What (if any) technology are you using to enhance your LD experience?

Samson Meteor Mic, Audacity, and Headphones.

I like to record myself preforming various types of autosuggestion. I have recordings that repeat mantras to myself. "I am a good lucid dreamer".

I have one (about 40 minutes long) that goes over all my dream signs starting with the very obvious/common ones and moving to the more vague ones. (I have a lot of dream signs). The recording goes into detail about each dream sign, what I believe the symbolism is behind it, what contexts it occurs in, etc.

I also have one for my dream goals. I planned on cycling this one out once I completed more dream goals. (I've been having a hard time remembering goals in dreams, maybe I'll listen to that one a few times tonight.)

When I first heard of technological aids or EILD, I thought I was above them, that I didn't need them and that I should try to develop my skill as a lucid dreamer naturally, but I've found them to be rather useful as a supplement to my regular practice, and I've been disciplined about not allowing them to become the sole driver of my practice. Usually I play the recordings in the car while driving to/from campus. (Or turn them off and do autosuggestion the old fashioned way.) It's a good way for me to make use of time that would otherwise go to waste. It holds a secondary role and is mostly just there as a dry spell breaker or leg up when the going gets tough. But i figure if I am going to use a technological aid, I should at least have a hand in its creation and personalize it to my needs.

Mine are more for lucid reality creation than lucid dreaming in the normal sense, but they can be used for lucid dreaming nonetheless.

Tools:

1. Hanging Charm Reminders
2. Da Story Habit Induction Technique
3. Mirror Reminder
4. Vision Board
5. Vision Statement
6. Jewelry Reminder
7. Meditation
8. Day Alarm/Reminders
9. House Decals
10. houzz.com
11. Flash Card Manifestation
12. Reading
13. Documentaries
14. Seminars
15. Community/Discussion
16. Audio Meditation
17. Time Capsule
18. Positive Rubberband
19. Wish Jar
20. Brainstorm
21. Affirmations
22. Wallet Subliminal

So, so far 22 that come to mind. I would like to get to 100 and make a book with them detailed. I admit that even to myself it seems like this could be considered trying too hard. As if we should allow it to flow and just happen. Anywho, it is also really fun giving it all i’ve got. Developing these has been like doing a ton of art projects. Still despite how overzealous it may seem to dedicate so much effort to this sort of dreaming, it still seems rightly done out of passion for the topic.

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Originally Posted by JadeGreen

When I first heard of technological aids or EILD, I thought I was above them, that I didn't need them and that I should try to develop my skill as a lucid dreamer naturally, but I've found them to be rather useful as a supplement to my regular practice, and I've been disciplined about not allowing them to become the sole driver of my practice.

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Very well said. This is currently my attitude as well, and perhaps I should have made that clearer at the outset. Perhaps there would have been a bit less misunderstanding. Thank you for explaining it so elegantly.

I never stopped to consider whether books on the topic of LD'ing could be loosely considered to be a form of "technology" useful to enhance dreaming and/or lucidity...but I gotta tell you, with all the reading I've been doing lately, my dream recall has skyrocketed (always 3 or greater, 6 last night, which has GOT to be a record!) I'm beginning to think that books can really be effective at priming the dream recall pump! My written DJ is just exploding with new entries! Waiting patiently for that next lucid one!!!!

The first time I tried Radugas 'indirect techniques' went like this.

I went asleep and woke with an alarm 5 hours later. I drifted off repeating to myself 'when i wake, i keep still'. A while later i realized i had woken up and as i hadn't moved or opened my eyes, I immediately decided to try the techniques. I stared at the back of my eyelids for 5 seconds, nothing happened so i listened to the hissing in my ears, nothing happened, i felt a bit silly as i 'knew' i was 'awake' but decided to continue anyway...

I then tried phantom arm wiggling but it just felt stupid so i went back to staring at eyelids for a few seconds. there was some mild hypnogogia but nothing much so i then went back to listening to the hissing in my ears feeling like im wasting my time, but then ......................... WOW the hissing immediately became as loud as a jet engine like a hurricane whistling noise, deafening! I knew I that I was now supposed to 'get up' out of bed ... so I did and I stood in my bedroom, the whistling stopped but something was odd - there was a fricking flag hanging from my ceiling!!!! impossible! I was awake so why is there a flag there?

I then 'nose plugged' and could breath! I looked at the bedroom window and just flew right through it and up into the sky over my house and had an amazing lucid dream.

Thats the power or DEILD!

Ezzo

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Originally Posted by Wisher

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So, so far 22 that come to mind. I would like to get to 100 and make a book with them detailed.

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and your LD count = 1 since join in 2013

you must be joking Wisher :)


Might I suggest this slightly logarithmic scale of lucid dreaming frequency vs skill

1 / cycle God Like
1 / night Expert
1 / week Good/Average
1 / month Novice/Poor
1 / season abysmal
1 / year comatose
1 / decade deceased

Thanks for the curiosity cooleymd :)


1 LD because once you wake up to the true dream the first time, everything after that is varying levels of true lucidity.


We see this differently that is all. This is an off topic discussion for this thread however.

Ah! Raduga... Gave me my some Lucids right from the first trials and this was phenomenal for me.!.. but then it stopped working - and I never realised why...
I have recorded everything in this thread some time ago..