Maybe it's affected by places you haven't been before or rarely go too? |
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Ok, I know alot of you won't believe me, but I think that there may be some places on this Earth that substantiously help you lucid dream. The other day, I had to sleep on the floor of a hotel, I was also in a city as opposed to a town, but I had an incredibally clear and powerful DILD!!! This is odd because this is my second LD ever. But what blew me away was that another dreamer, Echosun13, had to sleep on the floor the next day. Guess what she had? Her 3rd LD, it was also a DILD. So what I am saying is that there may be some places where LDs are more common. Any other ideas? |
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By far, Mothra (in all of it's forms) is the worst kaiju of all time.
Maybe it's affected by places you haven't been before or rarely go too? |
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That makes sense, but I had stayed for two nights, as did Echosun13 ( realize that this is not nearly enough to base a "Study" on, just an idea..). I only had a LD when I was on the floor, and she only when she was on the floor. So maybe it wasn't the floor, it was just me being in the city and giving Echo the placebo push that she needed. |
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By far, Mothra (in all of it's forms) is the worst kaiju of all time.
I stayed in a hotel one night, and that night had an extremely vivid and emotional dream. I think unfamiliarity has a lot to do with it. |
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a lot of you seem to be mentioning hotels, and unless you just stay in hotels as a hobby, I'd say youre also talking about travelling. I've always noticed that travelling disrupts my sleeping pattern, and it also makes a lot of sense considering the kind of stress and potentially, time changes, travelling involves. My thought on this is that this disrupted sleep pattern happens to cause your brain to demand a greater amount of restorative REM sleep, giving you more and more vivid dreams that are easier to become lucid in. |
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I hear this argument a lot, that if you sleep some place new - you might have a more vivid or lucid dream |
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I hear you man! Whenever I travel and sleep in a hotel, or sleep over a relatives, I always have at least very clear dreams. I'm pretty sure it's because your subconscious is aware while your sleeping that your in an irregular location, so it is more alert, resulting in vivid dreams. Sleeping on a coach u never slept on before has a similiar affect! |
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Well congratiolations on that one! |
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Last edited by Maeni; 07-24-2008 at 06:14 PM.
Maybe it's being close to the ground. The last time I slept in a hotel I slept on the twenty-second floor, and I had no recall at all, so I doubt that that would have been very good for lucids. |
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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
Hmm, I live on third floor. So I'm not that close to the ground at all. |
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Yeah well, I was really just pumping out stuff, but still, what do we know? Maybe there's an effect on some brainwaves or something. |
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Well I had a lucid dream drought for a month or two and I was flying back to Corfu and had a lucid dream. |
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Tasks to complete:
Overcome my control problems
Meet the most beautiful woman
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i had my first lucid dreams this week and i am at a hotel too!!!, but i am trying to use MILD to wake up cause i dont have my alarm, i do not care i just hope i can perfect it before i come back home, so i can LD all the time!!! |
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Cosmic rays. Travelling at near C speeds and generally HUGE energies, when they hit a medium, they cause a particle shower which includes the emission of photons. And these particles are hitting astronauts all the time, so when they are in the dark for long enough, they see faint flashes beneath their eyelids. |
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-Bluefinger v1.25- Enter the madness that are my dreams (DJ Update, non-LD)
"When you reject the scientific method in order to believe what you want, you know that you have failed at life. Sorry, but there is no justification, no matter how wordy you make it."
- Xei
DILD: 6, WILD: 1
yeah sure, it's ultimately POSSIBLE that variations in gravity affect our brainwaves, though extremely unlikely, but since such variations would be so miniscule by probably a number of orders of magnitude in comparison to something like, say, the temperature of the room, they're not worth considering in any real discussion of brain wave patterns/dreams. If we want to discuss locations for enhanced dreaming, stuff with a direct effect on brain activity like sensory input and biorhythms are much more worth considering. |
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Last edited by John Updike; 07-25-2008 at 02:36 AM.
Black Tar Heroin |
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sounds like The quantum physics String Theory. |
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As far as I know the belief is that sleeping in unfamiliar or unusual places/positions/whatever is good for lucid dreaming because it means that you are instinctively going to sleep differently, that you are sleeping lighter because your body is still not accustomed to the environment, and that helps you maintain consciousness or attain lucidity more easily. Then of course you could factor in the placebo effect, or like someone mentioned just the thought that carries on into your dreams of "Wow I'm sleeping on a floor (which I hope you usually don't do)... hmm wait how can I be sleeping on a floor if I am standing on a mountain right now? Oh wait, I must be dreaming!" I know this happens to me a lot when I go to bed way later than I should... normally if this thought is in my mind, like I'm having trouble falling asleep and don't until 3 am, I dream of a clock and realize that I went to bed at 3 and have a DILD. |
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I dunno about all that... I mean, I've gone camping quite a bit in my life, and my dream recall is nada, 99.9% of the time. Maybe the fact that sleeping on a tent "floor" is a lot less comfortable than sleeping on a hotel floor has something to do with it, but I really have no idea. As far as my dreams go, travel = not good. |
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