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Remembering dreams
#7531339 - 10/18/07 01:57 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm just curious as to how many people here can remember their dreams in vivid detail. 90% of the time I can, so I feel rather blessed. On rare occasions I'll remember a dream I had from years ago.
What I find most interesting is that for some reason when I lie down to sleep at night, the previous nights dreams come flooding back into memory with such detail it's almost as if I'm playing a recording. Does this happen to anyone else?
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i did keep a dream journal for a few months but really i think your blessed lol, because i cant remember them to vividly. its like dream recall though, soon after you wake up if you want to remember them you want to say key words so that it might trigger memories of dreams to surface. i would say if you remember them more you are probblys more conscious and thats also good for lucid dreams, have you had many of those?.
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Re: Remembering dreams [Re: peter19]
#7531751 - 10/18/07 03:30 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quite often, I'd say. In fact, I had one last night.
The problem is staying in it. as soon as I realise it's a dream I start to wake up. Y'know the feeling. Everything starts to go white and you feel yourself getting 'sucked' out.
There are a lot of times where if I'm in a dream I don't like I'll wake myself up.
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lucid dreams are quality like, iv only had a few but when you get them its great, flying ect doing other bizzare stuff lol. have you read about obeing?, if you have alot of lucid dreams you might be good at that. iv tried doing it but never been able to yet.
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Re: Remembering dreams [Re: peter19]
#7531921 - 10/18/07 04:14 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I've tried it a few times. The greatest success I had with it was going out of the front of my house and walking down the street.
Very weird.
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Re: Remembering dreams [Re: peter19]
#7531951 - 10/18/07 04:21 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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try 5-htp..its a natural tryptophan and increases vividness in dreams
also try waking up a few times during the night at random times...or nap a few hours after waking up, i find my most vivid dreams after being up an hour or two and passing back out
also keep a dream journal to condition yourself to want to remember
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id love to do it me, i might chicken it though lol. how real is it?, would you say just the same as wakeing life. i have had little incidents were things happened but when i got up it seemed abit vague. once i did feel that i was standing out of me bed but thats about as far as iv got. oh well eh lol.
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Re: Remembering dreams [Re: peter19]
#7531996 - 10/18/07 04:33 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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It's pretty hard to explain. I'd say it's more like a dream. Everything had a purple tinge to it for some reason.
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I think Lucid Dreaming is better than any drug and I've heard that learning to do it is the key to Bardo navigation after death.
The first step to Lucid Dreaming is simply remembering your dreams.
Here's some tips that were given to me:
Don't smoke tobacco or cannabis. Meditate, do breathing exercises and occasionally eat shrooms instead.
Use fluoride-free toothpaste and drink spring or well water instead of tap.
Eliminate alcohol and caffeine. Drink more Hot fluids than Cold ones, Yerba Mate is a great coffee substitute, and Mugwort Tea is great for dreaming.
Try to cut down on red meat, white flours and refined sugars. Replace with fresh seafood, nuts, fruits, whole grains and honey.
Keep a dream journal by your bed, write in it even if you don't remember anything.
Set your alarm to wake you up in the middle of the night, or drink lots of fluids so you get up to pee.
Try to cut down on imagery intake - TV, Movies, Cartoons and Porn. Read, Dance, Make Art, or Get out and interact with real people instead.
After trying to live up to these standards I could write a book every morning and just write down the most interesting stuff. Doing these things eliminates the need for 5-HTP or other supplements as your glands will start to come back to life.
Once you have vivid dream recall you can begin to practice becoming Lucid...
Tips for becoming and staying Lucid:
Try to conserve your sexual energies, try abstaining for one moon cycle.
Every time you look at your hand when you're awake, ask yourself out loud "Am I Dreaming?"
Everytime you walk through a doorway when you're awake, ask yourself the same thing out loud.
Put notes up around your house that say "Is this a Dream?" You'll eventually see one in a dream.
When you're awake spend as much time with kids under 12 as you can and try to get in their mindset.
When you're dreaming, try to feel as connected with the characters as possible, by sharing hugs, kisses, secrets and jokes.
When you become Lucid and feel yourself waking up, start spinning around clockwise, this will keep you in the dream.
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Re: Remembering dreams [Re: Middleman]
#7532876 - 10/18/07 08:01 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Great advice, thanks.
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Re: Remembering dreams [Re: Middleman]
#7562064 - 10/26/07 07:57 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Middleman said: When you're awake spend as much time with kids under 12 as you can
AHHAA a pedo....I knew it.
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Re: Remembering dreams [Re: blewmeanie]
#7563706 - 10/26/07 03:22 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Don't be an asshole.
I know you're kidding, but it really bums me out when people get all suspicious of me because I like to hang around kids so much. People take kids for granted, underestimate them, and treat them like pets. The next civil rights movement should be Kids Lib, imo.
I've raised kids and I've studied child developmental psychology.
Just because I can get up on their level doesn't mean I'm one of those twisted creeps who gets turned on by them. I think it's our society's sexual repression and neurotic fears that actually creates rapists and pedophiles.
Rape and pedophilia are virtually non-existent in most indigenous cultures...
Anyway, I hadn't been Lucid in almost a year, then I spent a weekend at my sister's and played with my 9 year old niece most of the time. I Lucid Dreamed EVERY night I was there, three nights in a row, which is why I recommend hanging out with kids to those learning Lucid Dreaming.
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Re: Remembering dreams [Re: Middleman]
#7563749 - 10/26/07 03:40 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I agree. It's great to spend time around kids, and too many men are scared away from it by the "pedo" paranoia. One of my close male friends was not-so-tactfully steered away from his chosen major (Early Childhood Education) by a pedo-fearing faculty adviser. What a loss to kids that nurturant men are not welcome in ECE and child care. 
I've been caring for children since I was 8 years old, and I know that being tuned-in to their consciousness is enlivening and wonderful. More people should try it--maybe we'd have a bit less anger and depression in the world.
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Re: Remembering dreams [Re: Veritas]
#7565662 - 10/27/07 03:26 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Right on Veritas. 
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