A Few Questions

[CloudOne]

I've had a few vivid lucid dreams today, I guess there were four of them but only two of them were longer ones. I'd like to describe the second one (very vivid): I woke up (false awakening) and went to kitchen where I realized I was dreaming (i didn't do reality check, I just realized it). So I wanted to test some abilities: First, I walked through a wall (for the first time in a vivid dream) outside and then I wanted to fly so I flied away. It was really great because I could feel the wind and could clearly see the ground under myself. I decided to land so I ended up in a forest where I tried another abilities: 1. there was a person which I decided to disappear, 2. I wanted to hear my voice and I did hear it, 3. I tried to say my name in a dream (which everytime I did somehow failed) and I DID say it out loud ! 4. I decided to change the scene (I said 'Change the scene' out loud). I ended up in a forest on another planet (there was interesting ambient) and then for some reason I saw fast food where I bought something to eat and it tasted like real food. Then it continued for a while on another place and then I woke up. As for the questions: 1. Lately it's almost everytime that I begin vivid lucid dream in the place where I sleep. Is this normal? Can I change it somehow? 2. I've already had some experience with stabilizing lucidity by looking at my hands. I tried to do something I've found rather interesting: I tried to look at my hands and blinked. Everything went dark except for the hands - they were in a perfect state. Is it that brain counts hands as different from the surround? (after the blackness I could continue in another vivid LD) 3. Does the length of a vivid dream depend on ability of human not to blink - because when you blink in vivid dream, you lose clarity.

[Evo]

I've had a few vivid lucid dreams today, I guess there were four of them but only two of them were longer ones. I'd like to describe the second one (very vivid): I woke up (false awakening) and went to kitchen where I realized I was dreaming (i didn't do reality check, I just realized it). So I wanted to test some abilities: First, I walked through a wall (for the first time in a vivid dream) outside and then I wanted to fly so I flied away. It was really great because I could feel the wind and could clearly see the ground under myself. I decided to land so I ended up in a forest where I tried another abilities: 1. there was a person which I decided to disappear, 2. I wanted to hear my voice and I did hear it, 3. I tried to say my name in a dream (which everytime I did somehow failed) and I DID say it out loud ! 4. I decided to change the scene (I said 'Change the scene' out loud). I ended up in a forest on another planet (there was interesting ambient) and then for some reason I saw fast food where I bought something to eat and it tasted like real food. Then it continued for a while on another place and then I woke up. As for the questions: 1. Lately it's almost everytime that I begin vivid lucid dream in the place where I sleep. Is this normal? Can I change it somehow? 2. I've already had some experience with stabilizing lucidity by looking at my hands. I tried to do something I've found rather interesting: I tried to look at my hands and blinked. Everything went dark except for the hands - they were in a perfect state. Is it that brain counts hands as different from the surround? (after the blackness I could continue in another vivid LD) 3. Does the length of a vivid dream depend on ability of human not to blink - because when you blink in vivid dream, you lose clarity. [/b] Hey CloudOne. Don't know if this will be any help to ya,but here it goes. 1.Could be wrong,but if your always starting out from your bedroom or where you sleep,sounds like you're astral travelling.This usually takes a lot of practice and visualisation,and if your doing it without trying,that's tops.Next time,if you can,try and go straight out the top of your roof and cruise up the street a bit,and find a house that you're not too familiar with.Get up close and look at something like the door-mat or something in the garden,and check it out in the day time.Also,try and go up as high as you can,and gradually come down without thinking about where you will land.This is a good technique for visiting new places and it works!I could be completely wrong so if you know that it's LD and not AT,just disregard this. 2/3.Looking at your hands to stabilize your lucidity is my favourite technique too.I actually find my hands starting to fade after a very short time and this is my warning to begin looking at other things in my dreamscape.I find I can only concentrate on things for a very short time(maybe 2-3 seconds)before they also start to fade.This bothered me for ages until I read in a book that the trick is to constantly shift your focus from one thing to another until the dreamscape will come into focus as a whole.I tried it out and hey presto!Now when I use this method,I find that once I stabilize the hands,look away at other things and constantly shift focus,I can wander around as I please,without losing perspective or clarity. Don't know if this was any help to you mate,but if you're interested,check out a couple of books. "The Art of Dreaming" by Carlos Castenada,and "The Christos Experiment",not sure of the author of that one.Good Luck.

[CloudOne]

Thanks for this interesting answer. I kind of don't believe in such things as astral travelling but I do think that something like that could exist - theory of quantum physics could shed some light on it. In this dream, I described, my city looked quite different so I don't think it was AT but I've had a few dreams which looked and felt rather real where everything was as it is in reality. Do you know that kind of dream where you're lying in your bed, trying to sleep, and suddenly the dream comes, You're lying in your bed and you can see through close eyelids and everything is there like in reality? That could be an AT, but maybe I'm wrong. In vivid LD I usualy look at something for a few secs and then I change my view but sometimes I'm just looking at the same spot for a longer time and that could be wrong. Thanks for a good tip, I will try it. What worked in my last dream was saying Clarity and looking at my hands. I guess that the key factor is also self-confidence that my vivid dream CAN be longer. I'll look up for the books you've recommended, thanks.

[Evo]

Thanks for this interesting answer. I kind of don't believe in such things as astral travelling but I do think that something like that could exist - theory of quantum physics could shed some light on it. In this dream, I described, my city looked quite different so I don't think it was AT but I've had a few dreams which looked and felt rather real where everything was as it is in reality. Do you know that kind of dream where you're lying in your bed, trying to sleep, and suddenly the dream comes, You're lying in your bed and you can see through close eyelids and everything is there like in reality? That could be an AT, but maybe I'm wrong. In vivid LD I usualy look at something for a few secs and then I change my view but sometimes I'm just looking at the same spot for a longer time and that could be wrong. Thanks for a good tip, I will try it. What worked in my last dream was saying Clarity and looking at my hands. I guess that the key factor is also self-confidence that my vivid dream CAN be longer. I'll look up for the books you've recommended, thanks. [/b] Yeah,good call.Auto-suggestion and self-confidence definately play a big part.Have a good one.

[grayegg]

I've had at least three lucids over a year that started at home. Flying is easy enough in these apparently. The flying up to change your environment is one thing I could do. Another time I stayed around the neighborhood and tried to complete a month task, and the other I can remember I traveled along the coast line. The one where I changed the environment happened last, I thought sticking around near home again would be too redundant (never mind any previous dream control dificulty).

[CloudOne]

I have to say Whow. Today I've had about six or seven vivid dreams and most of them started in my bed AND the most thrilling part is that it FELT like I was leaving my body. I felt the movement from it and it was very pleasant. Although I think it was "just a dream" it was very different from what I've experienced so far! Very nice experience. And about the self-confidence, in one of the dreams I've tried to be as most confident about myself as I could be and it worked. The clarity of my view was very good, the length was longer than usual and I felt refreshed like in the good old vivid lucid dreams.

[Evo]

I have to say Whow. Today I've had about six or seven vivid dreams and most of them started in my bed AND the most thrilling part is that it FELT like I was leaving my body. I felt the movement from it and it was very pleasant. Although I think it was "just a dream" it was very different from what I've experienced so far! Very nice experience. And about the self-confidence, in one of the dreams I've tried to be as most confident about myself as I could be and it worked. The clarity of my view was very good, the length was longer than usual and I felt refreshed like in the good old vivid lucid dreams. [/b] Hey CloudOne,good stuff mate.Feels good,aye?It's an amazing thing that we're able to do and I always feel better after waking.Take it easy.