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Obviously there's many differing altered states of consciousness, from hightened awareness during stress incidents, to hypnosis, to hallucinagenic drug trips, to normal dreams, to orgasm, to mystical...
Liked On: 05-20-2013, 03:02 PM
I'm not sure I can go so far as to say that LD has resulted in a massive change in lifestyle or worldview, but my first LD did affect me in a positive, and fairly profound way. It showed me that I...
Liked On: 05-18-2013, 05:25 PM
I have the same problem ... but I guess gab abd checker666 are right. That said, I've found that WBTB and WILD have worked better for me than DILD ... Shouldn't give up though.
Liked On: 04-27-2013, 08:40 PM
I have the same problem ... but I guess gab abd checker666 are right. That said, I've found that WBTB and WILD have worked better for me than DILD ... Shouldn't give up though.
Liked On: 04-25-2013, 09:50 AM
Happiness is complex, as others have alluded to. But on thing I've found in myself, LDing has increased my self-confidence, expanded my awareness, and made me re-calibrate my own potential. All...
Liked On: 04-15-2013, 02:05 PM
Thanks for the encouragement Gab :) What you say makes sense.
Liked On: 04-11-2013, 04:29 PM
Last night, following a WBTB return to sleep, I was dreaming (non-lucid) when the dream started to fade. I've never had a normal dream fade like this before - my normal dreams just seem to run into...
Liked On: 03-30-2013, 08:01 PM
Last night, following a WBTB return to sleep, I was dreaming (non-lucid) when the dream started to fade. I've never had a normal dream fade like this before - my normal dreams just seem to run into...
Liked On: 03-29-2013, 05:17 PM
Congrats on your first LD! :) you should note your LD count in your profile: it's a great encouragement when you get to bump it by one :) I had my first LD with WBTB - it's a great tool (though I...
Liked On: 03-29-2013, 05:10 PM
Cheers NyxCC - yes, self-exploration is worthwhile in itself :)
Liked On: 03-25-2013, 07:03 PM
No LDs or similar for about two or more weeks (just 1 false/unsustained lucid), which is disappointing. But during WILD attempts I've had a lot of positive psychological insight, childhood memories...
Liked On: 03-24-2013, 02:25 AM
Hmmm... I wonder how true that is Killing. :) Certainly it seems possible to gain new self-insight in dreams, and to create (poetry, math, abstract ideas or problem solving). I'm not sure about...
Liked On: 03-22-2013, 12:47 AM
Having only recently started exploring LD, I guess I have some very straightforward goals: 1) Be able to use my dreams for emotional and psychological development and healing 2) Explore the...
Liked On: 03-21-2013, 06:12 AM
I'm really new at this too (6 months), so I know how easy it is to get discouraged. I had nothing for the first 4 months (though my dream recall improved, and keeping a journal and analysing my...
Liked On: 03-20-2013, 10:17 PM
Thanks for the comments folks. From what you're all saying, it seems like that I might have gained lucidity for a brief moment and then been unable to stabilise, resulting in me losing lucidity...
Liked On: 03-19-2013, 10:55 PM
Woke early and drifted in and out of sleep/dream - a number of times I couldn't tell if I was awake or dreaming ...
Last night I recall the following:
I had to go to town to buy books. I travelled to a smaller town that I remember from my childhood, but it is not the same. I need to get a bus from here to town before the shops shut - it is already 4pm and Sunday. the shopping centre where I am closes, I get asked to leave - but am sent a back way so I am late for the bus I need. I see it drive away, but I am not too bothered nor do I make any effort to catch up with it or stop it.
I wake - and suspect (for some reason) that this dream is to do with my career and work life ....?
So, a 'normal' dream that would have Freudian psycho-analysts falling over themselves to offer me interpretations.
All very blurry until the part where I am fighting against 3 or so people who are trying to castrate me! I fight quite viciously but am losing, and am trying to reason with them. Even more oddly (perhaps) the three trying to pin me down are UK magician/mentalists (Drew McAdam; colin McLeod and Pete Turner). Seriously; wtf?
Anyway ... I think it best to forget this dream
So, last night I had a range of dream phenomena linked together.
First, I had 'normal' dreams that blurred into an especially vivid and convoluted 'dream-within-a-dream' (I dreamt I was dreaming etc). Secondly, I then awoke and started checking because I was really unsure as to whether I was still dreaming or not. I became satisfied I was in reality, but a minute later I realised I was in the 'wrong' house - I was dreaming. It starts to get a little blurry here, but I think I then tried to initiate a WILD or WBTB or something similar even though I had recognised I was dreaming (odd) - but it seems that it 'worked' in that I entered another dream (or dream-within-a-dream, or continuation of the original dream, however you want to see it) where I knew I was dreaming ... a round about way of doing it, I guess, but lucidity reached nevertheless
Knowing I was dreaming I started to panic a little about losing lucidity, so I tried to stabilise. People had posted on here that one method to stabilise was to concentrate upon the senses, and this advice had obviously struck a chord with me because I concentrated upon the feel of a sock I was holding (don't ask). This worked; although I did not have the elation-sensation or the hyper-real sensation I'd had with previous LDs, I was dreaming in a dreamscape that was as 'real' as the waking world, I knew I was dreaming, and I had stabilised it.
Lucidity didn't last as long as I wanted, and soon I was awake (I think something disturbed my sleep from outside, grrrrr!), but all in all a successful LD.
O.K, last night I had a really bad and fitful night's sleep. The silver lining was, though, that with many interruptions and night-time disturbances I was able to try WBTB (or something similar) quite a few times
The result was that I had a lot of time with some great (and often quite beautiful or surprisingly clear) hypnogogic patterns/images. It seems that since practicing LDing I've had more and better pre-sleep imagery like this (another cool effect from greater dream awareness). A few times these patterns seemed to bleed into full dreams, and on a couple of these occasions I was lucid. The downside was that even though I was lucid I seemed weak and unable to control much, and that these dreams were so unstable that they lasted only a very short time (dreamlets?) before I woke again. I suspect this was because of the bad night I was having and how tired and stressed I was.
Oh well, at least I've learned that a) greater dream awareness enhances hypnogogic imagery, and b) that pre-sleep hypno stuff can be turned into LDs.
All I need now is a decent night's rest with unbroken sleep!