Thread: New here :D (Introduction and Question)

I respectfully disagree with Philo.

You only need to desire to LD, follow the right techniques, and it will happen. I am new as well, also motivated by the movie "Inception", and have had 2 LDs now. I have employed several techniques that I have found here and other places. It has taken me one week. Do I have a "great desire". Well, I don't know. How do you measure that? I find Lucid dreaming of real value because it is entertaining. If I continue to explore, my motivation may change to a deeper reason. The point is, I got what I wanted, a Lucid Dream.

My point is that you do no need to spend a whole lot of time justifying why you want to Lucid Dream to make it happen. Just try it using the techniques on this site, and see what happens. If you find you cannot do it, then you must decide whether to go further. You don't have to decide that now.

Here is what I have done. I'm not claiming anything, just stating what I have done:

1. I keep a dream journal beside my bed and write in it every day, whether I recall or not. If I don't recall. I right 'No recall".
2. I stop what I'm doing at least 5 times a day, look at my hands, count my fingers, and ask myself, "Am I dreaming"? I do this intently for at least 30 seconds to a minute or more.
3. Before I fall asleep each night, I say to myself over and over "I am going to have a Lucid Dream tonight, and I am going to remember it".
4. I take Omega 3 Fish oil supplements, Vitamin B6, and apple juice (lots). Motivation later...
5. I listen to Binaural beats in the 4-7 hz beat range with a 95 hz Base frequency, covered slightly by Pink Noise via headphones at a low volume level(I don't think this does diddly, but I'm going to keep trying).
6. I read books on philosophy or Lucid Dreaming before I go to bed.
7. If everything works out, I'll have to get up and pee at about 6 to 7 am.

After that, I go back to sleep, and that is when I have my LDs. After doing this for about a week, I had a really awewome LD last night. The deciding factor in my dream that made me realize that I was in an LD was looking at my hands. They had the wrong number of fingers, and some where only half there. BOOM, I'm in. Now that I'm in, I stabilized my LD by spinning around in my dream (like you would do to make yourself dizzy). Once stabilized, I had a pretty long dream, looking at my hands occasionally to see they were distorted. Once in, I could interact and do things in my dream (like breath underwater in a pool I found in the dream, or kiss the pretty girl I saw standing in my path while I was running through a field of something akin to colored grass but with a carpeted feel). Lots of other stuff happened but that is unimportant.

That's it. It was mind blowing. How long did it last in the real world? Probably only a minute or two (if that). But it was enough.

My desire now has changed. Now I am wondering how much I can alter my dreams, and how much I can learn from LD. For that, I will need to go deeper into the philosophical aspects.

However, if all you desire is to have an entertaining experience, you can do it. I did.

Best of Luck!

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LDs since 7/16/2010: 2