Lucid Dreaming {Advice required}

[greenleaf]

Does anybody any info or actually do Lucid Dreaming? I have read this book given to me at Xmas called: LUCID DREAMING: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and In Your Life, by Stephen LaBerge, and I still cannot fully understand it fully enough.
Can Lucid Dreaming be done at anytime or is it just certain dreams that become lucid, as the latter seems to more my experience no matter how hard I try... it's the recalling of awareness of the dream I seem to miss out on and find myself waking up the next day to find it didn't work.

any help appreciated into educating whats seems to be the uneducatable.
many Thanks For Reading.

Peace is Easy '~greenleaf~'

[craven dark]

http://www.lucidity.com/
This site is worth checking out, lots of info on lucid dreaming and how to do it.
Hope this helps.:D

[clipwip]

Does anybody any info or actually do Lucid Dreaming? I have read this book given to me at Xmas called: LUCID DREAMING: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and In Your Life, by Stephen LaBerge, and I still cannot fully understand it fully enough.
Can Lucid Dreaming be done at anytime or is it just certain dreams that become lucid, as the latter seems to more my experience no matter how hard I try... it's the recalling of awareness of the dream I seem to miss out on and find myself waking up the next day to find it didn't work.

any help appreciated into educating whats seems to be the uneducatable.
many Thanks For Reading.

Peace is Easy '~greenleaf~'

I have LaBerge's "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" which I couldn't really get motivated enough to do all of the things he recommended consistently enough. This was in 1999. I had tried first back in like 1993 when I first heard of it and I had one split-second lucid moment which woke me up.

For some reason, I have been having them very often lately (last 3-4 years). Some things I find that help are: 1) it's easier the longer you sleep and towards the morning it is the easiest. 2) Naps usually make it easier to induce them.

Be sure to keep a journal.

[thomas00]

Hi greenleaf.

I have not done so much lucid dreaming my self. For some years ago i was expermenting with out of body experince. I dont know if there is any different between lucid dreaming or out of body experince.

But the few times i ahcieve a out of body experince was when i woke up 1 or 2 hours early in the morning. then i maybe went to the bedroom, or walking in the living room. And after 5 or 10 min i went back to bed. Then in my mind i continued said to my self that when i fall a sleep i will have an out of body experince or when i fall a sleep i will still be conciusnees. Something like that. That was the only way i have experince an out of body experince. All orther technique was to difficult for me.

I also have a link to a homepage about lucid dreaming. There is also a forum where you can discuss it whith orther people.

http://www.ld4all.com/#frames(content=ld4all_welcome.shtml)

Good luck to you

:)Thomas

[tifavi]

!988 I had a Lucid Dream.
In the not lucid part of the dream I was told by someone that I should walk over a courtyard to meet with someone that needed to speak to me. As I walked I realiced that I was infact dreaming.
At the time I had never heard of Lucid Dreaming and I was surprised that this was happening to me. I thought to my self that I need to find out more.
As I arrived at the other side of the courtyard I was meet by a "whiteglowing" entety.
I asked him/her "What are you doing in my dream?"
( I don´t know what to call it because it was neither male nor female, it felt like both)
He/She ansewed "I´m glad you figured this out. I wanted to tell you that I will come to you as a girl and I would like to be named Amira."
I must have looked skeptical because he/she laught and said "You´ll see".
He/She turned away from me and sort of faded away. I was utterly confused and woke up really fast.
My daughter was born 1993 and her name is Amira. When she was learning to speak she hummed her name over and over again with the happiest smile on her face.

The lucid dreaming has since then evolved into visits of paralell reallitys based on choises I´ve made in my life.

[tifavi]

Coincidently, I´m just now looking at Magical Egypt - 05 - Navigating the Afterlife.avi
on Guba. At the end there is talk about Lucid Dreaming approximately 37min in to the film.

[thomas00]

Hi tifavi

What are fantastic dream your god there:-)

[tifavi]

Yes ThomasOO, And as both the creator and the observer I believe that it is the meaning of my life to bring all back to the undivided hole again.
There are so many opportunities in this and I believe I´m only at beginning:-))))

[adimon]

!988 I had a Lucid Dream.
In the not lucid part of the dream I was told by someone that I should walk over a courtyard to meet with someone that needed to speak to me. As I walked I realiced that I was infact dreaming.
At the time I had never heard of Lucid Dreaming and I was surprised that this was happening to me. I thought to my self that I need to find out more.
As I arrived at the other side of the courtyard I was meet by a "whiteglowing" entety.
I asked him/her "What are you doing in my dream?"
( I don´t know what to call it because it was neither male nor female, it felt like both)
He/She ansewed "I´m glad you figured this out. I wanted to tell you that I will come to you as a girl and I would like to be named Amira."
I must have looked skeptical because he/she laught and said "You´ll see".
He/She turned away from me and sort of faded away. I was utterly confused and woke up really fast.
My daughter was born 1993 and her name is Amira. When she was learning to speak she hummed her name over and over again with the happiest smile on her face.

The lucid dreaming has since then evolved into visits of paralell reallitys based on choises I´ve made in my life.

Coincidently, I´m just now looking at Magical Egypt - 05 - Navigating the Afterlife.avi
on Guba. At the end there is talk about Lucid Dreaming approximately 37min in to the film.

That's a beautiful story :)

Where did you find that .avi - it sounds interesting. Nice avatar, too :)

[tifavi]

Hi
I´m terrible with links and things but it´s at Guba.com, search for Magical Egypt and then nr 5 in the series of 8
And.... Thank you adimon

[adimon]

No, thank you :)

Found it ok.

Is Guba a good site in your opinion? Better than Youtube?

[tifavi]

Well I Don´t know really. There was a refrence to this site and this series on the forum today on Nabta Playa by real6. So when I saw that I wanted to se all of them.
And they where good exept I can´t find number two.

[fromthatshow]

!988 I had a Lucid Dream.
In the not lucid part of the dream I was told by someone that I should walk over a courtyard to meet with someone that needed to speak to me. As I walked I realiced that I was infact dreaming.
At the time I had never heard of Lucid Dreaming and I was surprised that this was happening to me. I thought to my self that I need to find out more.
As I arrived at the other side of the courtyard I was meet by a "whiteglowing" entety.
I asked him/her "What are you doing in my dream?"
( I don´t know what to call it because it was neither male nor female, it felt like both)
He/She ansewed "I´m glad you figured this out. I wanted to tell you that I will come to you as a girl and I would like to be named Amira."
I must have looked skeptical because he/she laught and said "You´ll see".
He/She turned away from me and sort of faded away. I was utterly confused and woke up really fast.
My daughter was born 1993 and her name is Amira. When she was learning to speak she hummed her name over and over again with the happiest smile on her face.

The lucid dreaming has since then evolved into visits of paralell reallitys based on choises I´ve made in my life.


lovely :)

[elysiumfire]

Hi There,

If, by lucid dreaming, you are referring to that point in sleep and dreaming that one becomes aware of one's own sentience whilst still in the dream state, then I can vouch that it does indeed present a unique perspective. One is no longer a passive observer, but becomes a active participant in the streaming content of one's psyche.

I often dream lucidly, and have reasoned that it is determined by a number of factors preceding actual sleep. The most primary of which is the level of the day's stimulation. I think lucid dreaming is a de-synchronization occurrence within the brain's electro-chemico apparatus? However, I am also of the opinion that the brain, per se, does not of itself do anything. All occurrences are within it, of it, but not caused by it; and on that personal observance I do not accept the brain to generate or produce consciousness, but that it arises within it by some quite natural mechanism.

We are often told that during sleep the brain processes the day's information into some meaningful context. I beg to differ, as I have earlier stated the brain does nothing of the sort, the processes occur despite the physical apparatus of the brain, it is merely a medium in which the processes occur, but it does not mediate them...it is the processes that mediate themselves and each other. It is the processes that generate and produce the consciousness, not as one primary conscious field, but billions of micro-fields perceived as one primary field...which we call 'mind'. Mind, however, is a mental mirage, a mental illusion. We do not have a mind that is conscious, but a consious that is perceived as a mind...the distinction is quite important.

What has this to do with lucid dreaming? Well, it's quite imperative, really. During the lucid dream state, hidden within the brain wave resonance (note: the brain doesn't produce the resonance, but that the inner processes do), there will be found distinct layerings of resonances representing information (ie, energy) exchanges covering a limited spectrum. It is because of these distinctions that sentience becomes apparent within the dream state, sentience of 'self' as well as the streaming dream content. The more one consciously awakens within the dream state, the more one can proactively influence the content. I suspect that others will be more engaging and better at it than others, but I feel all should be able to experience it at some time in their life.

Just remember that it is not magical (except perhaps, as a euphemism), nor supernatural, but entirely natural.

Best wishes

[gods sun]

i don't like lucid dreaming there usually dreams of thinks which i wish i had everything things seems real smell, touch, see, hear only to wake up to something i don't really have :(

[jamesk]

I've been lucid dreaming for years - I've done all sorts of things in dreams, like flying, making love, 'sleeping' and re-awakening in another dream.

I became so engrossed, dreams so real that I found it difficult to tell if I'm dreaming or awake. There are some steps you can take to know that you are dreaming - like pinch yourself, if it hurts your not dreaming; switch the light on and off, in a dream this should wake you up, rationally go through all the steps that brought you to the place, the environment that you are in, etc. But there have been dreams where I've tried all of them, and all told me that I was not dreaming - but I knew I was.

A good source is Carlos Castenada - for example 'The Art of Dreaming'.