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I've successfully had lucid dreams many times in my life so I know that this is entirely possible for the normal person to achieve, but the other has always intrigued me. I'm somewhat of a non-spiritual person when it comes to religion, but when it comes to what my mind actually wants to believe, I let myself wonder.

Anyone ever had success inducing a lucid dream using any of those binaural, monaural, or isochronic tones/beats? How about one that seems to be an out-of-body experience (astral projection)?

I miss having lucid dreams, I stopped writing my dreams down because they became too much to handle when I hit rough patches in life. It was starting to get really hard determining when I was dreaming, all of my dreams became so realistic and possible that I forced myself to stop writing my dreams down and even thinking about them when I woke up. Eventually I started losing the ability to distinctly remember all of my dreams. But now, being back on a positive curve in life, I want to see if I still have it in me.

Also, has anyone induced a waking dream (just closing your eyes) similar to a lucid dream or astral projection while under the influence of a substance? LSD allowed me to enter Atlantis one time (never knew how amazing imagination could be) and 2C-E *forced* me into thinking I tore a wormhole in space and was given the ability to be my own God, recreating the universe galaxy by galaxy, on a giant, empty, black canvas. While amazing, that was the scariest experience of my entire life, I will never touch that stuff again (but 35-40mg wasn't a good idea in the first place). The pure anguish I felt having to accept that I destroyed myself and everyone I loved is, naturally, unforgettable.
 
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Also, has anyone induced a waking dream (just closing your eyes) similar to a lucid dream or astral projection while under the influence of a substance?
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I cant really recall... I sure I have many times when I was a young teenager reading Carlos Castaneda or some shit meditating with a quarter of mushrooms. I recall one time so spaced out on some hallucinagenic I was attached to my body with this long golden umbilical cord [golden] and I was floating in thru space and I would run into these grid like force fields. I would merge with them and than rocket back into what I always thought was deep space. Those days were alot of fun.

What I like these days is my ability to recall a long series of my dreams if I start to relax. It usually starts out like a spliced together film with all these familiar but odd places. Just last night I had a dream that I was in this girls house and we were sitting in her family? room that looked out to this stand of aspen trees. The sun was setting kicking up typical sunset colors and glows. I have known this girl like forever. Anyways she starts squeezing her tits and than I remember nice perfect thighs. All of a sudden we were sitting cross legged on the wooden floor and she pulls this dust cover for a book [there might have been a book, maybe I will remember when I close my eyes] and starts pushing these yellow needle'ish crystals of the cover and asked me to smoke some of the dmt with her. Weird. Even stranger was that I ran into a friend that invited me over to this girls I am talking about house to watch 'Repo Man' I told her I had other plans though.

Anyways I love dreams and have always been able to have a large recall of my dreams.
 
Ever since i got into intense meditation and spirituality, my dreams have become exponentially more vivid and pronounced, my ability to remember them has also increased.
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I miss having lucid dreams, I stopped writing my dreams down because they became too much to handle when I hit rough patches in life. It was starting to get really hard determining when I was dreaming, all of my dreams became so realistic and possible that I forced myself to stop writing my dreams down and even thinking about them when I woke up. Eventually I started losing the ability to distinctly remember all of my dreams. But now, being back on a positive curve in life, I want to see if I still have it in me.
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I've would often find myself in a similar situation a little while back now, i would wake-up and find it hard to distinguish whether i was still dreaming or if i had actually woken up(of which im still not entirely sure of :)). I would also believe i'd said something to someone or something had happened, which it had not.. it was very confusing for a while so i ceased my focus on the dreams.

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Also, has anyone induced a waking dream (just closing your eyes) similar to a lucid dream or astral projection while under the influence of a substance
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Only once on LSD, as i was on the tail-end on a trip.. i was laying on my bed and closed my eyes.. instead of seeing geometric patterns i could see my room as it was with my eyes closed.. yet in another world. The bed i was laying on was suddenly a convertible and i was in the backseat.. my walls had turned bright pink/amber which resembled a sunset, there were palm tree's passing me by with strawberry's hanging from below the leaves.

I opened my eyes, to see my room.. then closed them again to see the same lucidity of the dream, it was astonishing, first time i've ever experienced such vivid detail with my imagination in the dream-world.

On a side note;

I have re-created this effect while sober 3 times since, where i will close my eyes and almost instantly i'm able to see through my eyelids into my room.. but everything has patterns running over it and glowing visualization (somewhat similar to the visual effects of DMT). It's the strangest sensation to close your eyes and see everything as it is, only to open them and see the exact same thing with less detail/patterns.

Which is another reason why i feel the dreamworld and this reality as different as they may appear have far more in common then realized. But alas, there just thoughts.. ;)
 
I have only managed to lucid dream once, and most of the time when I wake up I'm not sure if the dream was real or not and I'm confused. I usually have unpleasant dreams, I would even say nightmares, reflecting my fears and emotional issues in my life...and it's been that way since I was a little kid.

I unfortunately try to not dream by using pot nightly, and I usually try to NOT recall my dreams...my grandma told me when I was a kid to look out the window as soon as you wake to forget them.

During my few weeks in Hawaii I encountered many people and had discussions about using binaural and other beats to achieve certain emotions and stimulations, so it's something I'm beginning to look into. While it isn't my personal experience, I've heard a lot of positive things from others. Overall, I've been advised there is more to it than just the beats, a lot of it is your own inner self and the people who meditate regularly seem to have more luck with it.
 
All very interesting information.

Funny enough, my venture into Atlantis was at the tail-end of an LSD trip as well, I could open my eyes and see my room, then close them again and go right back into the rabbit hole.

I learned when I was younger that to improve your memory of dreams, you just write down every detail you can remember as soon as you wake up. Then, before you go to sleep, try to recall the dream from the previous night off the top of your head, after you feel like you've remembered it all, read what you wrote in the morning. Instantly you're overwhelmed by "OH YEAHHH's" and "I remember now's." Your writings will become much more detailed over time, until the point of not even having to write them down anymore. You'll also begin to notice that many of your dreams have one, distinctive element in common. And this element just doesn't make sense in reality. Then, once you know of that element, when you dream and that element appears, you instantly realize you're dreaming... and then the fun begins.

I became a self-proclaimed pro at lucid dreaming, I did everything I ever wanted to do. I would run through malls that I created and kill everyone in sight (this is disturbing, I know, but at the time knowing it wasn't real I had to do it) or other things like flying around a city or visiting places I had never seen before (like Easter Isle). I did this every night and wrote all of my dreams down every morning for over a year, eventually my dreams became so realistic that I literally drove myself mad.

I would be sitting in school, thinking about the dream from the night before, and get confused thinking "wait, I never woke up... I'm still dreaming." Because of thinking I was still dreaming, I would say things and do things to people that I thought would have no consequence like usual, but I eventually realized I was awake, and I got in trouble many times.

Shortly after all of that began to happen, I developed a MAJOR depressive disorder, had to start seeing a psychologist and two psychiatrists. I was put on many medications until I found the right ones.

I started having nightmares a lot, which is what forced me to stop writing down my dreams. Now, years later, I still have extremely vivid and realistic dreams, where I think I am actually awake and its real. Like taking too many sleeping pills and deciding to drive, swerving all over the road, and totaling my car. I'd wake up thinking it actually happened and then when I found that my car was totally intact, I began to think I was NOW dreaming and trying to temporarily disguise the mistake I had made the night before. I ended up having to call a close friend of mine (a girl, she has mental problems as well), crying, asking her if I was dreaming or not.

I indirectly blame my experimentation with lucid dreaming in my childhood (middle school to 9th grade) for triggering some of my mental problems, I mean, afterall, killing a bunch of people and getting away with it isn't something that I child should experience. But, the things I experienced then, all in my head, are unforgettable. Now that I'm basically on track with the right medications and life is all well and good, I think I'm going to start writing down my dreams again, because I would really like to see what my brain is capable of now that I'm basically fully matured. I just have to not let it get out of hand again, keeping the little grip that I have left on reality is a must.
 
To start with, Inception is amazing.. I loved it, had real streaks of astral projection, lucid dreaming, psychology, social engineering, NLP etc in it.. Brilliant! It's what I love reading and researching :D

I've experienced a bit of this stuff but it trips me out a fair bit, I don't really document it but I remember a lot of it, more so than my friends and their dreams etc.. I love it. I suffered night terrors when I was a kid so I don't know if what I experience now is a carry on from that, or its own seperate entity..

Sorry I didn't add much to this, I'll pop back later and have a chat!

Peace, Mav <3
 
Dreaming Im having a Lucid Dream

So yeah basiclly, Ive had alot of dreams where I dream that I realise that Im dreaming.

Its odd, but like the other night, my dream character said "Im dreaming" and proceeded to change things about, but, it wasnt actually a lucid dream. And I couldnt control it, still was like watching a video. This has happend quite a few times now, and its pretty annoying.

My question is this;

What can I do to ACTUALLY realise Im dreaming? And is it obvious when it is a lucid dream?

Cheers!
 
If I don't wake up right away, it'll usually turn into one of these dreams.
 
Yeah, I saw Inception, it was quite amazing, just wish the top would have stopped spinning, instead of wobbling. I think the wobbling was supposed to signify the fact that you cannot be certain what is true or what is untrue, you just have to accept the fact of possibilities.
 
Actually, I have been predisposed to spontaneous projections since about the age of thirteen. It was very traumatic for me, as you can imagine. I had no knowledge then of anything shamanic, esoteric, or occult related. Any time I went to an adult, I was either written off or alienated. Eventually, my family started to believe that I was possessed, and this scared the shit out of me - did a number on my self-worth. Then one day, I took control - or rather, relinquished my fear, on a random intuition. These experiences then took on a completely different and breath-taking tone, and through these experiences, I have been blessed with the chance to learn more about myself and the "world" than most people do without having to initiate a spiritual quest or years of practice and patience. It's like I was born a shaman, I do not know how....... or why.... But I wouldn't trade it now over anything in the world. Even though I am automatically blacklisted from the majority of society because of my "mental illness"
 
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But I wouldn't trade it now over anything in the world. Even though I am automatically blacklisted from the majority of society because of my "mental illness"
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You have experience stuff. You have also experienced some rejection because of expressing your experiences and your interpretations of those experiences. I would like to suggest that "automatically blacklisted from the majority of society" suggested to me that you could be exaggerating the extent to which society at large cares about your experiences. It isn't important how anyone else interprets your experiences.

I'm just saying that this part of your life does not need to become any big impediment to your having a place within mainstream society should you desire. In many contexts I would have no judgment about mystical experiences or the mystic's interpretation of their importance. It would prejudice me against you if you went on about them in a job interview. It wouldn't be blacklisting you it would be about your judgment. Likewise if you talked to stranger on a bus stop about all this most people would assume you were way to zealous or crazy.

The validity of your visions won't happen in job interviews, on discussion boards, or in job interviews. Exposing these things in any of those places is going to get mixed reaction. Mystic's who come back from their visions almost universally want better recognition and acceptance of their experience. It may seem to obvious to say but people who weren't on your trip remain unaffected by the whole thing.

So please don't feel blacklisted but consider that other people are going to relate to visions, trips, and dreams only so much.
 
Lucid Dreams

How many people here are familiar with lucid dreaming? I have been blessed with the ability to recognize during a dream, that I'm dreaming. Once I noticed I'm dreaming(usually I can tell because the second I fly in my dreams That's when it hits me every time. You can't fly LOL. So then I'm in control of every aspect of the dream. I have shot up heroine in my dreams and felt like I was really on heroin. I have also became aware that I was dreaming and decided to eat lsd. I really tripped the second the lsd hit my mouth. I think what helps me so much, is I have the same dream every night, this I think makes it easier to determine your in a dream, because you are already so familiar with that dream. It takes a bit of practice to not wake up once you become aware of the fact your dreaming.

If you ever wanted to see what other dimensions might look like, or just create my own world. Lucid dreaming allows me to do it just by speaking it. so in my dream I speak the Sahara desert, and the next thing I know I am seeing the most beautiful imagery of a desert, and then I went to the top of a waterfall and dove down and right before I hit the water I fly upwards LOL>

Lucid Dreaming in my opinion is cooler than any drug possible, because once your lucid dreaming you can feel any drug you want while you fly to mars just to have a snake in the crater.
 
I get this not often but about once a month, I only vaguely remember it the next day, but I can remember it happening at the time if you know what I mean.

You actually just reminded be because I had it last night, I start running then I can fly through the sky and its actually the best thing ever, I start saying to my friends like "hey xxxxx" were in a fuking dream try this, and everyone starts flying, I then start doing crazy stuff because I know im in a dream and it is not in fact real life, I can then control my dream to do what I want and it feels so real but I know its not, being able to control my dreams is actaully one of the best things I know, its just remembering it in the morning which I struggle with.

I know i am doing it at that second in time of my dream, but the next day it takes something to trigger my memory to remember it. Being able to fly is one the best things though, sometimes I just go over countrysides and sea etc feeling on top of the world!
 
Yes, you described exactly what happens to me as well. Except remembering them, they are always so profound that I can't help but remember last weeks dreams right now.
 
Ever since I was little I've realized I was dreaming in most of my dreams, in nightmares I'd roll my eyes back before something bad was going to happen (usually getting stabbed) and that'd make me wake up. I used to be able to fly and do whatever in my dreams, did some neo type stuff, but this only works out in some dreams and I can recall a lot of nightmares where I'd fly in slow motion. I have yet to manage to fly in the past few dreams I've been aware of, but I still know they're a dream and attempt to.

Life actually used to feel like a lucid dream to me, when I trip I often try to wake up from the lucid dream that is life, usually it's a bad trip >.<
 
ive only ever had one lucid dream, i started to panic thinking id be unable to wake up. ended up running around in my asking people to help me wake up. loads of crazy stuff happened. when i actually woke up i was like "am i still asleep? or awake? holy fuck that was crazy!!" i have very vivid dreams all the time, but im unable to make myself lucid in them and control them
 
The best 2 things you can do in my opinion to learn this skill(which is definitely something everyone has the ability to do) are, keeping a dream journal. Once you realize some common ground in your different dreams, then you have a chance to realize your in a dream because you remember writing about the dream from the night before. If you want to set an alarm to go off an hour after you have fallen asleep, waking up and then going right back to sleep while keeping it in your head that the second you start dreaming your going to look at a digital clock. Once you know to look for a digital clock you will start recognizing them in your dreams. The thing that makes the digital clock is it never shows proper times, 8:56 is not a time, sometimes its not even numbers. I instantly realize I'm dreaming. And once you realize your dreaming and managed to not wake up, your the painter and your brain is the canvas. I think if you start doing these two things you will be able to reach a stage 2 or 3 within 2 weeks. This is where you realize you are dreaming, but you do not understand your ability to control it. So you know your dreaming but the dream is automatically running itself.
 
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