Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams on Demand
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#2I’ve heard lucid dreaming can become a chore. Ie the person literally lucid dreams every night and eventually bores of it.
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#3I’ve heard lucid dreaming can become a chore. Ie the person literally lucid dreams every night and eventually bores of it.
It very likely prevents you from resting properly.
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#4I read about lucid dreaming on wikibooks, iirc this was before the movie inception.
Do you guys actually control your dreams?
How do you keep bad things from happening?
More importantly, do you remember anything when you wake up?
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#5I’ve heard lucid dreaming can become a chore. Ie the person literally lucid dreams every night and eventually bores of it.
You could make it a Saturday night thing.
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#6I read about lucid dreaming on wikibooks, iirc this was before the movie inception. Do you guys actually control your dreams? How do you keep bad things from happening? More importantly, do you remember anything when you wake up?
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#7I read about lucid dreaming on wikibooks, iirc this was before the movie inception. Do you guys actually control your dreams? How do you keep bad things from happening? More importantly, do you remember anything when you wake up?
> Do you guys actually control your dreams?
Knowing that you are dreaming and controlling what happens in the dream are separate experiences. You can have one without the other, or you can experience both at once.
> How do you keep bad things from happening?
This again is independent of lucid dreaming. I find that nightmares are more likely when you feel too hot in bed and when you are stressed.
In a lucid dream, one in which you don't even need to be in control of the dream, you should be able to recognize that nothing in the dream can harm you. A dream lion wants to eat you? Let go and be eaten: no real harm is done.
At a more advanced level you may be able to recognize that the dream lion is a manifestation of your own fear and respond to it with compassion. When you do that, it will either become friendly or vanish.
> More importantly, do you remember anything when you wake up?
There is no way to know what has happened when we forget about it, whether dreaming or not. Selection bias is at play.
The biggest challenge to recreational lucid dreaming is not remembering what happened in the dream, or being able to control the dream. The biggest challenge is remembering what is it that you wanted to achieve in your next lucid dream.
That all said, while recreational lucid dreaming can be a fun experience, there is a much deeper practice called dream yoga which I would recommend to anybody is past the novelty phase of lucid dreaming. Alan Wallace wrote a book titled "Dreaming yourself awake" which I can recommend.
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#8vanilla sky :)
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#9One of my early Amiga programs was for triggering lucidity. Just a voice record and then playback via some long repeating timers, eg 'you are dreaming', worked quite well.
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#10I’ve heard lucid dreaming can become a chore. Ie the person literally lucid dreams every night and eventually bores of it.
The novelty wears off. Bear in mind that you don't control when they occur. Also, a lucid dream is not quite the same experience as being normally awake -- you are still dreaming and accessing your memories is surprisingly difficult, so you will typically not remember what you had set to achieve in your next lucid dream.
That said, I think the biggest realization of being a frequent lucid dreamer is: how is it possible that most of us don't even realize that we are dreaming? Dreams feel completely different from real life.