Thread: Does the mere act of coming here help foster LD'S ?

Maybe. Maybe not. For me, however, I think that subconsciously when I check in every night and get focused on the topic before going to sleep, perhaps that elusive LD count does increase. Can't hurt.

It does, to an extent, but your dreams will also involve things you see hear more, because you link this with lucid dreaming.

A mind constantly thinking of lucid dreams, would obviously have a higher chance of becoming lucid.

However, it can work oppositely. You can take the ideas of lucid dreaming for granted.

Originally Posted by Delphinus

However, it can work oppositely. You can take the ideas of lucid dreaming for granted.

Like me.

Don't worry, you will get many more lucid dreams once you start, and if you start to have a dry spell, you can ask us here at dreamviews.

Coming here to learn and read information, or just coming here to kill time?

Yes, i believe it does.
See my thread (after all the dream description at the bottom)
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=76832

I agree that I THINK coming here works. However, playing D.Advocate I'll also say ..
We are going with sheer logic when we say,

"Yes the mere act of coming here helps increase lucid dream incidents".

It seems logical but there's no emperical data to support that claim. In fact, we could propose a counter theory which says that thinking about lucid dreaming reduces the frequency of lucid dreams. How?

Sure, it seems that the more you are enveloped in a subject or environment, the more likely you are to DREAM about it. However, as we've discovered, lucid dreams are very strange critters. Could there be a reason why it's not easy to have them? Could the mind in fact prefer that we did NOT have them?

They keep coming up with new theories on why we must sleep and dream. Maybe the mind does whatever it does to "cleanse" our subconscious by KNOCKING US UNCONSCIOUS every night. Maybe by interrupting that cleansing process by forcing ourselves "awake" during the cleansing process .. maybe the mind does whatever it can to prevent us from awakening in a dream.

All that to say .. if that theory is true, the mind (since it's smarter than we are) might fight any attempt that we consciously make to make lucid dreams happen. That would apply to thinking about lucid dreaming, learning about lucid dreaming, hooking yourself up to that infamous lucid dreaming machine (Nova mask), etc.

Ok. Enough devil's advocate. Logically I believe that immersion in lucid dream topics might help in creating them but .. data-wise, I have no data to support that. I once went to one of Stephen's workshops. He looks just as other-worldly in person as he does in his photos. I forget his possible position on this subject but I bet that the mere act of listening to him in a classroom setting surely helped a lot of folks in attendance have a few after the workshop was over.