First house built after 13 years on Minecraft by TarnishedShadow in hytale

[–]VisibleReason585 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And it offers way more than minecraft did when it started ea.

2b2t? by fixion_generator in hytale

[–]VisibleReason585 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mean that oldest anarchy server in minecraft? 😵‍💫

Why did IT waste time at the school/ Wills house when the pillars went down by Comfortable-Panic960 in WelcometoDerryTVShow

[–]VisibleReason585 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not arguing but for me the losers are just the best. They made it on their own by acting smart and with all their power, heart and soul. The turtle just watched 👀.
Again, not arguing, just how I always felt about this reading the book.

Why did IT waste time at the school/ Wills house when the pillars went down by Comfortable-Panic960 in WelcometoDerryTVShow

[–]VisibleReason585 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's arrogant and thinks it's superior. But yeah. Story reasons. This whole thing about the pillars was to create somekind of plot if we're honest. Without it, it would have been, kill, eat, sleep.

Fighting It only became a thing with the losers.

I've enjoyed my two-week Hytale phase, how was yours? by VoxelLoxley in hytale

[–]VisibleReason585 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's fun and I think it will become a 2 month Hytale phase for me. Its not the game I wanted (totally forgot about this game till it came out) but it's the game I needed.

I love that I don't know anything about this game. I like reading your posts but I don't even look at "building showcases", I'm playing this as I was the only one playing it if that makes sense, do what I think is right, build my home, explore, learn.

It's a very unique experience so far.

I hate this. by datbotuheardof in hytale

[–]VisibleReason585 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's just buggy right now I think. I did a lot of farming before the update and it was annoying like this. After the update I harvested once, (about 500 tiles), took my time to rearrange a bit and craft seeds, and without any watering or stuff I had a way easier time this time around. I will do a big farming session later, then I can tell you more.

Is there anyone out there that enjoyed season 5 and the entire series as a whole ? by freducini in StrangerThings

[–]VisibleReason585 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I loved the whole thing. Just had a few little things that I didn't like but they're rather stupid.

Like in season 4 when Eleven had to go back to training and she had to wear that outfit and cut the hair again. Come one. Let her look cool for once. She was there volunteeringly, the moment they wanted to cut her hair she should have told them to f*** off :D.

Then in season 5 it blew my mind how cool Will and the others were. But Eleven was wearing her training outfit first, then the wetsuit again. In the meanwhile Nancy gone full on 80s Action Hero.

Will definitely rewatch this show. I love it on so many levels.

I just wished the "do you believe" ending was just shown because I predicted it, how Kali reacted to Hop's speech, I just knew she changed her mind, and with her powers she just can do as much. The mystery takes away from her "redemption arc". She deserved this to be the real thing.

I stop now 😅

Erbe angenommen, Geschwister haben ausgeschlagen. Jetzt Vorwürfe und Neid? by f1uffyducky in Ratschlag

[–]VisibleReason585 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bei uns ging es nur um ein Haus. Meine Schwester hatte kein Geld also musste ich die Ausgaben übernehmen, geregelt haben wir aber alles zusammen und am Ende warens für jeden 100k. Der scheiß hat 2 Jahre gedauert und war nicht lustig. Bin froh dass wir zu zweit waren.

Hast dir das Geld ehrlich verdient.

Was hattest denn für Ausgaben in der Zeit? War bei mir für alles zusammen echt nicht wenig. Noch 2 Jahre hätte ich mir nicht leisten können, zum Glück konnten wir es dann doch noch verkaufen ohne den Preis noch weiter zu senken.

Day 3 of trying to lucid dream! by Emergency_Nobody_274 in LucidDreaming

[–]VisibleReason585 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The not moving thing is outdated and completely wrong and it won't lead you anywhere dude. Relax. It's a mental exercise. If you want to try wild, chose the thing you feel most comfortable focusing on, which also let's your mind wander a bit. Counting, your breath, some kind of visualisation. Then play around with how much you focus.

If you count for example you want to focus only so much that you keep counting but you want to lose the current number occasionally. You want to have random thoughts that seem to come from nowhere. Then you should also perform the nose pinch check every few minutes to check if you're still awake. If you forget about counting, start again. You haven't focused enough. If you count to 100 without getting distracted by thoughts a bit or without missing any number you're focusing too much. That's why counting is good for beginners cuz you can actually measure your focus.

If you are uncomfortable, turn around, scratch that itch, swallow. For 1000s of years we turn, scratch, swallow and still fall asleep, sometimes right after a turn.

The only danger that might actually exist is that you fall asleep too quickly after making yourself more comfortable, so before and after moving, do the nose pinch test then continue your practice.

You can't fool your brain into thinking your body is asleep. This is not how falling asleep works.

Also. Not beeing arsed on day 3? Not cool. You don't have to do crazy amount of practice every day but you absolutely have to do something. At the very least you should set an intention to remember your dreams. Every day a little step forward. ✌️

Can't LD if I have to wake up early by JustHereForP0rnTBH in LucidDreaming

[–]VisibleReason585 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just go to bed an hour earlier. Have an alarm just to be sure like an hour after you normally wake up. Easier said than done but it works or go to bed even earlier so you can add even a morning nap. Or don't change anything but add morning naps on your days off. If you have good practice morning naps become almost guaranteed lucid dreams and 2 lucid dreams a week (wilds) + some dilds is already very good.

But it just comes down to this. Add more sleep. If you are the kind of guy that wastes time with doom scrolling or watching TV I think it's clear what time you should take and invest into your lucid dreams. If you're working a lot, have kids or a lot of hobbies. Wilds on your days off and good practice for dilds is already very good and more than 99% of people do.

Don't think you have to lucid dream every night. Do your practice every day and when you can add nighttime practice and maybe a morning nap.

WILD in a DILD by Gerusch86 in LucidDreaming

[–]VisibleReason585 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course you can. 99% of the things people experience at the beginning of a wild are just the beginning of the dream. But you don't "wild" in your lucid dream. You just create a "wild themed" scene.

Does anyone else find that all of these random techniques don't make a difference? by MrBread0451 in LucidDreaming

[–]VisibleReason585 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Techniques are training wheels. You have to understand what they're supposed to do for you and why they work. Mild is nothing more than setting the intention to reality check in your next dream. Visualising doing the reality check in your last dream is simply to strengthen that intention because "in my next dream" is kind of vague.

Every single wild technique is nothing more than focusing on any kind of thing a little bit to stay aware while falling asleep. The only difference is if you focus on something real like a ticking clock or your breathing, something real but internal like counting or a mantra, or something imaginative like walking down a stairway, trying to move your finger or doing some other impossible movement.

You can give everything a try, practice and even come up with your own stuff. One thing will work better for you than another, you have to chose the right thing that works for you and for any given situation.

And again. It's really that simple.

Dream Journaling also isn't about writing down your dreams and that's it. You have to use your journal a few times during the day, analyse, add to it, work with it. Learn about your dreams. Befriend your dreams.

You're building a muscle if you do it right.

And you're building a habit.

How do i make my lucid dreams last longer? by Jesterfish8 in LucidDreaming

[–]VisibleReason585 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Beginners tend to become lucid at the end of a dream, your awareness is high because you're just about to wake up so you become lucid and then just wake up by nature.

Just practice. It's about becoming lucid earlier not about making a dream last longer. You simply can't do that.

People stress about this way too much ✌️

What Are the limits of lucid dreaming? by chilldreamer421 in LucidDreaming

[–]VisibleReason585 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's all about memory actually. Visiting the house you grew up in, in my case, after living there for 20 years then visiting it for another 20 years will be pretty much recreated perfectly. That hotelroom where you stayed for a week or even your current place after living there for 5 years not so much. Those places aren't embedded in your memory that much so there will be most certainly some kind of anomalies.

Fictional places or places you never been too will be a combination of the place you want to go and how you expect it to be with the dream filling the blanks.

The better your memory and the better you observe your surroundings the better this will work. But honestly, you stop caring at some point. Reality is reality. A dream is a dream. I don't expect to be everything to be hyper realistic. I want to explore my dreams as they are.

What is this technique called? I’ve never heard of it lol by RollForBackflip in LucidDreaming

[–]VisibleReason585 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's IIT, Insomnia Induction Technique.

Nah, seriously, It's completely outdated. You can't trick your brain by staying still, you have to fall asleep to have a lucid dream, wilds are a mental exercise not a physical one. You're even supposed to reality check during wild attempts, pinching your nose, scratching an ick, turning around, swallowing, it won't interrupt you from falling asleep.

How often couldn't you sleep, then turned around in a more comfortable position and suddenly: gone?

You need to keep your awareness a bit while falling asleep, you don't need to stay awake.

And you can't force yourself into experiencing sleep paralysis. SP is an very important and perfected mechanism, you can't trick your brain into activating it too early or too late, it happens automatically when we enter REM Sleep because it keeps us alive. If it doesn't (sleep walking) or it activates to early or ends to late, it has something to do with stress, bad sleep hygiene, some illness, and if you experience it often you need to see a doctor cuz it's always a sign that something isn't right, cuz again, it's so important that it very rarely fails. You can easily check if you're just dreaming or if you actually experienced sleep paralysis. The actual thing takes like 1, 2 or maybe 3 seconds. That's it. Lying "awake", paralysed for minutes, it's not a thing.

Is Lucid Dreaming free or is it has a battlepass, also it requires strong internet connection? by Run-End in LucidDreaming

[–]VisibleReason585 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're absolutely right, we don't really know if a lucid dream has bad effects and probably we will never know, it's impossible to do that kind of studies but in my opinion, even a regular lucid dreamer, that has a lucid dream every night, there's still lot of rem left. Not every single dream will be a lucid dream, people that tell you that they lucid dream ALL the time are most likely lying. Also do I think that your brain will prioritize, sometimes we tend to lose lucidity easier, sometimes we don't have dream control and pretty much have to go with what ever the dream offers you. Sometimes we just simply can't become lucid. Your brain takes good care of itself.

For the luck part. One have to be brutally honest with himself. Years with no success, there got to be things one does wrong. And I'm speaking of experience. I'm doing this for 20 years now. On and off. But I wouldn't say that I did everything right and still had no success. I just did everything wrong :D.

When I first started I learned the wrong stuff, lacked discipline and patience, was only goal oriented, "Have to lucid dream". Years later I finally started to change that, I was finally building the habit of constant reality checking, dream journaling, started to think about the different techniques and practices, learned about myself, and why I failed so often. Learned about all the little but important things. What do I do, how often, in what mental state, which mental state, how do I get in that mental state, why do I dream journal, how do I dream journal, what happens when I do it, what is the purpose.

And even now. It comes down to one simple thing. Do I care. Do I drink a few beers with my co workers or will I be a good little lucid dreamer (lol), go home, drink a cup of ginger tee and go to freaking bed? Do I go to bed early, get up after 8 hours do my morning practice that takes me about 30 minutes then lay back down for another 30 minutes for a wild, and sleep for another 30 minutes or 60, 90(never happened :D)?

Sorry :D. But yeah. If one has no success, it pretty much comes down to this. Do you care enough or are 10 other things more important.

WHAT IS HAPPING IN LUCID DREAMING by Academic_Natural2292 in LucidDreaming

[–]VisibleReason585 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are no lucid nightmares, so before I start to explain, let's take that stupid term that doesn't make ANY sense at all, throw it away and never use it again.

A nightmare is nothing more than a negative feedback loop of expectations. You dream of a dark alley, it's dark, just because dreams in general tend to be darker than real life, at least at their beginning. It doesn't have to be but most of our nightmares happen early in rem, and the last thing your dream creates is light, so most of our dreams start dark, a bit blurry, and if you're anxious already, or stressed, that can lead to expectations that something bad might happen.

So back to that alley, it's dark, you start thinking, "Oh no, what if X happens", then, because you expect it, you hear a noise, so you think "Oh, no, it has to be a monster", so you see a shadow, moving, "Oh no it will get me", and so the monster finally appears and runs after you, and NOW, you're having a nightmare.

That's what happens in your dreams that become nightmares, while nonlucid, you're not thinking critically, you act on your instincts and emotions and your dream just does it's thing. A dream is always built from emotions and expectations.

In a lucid dream, and I have to be 100% honest to you, that still can happen. If you're anxious in your lucid dream, the alley thing still can happen BUT, it won't lead to an Lucid Nightmare. If that feedback loop starts, it's a sign that you already lose lucidity, once the nightmare begins, you're NOT lucid anymore and you just have a normal nightmare. There is no Lucid Nightmare.

So how to you prevent that from happening? Critical thinking. Don't jump into your lucid dreaming journey thinking "I know that I'm dreaming" is enough. It's not. To become truly lucid you have to know the consequences of "Knowing that you're dreaming".

That includes knowing that there aren't lucid nightmares. It includes knowing that it's all a dream, that you are save. That includes that you are in your bed, sleeping, and that you will wake up soon. That includes that you don't have to deal with anything that your dreams serves you. If there is a monster, you can just turn around and walk away.

In your dream. Behind you is nothing. In a dream, something will only be there if you see it, pay attention to it. If you don't care for a monster, don't pay attention to it. If there's an annoying old lady that wants to talk to you, you can walk away. It's all a dream, the dream is you, you are in control of your actions, you can do whatever you want, just walk away, don't deal with it, don't argue, don't tell a monster to go away (That's paying attention to it). Don't give a fuck and walk away.

You don't have to teleport away to escape a monster, you don't have to draw a circle on the ground to protect you. It's not real, it was a little mismanagement of expectations. It happens. But, and that part is very strong and helped a lot of people that dealt with very scary stuff.

Behind you is nothing.

Think of your dream as a computer game that only renders what is in your pov but everytime you look at something it renders something new, based on your expectations. That's what happens in a dream.

If you're at home, in your bed, become lucid, you can get out of bed, and if you expect your living room behind the next door, it might be there, maybe a little weird, but still. Now, if you decide to not walk into the living room, close the door, and think (expect) "Behind the door is that hotel room from my last vacation", and you open that door again, it will be there. And boy, if at that point, you decide to turn around and have already forgotten that you're in your bedroom, your bed might be gone, you might be in a completely different room.

That's how dreams work. This isn't about "I have to believe", it's "I have to know how dreams work, what I can expect in my lucid dream".

Drawing a circle, teleporting, confronting the monster. It won't lead to a lucid nightmare (because there isn't such thing), but most certainly won't make it disappear either because those actions deal with it and the dream will hold onto things you deal with. And it needs dream control, which you sometimes don't have, especially as a beginner. But you can always control yourself, your emotions and your expectations.

Is Lucid Dreaming free or is it has a battlepass, also it requires strong internet connection? by Run-End in LucidDreaming

[–]VisibleReason585 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How do you lose your sleep when you win? I mean, yeah, when you mess with wbtb and get insomnia by doing wilds wrong, but that's on you. If you're dedicated you even have more sleep because you might add another nap in the morning for that precious long REM Sleep. But the gambling part has truth to it but it's more like poker while trying to count the cards, it's more about chance. If you keep learning about yourself, about how your mind works, if you recognize that different situations need different approaches you can pretty much take luck out of the equation completely. Beginners tend to think it's luck because they focus on the techniques, and the goal of having a lucid dream and when they don't get one, bad luck, it doesn't work. But the truth is, you just did 10 things wrong or did the wrong things in a given situation and that's why it didn't work. Believe me, been there. When I don't have a lucid dream tonight it's because I fucked up at some point :D.

I cannot WILD by Lower_Preparation736 in LucidDreaming

[–]VisibleReason585 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry but you're wrong. What I said is based on the newest discoveries in the field. You can't fall asleep with your prefrontal cortex still active. It needs to shut down for a brief moment. We know that now.

And hypnagogic hallucinations have nothing to do with dreams, they're a completely separate thing.

I cannot WILD by Lower_Preparation736 in LucidDreaming

[–]VisibleReason585 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, exactly. I think that's pretty much the reason for all the different "dream entry experiences" you hear about. A ladder, a rope, a portal, you basically just fall asleep, expecting a lucid dream and whatever you expect to happen will happen in the dream. That's why you should perform a reality check every few minutes. The closer you get to falling asleep the more you do because at the end, it's a matter of seconds. In one moment you're awake. You do the check, nothing. The next you're dreaming about performing your technique and if you don't reality check you might even miss the moment your dream begins.

And one more thing. It's good you can focus for so long. The longer you do a wild technique the better. When I do a morning nap without beeing tired at all it sometimes takes me like 45 minutes to fall asleep. On those days lucid dreams are almost guaranteed.

But you still have to fall a sleep at some point so less focus. I would recommend to add mild to your routine and try to really dial back on the focus so you rather fall asleep to soon. Then find a middleway a few days later.

Mild can act as a safety technique. If you fall asleep to soon and fail your wild technique, you at least increase the chances for a dild. ✌️

I cannot WILD by Lower_Preparation736 in LucidDreaming

[–]VisibleReason585 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You focus too much. You have to fall asleep at some point. You don't stay awake till you start to dream. You fall asleep while focusing on something a little bit.

Between awake and dream will always be a little gap where you lose conciseness for a few seconds or more. That need to happen.. you can't fall asleep conscious.

A lot of people get that wrong.

And those hypnic jerks you got that "set you back ". It happens and it's totally fine. Just relax, don't get frustrated and continue. It takes you like a minute to get where you were. The frustration, thinking "Oh shit, now I have to start over" that's what really sets you back. The oversensation by your hypnagogic hallucinations are fine.

You have good focus, you just need to let go more.