Hellooo There Stranger

[Rachels Lion]

This site has given' me some good advice but sometimes I need to ask my own specific question...
So now I can, plus pay it forward and answer others ?'s.... Live in Colorado now, born in TX, raised in PA.

Im 20 - have no idea what I want to do with myself, so I've been doing nothing productive for awhile.
Doing strange things that sometimes sprout weird or not so sociable questions.

I enjoy deep conversations on positive or enlightening topics like spirituality, lucid dreaming, nature, vibrations/human frequencies.... I love psychology in general (and writing tho, tho I haven't for a bit). Since moving to CO I've been thinking a lot and research this stuff^ more, its some crazy shit that sometimes resonates and feels right with me..... Anyways... ha... don't want to go crazy on this cause I'm sure I could...

 

[real_eyes]

Welcome aboard the "Crazy Train" Rachels Lion .. have you had any lucid dreams before?

 

[Rachels Lion]

Nope sure haven't I can hardly remember dreams at all. Maybe once a month I will vaguely remember a dream. I do know ways to get started I just forget to do them. I will someday, I know there is so much we can learn from them, and even train/practice things in lucid dreams, then the muscle memory is stored - once awake what you practiced is easier... Thats just what I heard, so I'm not firm in how true that is.

 

[real_eyes]

i started to investigate lucid dreaming a about 15 years back, i've dabbled on and off since, it's FANTASTIC! but you must get dream recall going (remembering your dreams). I found that upon waking it's agood idea to not move at all and not try too hard to remember then keeping a notepad and pen next to your bed jot down some of the dreams or even parts of them also feelings, smells, sensations. do this for a while and you'll be remembering 3-4 dreams every night! but you have to keep at it.

 

[Rachels Lion]

Yeah that is good advice... I hear asking yourself if your dreaming throughout the day helps because that memory will play in your dream, then you'll ask yourself in a dream and realize you are. Then I suppose you'd have to overcome startling awake when you realize stuff is weird and you are dreaming... Sooo who knows how long till I accomplish that hah....

 

[real_eyes]

I hear asking yourself if your dreaming throughout the day helps

yeah, they call that a "reality check". and you should train yourself to do it habitually so it sort of becomes unconcious, so then you'll do one in a dream without even thinking about it.

A really simple one is to find a clock (or watch) and observe the time, look away for a second,
then look back. Usually in dream the time will be "off", same thing could apply to reading a peice of text,
in dreams these things are very unstable and change quickly so if you notice the text or time has changed you are probably dreaming
the first few times i realized this i did exactly what you said got super excited and woke myself up so i guess it's just a matter of practice.

 

[Rachels Lion]

Yeah I will do more research and try to remember the remember the reality checks..... Thanks for the advice.. all things worthwhile take time and effort I suppose.....

 

[real_eyes]

all things worthwhile take time and effort I suppose

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unfortunatly, yes. or maybe it is a fortunate thing, somtimes it's the journey not the destination. ;P