Thread: CHALLENGE: Post instructions for a novice to have lucid dreams in five or less sentences

Originally Posted by gab

This may not be such a good idea.

1. If someone doesn't want to read and research about this, he may not have interest in lucid dreaming. Thus no right mindset for it. And that is important to have.

2. 5 sentences will not do. And they may get discouraged if they don't get lucid on the first try.

It's not an accident that tutorials are longer than few sentences. Lucid dreaming is not done by following few steps and bam, you get a lucid dream. Someone could follow few steps, but that would be only after he reads and understands the what's and why's. And even then, those few steps may work for some, but not for others. Lucid dreaming is not math, it's an art.

So if I may suggest, have your friends come here, make a few posts, read a ton and we would be happy to help them out. But if someone has no interest, it will not work.

Good luck anyway, it's always good to be thinking of new ways of making this more approachable to rest of the population.

I think most things in life can be simplified drastically. The people im speaking of have each borrowed and returned my lucid dreaming book but college and work are too pressing and they cant dedicate enough time to it. But they are very interested.

That being said i studied buddhism for 13 years. I memorized some complicated and lengthy texts, read thousands of pages of different books, went to different temples and spoke to many teachers who all suggested i learn even more varieties of things. It was like every time i lifted one object up it became two. Every single idea i started to open up became more ideas. It was never ending.

Then i met a zen monk. Now i study one phrase and thats it.

So im looking for the zen of lucid dreaming.

I find it highly unlikely that this simply does not exist.

Even if perhaps the five sentences would not be required to stand completely alone but when direction or instruction were needed the student could ask someone there should still be a way to stream line a technique.

You make a good point though. So a compromise perhaps? Maybe i should alter my thread to include giving the student a link to this site for questions? Maybe up it to 250 words or so? With these changes included i believe this is a plausible and potentially very useful idea.