Real lucid dreams (the guide)
So last night I'm in a dream where me and two of my friends are hanging out talking about LDing (we never talk about LDing together) we all decided that we would WILD and have a mutual dream (shared dream) so we did,
(1) apparently the act of WILDing woke something in my head up and suddenly i was lucid enough to do a RC. I was like "woo I'm dreaming" (2) and i watched as my two friends appeared in front of me, i thought to myself "finally they've arrived" we then discussed what we thought we should do, we decided to play tag with all our dream powers wherein we would throw balls of energy at one another and whoever got hit was out, we were on a tennis court so I jumped up onto the top of the fence and began running down it doing front flips etc dodging their energy then i woke
(read below before leaving)
Ok, I didn't make this post to tell you about my lucid dream, I made it to show you what most of us often forget to do when we enter a lucid dream. In forgetting to do these simple things we give up lifelike details and lucidity that tops that of daily life for a shitty, half lucid, rat-hole of a dream that we forget five minutes after awakening.
(the dream above was actually one I had)
You'll notice that I put numbers beside the points in the dream where I went lucid and where it ended, not a very long span there huh? here's some things I could have done to make that last much much longer and make it all the more meaningful:
What I did- I've just gained lucidity, I'm pretty excited at this point because I can do anything and everything that I can imagine, after a couple seconds of thinking about what the effect of seeing 7 fingers on my hand has on reality, I think to myself: "oh I'm dreaming" and proceed to just walk around my dream aimlessly...
what I should have done- I've just gained lucidity, I'm pretty excited because I've just realized that my horizons are completely limitless. If, at this very moment, I wanted to fly through the clouds of some mystic distant planet, I could.
Soon after thinking about the fact that I have 7 fingers, I remember all the time I spent thinking about what I should do when I fail a RC that I did the day before. Immediately I kneel down and look at my palms, examining their details, thinking extremely hard about the fact that my mind created every groove and bump that I see.
I look away and then back a few times, by now not really thinking about whats going on around me, my palms are all that matters, them and all their grooves notches and bumps, by now (after looking at them for about 5 seconds) I've lost most of the initial excitement that I had when I first did the RC, I'm thinking more clearly.
I look up and find a tennis court, beautifully detailed with a wide and incredible range of vivid colors, all swirilng around and through me.
I look for the birds that should be flying through the trees and suddenly notice a flock of thousands of parrots rising from the canopy, their colors (almost) blinding me. I then begin to notice their familiar squawks and whistles just as they begin fade off into the horizon.
Now I begin listening for more sounds... I hear the wind blowing through the fence that surrounds me, Instantly I feel it swirl through my hair and beat against my face.
This goes on for about 30 seconds (my trying to open up all my senses), by now I've tasted the wind, heard the sounds of a freeway that must be half a mile away, and saw a lone ladybug that had just began its long trek across the tennis court.
I can now go do whatever I want and it will be in crystal clarity, more real than life itself.
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That's what could have happened had I taken 30 seconds to ground myself in my new reality. (I'm sure it looks like it would take much longer than that when your reading it, but it actually goes by much faster when your doing it :P )
Practice doing these three things when your still in reality, it makes it much easier to remember how and what to do when you actually get into a lucid dream:
1) The first thing you should do is acknowledge the fact that everything around you is created singularly by your mind, and that none of it is real in any way other than that your experiencing it alone (with no other entity such as your friends or a ghost or something stupid like that)
2) kneel down and either:
Why did I make this topic?</span>
I made this for everyone that asks questions like: "was this a lucid dream?", or: "how do I know if I was lucid or not?"
The definition of a lucid dream is you saying to yourself: "I'm dreaming"
I ask you, what would be the point of lucid dreaming if all it was, was a dream where you said "I'm dreaming"? Often in those dreams you just walk around feeling like you haven't slept in days, doing random meaningless dream stuff with your "dream powers".
Would that really be enough for anyone to put in so much work in trying to achieve a lucid dream? Would that make you gasp in the morning in awe of how worth-while all the work you put in was?
personally I say no, but I guess that's really all for the individual to decide.
you see, a lucid dream isn't supposed to be remembered like a normal dream is. You shouldn't have to write it down in order to not forget any details of it (any more than you would forget that a waking memory that is).
When you wake up after an LD you should feel like you just teleported into your bed, no lost memories, no foggyness, total clairity.
to have dreams remembered like I just described follow the steps I laid out earlier, but also (and most important of all) remember this:
DON'T GO BACK TO SLEEP AFTER HAVING YOUR LD!
if you do go back to sleep (even if you just had the single most vivid lucid dream you've ever experienced in your life), its all going to be forgotten in the morning. You'll remember it as though it were just another normal dream where you said "I'm dreaming."... You don't want that, so follow those steps, and dream lucidly 8)
(PS. comments are always welcome :) )
