Hi, I'm New Here, Had Some Ld's, Hope To Learn A Lot More.

[yoast]

Hi, I'm new here. I became a member because i'd like to learn a lot more about lucid dreaming, this seems to be the right place. I've been studying lucid dreaming for about six months now. I've read EWLD and another book by Laberge, also some ebooks, I keep a dream journal, do reality checks, listen to Laberge's cd, use the remdreamer, meditate, tried food supplements, etc etc. Since that time I've had three LD's. All very short. The first time I saw a cars headlights reflected in little mirrors on the ceiling, I thought it might be the remdreamers lights, i jumped to see if gravity has the usual effect on me, it didn's. I realised I was dreaming and I jumped around in my room in slow motion, matrix style. And i remembered to look at my hands (read it somewhere), looked very weird, seems to be a good reality check for me. Then i remembered the dreamalarm was on (function of the remdreamer), so started looking for it in the room (I know it's on my face, just didn't think of it then), I lost lucidity and the alarm woke me up. Second time (no remdreamer) I was running in a park (I never do this in real life) and noticed some guy following me, i turned around to punch him and suddenly realised i was dreaming, I flew away. Everything got dark, I concentrated to get a new image, got some vague underwaterworld and woke up. Third time (this morning) I woke up (false awakening apparently) and put away the remdreamer, I noticed my bed being covered in camouflage, i did a reality check (breathing through my nose while keeping it closed, read it on this site yesterday, apparently it doesn't work for me) but the result was normal, so I wasn't dreaming (I was off course). I heard a buzzing noise, I turned around and saw a camera attached to my bed. I reached for it to see who is watching me (yes, i know camera's don't work that way), i looked into the camera and saw a recording of myself and a tibetan monk in a previous dream that night, weird. I looked at my hands, all blurry, continous variations in number and size of fingers, i was definitely dreaming. The dream alarm woke me up again. So that's it so far, I do remember having had a few LD's before I knew what they were, but not many. I think I'm on the right track now, but I'd love to have LD's every week, so I hope I can develop this skill whit a little advice from this site. Goodnight

[Seeker]

Hi yoast! Welcome on board, it sounds like you are doing pretty well already, please let us know how we can help and please join in the discussion!

[Alex D]

Hello there, welcome to Dream Views. What's the REM dreamer like? I've been thinking about investing in one. Those experiences sound really interesting, feel free to share any more. So make yourself at home.

[Vex Kitten]

Hi and welcome, yoast. Great to see you've had some LD's already even though they were short. They will get better with time, promise. You've done a heck of a lot in the research and study depeartment. A+ for you. So there's probably nothing new I can tell you except enjoy yourself here and get to know the place. Hope to see you around.

[Nutzilla]

I noticed my bed being covered in camouflage, i did a reality check[/b] Good job. :)

[yoast]

Thanks for the warm welcome, I don't have any specific questions for now, but I'm sure I will in the future. About the remdreamer. I'm very positive about it of course, since it helps me getting LD's. But it's not like you put on the mask and you get LD's. There's still a lot of effort you have to put in. 1 First you need to find the right sensitivity, so that it does go off during rem, but doesn't go off at other times. This is pretty easy if you follow the instructions, takes a few nights, but afterwards you never have to change it again. (for me a sensitivity of six works, so it's allways on that sensitivity) 2 Then you need to find the correct stimulus, one that is annoying enough to make it into your dreams, but not so annoying as to wake you up. This is a bit harder, takes more time. But there are a lot of custom settings to help you find the right stimulus. I use a brightness of three, two flashes per second, for six seconds, no beeps. This hardly ever wakes me up, but makes it through to my dream in most cases. 3 Then you need to recognise the stimulus. Most times your mind incorporates the stimulus into your dream. You see headlights, reflections, nuclear war, photo's with flash, lightning, any other light phenomenon. So you need to make light phenomena your dreamsign. (the advantage is that the light is very intrusive in your dream, so easy to recognize). 4 A good way to learn to recognize it is by using the dreamalarm (another setting), it wakes you up two minutes after the stimulus. So you wake up during your dream (good for dream recall), just a little time after the stimulus. This is good to train step 2 and 3. This is about how far I am at using it, I suppose after a while I'll not use the alarm, so I can continu my LD when I get one. I look at it as 'training wheels'. By the way, I don't sleep with the mask all night, I put it on when I awaken early and can sleep in late (usually in weekends, I don't use it during the week because of my job.) The mask is pretty comfortable to sleep with, the shipping takes longer than they say it does, the thing that makes the beeping sound (don't know what it's called in English, oh hang on, it's 'speaker'right?) is already damaged in mine, so I'm not sure about the quality. But it is a good product in my opinion, it definitely works for me. Hope this helps you. Cheers