Oddly enough for some reason once I was about 20 years of age I only ever have lucid dreams, with 2 exceptions over 10 years. I don't know what triggered it.
Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams on Demand
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry to hear that and sorry for nagging you but I couldn't possibly be more intrigued after reading this! Can't you just like dream up a bed or a nice hammock on a beautiful Caribbean beach and go to sleep in the dream or something? Or is my understanding of what lucid dreaming (having never experienced it, probably... never tried on purpose, never wondered about it) too much like Inception and not enough like it re…
I've never felt tired in a lucid dream, so the thought of going to bed in the dream doesn't make any sense for me... I've always been wide awake in them. There are some benefits to it if you're able to harness it. I've solved plenty of different programming problems in my dreams, only to get up in the morning and then go through the motions again to make them real. Sometimes it feels like the day is just on cruise co…
And while in lucid state, does time feel faster/slower or about the same? I get lucid dreams sometimes but either I get too conscious and wakeup or eventually forget that I was lucid therefore I haven't been able to experiment much with it.
So for you do you spend whole 8 hours lucid and does it actually feel like that?
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#63In Advaita vedanta there are 4 states of existence of self.
First is the outer world where there is a concept ok others and physical world. This is the world is beyond our control. There is suffering in this world.
Next is the dream state where we can control everything. This is illuminated by our own mind. Even then there is limits of what we can do. Continuous lucid dreaming gives us fatigue for those experiences.
Third is dreamless state where there is nothing but pure consciousness. This is one of the best states as there is only self and nothing else. You can experience this during general anesthesia etc.
Fourth which Advaita vedanta calls the ultimate realization is where you realize that you are the self and there is only self. That the pure consciousness is singular and same for all. In fact there is no all. There is just consciousness.
I think we are approaching the same line of thinking but via biology.
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#64GPT-driven induced lucid dreams + sleeping pills + sleeping pods makes for a nice dystopian near-future movie plot where there's a new class of ever more hardcore Hikikomori that not only never leave their house, they also sleep for 20 hours per day and only wake up to do hygiene and so on. Maybe a further version includes supporting staff for life support maintenance like in paliative care place but for "never-awoke…
This reminds me of my time spent being completely addicted to VRchat at the peak of the pandemic. Most of my time was either spent sleeping or in virtual reality
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#65I've had the ability to induce lucid dreams for years now. What they aren't telling you is that it's very easy to lose oneself in the fantasy of it all. At worst, it can induce complete detachment and schizophrenic-like symptoms.
This sounds like an outrageous whopper, and a fascinating one. By all means please explain how you’re able to manage such a seemingly impossible feat.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never felt tired in a lucid dream, so the thought of going to bed in the dream doesn't make any sense for me... I've always been wide awake in them. There are some benefits to it if you're able to harness it. I've solved plenty of different programming problems in my dreams, only to get up in the morning and then go through the motions again to make them real. Sometimes it feels like the day is just on cruise co…
And while in lucid state, does time feel faster/slower or about the same? I get lucid dreams sometimes but either I get too conscious and wakeup or eventually forget that I was lucid therefore I haven't been able to experiment much with it. So for you do you spend whole 8 hours lucid and does it actually feel like that?
I don't really have a reference to gauge if it's slower or faster, but I would say that it mostly just feels normal.
If I had to pick one or the other, I would say that it feels slower... maybe more like tedious since I can't actually accomplish much.
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#67One 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.
You sampled your own voice?
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#68I've had the ability to induce lucid dreams for years now. What they aren't telling you is that it's very easy to lose oneself in the fantasy of it all. At worst, it can induce complete detachment and schizophrenic-like symptoms.
How do you do it? I've only ever had a few and they seem to come on at random.
Others here have given some good methods. I should clarify that I can't do it on command, but rather, I can encourage it with a good degree of success.
It leaves you really tired the next day, so it's but something I typically do more than once a week or so.
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#69GPT-driven induced lucid dreams + sleeping pills + sleeping pods makes for a nice dystopian near-future movie plot where there's a new class of ever more hardcore Hikikomori that not only never leave their house, they also sleep for 20 hours per day and only wake up to do hygiene and so on. Maybe a further version includes supporting staff for life support maintenance like in paliative care place but for "never-awoke…
turns out that becomes the perfect state for navigating hyperspace freight lanes melatonin becomes the most expensive drug ever the spice must flow
Let's start mutating navigators yesterday!
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#70Already invented, it's called "porn".