Thread: A method (Interrupted Sleep Audio Method) for lucidity for those who can't get up to WBTB or newbies

OK well that's good about the auto-shutoff, whew!

Ugh about drunk daughter & friend. Let me tell you, though, being pissed does NOT help you get back to sleep and dream. I've learned this the hard way. So now I tell myself, "every sound, every sensation I'm experiencing, serves to relax me more and more. I sink deeper and deeper into relaxation..." and so on. Helps a lot! Meditation is rehersal for these sorts of scenarios, practice it!

On the PLUS side, I fell asleep eventually, had two awesome long dreams with excellent recall. No lucidity, unfortunately.

That's fanTAStic. Sageous says it best when he says: "Some dreams are fine just the way they are." I treasure my LDs but I have to say my non-lucids are way more interesting most of the time. What makes the lucids so fabulous is the *presence*, the *awareness* of being in the dream. But the plot of the non-lucids and the scenarios and the situations are way more exciting (not to mention I have absolutely no issue with keeping up a non-lucid sex for a good long time [albeit sensation is muted]). I guess I have a long way to go to get LDs at the excitement level of NLDs.

Love all your dreams, including (especially!) the non-lucid ones. Stay "close" to your dreams. Sensei calls it "dream awareness" and I think it's a major thing. Dream awareness + state awareness = lucidity. Dream awareness alone though is awesome!

Using it for LD purposes. Well, in case you haven't thought about it yet: DEILD timer is the obvious thing that comes to mind. At the appropriate time (4-6 hours? 7 hours? depends when you can get back to sleep *quickly*), have it go off every 10-15 minutes for a sleep cycle or two. Heck, try for every 5 minutes if you can. Experiment. You want to be very often roused and fall back right asleep into a dream, lucid.

The other main use is to set it up to be a dream sign. During the day, when it goes off, say to yourself, "there's my dream notification, I'm now lucid in my dream," do a RC or two, and try to keep your awareness raised, that is, become lucid when it goes off [you can be lucid while awake as well as when asleep!]. Then set it to go off when you think you'll be in REM (having a regular sleep cycle or mapped out REM times can be golden here), during the night, and do the same ritual in-dream, and because lucid and enjoy!

Only make sure you always respond to it fully every single time. Never take it for granted, it should always perk you up. If you find your reaction getting dulled, take a break or make it less frequent. React with joy and excitement!

OK well that's good about the auto-shutoff, whew!

Yeah, my bad. The directions are more complicated than those for putting together a 10 speed bike!

Originally Posted by FryingMan

That's fanTAStic. Sageous says it best when he says: "Some dreams are fine just the way they are." Love all your dreams, including (especially!) the non-lucid ones. Stay "close" to your dreams. Sensei calls it "dream awareness" and I think it's a major thing. Dream awareness + state awareness = lucidity. Dream awareness alone though is awesome!

Agreed! Now that I'm remembering my dreams almost nightly, I find the "story lines" quite amusing. I have taken to writing down just enough information to remember the dream later on when I can write the full narrative. Today I'm catching up on my dream journal (I type it) because it's raining and I'm precluded from doing any outdoorsy stuff.

DH

Originally Posted by DoubleHelix

Yeah, my bad. The directions are more complicated than those for putting together a 10 speed bike!




Agreed! Now that I'm remembering my dreams almost nightly, I find the "story lines" quite amusing. I have taken to writing down just enough information to remember the dream later on when I can write the full narrative. Today I'm catching up on my dream journal (I type it) because it's raining and I'm precluded from doing any outdoorsy stuff.

DH

I find that after doing recall for a bit over a year that a quick summary spoken into the voice recorder of my smart phone cements the dream enough in my memory to do a full journal write-up up to a week or even beyond in fairly good original detail. It is worth recording the summaries even if you think your memory is beefy enough to last a few days or more until you have time to journal, because more than once I've completely forgotten fun little dreams that my quick notes brought right back to me.

edit about amusing story lines: oh, yeah. Where do we come up with this stuff? Last night I was flying DO through a giant park of replica mountain scenes from around the world. Including fake mist (made from cotton or some other cloth) hanging from the rock outcroppings. Fabulous stuff.

HeHe...that's pretty good. I'll tell you a small part of mine from this morning. Four high school kids came around, ringing my doorbell looking for donations for the elderly while I was playing my guitar in the house. I insulted them royally through an open window before answering the door, stepping outside, and agreeing to make a donation. They hand me their clip board and I see my current address displayed (typed) in the top far left box. I ask them for some proof or ID of the cause they were collecting for, and they show me a picture. The picture depicts my front door to my old house from ~25 years ago with my niece Jodi and one other female standing on the stoop. The interesting thing was that the picture was animated, like in the Harry Potter movies, and my niece and the other gal were moving inside the picture. I had stepped outside to greet the boys to sign the form regarding my donation, and this afforded me an opportunity to surveil the sky and see what kind of day/weather we had that day. The sky was a deep blue, but there were white X's and check marks in a short vertical cylinder shape which I believed had appeared there because a TV weatherman was marking up the televised weather map at his station, and his markings bled into and became superimposed on the "real" sky. How's THAT for weird????

DH

Originally Posted by FryingMan

I treasure my LDs but I have to say my non-lucids are way more interesting most of the time. What makes the lucids so fabulous is the *presence*, the *awareness* of being in the dream. But the plot of the non-lucids and the scenarios and the situations are way more exciting

So true! And part of the problem is that plot seems almost antithetical to lucidity... if I have a lucid dream that does start developing an engaging narrative, my lucidity tends to wane and disappear as I get drawn into the dream events. But even if I were able to maintain it, I suspect being lucid might make the plot less interesting, because I would be too tempted to exert control to make things go my way! The most exciting plotlines revolve around characters who experience a loss of control and have to regain it, or else struggle to maintain their control against difficult odds.