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There are some tricks which can help you stay there. E.g. you can try spinning around and then usually you end up in a different place. Also, if you haven't bee

by comboy 4y ago

There are some tricks which can help you stay there. E.g. you can try spinning around and then usually you end up in a different place. Also, if you haven't been lucid dreaming for a long time yet it may come naturally as you get less frantically excited that you've achieved it. But there are also levels to lucidity. I remember having dreams when I knew I was dreaming before I've been lucid dreaming and it was a very different experience. With full lucidity everything is in such a mind boggling great detail which I cannot achieve in the real world with my eyes and yet I know it's all made up in my head. I can carefully examine surface of some thing and it's so unreal that this touch experience is only a dream. I highly recommend to at least try it a few times for those who haven't. Profound life experience. However personally I don't do these anymore (or even hardly remember any dreams, low amount of sleep may be related), because dreams tend to consume me a bit. They can be such a powerful experiences that I may spend good part of the day thinking about them and I'd rather take in what's around me. I wonder if anybody here can relate to that part.

dorkwood 4y ago
> There are some tricks which can help you stay there. E.g. you can try spinning around and then usually you end up in a different place. I tried this once. It immediately popped me out of the dream.
- marnett 4y ago
  What has worked for me is “priming” my subconscious with a place/person/thing I want to incorporate in my dream, and then finding the nearest door in the current dream I’m in (doesn’t always work, sometimes I gain lucidity in an environment that does not have many doors, but often times my dreams are inside (aside: I think it’s easier for the subconscious to generate dreamscapes that are bounded)). When I open the door I can change environments to what I “primed” with a low risk (but not zero) of “popping” out of the dream (which for me involves the entire dreamscape going completely and infinitely white/blank).
noduerme 4y ago
I've only ever had one lucid dream, in which I was being chased and realized I could just throw myself off a cliff to wake up, which is what I immediately did. I wish I could have more. I really enjoy when I remember my dreams and they consume part of my day. I consider it productive. If I let them, they reveal themselves more to me as the day goes on, and there's usually an "aha" moment when I realize what a dream was a metaphor for, usually something I'm struggling with in real life. Often they also give me new ideas for creative design problems I'm working on. Sometimes a building or a landscape I'm walking through is even laid out to show me a better way to approach an algorithm. I can relate, though, to wanting to clear the fog that comes with holding onto a dream, and get on with the day in reality. Usually if I decide one isn't worth reading too much into, I can just jot a few words about it down and let it go.
- comboy 4y ago
  Maybe writing it down will help to let it go, I'll try it some time. > I've only ever had one lucid dream, in which I was being chased and realized I could just throw myself off a cliff to wake up, which is what I immediately did. I wish I could have more. I can't say anything objective about your subjective experience, but I think if it was a lucid dream, not a "oh it's a dream", you'd rather look around the thing that is chasing you, transform it to whatever you please and fly of a cliff to dance in the sky. What I'm trying to say is that it can be much more than just this realization, and if you wish to have more, you can, there's tons of exercises you can find online. Unfortunately they tend to often be on sites/forums where they also talk about chakras, astral projections and what not. Which is the reason I thought lucid dreaming may also be some b*t, and which is the reason I'm writing these comments here to vouch that it is real, achievable and worth giving it a try.
Chyzwar 4y ago
"Are You Dreaming?: Exploring Lucid Dreams: A Comprehensive Guide" from Daniel Love. This is a good book to introduce into lucid dreaming.

by comboy 4y ago

dorkwood 4y ago

> There are some tricks which can help you stay there. E.g. you can try spinning around and then usually you end up in a different place. I tried this once. It immediately popped me out of the dream.

marnett 4y ago
What has worked for me is “priming” my subconscious with a place/person/thing I want to incorporate in my dream, and then finding the nearest door in the current dream I’m in (doesn’t always work, sometimes I gain lucidity in an environment that does not have many doors, but often times my dreams are inside (aside: I think it’s easier for the subconscious to generate dreamscapes that are bounded)). When I open the door I can change environments to what I “primed” with a low risk (but not zero) of “popping” out of the dream (which for me involves the entire dreamscape going completely and infinitely white/blank).

noduerme 4y ago

I've only ever had one lucid dream, in which I was being chased and realized I could just throw myself off a cliff to wake up, which is what I immediately did. I wish I could have more. I really enjoy when I remember my dreams and they consume part of my day. I consider it productive. If I let them, they reveal themselves more to me as the day goes on, and there's usually an "aha" moment when I realize what a dream was a metaphor for, usually something I'm struggling with in real life. Often they also give me new ideas for creative design problems I'm working on. Sometimes a building or a landscape I'm walking through is even laid out to show me a better way to approach an algorithm. I can relate, though, to wanting to clear the fog that comes with holding onto a dream, and get on with the day in reality. Usually if I decide one isn't worth reading too much into, I can just jot a few words about it down and let it go.

comboy 4y ago
Maybe writing it down will help to let it go, I'll try it some time. > I've only ever had one lucid dream, in which I was being chased and realized I could just throw myself off a cliff to wake up, which is what I immediately did. I wish I could have more. I can't say anything objective about your subjective experience, but I think if it was a lucid dream, not a "oh it's a dream", you'd rather look around the thing that is chasing you, transform it to whatever you please and fly of a cliff to dance in the sky. What I'm trying to say is that it can be much more than just this realization, and if you wish to have more, you can, there's tons of exercises you can find online. Unfortunately they tend to often be on sites/forums where they also talk about chakras, astral projections and what not. Which is the reason I thought lucid dreaming may also be some b*t, and which is the reason I'm writing these comments here to vouch that it is real, achievable and worth giving it a try.

Chyzwar 4y ago

"Are You Dreaming?: Exploring Lucid Dreams: A Comprehensive Guide" from Daniel Love. This is a good book to introduce into lucid dreaming.