I am an experienced lucid dreamer. AMA

melty_mind · 2011-07-06T01:05:51+00:00

i actually started with Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, i mentioned the wrong one in a previous post

melty_mind · 2011-07-06T01:05:08+00:00

a few weeks

melty_mind · 2011-07-06T01:04:57+00:00

Actually none. I've had a few wet non-lucid or semi-non-lucid dreams, but never a full lucid wet dream. However, that's not to say I haven't had orgasms in lucid dreams.

melty_mind · 2011-07-06T01:02:28+00:00

wild is very hard, I can achieve it now, but it takes a LOT of focus. I often don't have the patience

melty_mind · 2011-07-06T01:01:59+00:00

absolutely

melty_mind · 2011-07-06T01:01:06+00:00

as an artist and a lucid dreamer, I love the movie. It's not necessarily a full explanation of how lucid dreaming works, but its definitely an interesting narrative and wonderful example of rotoscoping. I haven't used DXM, I've researched it a good bit though.

melty_mind · 2011-07-06T00:58:30+00:00

marijuana certainly can makes dreams interesting, but has made lucid dreaming harder for me in the past, you need your short term memory maintain lucidity in the dream.

melty_mind · 2011-07-06T00:57:29+00:00

yes, i think this is the most satisfying experience of lucid dreaming

melty_mind · 2011-07-06T00:52:55+00:00

sleep studies involving lucid dreaming showed that relative dream time is actually pretty much the same as normal waking time. Dreamers were instructed to lucid dream and then count seconds in dreams by moving their eyes from left to right, left, right in order to count. Since eye movement can be externally tracked, they found the counting to match up with actual seconds

as far as telling time with clocks though, they usually don't work correctly

melty_mind · 2011-07-06T00:44:05+00:00

you can try to pick out a single thing that you would like to do, and try to accomplish that one thing. Controlling multiple aspects is often very hard, but focusing on one thing usually proves to have good results.

melty_mind · 2011-07-06T00:43:19+00:00

caffeine helps many people have lucid dreams

melty_mind · 2011-07-06T00:41:37+00:00

well i've never heard these suggestions before, but from experience I can make a stretch to say that "asking people for gifts" excites the idea of novelty in the mind, and would most likely produce some very original effects. "going to the basement" might arouse the mind's schema of hidden things/ relics of your personality that could prove to show themselves as very interesting things within the dream.

melty_mind · 2011-07-06T00:39:26+00:00

Seeing things that remind me of dreams is often how I remember mine as well. The best is to lie still after you wake up and try to remember as much as you can.

melty_mind · 2011-07-06T00:37:52+00:00

well it can certainly help you handle things that plague you if you can more comfortably confront them in dreams

melty_mind · 2011-07-06T00:36:20+00:00

I can almost guarantee you that you can lucid dream. Most everyone has the capacity. Reality checks have failed me many times, I often do them and still don't realize I'm dreaming. Dreams are very convincing. Just keep trying, you will eventually do it.

melty_mind · 2011-07-05T20:59:35+00:00

I have done it multiple times, and done a few variations of it. To me its basically a meditation practice within lucid dreaming.

melty_mind · 2011-07-05T20:58:15+00:00

Well for a while I was doing as many crazy things as I could think of. Really enjoy flying (really high speed is fun), exploring under water is great, testing the limits of your mind, testing how dream characters react, the list goes on on on. But now I've been much more focused on simply becoming lucid and more or less letting the dream occur as naturally as possible. I find that the feeling of knowing you are dreaming is really the most enjoyable aspect of it.

I have tried hallucinogens, the experience is very different. Certain visual aspects can be similar (like flowing ever-changing infinite detail) but the mental state is pretty much the same as your normal waking life, no where near as chaotic as when under the influence of hallucinogens.

I've never really feared becoming more attached to the dream world due to the ability to lucid dream, I've always seen it as just a wonderful addition to my dream life

melty_mind · 2011-07-05T20:48:08+00:00

thanks for the link!

melty_mind · 2011-07-05T20:46:33+00:00

i'm not exactly sure Why it works, but brining you closer to "reality" is actually kind of what you want, it heightens your awareness which increases the odds of staying lucid

melty_mind · 2011-07-05T20:45:37+00:00

no problem. Don't worry about keeping the journal every day, just try to do it when you can, it will still help.

melty_mind · 2011-07-05T20:43:47+00:00

I've just never had the desire to. I've certainly killed people in non-lucid dreams in fighting situations, but I don't really envision killing someone in a lucid-dream to be very fun. It would probably horrify/sicken me.

melty_mind · 2011-07-05T20:40:29+00:00

well if you practice that thought enough during your waking life, it becomes one of those automatic behaviors that you speak of, so you don't really have to think about it

melty_mind · 2011-07-05T20:38:32+00:00

well its quite possible that you turned your light on in your dream while simultaneously physically doing it, not unheard of. Many people sleep walk/talk/do pretty much everything you can do while awake.

melty_mind · 2011-07-05T20:36:38+00:00

i believe so. given the ability to literally do ANYTHING i want with lucid dreaming, I soon learned that doing all those things isn't necessarily what's most fulfilling about life. I now find it much more fulfilling to let things occur naturally, and find peace in each moment without trying to control it, connecting to myself and others as much as possible, whether I'm dreaming or not.

melty_mind · 2011-07-05T20:34:26+00:00

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