Thread: Programming Lucidity

Are you sure your idea works well? Seems like too much of a hassle to go outside at midnight to find the moon, and then do a reality check. What if it is too cloudy to see the moon?

Code:

 <Excercise>
    <Title>Phone Troubles</Title>
    <Task>When nobody is using the phone, pick it up, and without dialing a number, ask to speak to the operator or someone. If all of a sudden you are talking to someone on the phone, it is a dream.</Task>
    <Lucidity>8</Lucidity>
    <Details></Details>
  </Excercise>

I have used this once before, and it caused an extremely long lucid dream.

Originally Posted by bored2tears

What if it is too cloudy to see the moon?

All the more reason to do a second reality check! And this one has worked without fail for me - last moon I saw an eclipse from a comet in my dream and then figured it out.

Code:

  <Excercise>
    <Title>Going Under</Title>
    <Task>Fall asleep in the clothes that you would wear when going out for a night in town.</Task>
    <Lucidity>4</Lucidity>
  </Excercise>

Originally Posted by bored2tears

When nobody is using the phone, pick it up, and without dialing a number, ask to speak to the operator or someone. If all of a sudden you are talking to someone on the phone, it is a dream.

This made me laugh, a very funny and bold approach! Nice!

Code:

<Excercise>
    <Title>Computer talks</Title>
    <Task>Get to your Linux / Dos Shell on your computer and type in a strange command which can 
only be interpreted as 'unkown command' by the machine. When somthinge else comes back your
your computer even answers, you know you are dreaming.</Task>
    <Lucidity>5</Lucidity>
    <Details>Use something like 'cant you do anything right?', 'did you have a splendid morning?' or
'whats up doc?'. Be warned however, there are some unix commands which will give readable
answers in real life, 'make sense' will return 'cant make sense' and 'sleep with me' will return 'bad
character'.</Details>
  </Excercise>

Regards
Lorgarn

Are you sure your idea works well? Seems like too much of a hassle to go outside at midnight to find the moon, and then do a reality check. What if it is too cloudy to see the moon?

Yeah, and it's way too cold at this time of year to go outside at midnight in your pajamas. I don't really get why you need to go outside and look at the moon anyway. Why not just do a reality check as soon as the alarm wakes you up?

I believe that if you go to sleep with the intention of getting out of bed, and, depending on the time of year, dressed appropriately, the exercise is a lot more powerful and likely to work than just having the intention to do a quick RC with limited awareness. Especially if you have looked at the full moon before going to sleep. Just try it once and see if it works better for you than a plain RC in bed...

Now you owe this thread two exercises to make up for the one you missed in your post.

Code:

<Excercise>
    <Title>Standing in Line</Title>
    <Task>Imagine yourself standing and leaning against a palm tree on a sandy beach as you are falling asleep. Hold only this thought for as long as you can and keep coming back to it when you lose focus of it.</Task>
    <Lucidity>4</Lucidity>
  </Excercise>

Code:

  <Excercise>
<Title>LUCIDRINK</Title>
<Task>Drink a glass of lucid-blessed water every night before you go to bed.</Task>
<Lucidity>8</Lucidity>
<Details></Details>
</Excercise>

So what, are we gonna make a program to display all these xml files or something?

In heaaven.

Hey that's tod!

So what if I don't manage to do the phone thing during a dream?