff... I was like....


Man..... This movie was made by me... It had to have been. >_<

Also...

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lucid_Dreaming:_Using

Quite useful as well....

I think the last thing it says to try is abit... scary:

Ask the dream to show you your worst fears/deepest traumas/etc. (be prepared for some bad stuff to surface)

I need to check out Waking Life.