Lucid Dreaming

[idontreallygiveashit]

Is anybody else interested in this? Does anybody here have these occur regularly?

I've been on and off in practicing for a few years as they don't come naturally to me. I didn't put much effort in to be honest and only had about five or six before i got lazy (i only recorded two of these dreams) with maybe a few more in the spaces between trying and not trying. But, over the past three nights, i've had one per night ( unintentionally - including the famed sub-lucid dream) which has really sparked an interest again. I want to be committed to this a bit more than i usually am so hence i have started this thread in the hopes that their are others who can discuss stories, techniques, general dream talk and everything else related to this field. It probably helps motivation if there are others to discuss with.

So? Any other lucid dreamers out there? Or anybody interested in starting?

[wubstep]

I did it once, fucked Halle Berry in a rubber ring in a public swimming pool.

[alphacat]

Calea zacatechichi and Silene capensis.

[mks]

Yeah, I pretty much do it every morning. In that halfway state between being asleep and awake.

[idontreallygiveashit]

^ Ah cool, on purpose or just naturally?

Calea zacatechichi and Silene capensis.

The only supplements i have used are vitamin b6 and 5-htp, can you speak of your success with the above?

[sigbowls]

if you don't sleep for days you will see things while awake, is that lucid dreaming?

[idontreallygiveashit]

Nope, lucid dreaming is simply dreaming while being aware you are doing so.

[dickman69]

I usually have semi-lucid dreams just about anytime I get enough sleep w/o waking up

Always to the point where I'm aware I'm dreaming, but I'm never able to change my surroundings, sort of have to go w/ whatever is thrown at me.

[mks]

^ Ah cool, on purpose or just naturally?

Both I guess. It happens naturally but then I do it on purpose once I perceive it. It really made me realize how much junk there is in my sub-conscious and its time to trash the junk. You can do this if you are advanced at meditation but I seem to do it at that half awake / half dream state.

[alphacat]

Calea zacatechichi and Silene capensis.

The only supplements i have used are vitamin b6 and 5-htp, can you speak of your success with the above?

The calea definitely worked, but - it's not totally controllable as to when it's going to work, and left me with a kind of weird feeling afterwards... like you're not 100% sure whether you're still asleep or awake. It's not like you take it and then bang, have a lucid dream that night. You take it daily for a while and let it build up usually.

Haven't tried the latter (African dream herb) yet but it gets interesting write-ups. Not as many folks know about this one. I'll get around to trying it soon based on the positive reports I've seen though. Also, the two apparently synergize pretty well together fwiw.

[idontreallygiveashit]

^ Ah cool, on purpose or just naturally?

Both I guess. It happens naturally but then I do it on purpose once I perceive it. It really made me realize how much junk there is in my sub-conscious and its time to trash the junk. You can do this if you are advanced at meditation but I seem to do it at that half awake / half dream state.

Cool, i know about the half-sleep thing, i set my alarm early, i figured out my sleep cycle is about 3/12 hours long so i normally set my alarm for about five hours in so i can wake up in REM and drift back straight away. Little fearful of sleep paralysis but i can usually avoid this (even though i probably shouldn't)

I'm interested in the capensis alphacat, and i've found a few retailers online for both root and seed... i'm going to order some tomorrow. In the interests of science, i'll do some write-ups to share with you guys. Looking forward to this

[d-T-r]

there have been a fair few threads on this in the past i think. Worth having a search to see what more people have said in the past.

Lately been having a lot of weird Astrally influenced dream experiences lately....

Something i feel to be happening, for myself at least, is that a merge is begining between ourastral,etheric,mental and emotional bodies.

With all of this stuff, you need a clear Intent if you want to get anywhere 'productive' or meaningful with it. Biggest distratcion for the lucids is of course fucking and flying

Can use lucid dreaming as a platform for much more.



If it's something people have thought about getting in to before, or tried for a bit and stopped, now is definaely the time to give it another go.

To all the Nay-Sayers and skeptics, luckily this is something all of us can learn to do. So give it a go and find out if it's bullshit or not. Accessing hidden sub-concious and higher aspects of your self can only be a good thing

to the o.p

Check out "toltec dreaming" think it's by ken eagle feather or something like that. Also "the tibetan yogas of dream and sleep" (think u can find a pdf online) I'm sure the australian aborigines have some good info too. The most useful resources are from those that have been doing this for thousands of years already.

[idontreallygiveashit]

Can use lucid dreaming as a platform for much more.

Truth, i once did some school revision back in the day! Also, apparently Aphex Twin composes music in his

To all the Nay-Sayers and skeptics, luckily this is something all of us can learn to do. So give it a go and find out if it's bullshit or not. Accessing hidden sub-concious and higher aspects of your self can only be a good thing

I can vouch for this, when i first heard of it i thought "lol wat is this new age bs lol silly people" but then it happened, it's straight up facts that this can happen and you can explore your consciousness.

Will get those books d-t-r, thanks for the recommendations! I've only read the modern stuff, Steven LeBarge etc.

[BLAHBLAHJAH]

If you wanna hack it, try sleeping with nicotine patches and learn to be observant in dreams and able to recollect your ideas in the morning. That's a speedy route of awareness/entry but can cause great terror. Look for outliers: you can forge these into 'triggers' of realisation... You know, shit that clearly doesn't belong in "reality" or shit that is clearly absent from reality. For me I can't ever remember having stairs in a dream and as a result I learned to recognise I was dreaming when traversing floors in buildings. To begin you wake up and think "wow that was unusual having to get from floor-to-floor by jumping etc" - once your brain accepts that hardwiring, it can almost program a response to that stimulus in the dream world, offering you a chance to "wake up" or whatever the term is. Keep it open though, I should've noticed the darkness creeping into dreams when 'triggers' became the presence of dead people, always fucking moaning like the living owe them something. Can contribute some stories if you want, never had a bad drug trip, but lucid dreaming lead me to almost a month of sleeping through the Sun just to smoothen the contrast between 'dreams' and 'reality'... Dark times

[hugh]

So I watched an episode of Reno 911 last night, it was the episode where the team gets acquitted from Jail and Jonesy is having an interview with the Reporter and she just stops and says "you have beautiful eyes", and he goes "I know"; anyway, I watched a couple more episodes and went to kip.
Then I went to sleep, and in my dream a woman (I can't remember her face) goes "You know you have beautiful eyes" and I go "I know". Suddenly I became quite aware this was a dream, but it continued for a while. I woke up and instantly recollected the whole the thing, realising it was taken directly from the show I watched before I went to kip......

WHATDAFUCK

[Steve_French]

i love when you're settling down to bed (with the intention of lucid dreaming) and before 'go', you often get auditory hallucinations. sadly that's as far as i really gone in the lucid dreaming process :/

[Genevieve]

I've always wanted to lucid dream, was pretty fascinated by it........ until I figured I was doing it for years. All dreams that I remember are lucid dreams. This morning I was in a threesome, invented a new game and the Dillinger Escape Plan broke up and started a bunch of new projects.

It's cool. I also do it mostly in the morning before I wake up.

I also get something related to lucid dreams where I loop certain parts of my dream.. sometimes a minute or 3 seconds, over and over.

[Dub_freak]

I need to start writing down my dreams after i wake up, i swear i end up having the same dreams that all happen in the same place for a while, but i always forget about them.

[sonar]

Has anyone had much luck with doing reality checks throughout the day so when you do them in your dreams you can become lucid? I got into it a few years ago and had a fair frew but I don't remember ever becoming lucid because of a rehearsed reality check it was always from noticing something was not right.

[idontreallygiveashit]

Yeah i've had some success with reality checks, i always to do the arm pinch and count the fingers... the arm pinch can be a bit weird in the dream but the fingers usually clinch it. I think the most common and effective one though is to hold your nose and see if you can breathe. The previous three nights i mentioned in the OP though were a result of getting someone to tell me i'm dreaming.

On the subject of writing down dreams, if any of you have iphones or the new ipods there is this great diary app called Momento that i used as a dream journal, you can tag events, places, people and organise them as such, allowing you to track trends and recurrences within the dreams. Pretty neat.