I'll be trying this for the foreseeable future, so I'll let you guys know how I go. You know, for encouragement and to make the guide look good. |
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DILD has been the only way I have obtained lucidity. The crazy thing is that each time it has happened I have been floored that it was actually a dream. I would be in my dream and say "guess I will do a RC", I do it and my jaw just drops. Sometimes I will awake within 10 seconds or so but I have managed to remain for over a minute in a couple of them. It seems to me that when the 'awareness' necessary to do a RC happens, I am on my way out of the dream. |
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Hmm...I'm interested in the OP's idea of being excited about the idea of LD'ing. When i was 8 years old, i remember the vivid day (waking life) standing in my friends room holding a toy cat looking out of the frosted up window thinking...'What if this is a dream? What if i never woke up from last night?' I am 37 now, have only recently found out this is a DILD technique to practice in waking life, and coincidentally i still have cats accompany in many of me lucid dreams |
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Last edited by TillyP; 12-27-2013 at 06:15 AM. Reason: spelling! As usual
Trying to find a consistent way to recall dreams before I can even attempt to DILD. |
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1. If you had a lucid dream, you would notice. And you would most likely, almost positively wake up after it. It's just so exciting and different, that you will wake up. So I would start working on DILDs at the same time as working on recall. |
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I have a tough time remembering dreams, even right afterwards. Usually I wake and I don't recall anything. I have feelings but I'm not sure why, I may be excited, but no clue why. Dreams come like a bursting water balloon. It goes from thinking I hadn't dreamed anything to just one thing reminding me of what happened causing a stream of memories to come forward. |
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Well I did the 3 alarms and it worked very well. Like I've read before on here, early on you get fewer dreams, later it's much better. I broke it up into 3 2hour breaks, first break couldn't remember a thing, 2nd break had a really good dream, 3rd break was a really long complicated dream in multi-locations with a connected story. |
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Some nights I cant remember any dreams, im just starting out so is this normal? should i write anything down in my dream journal? Ive been looking into some ways to recall dream better and it would be really helpful someone could give me some tips. Also I am new to the forums. |
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It was normal for me when I started, even now there are times when I cant remember anything. Its not the fact that you didn't dream its just the fact that your mind was on other things when you woke up or you just started going when you woke up. Even when you dont remember anything and you are first starting out write down anything, if it was just a feeling or one thing you remember. If you dont remember anything write that down and what time you went to bed and woke up. This is good to do to get in the practice of journaling. |
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I didn't even know this stuff existed until last night I was dreaming normally and then I realised wait I'm dreaming and I did a few reality checks and realised I was dreaming but then I wasted my time and thought what if I'm not dreaming and this is real then I did a quick Google and found this site and learnt the name for it |
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Have you tried meditation? It helps you stay in the present and not get caught up in your surroundings. You are not your body, you are not even your mind, you are consciousness. I like the "isha kriya" meditation. I had a very good vivid lucid dream after doing this meditation for just one day. |
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I have found a lot more on lucid dreaming but I have been trying for 2 weeks now and no luck I just don't understand how I did it 3 weeks ago and didn't even try to :-) |
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Keep trying! It might take more than a few weeks to learn how to lucid dream more regularly. I started working at this a few years ago after, like you, having an unexpected and spontaneous lucid experience, but after that it still took several weeks of determined practice before I was able to induce lucidity through more deliberate methods. I've had a lot of successes since then but I still have to work hard at it every day! The most important thing is to find ways to sustain or boost your motivation, and apart from that, experiment until you find whatever combination of techniques work best for you. |
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I once had a dream with this mad scientist type character and during the dream he was saying that we were dreaming. I tried to push my fingers in my palm and it didn't work. I kept trying because I knew I must be dreaming but it still didn't work. I then asked my classmate if we were dreaming and he said "yes I even woke up briefly to confirm it." At which point I was like "work!"and I jabbed my fingers into my palm as hard as I could and it worked, making a disgusting crackling sound and it felt like there were new joints in my palms that allowed me o push through, yet somehow I didn't quite get lucid. I also had a dream that started with just dark emptiness, then I heard a sound that was like "vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvVVWUP !" and a scene popped up. I was immediately like "Was that just the start of a dream?! That would never happen in real life" I then walked around exploring but I never quite became lucid, it was more like a dream that I was dreaming I was lucid. I was able to recall something online when the bicycle I was riding stopped moving and I also saw this awesome spot on a path through the woods were there were two large pools that were smooth but irregular floating a good 6 in off the ground at their lowest points. They kind of looked like three dimensional parabolas that were flatter on top, and there were fish in the pools all facing forwards that grew as I walked past the pools. It was probably one of the most vivid dreams I have had, though I recently had an even more vivid one. I was in a lecture hall and my roommate had his stuff there but he wasn't around, I reached over to grab one of my pencils, and just managed to touch it when the alarm clock went off. Waking up felt kind of like when you are in deep thought and someone comes out of nowhere and yells "Surprise!". After I got up I was reflecting on the experience when I thought " wow, that was a dream". Then I remembered the fine detail and thought " WOW! That was a dream!?!" The floor looked real, the tables, the chairs, the skate board, backpack, pens and pencils, all looked Exactly the way they would in real life, and especially the pens and pencils. I even felt everything I touched. |
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I've been trying to induce a lucid dream via reality checks, but I just couldn't get lucid in any way :-( |
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Last edited by Kain; 01-01-2015 at 02:14 PM.
You might happen to perform an RC during a dream and notice that it doesn't indicate reality. Personally, this rarely, if ever, happens to me; instead, I happen to notice something odd, then I'll decide to RC and find out that I'm dreaming. (Indeed, I've occasionally “just happened” to do an RC in a non-lucid dream, and it simply indicated reality, just as it would in real life.) |
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Last edited by KonchogTashi; 01-07-2015 at 06:45 PM. Reason: added quotes
My aspirations for dreaming:
May I always use the dream state to develop positive, virtuous qualities that will bring benefit to all beings!
May I always recognize the dream state and use it to develop wisdom, love, and compassion!
That sounds like a great suggestion! I started looking into LDing a couple of Fridays back, so I've been at it just short of two weeks. I've incorporated my own version of Puffin's SAT with RCs into my daily routine and I've been DJing nightly. I've also been setting an intention via mantra to wake after my dreams and remember them. |
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The thing is where it says when you are about to fall asleep, I usually lye in bed and let my thoughts wander and say when I am about to fall asleep I will say the mantra, but then I wake up the next morning and then realize I had fallen asleep. I don’t know when I am about to fall asleep. Weird. |
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Are you sure you are awake? Do a reality check.
"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."
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