Thread: My technique

Hello:

For the second post, I'm going to relate how I become lucid.

Well, the real trick is not to do reality checks from time to time, but to be immersed into a reality check continuum. Yes, it sounds exhausting, but it's far easier to accomplish.

When we dream, specially in the last hours of our sleep time (where theta periods are longer), we are able to observe, with greater focus, what's going on around us. There's also a weird sense of familiarity, acceptance, and, in some cases, oddness of what it's happening.

The point is to gather all of those feelings in the waking time. In a session, for example, when I step out of my house and I start to walk I imagine (assume) that I'm inside a dream. In fact, the brain is unable to know the difference in between the two states.

So, as I go on walking, I observe the streets, people, lights... with great care, and, always assuming I'm inside a dream. I get to a point where those feelings of weirdness, oddness... start to pop up in my mind, so I know I'm entering the correct state of mind.

Then, your view of the reality begins to shift. Strange and interesting things unfold in your mind. For example, I begin to perceive my surroundings as a stage. That means I feel as if only the little piece of reality around me in that precise time would exist. Think of a videogame, you have many worlds to walk but you can only see the space through the screen, a little focus that gives you one little piece of that reality at a time. The inner sensation also feels as if I would be totally comfortable and at home in every little spot, once I've activated the "stage" feeling.

I also have a sensation of "layer-splitting", so things moving (people) and stable things (buildings and objects) seem to be in different layers (as a photoshop picture with two layers).

The previous effects can be held for as much time as you want. The more time, the more probability to become lucid when at sleep. It works for me really well.

I know I've explained a complete subjective technique, so if you want to get to the point I've got to, you should give it a try. It's worth the effort. I found it out by chance, practicing and experimenting on my own.

Hope it gives you a new perspective. Bye!

Originally Posted by andonitxo

Hello:

For the second post, I'm going to relate how I become lucid.

Well, the real trick is not to do reality checks from time to time, but to be immersed into a reality check continuum. Yes, it sounds exhausting, but it's far easier to accomplish.

When we dream, specially in the last hours of our sleep time (where theta periods are longer), we are able to observe, with greater focus, what's going on around us. There's also a weird sense of familiarity, acceptance, and, in some cases, oddness of what it's happening.

The point is to gather all of those feelings in the waking time. In a session, for example, when I step out of my house and I start to walk I imagine (assume) that I'm inside a dream. In fact, the brain is unable to know the difference in between the two states.

So, as I go on walking, I observe the streets, people, lights... with great care, and, always assuming I'm inside a dream. I get to a point where those feelings of weirdness, oddness... start to pop up in my mind, so I know I'm entering the correct state of mind.

Then, your view of the reality begins to shift. Strange and interesting things unfold in your mind. For example, I begin to perceive my surroundings as a stage. That means I feel as if only the little piece of reality around me in that precise time would exist. Think of a videogame, you have many worlds to walk but you can only see the space through the screen, a little focus that gives you one little piece of that reality at a time. The inner sensation also feels as if I would be totally comfortable and at home in every little spot, once I've activated the "stage" feeling.

I also have a sensation of "layer-splitting", so things moving (people) and stable things (buildings and objects) seem to be in different layers (as a photoshop picture with two layers).

The previous effects can be held for as much time as you want. The more time, the more probability to become lucid when at sleep. It works for me really well.

I know I've explained a complete subjective technique, so if you want to get to the point I've got to, you should give it a try. It's worth the effort. I found it out by chance, practicing and experimenting on my own.

Hope it gives you a new perspective. Bye!

I have been using JUST THIS SORT OF METHOD recently, and I had a quick lucid dream only an hour ago! Believe me, this sort of method works. It helped me realise that it was a dream, even though I didn't ask myself something. I was so used to being absolutely aware from time to time that it just kicked it. Thank you.

i think like that and i dont have many lucid dreams and the ones i do have, my problem is exactly that(because of this my dreams arent as fun when im a superhero, i see it in the same way as i would in a video game), im trying to reverse this.

ssooo, just think and see everything as a dream? and truel believe everything s a dream?

That's the point.

You'll know you are getting to the appropriate state of mind when you start to feel weird. But it's a comfortable feeling.

By golly what you have just stated here sir may be pure genious...