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Great! I have some urgent waking life matters that will be taking a lot of my time for a while, so I may not be updating here very frequently for a while. Just keep it up, location may be the...
Liked On: 11-14-2016, 09:19 AM
Congratulations on your first location induced LD!! :D I agree with FM's recommendations. When he says to be aware of your awareness, that is something that can take some time to sink in. It is...
Liked On: 11-14-2016, 09:19 AM
I mean to *be lucid*. What is lucid? Self-awareness. Be aware of your awareness, be aware that you're aware of your state. Be the way you want to be in dreams. Ask yourself, what is that...
Liked On: 11-09-2016, 10:03 PM
Hi Elaol! It's not a simple yes/no answer. I think the answer is that you get as much self-awareness out of it (or any exercise) as you put into it. If you bring your self, you, into the...
Liked On: 11-08-2016, 09:16 PM
I think you can work in location awareness to self-awareness, using it at least as a trigger to entering a general higher state of vigilance. Situational reflection is great and is the one thing...
Liked On: 11-02-2016, 06:04 PM
I'm not a fan of sense focus as defining awareness. That's like classical "ADA", and I think mindfulness is much more important and relevant. It is *self*-awareness that is key, not basic...
Liked On: 10-27-2016, 10:55 AM
I will continue on about reflection for a bit because I think it's important to frame questions the right way in order to maximize chances for lucidity. I will use as an example my final two dreams...
Liked On: 10-27-2016, 10:55 AM
One more point on reflection: it's good also to have "triggerless" moments: this is what illusory form is great for: you're just always realizing that this experience is all a dream (or "like a...
Liked On: 10-27-2016, 10:55 AM
Believe me, I know what you mean! I've lost a great deal of sleep in LD practice, that's for sure. I continue to work on learning to fall asleep quickly. It takes practice. For now, while...
Liked On: 10-25-2016, 09:27 AM
I've only ever used it after a WBTB. I don't believe so. It worked strongly for me for over 3 years and then only stopped using it when I started playing with MILD again...just because I enjoyed...
Liked On: 10-25-2016, 09:27 AM
That should have read "I would be happy to."(share some tips and tricks) but it sounds like you figured out what I meant. I say go with your gut instinct on this one…it sounds like you are...
Liked On: 10-24-2016, 10:35 AM
I would be happy too. :) You might want to consider continuing with what worked for you the other night though and just let me know later if you really want to change it up at all or if you don't...
Liked On: 10-23-2016, 01:43 PM
My advice for SSILD is: do what you like, play with the cycles. I prefer shorter cycles, sometimes I skip the body and just go back and forth between vision and hearing. Most important: continue...
Liked On: 10-23-2016, 01:43 PM
Woohoo! Congrats on the LD!
Liked On: 10-20-2016, 01:27 PM
Awesome! You had what very well could have been a lucid dream last week and then you realized that you had a definite lucid dream 2 nights later! Nice result! Keep up the great work!
Liked On: 10-20-2016, 11:45 AM
Legend: non-lucid lucid lucid false awakening
I am looking at my classes schedule. I see there are a lot of cancelled classes although I have only one this month. I realize I am dreaming. But, in this dream, my consciousness is present, but my body is not. This is the first time I have ever had a dream like this. I don't know how to proceed, so I wake up
Legend: non-lucid lucid lucid false awakening
I with with my friend in a cafe in Mostar (town in my country I once visited with my friends). We are waiting for other people to join us. They are coming and we are going to sit at the bigger table. I have to go home, because I have classes (I teach English). I want to go, because I have classes. I stand up and I see big advertisement with contact information of Sogyal Rinpoche. There are also flyers about it. I am taking one. But as I am taking it, my pants fall down and some girl laughs. I laugh as well. It's time to go, so I ask my friend Bozo, to help me get out of Mostar, because I don't know how to go home by car. He will just help me until I get on the highway, and I will continue by myself. We go out, but I can't find my car. I know I have parked it right there. I realize I am dreaming My friend Goran is here as well. I see my car. i put my hands at their shoulders and teleport there. There is a high building nearby so I teleport with Bozo there. Then we come back to out previous position. I decide to fly, he is against it, but we take off either way on the closest building I see a lot of windows and on each of them there is one dog. The dream starts to blur so I land on one building and try stabilizing by snapping my fingers in front of my ears (that worked before) and by feeling the pressure in my feet. It starts to become clearer. Suddenly a burst of colors happen, saturation is maxed out. I just say WOW and loose lucidity. I am in a bakery with traditional Turkish dishes (which are not Turkish dishes at all, but in the dream, they are). I take ten pizzas with fish. I don't like my order, but I don't want other people to wait while I switch order, so I go with it. They serve the order in Styrofoam box, with some quinoa and some sauce.
Legend: non-lucid lucid lucid false awakening
I am in an amazing world (still non-lucid) and I am dancing with some girl DC. I am having the time of my life. I suddenly realize this is a dream. I am having such a good time, I am considering whether to stabilize or to let it go and continue non-lucid. I decide to try to stabilize. But, too much time has passed and I continue the dream non-lucid. I am in a room with 3 male DCs. One of them starts explaining to me how to return to the dream. He says I should make, before bed, a short description of some object. I should first set up the shape of the object and then gradually adding details. He gives me an example of a church. I first see the shape of the church, then the texture of the walls, then the color of the walls. It is almost like lizard skin, it is dark grey with a lot of random squares and spikes. The DC says if I do that, I will gradually drop in the dream.