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 RasJeph
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 Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! 
#11820279 - 01/13/10 05:30 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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I don't ever really TRY to have lucid dreams...rather, they just happen at random and I try my best to take advantage of them.
Like last night, I was doing something at a library...and I got trapped in the basement. I didn't panic, I didn't worry, it didn't even phase me. I said "oh yeah, I'm dreaming...I can control this now. I'll just punch out these bricks, fuck it. Its a dream." then I woke up.
This seems to be how it always works. Sometimes, I even find myself holding on to the dream...it almost fades out as I wake up...like I'm literally being pulled out. I can still see it...it just gets darker and darker then its me, laying there awake.
I'm not TOO concerned...but I'd like to have a successful lucid dream. I used to do it as a kid all the time (before I even know what it was).
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Re: Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! [Re: RasJeph]
#11821209 - 01/13/10 09:53 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Don't try and exert yourself too much when you become lucid. Just try and explore the environment you became lucid in. Walk around peacefully, ask your dream characters what part of you they are, don't punch and break stuff. If you get to a window or door, go for a fly outside. I always used to wake up from my lucid dreams when I tried immediately after becoming lucid to fly through the ceiling.
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Re: Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#11821297 - 01/13/10 10:15 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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usually, i wake up because the feelings i get when im lucid dreaming are just so intense that they feel real
also, because i move, as if i was awake  i need to be like..restrained or something so i can stay asleep like that
fuck, i think imma pop like 5 5mg melatonin and smoke weed tonight.
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Re: Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! [Re: Moronicus]
#11822047 - 01/13/10 12:28 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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A couple of suggestions:
A: just keep at it, lucid dreams will naturally get longer with time. When I started mine lasted about 10 seconds, now I have had ones that last up to an hour.
B: when you feel the dream fading, engage your senses. I always start touching my environment; grabbing objects, feeling textures, spinning myself around. You have to focus your mind on the dream environment. Also, castaneda had a technique that consisted of choosing a few objects (2-4) and continually looking from one to the other, holding your attention on each one for a few seconds. This has worked for me in the past.
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Re: Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! [Re: Tranquil Toad]
#11822310 - 01/13/10 01:13 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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And weed is usually a dream killer, not an enhancer. Get some calea z and brew some dream tea if you want some vivid dreams.
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Re: Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#11822869 - 01/13/10 02:27 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Mugwort also works; it grows wild in many places. I dry it out and then smoke it and it usually produces vivid dreams.
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Re: Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! [Re: Tranquil Toad]
#11831403 - 01/14/10 07:31 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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: when you feel the dream fading, engage your senses. I always start touching my environment; grabbing objects, feeling textures, spinning myself around
spinning is also a commonly reported succesful technique.. Though I tend to never remember to engage myself like this whence I do become lucid.. Like I dont become fully lucid, I just become lucid to the point that I realize I can do crazy things like flying, or feats of great strength or transmuting physical reality..
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Tranquil Toad
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Quote:
FunkMasterShroom said:
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: when you feel the dream fading, engage your senses. I always start touching my environment; grabbing objects, feeling textures, spinning myself around
spinning is also a commonly reported succesful technique.. Though I tend to never remember to engage myself like this whence I do become lucid.. Like I dont become fully lucid, I just become lucid to the point that I realize I can do crazy things like flying, or feats of great strength or transmuting physical reality..
Ya there are various levels to lucidity. When you first realize you are dreaming, instead of immediately trying out super powers, stop and compose yourself; scan your environment, look down at your hands and body, test out all your senses, etc.
Often I don't even use superpowers, I just explore. I once spent an entire lucid dream examining a fallen log in a forest to see just how much detail was really there.
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Re: Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! [Re: Tranquil Toad]
#11833450 - 01/15/10 05:29 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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May I recommend silene capensis? It's a very powerful dream potentiator. Goes in tea or capsules and is very cheap.
The idea is basically not to panic, over-react, get over-excited or have any emotional reaction at all. Even though in a lucid dream you are a co-creator, there is still a plan set forth for every dream which you can choose to loosely follow, and you can do this by simply treating as you do your daily life, that is, treating it as real, not a dream.
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Re: Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! [Re: circastes]
#11833625 - 01/15/10 07:03 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Don't get excited upon becoming lucid, it goes away after having a fair few lucids.
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Re: Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! [Re: RasJeph]
#11834187 - 01/15/10 09:17 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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RasJeph said:
I don't ever really TRY to have lucid dreams...rather, they just happen at random and I try my best to take advantage of them.
Like last night, I was doing something at a library...and I got trapped in the basement. I didn't panic, I didn't worry, it didn't even phase me. I said "oh yeah, I'm dreaming...I can control this now. I'll just punch out these bricks, fuck it. Its a dream." then I woke up.
This seems to be how it always works. Sometimes, I even find myself holding on to the dream...it almost fades out as I wake up...like I'm literally being pulled out. I can still see it...it just gets darker and darker then its me, laying there awake.
I'm not TOO concerned...but I'd like to have a successful lucid dream. I used to do it as a kid all the time (before I even know what it was).
A sucessful lucid dream is waking up!
Becoming aware you are under the influence of an illusion then coming out of it.
If you wanna control the illusion then you won't wake up from it 
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Re: Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! [Re: The Chronic]
#11834953 - 01/15/10 11:48 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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I very seldom have lucid dreams these days. Even remembering dreams is difficult for me.
When I was little I used to ALWAYS lucid dream and my friends thought it was weird because I used to always tell them about how I would fly around and do awesome stuff. Sometimes lucid dreaming would trigger me to wake up but I remember some dreams that I had supernatural control over for quite a long period of time. Once I even went to the ocean and had a relationship with a mermaid. 
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Re: Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! [Re: circastes]
#11835370 - 01/15/10 12:58 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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circastes said:
Even though in a lucid dream you are a co-creator, there is still a plan set forth for every dream which you can choose to loosely follow, and you can do this by simply treating as you do your daily life, that is, treating it as real, not a dream.
This is true in some lucid dreams, however I consider these "half lucids." In a full lucid any plan that has been set up by the dream will stop for me, and I will have full control over what I want to do. Basically like stepping into a holo-deck. There will be no theme or story, just me standing in an environment with full choice of what I want to try and do.
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Re: Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! [Re: Tranquil Toad]
#11835425 - 01/15/10 01:09 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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It almost seems whenever I am asleep when I should be awake, I become lucid and wake myself up.
Late for work, school, things like that.
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Re: Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! [Re: Tranquil Toad]
#11836711 - 01/15/10 04:23 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Tranquil Toad said:
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circastes said:
Even though in a lucid dream you are a co-creator, there is still a plan set forth for every dream which you can choose to loosely follow, and you can do this by simply treating as you do your daily life, that is, treating it as real, not a dream.
This is true in some lucid dreams, however I consider these "half lucids." In a full lucid any plan that has been set up by the dream will stop for me, and I will have full control over what I want to do. Basically like stepping into a holo-deck. There will be no theme or story, just me standing in an environment with full choice of what I want to try and do.
Hmm maybe I'm just half-lucid then. The dreams are certainly intense and creative though, more creative than anything I've ever seen in human art. Seems I enter pre-established 'dream worlds' which I have regularly come back to, though my thoughts do create things, like pretty girls and mushrooms. :P
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Re: Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! [Re: circastes]
#11837288 - 01/15/10 06:00 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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I struggle with lucid dreaming as well. Though it is one of my favorite things to do, I am not disciplined enough to really try (so i end up just having random bits of lucidity and half lucids).
What you need to do if your serious about lucid dreaming is keep a dream journal, and do reality checks (during the day) and before going to sleep at night, tell yourself (over and over) that you will become lucid and you will remain calm once you become lucid
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Re: Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! [Re: pmid85]
#11846139 - 01/17/10 08:37 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Try spinning round in circles or rubbing your hands together they stabilize your dream
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Re: Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! [Re: Mystery420]
#11849182 - 01/17/10 06:30 PM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Dang, I gotta do something about my lack of discipline.. >:/
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RasJeph
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Thanks for all the info!  I had almost forgotten my thread.
I'll give these things a try...I think its because I get excited when I realize I'm dreaming. Then I wake up.
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Re: Lucid Dreaming - I always wake up! [Re: The Chronic]
#11852593 - 01/18/10 10:59 AM (2 years, 4 months ago) |
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Chronic777 said:
A sucessful lucid dream is waking up!
Becoming aware you are under the influence of an illusion then coming out of it.
If you wanna control the illusion then you won't wake up from it
Nice, I like how you put that 
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