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Optional wrong way: jump off third floor to see if it hurts (dream will not hurt as much) Another wrong way: try to push thumb through eye.
Liked On: 06-27-2014, 10:53 PM
My interest in the content of NLD's? Well, it's been all over the place through the years, but, in terms of meaning, currently I can pare it down to one sentence: A moment of NLD carries exactly...
Liked On: 07-16-2013, 10:51 PM
PresentMoment: Not a guru at all; merely a long-time dreamer who continues to pay attention. I sincerely hope your kind words are sustained after you read my answers below, though, as I have...
Liked On: 07-16-2013, 01:52 AM
I hope I don't get this wrong, but basically it involves training a constant awareness of gravity's effect on you. Constantly noting that feeling of gravity with the idea that distorted gravity is...
Liked On: 06-05-2013, 03:26 PM
^^ That is a clever RC, and it avoids the waking-life RC side-effect of looking a little silly when you're practicing it. Again, though, it must be done without letting it get too intellectually...
Liked On: 06-05-2013, 03:26 PM
Welcome, branestawm! Then I'm very glad you found the thread! Unfortunately I don't keep very good track of threads here, so I'm not sure what help I can be.
Liked On: 05-24-2013, 11:17 PM
Stumbled upon this video and thought of this thread: Shikantaza (Just Sitting) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHitXG5ABOw) Shikantaza seems like a meditation more in line with your...
Liked On: 05-19-2013, 02:03 AM
^^ Congrats on your successes, Doodben! Now how to move forward, you ask? How to hold your self-awareness, or your attention, long enough to both enjoy real lucidity in the dream and have the...
Liked On: 05-19-2013, 02:02 AM
Greetings Doodben! Thank you first for blowing some dust off this old thread; it's nice to know that someone is still paying attention to it. Sure, I'm happy to offer up a few answers for...
Liked On: 05-19-2013, 01:58 AM
First, welcome. Now: I think you may have read a few too many posts. WILD, and lucid dreaming in general, is not about all that "noise," like SP, buzzing, etc, regardless of the importance...
Liked On: 05-18-2013, 11:03 PM
I think the auto-suggestion methods fail for a lot of people because they don't properly prepare. I was talking about this in the Intro Class IRC chat the other day. Many people take on...
Liked On: 05-18-2013, 10:58 PM
They've given me pause. Aside from the obvious stuff, like the fact that my decades of mental calisthenics for the sake of readying me to LD have helped establish a sense of “self” that I would...
Liked On: 05-15-2013, 07:41 PM
Sorry for the delay in responding, 123; Christmas sort of got in the way. It did give me some time to think about an answer, though, and how difficult to impossible it'll be to give you one. This...
Liked On: 05-15-2013, 07:37 PM
Yup. Yup. And Yup! Thanks for understanding!
Liked On: 05-15-2013, 07:08 PM
In a recent PM Darkmatters, in response to some of my fairly incomplete posts that hint at my experience and slightly different path for LD’ing success, asked me to share with the forum “How I did...
Liked On: 05-12-2013, 08:24 PM
This dream happened early this morning after a night out with three of my house mates and a friend. I had already woken up at least once, and spent a certain amount of time feeling vaguely unhappy - hung over, wishing I hadn't got drunk, judging myself for what were in retrospect pretty harmless antics. The dream began in my college (a small art school which I love, and spend most of the day there Monday - Friday), which soon morphed into an art gallery that I have no recollection of ever visiting in WR. I'm outside on a large patio over-looking a city (large, but no skyscrapers - looks possibly French or Italian, nice old buildings) with my 4 house mates (all good friends of mine, two of which I go to college with). It's mild outside, a little sunshine. A woman dressed in a dark skirt suit and matching hat walks up some steps onto the patio. She looks quite well groomed, short dark hair, well made clothes. She's holding a short black strappy dress at arm's length in front of her, and talking to no-one in particular; she seems a bit agitated, angry. She's scaring me a little bit, and we all decide to go inside. She's walking quite close behind us, I can hear her talking but she doesn't make any sense, she just sounds aggressive and a bit insane. We begin to run, and go up some steps into the gallery itself.
The room we run into is busy, lots of people wandering around looking at large paintings. High ceilings, big windows, white walls and wooden floors. Somewhat old fashioned, feels more like a manor house than a modern white cube gallery. We lose her in the crowds, and I go into the next room to tell someone in charge that there's a possibly dangerous woman wandering around. Security go to get her, and I hear a commotion from the room nearest the patio. People are crowding round, my friends are watching the scene but I can't - I'm scared to see. One of them says to me 'She just had a complete meltdown', then I see the guards dragging her out; they're dragging her along the floor by the arms, she's pretty much catatonic. She now looks like the girl from The Exorcist, longish brown hair, terrifying sickly face, wearing a long white night gown type thing and nothing else. She's also covered in paint, she seems to have pissed her self and rolled all over the canvases - she's all pale pinks and greens and blues. They drag her out of the front door.
I woke up pretty horrified - I haven't had such a disturbing dream in a couple of years. Not to mention Ifeeling very guilty about getting the woman forcibly removed and effectively causing her mental breakdown.