on a side note, people who do lucid dreams, how do you do it?
Make a habit of asking yourself around once an hour, “am I dreaming”, eventually (for me it took a week) this habit finds its way into a dream.
Scientists talked to people in their lucid dreams
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#22on a side note, people who do lucid dreams, how do you do it?
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No you are rested as if it were a normal dream. But it's not easy to keep focused on something while lucid dreaming, you will likely forget that you are in a dream and no longer be lucid.
I've had a productive coding session in a lucid dream at least once. But it was just a small number of lines of code (a few blocks) I was playing around with, and I had been thinking about it all day. The visual and semantic memory was sort of stuck in my mind, consciously and subconsciously. In any event, it was insanely precise (I was editing on a giant terminal screen) and when I woke up I typed in my refactored a…
Something I tried testing once was practicing the guitar while in a lucid dream. I was really interested in whether I'd be able to practice inside a dream and see improvement outside of it. Unfortunately the one time I attempted this, the guitar didn't sound correct, and I woke up moments later. I'm still interested in whether it would be possible, but I unfortunately no longer have the ability to test it.
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#24on a side note, people who do lucid dreams, how do you do it?
The technique I used when I was younger was blocking my nose and trying to inhale through it at random points throughout the day. If you're dreaming, you'll be able to breathe through a blocked nose. If you turn this into a habit, you'll eventually do it inside of a dream, and become lucid.
The second necessary component is developing your dream recall (it's no use having lucid dreams if you can't remember them). You do this by writing down your dreams in as much detail as possible every morning when you wake up. At first you may only remember a couple of dreams every month, but do this often enough and you'll eventually work your way up to remembering 5-10 dreams every night.
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#25Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26234614
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#26It is interesting to me that this is the first time someone has done this in a lab setting. I have lucid dreams and I talk in my sleep a fair amount as well. I used to be a somnambulist as a kid as well, though haven't done that in a long time though I will still kick out occasionally in my dreams.
I have had reasonably long conversations in my sleep. When I was living in the dorms once my roommates were solving a physics problem and I answered several parts correctly leading them to the solution though on waking up I knew I had some conversation but no recollection of the actual problem they were solving. My wife often says I am funny to talk to when I am talking in sleep as in the answers can be wildly creative but getting information out is usually impossible, as in if she asks me a password or something I will deflect rather than give an answer.
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#27It is interesting to me that this is the first time someone has done this in a lab setting. I have lucid dreams and I talk in my sleep a fair amount as well. I used to be a somnambulist as a kid as well, though haven't done that in a long time though I will still kick out occasionally in my dreams. I have had reasonably long conversations in my sleep. When I was living in the dorms once my roommates were solving a ph…
Let them ask you "who are you?" and "what's your name?"
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#28on a side note, people who do lucid dreams, how do you do it?
My "sleeping to fullness" technique is time-consuming, but has been effective for me.
I otherwise do not have a natural talent for it, and have done it very rarely.
Here is link to my past comment about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25248553
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#29Does this mean my staff could be asked to get some work done while asleep? In all seriousness I look forward to seeing exactly how much we can do while lucid dreaming. Also, what are the consequences? Does it cost you the nights rest? or could this be a life hack for getting more done in a day?
No you are rested as if it were a normal dream. But it's not easy to keep focused on something while lucid dreaming, you will likely forget that you are in a dream and no longer be lucid.
Speaking from experience, lucid dreaming is not as restful as normal sleep. Furthermore when I was lucid dreaming often, I would get much more regular bouts of sleep paralysis, which only happens to me when my sleep health has severely deteriorated.
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#30on a side note, people who do lucid dreams, how do you do it?
I’ve been doing this lately. Basically I read a lot either programming or just browsing forums etc so I dream about a lot of text almost every night. Lately I’ve got to a point where I see some text (in a dream) and try to read it and it’s gibberish. So when I see this text my mind immediately knows that I’m dreaming and im able to “take control” and walk around the dream land. It isn’t anything special and usually I…
I can read text clearly in my dreams. Many dreams about slack sometimes. Ugh.