Lucid Dreaming (the art of hacking life)

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Ok I have decided to share my interest with all of you, I think some of you might have had these lucid dreams before, what a lucid dream is, is when you become aware in a dream that you are dreaming, so imagen right now that you were in a dream, you could do anything that you ever wanted to, you can learn to summon anything to experience anything that you havn't or may never beable to do in the waking world, I'm a member at one of the top lucid dreaming sites on the net, and I've been studying lucid dreaming for about 4.5 years, and I've had them as a small child when I used to have nightmares I used to commit suicide in them to wake up (anyone do that too), the 2 current cliche favorite things to do in a dream is 1. have sex, 2. fly both are possible regardless of experience in the waking world, though some say theres much more spiritual things to do such as get to know your higher self, I don't know I'm not very sure about that kind of stuff.

The reason I called it a life hack skill is because it can emulate just about any life experience that you want it too, several aspects of lucid dreaming are usualy the base methods, such as dream recall, remembering your dreams, you dream eachnight, alot depending on the diffrence in theme of your dreams you could have up to 30 dreams a night, just right them down or use memory techniques such as chaining to recall them to get a good recall ability going, or you could try vitamin B6 which helps with recall and realisim in the dream.

It can be used for self inprovement to help you practice out social situations, or even have a dream romance going, I know what your all thinking real people don't match up to dream people, but you would be suprised how real they really are sometimes.

Now the method that I have seen lately poping up around the lucid dream forums that has been a success and I want to try it here, because you all seem to have better then average visualisation abilitys, and imagenations, I am currently trying it but I'm not in the mood for practice to often and I sucked at visualising at first (not an advantage I seemed to gain from aspergers) know I can see really clearly sometimes and I'm working on the other senses, ok what you do is lay down in bed, usualy you would wake up after 6 hours of sleep either naturaly or with an alarm, you may have to wait a bit before doing it if you fall asleep fast, now lay down relax visualise anything try to touch textures try to move your imagenary body around feeling as if you were walking around your backyard or something, imagen vividly rolling on the ground, and see everything try to see where the images are coming from and stimulate the imagenary senses as best you can, after awhile just relax and passivly watch, you might beable to get in a dream, but you can practice this in the day time with music or something if you want to get better at visualising, some of you could try it tonight and get it to work because I know several people who have.

The other way is to recall dreams get used to them, want to have a lucid dream and be confident about it, and do reality checks which are actions to test if your dreaming or not, like plugging your nose and breath and see if you breath through your closed nose, if you can your probably dreaming you can get into a habbit of it and it will eventualy happen in a dream and you'll get lucid, but just wanting a lucid dream and being confident that you'll gain the awarness of dreaming in a dream is sometimes more then enough for somepeople.

If you want the site I'll give the link if enough people want to see it because I've heard of people being accused of avertising a site before.

Lucid dreaming is awesome.

I went through a phase where I would try and make it happen every time I went to sleep. It's hit and miss really.

Usually I become aware in a dream and I get really excited like "Wow! I'm dreaming!" and then I wake up from the excitement and then get annoyed. Other times I'm conscious in a dream but not aware of it and it feels like a movie playing in the first person pov.

I'll try again tonight.

I can't lucid-dream on demand by telling myself to do so before I fall asleep, but I am aware that when a dream is going badly I think 'Hmmm, this is not looking good, flying or being somewhere else would be better' and in my dream I fly or the situation changes to something much more preferable.

Lucid dreaming as a mind hack, never thought of it that way, cool.
I've done it a few times, not in a long time. I'd be interested to see the site you mentioned.

I've never actively tried to lucid dream. It's always happened naturally for me, I didn't really think it was anything different than what other people do when they sleep until I mentioned it to my Mother and she told me what I was doing.
I'm also very aware of the waking world while I dream, most of the time anyway. I could be dreaming away and someone can walk passed me in real life and I'll see a huge shadow go over my dream world and I'll promptly wake up.

...this has always been my "escape" to some extent.

I started building/fantasizing my own worlds, before I would drift off to sleep...hard to explain...then later my dreams would involve the places I "built" and me living my life doing what I wanted.

The best part about dreams is they don't come with physical and financial limitations.

I'd like to explore the site you mentioned.

Great! I have heard several mentions of B6 for recall, I like your pre dream method, have to give it a try.

In the stages of drifting off. from wakeful to deep, there is a twilight, the door going in, and I find I can stop there, not what I would call lucid dreaming, but halfway between. I find that raising a hand, fron the elbow pointing up, when I slip away, it falls and beings me back.

It is a creative place for me, a relaxed mind, and half the power of a dream. I glide into it thinking and visualizing something, then it gets very vivid. The minor effort of keeping the arm raised holds me back, or brings me back when it falls.

Of note, in the writings of Carlos Castanada, he talks of becoming aware you are in a dream, and gaining lucid power by looking at your hands, the hands taking a large part of the brain, hence activating body sense.

I have been looking for activititys for the Aspie Olympics.

It also fits under travel and recreation as it was used by Edgar Cayce, lucid dreaming as astrel projection.

The waking world, distance, and the past, seem reachable.

I dream of people I have never met, a friend told of following people seen in dreams, and they returned to a sleeping person. He also worked on meeting people he knew who were haveing dreams, when they were aware, they went to Sheep's Meadow in Centeral Park.

We don't need no stinkin Internet!

I do something similar.

I dream the dream, its all over...I wake up in middle of night or morning. I go back to sleep if night, or wake up in the morning and then...

...I remember the dream and imagine the ending I wanted it to be if it didnt go my way, or I just think of the millions of possibilties inside just that 1 dream.

i have lots of lucid dreams.

i started practicing/experimenting with them when i was young and do fairly well at inducing them. i write down my dreams and such as well... though i find i go through kind of morbid periods, where if i dont stop encouraging the recall, that i lose control in my lucid dreams... not with my abilities to realize im dreaming or trying to do what i want... but the result never seems to be what i want... and i find that i start having lucid nightmares and it's just generally not good.

i can also induce daydreams where i can manipulate those as well.

i like it

The site I mentioned is Dreamviews.com and my name there is LucidDreamGod

Beenthere: yeah I feel the need to escape reality too, well more of escape from society, I like reality, it's society that I would reather not be faced with, not to be like a negitive escapist who doesn't pay attention to his real life, but I just want to beable to come and go as I please

Inventor: I know that state you are talking about, I've heard that somewhere else, some famous person would hold a ball or something and drop it apon falling asleep and wake up slightly and he would be able to have amazing idea's, also Carlos Castanada, he is mentioned at dreamviews on a few diffrent threads that I've seen

Also the method I talked about is talked about in this post http://www.dreamviews.com/community/sho ... hp?t=45387