Thread: Best Lucid Dream so far

Congrats! Longer is better, right?

Anyway, don't sweat the control stuff so much, it will come as your experience and confidence increases.

Yes, yes it is. One other thing though. I looked at the time, expecting it to change, but when I looked back at it, it was the same. Same thing happened for some book. I kept thinking "Christ, it's a good thing I know I'm lucid, because these tricks just ain't working."

Ya, i still cant stay lucid for very long either, but sometimes i can. When i do, i try to calm my nurves as much as possible. Then you have to understand that anything, i mean anything is possible. Dont try to make the towel dissapear. Understand that it could disappear if you wanted it to. Dont view it as an "i want", rather view it as "it will if i want it to."

So far the longest lucid and coolest i had so far was i was flying.

Originally posted by The Wig
I had just walked in some room ready to beat the shit out of some racists people and I grabbed a bat to wait for them. I smashed a TV (it hit me, the glass that is) and waited. I was on some bed. I looked at the floor and said \"Hey, this might be a dream!\" I don't really remember when I first became lucid but I do remember being lucid. I got up and walked around exploring the room. I saw a towel hanging on the wall and tried to make it disappear, but that didn't work.

I felt like i was losing the dream, so I began spinning (which only made me dizzy, what kind of backwards trick is that? :-p). I went to the TV to confirm I really was dreaming and I remember thinking the channels were weird and off so that confirmed it for me. I went to my computer to try to communicate with one of the guys on here (the guy that had a dream for 500 years or something), not sure if it worked. I tried spinning again but got dizzy, again. I walked into another room, and lost lucidity.

Overall, it was kind of weak 'cause I couldn't do anything, but it was my longest one so far.

You really need to get beyond the myth that Lucidity confers anything approaching complete control. Look at some of these Essays on Lucid Dreaming http://www.sawka.com/spiritwatch/tableof.htm particularly Dr. Anne Faraday's "The Selling of the Senoi" which discusses the fraudulent portrayal of Lucid Dreaming as bestowing any significant Dream control... that the idea was never more than a hypothesis which never worked out, but which has been perpetuated because it hooks newbies. But you might as well forget it, if that is all you are looking for out of Lucid Dreaming.

It was interesting to find that 'Twirling' is not always effective. I found that deep and rapid breathing help me extend the duration and intensity of Lucid Dreaming.

You might try Flying out of these ordinary Dream Locations. Now, don't waste your entire Dream in Flying, but go up prepared for coming back down, but into a better and higher Dream Location. You see, Lucid Dreams are special, and what often happens is that the Dream Mind will set aside a very special Dream for those occassions when you do go Lucid. When 'twirling' does work, it often transports the Dreamer to one of these special Dream Locations, but flying will do the same thing if twirling does not work for you, only flying might take a bit longer. Unfortunately, time is critical. Although some Dreamers say that they have prolonged the time they spent in dreams, some saying they have spent years in their dreams, it really does not correlate well with anything from the reliable literatures and I can't say I honestly believe such accounts. Ordinarily you can only expect to dream for a few minutes. And, really, the most important dreams don't take very long anyway.

Originally posted by Leo Volont


You really need to get beyond the myth that Lucidity confers anything approaching complete control. * *

I have to disagree , Leo. I have lucid dreams where my control is fantastic. I
hesitate to say complete because I haven't tried everything while dreaming,
so how could I know for sure ? But I do know that when I do have a good, strong
lucid dream, I can do or have anything I care to think. Maybe that's rare, I haven't
done the research; but I don't want to see anyone get discouraged.
As far as dreams lasting only minutes, again I have to disagree; if we are speaking
about " dream " time. The perceived passage of time during your dream opposed
to the " real " time you are in your bed experiencing that dream ( which may indeed
be only minutes ). I routinely have dreams that are perceived to last hours to my
sleeping mind, sometimes longer, without chronological gaps.
Even if my lucids are atypical, who says the Wigs won't be either. Sorry to sound so contradictory , Leo, I'd just rather him know there are no absolutes. He may not
ever have great control, but he'll never know if he stops trying.

I believe the dizziness you experienced would be due to an expectation. Let yourself know now that when you are dreaming spinning will not cause this effect. I get horribly dizzy and sick when awake if I spin but sleeping is another story. Anyway I doubt youre that interest but http://www.pneuro.com/publications/dizzy/ if you feel your mind needs some convincing read up a bit.