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      Motivation to LD

      I'm lacking some lately so........what makes you want to have (or try to have) Lucid Dreams..?

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      For me, I want to do everything I can't do in RL (Really, just about everything), and I also want to talk to dream characters. I think that could provide a lot of laughs as well as some insight into my sub-conscious.

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      To discover my inner peace;something that can't be done so easily in reality. My perfect LD would be in a tranquil background with the sun-set sky paired with an ocean horizon.
      Or like NJD said before. You can do things you can't do in reality. Just think of some stuff up carefully, and list 'em out. You shouldn't be obligated to LD if you have no motivation at all, so don't stress it out.

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      It's got to be a spark. As with most of my hobbies (fish, papercraft, gaming), I need a spontaneous spark of interest to get me going. For fish, it could be noticing a new phenotype just developed in some maturing fry. For gaming, it could simply be someone's pixelly avatar, or a new release. For dreaming... Well, that could spawn from another dream, or from reading my favorite journal entries. The best, though, is reading a really imaginitive (and not half-formed) thread on the forums.
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      the abilities to do anything I want in the dream. complete control, by just thinking about it.

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      Motivation: Foreign Language Practice

      For me my most serious use for LD is to get speaking in another language. This morning I awoke with the recall of a dream I had about speaking Spanish. I was in Antarctica at a kid's area in a mall and I was talking with Cheech Marin, in Spanish. I've been living in South America for a few years now and I know a lot of Spanish but I'm just a little intimidated to speak it out loud, I feel very self concious about doing it. I'm an English teacher and I know that most of my students feel the same way about speaking English. I'm thinking If I can change over to Spanish in my dreams it might be a good start to get speaking in Spanish while I'm awake. I also think if I can master the technique maybe I can teach my students about it, maybe it will really help them to get speaking too.

      Last night was the first time I recall doing it but I'm thinking that since so much of language takes place automatically anyway, maybe recall isn't totally dispositive, but it does give me some more confidence as I remember what I said and it was correct. Well that's one of my motivations...

      This dream wasn't lucid, but I have been telling myself to speak Spanish in my dreams. I had plenty of clues that it was a dream; the words on a woman's t-shirt changed when I looked away TTWW (Thought That Was Weird), my brother was holding up a giant Snow Flake TTWW, and I was walking barefoot at the south pole TTWW!
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      Oh boy! You need motivation!? Just watch The Matrix! Haha. But seriously, the idea of being able to do anything you want to is just incredible motivation in itself. Let me stress ANYTHING!!!!!!

      Any sex you want, any powers you want, ANYTHING you want to do! And on top of all, it can be just as real as the waking world is. When you fly, you feel the wind, you hear it blowing by your ears, through your hair, making your eyes water. You touch water and you feel it's wet and unstable surface and watch as it ripples with it's own physics, giving your reflecting, cold and shiny on your hands. Oh my god it's amazing to experience in a dream, how realistic things can be.

      Getting back to my point about being able to do ANYTHING! No consequences, no downsides, no restrictions! You can be the ruler of your imagination and you can experience it all just like you would in real life! The idea of lucid dreaming is enough motivation for anyone surely!!

      Now look what you did, you got me all excited and motivated just writing about it!!!
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      About motivation... thats pretty a loong and neverending story. Motivation is something you are searching for only if you doubt what you are doing. You actually dont know, why to try lucid dreaming.

      Even if everyone here wrote whats so motivating for him/her in lucid dreaming. That would be nothing for you. The best way would be just to sit down and think deeper about if you really want to do lucid dreaming. What would you like to do in a dream world. Is it really worth the time?

      If you feel empty about lucid dreaming... Then before doing anything else, fill your hearth with it, not only your mind.


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      I'm scared to try it. I've had a few dreams where I knew what i was doing but didn't make the connection that I could control it so I was begging myself to wake up. Then i heard about all the sleep paralysis stuff and now I'm really creeped out. =(

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      Motivation? Think of something you've always wanted to do/try!
      If you decide that something is beautiful
      then something else immediately becomes ugly
      without you realizing it
      -Lao Tzu
      Seemingly the bough is the cause of the fruit,
      But really the bough exists because of the fruit.
      -Rumi

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      Quote Originally Posted by qwerty View Post
      I'm lacking some lately so........what makes you want to have (or try to have) Lucid Dreams..?
      Just because I can. If it's there, then why not do it? It's much too interesting of a concept to ignore.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Spartytime8 View Post
      I'm scared to try it. I've had a few dreams where I knew what i was doing but didn't make the connection that I could control it so I was begging myself to wake up. Then i heard about all the sleep paralysis stuff and now I'm really creeped out. =(
      Sleep paralysis does sound scary, but it's really just the fear of the unknown. If you do it then you'll lose your fear of it. And I know it can sometimes be terrifying when you don't quite have control over your dream. I've had to force myself to wake up, too. But I think that, on the whole, the sheer amazingness of lucid dreaming far outweighs the occasional bad experience.
      Tasks: Successfully complete a WILD. [x]
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      Probably the best reason I have for lucid dreaming is for drawing. To find something interesting to draw normally takes time and effort, but to find something interesting to draw using lucid dreaming just requires me to have a lucid dream, look around, and remember what I see. Really, any creative activity could be simplified in a similar way, and you probably do something that could be improved through lucid dreaming.

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      sex,fly,and more sex!!! lmao
      Whenever your thinking, just remember thoughts become things.
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      I lucid dream to work directly with my subconscious mind. Yeah, flying is an amazing rush, LD sex can be great, but I'm more interested in the waking-life applications of LDing. I want LDs to make a difference in my life.
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      Theres no way to make you want to, you just have to want to.

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      I've been pretty lazy since summer started. I ain't motivated enough to do reality checks anymore either.
      I found that if I try to MILD or WILD at night while sleeping I have good success. Atleast 2-3 lucids a week. I just make it a point to do it atleast once or twice in the middle of the night, every night, preferably after 3 or 4 am.
      The WILD method seems to work better even though I usually just find myself in a dream and remember - like a MILD.

      I figure this practice of nightly tries will amount to mastering lucid dreaming more than doing reality checks.

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      Why do i want to well... im a thiriantrope (look it up) so i want to go tru the full thing fur and everything

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      Quote Originally Posted by DaRkWoLf94 View Post
      Why do i want to well... im a thiriantrope (look it up) so i want to go tru the full thing fur and everything
      A thirian! How nice to have you on DV! LDs would be a great place to experience a full change.
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      Aside from the countless possiblilities LDing brings... the fun of it all is the main factor. Even if I don't really get anything done in a LD, I still have fun with it.
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