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Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds

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Post by mezzie2 »

grugagag wrote: post #2

I wonder what are the benefits from lucid dreaming. I read some claims that it’s possible we could gain access to some ‘hidden registry’ figuratively speaking by using methods such as lucid dreaming. However, I had a few lucid dreams in my life, all without any deliberate effort, they just happened and it’s nice to have them and all, but I don’t see myself getting out of my way to have lucid dreams. Does anyone get a…

I found it a great way to relax when life was hectic. Back when I was sober most days, I lucid dreamed a lot (~80% of nights) and I could remember the dreams well. I have/had numerous calm spaces in which I spent time and felt safe. Given I have PTSD, it was very helpful. It let me practice feeling safe.

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Post by paulrudy »

grugagag wrote: post #2

I wonder what are the benefits from lucid dreaming. I read some claims that it’s possible we could gain access to some ‘hidden registry’ figuratively speaking by using methods such as lucid dreaming. However, I had a few lucid dreams in my life, all without any deliberate effort, they just happened and it’s nice to have them and all, but I don’t see myself getting out of my way to have lucid dreams. Does anyone get a…

In Robert Waggoner's book, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self, the author, who was a very skilled lucid dreamer from childhood, describes how he had a moment of insight after waking from a lucid dream. He had been thinking of himself as the controller of his dreams, and treated them mostly as entertainment. But he realized that for everything he "decided" in his lucid dream, there was far more content that arrived, unplanned--scenery, characters, events, and so on.

This made him curious about using awareness within the dream not just for entertainment, but to conduct experiments and tests, to research what was and wasn't possible, what dream characters and dream consciousness knew or didn't know, all from within the dreams themselves. He's spent decades doing that, and comparing notes with other skilled lucid dreamers.

It's an incredibly fascinating book, a sort of natural history of the dream world by a seasoned traveler within it.

Also has a bunch of useful tips on cultivating lucid dreaming, which I remember working pretty well a few times when I had been disciplined enough to practice them.

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Post by smithcoin »

I used to be able to lucid dream quite regularly. I had a friend tell me that looking at your hands throughout the day would help as when you looked at them in your dreams you would realize it.

Now as I’ve grown older I don’t even dream anymore (I suspect due to THC use) but even on nights where I go to bed stone cold sober - nothing happens. I don’t dream. Does anybody else find themselves lacking the ability to dream at all?

I don’t mind it because while I do miss lucid dreaming and pleasant dreams, I completely miss out on the ability to have a nightmare.

Re: Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds

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Post by smithcoin »

llamaimperative wrote: post #19
yeetusus wrote: post #18

I've wanted to make my own 'app' for a wearable device that i can trigger to vibrate for X seconds at Y intensity every Z minutes... to find the sweet spot for lucid dreaming. I only dig a quick look but didn't see any easy mode APIs for the wearables, for the vibrating feature

If you do this, please sell it as an intensive sleep retraining device, a la the Thim.io device except not garbage.

What’s garbage about the device? What other wearables have you tried for sleep tracking?

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Post by LanceJones »

smithcoin wrote: post #44

I used to be able to lucid dream quite regularly. I had a friend tell me that looking at your hands throughout the day would help as when you looked at them in your dreams you would realize it. Now as I’ve grown older I don’t even dream anymore (I suspect due to THC use) but even on nights where I go to bed stone cold sober - nothing happens. I don’t dream. Does anybody else find themselves lacking the ability to dre…

How do you know with certainty that you do not dream? You spend zero minutes in REM? Do you track with Whoop or something similar?

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Post by EthicalSimilar »

smithcoin wrote: post #44

I used to be able to lucid dream quite regularly. I had a friend tell me that looking at your hands throughout the day would help as when you looked at them in your dreams you would realize it. Now as I’ve grown older I don’t even dream anymore (I suspect due to THC use) but even on nights where I go to bed stone cold sober - nothing happens. I don’t dream. Does anybody else find themselves lacking the ability to dre…

Is it a case of not dreaming, or rather not remembering the dreams?

If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around..

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Post by deadbabe »

smithcoin wrote: post #44

I used to be able to lucid dream quite regularly. I had a friend tell me that looking at your hands throughout the day would help as when you looked at them in your dreams you would realize it. Now as I’ve grown older I don’t even dream anymore (I suspect due to THC use) but even on nights where I go to bed stone cold sober - nothing happens. I don’t dream. Does anybody else find themselves lacking the ability to dre…

Take 400mg Magnesium Glycinate and be careful what you wish for.

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Post by ohthehugemanate »

grugagag wrote: post #13
vernon99 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As other commenters have pointed out, the question itself might be pointless. The article makes the same mistake, trying to frame lucid dreaming around some supposed benefits it provides. But this craving for benefits is just a product of the ego. There’s a deeper layer to it—simply experiencing reality is already profound enough on its own. And being more aware of this beautiful reality during your lifetime, instead…

I do experience lucid dreaming ocasionally without any effort of my own and without paying for an application either. I’m trying to understand whether doing more of it benefits me in any way beyond the ocassional episodes that come naturally. Why is this pointless to you?

It's fun and interesting. Those are already pretty great benefits for something free and zero calorie, that takes up zero extra hours in the day.

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Post by kranner »

smithcoin wrote: post #44

I used to be able to lucid dream quite regularly. I had a friend tell me that looking at your hands throughout the day would help as when you looked at them in your dreams you would realize it. Now as I’ve grown older I don’t even dream anymore (I suspect due to THC use) but even on nights where I go to bed stone cold sober - nothing happens. I don’t dream. Does anybody else find themselves lacking the ability to dre…

I'm at the opposite end. I dream every time I sleep, even if it's a 10-minute nap. Could be undiagnosed narcolepsy in my case, but it doesn't bother me enough to get it checked out.

When you say "nothing happens", I'm not even sure what you mean. Do you just fall asleep and wake up hours later with no sense of time passing?

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