Pelirrojo wrote:
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just make sure you actually are being aware and not just pretending! It would suck if you were in a dream pretending you were dreaming instead of becoming lucid, haha[/b]
Well, that has actually happened to me a number of times. And yes, it does totally suck. But something I do that seems to help is I'll "look around" for a tiger or something. I've noticed that when I try to find something terrifying in dreams, I usually find it. If a tiger or alien comes wandering around the corner, I do a quick reality check. Otherwise, I just keep on as before.
PhilipJFry wrote:
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So when you do this... how often do you do it during the day?....Is like 5-10 times good enough? If one time lasts... say... 3min?
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That's about what I end up doing, but I think more would be better.
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I mean, you can't be in your own fake dreamworld all the time, can you?[/b]
No, you can't but I think you don't really have to. You basically just do what you would have done anyway, and live your life in the real world like normal. But the difference is, you add in a game. Because it really is just like that. You're just pretending you are in a dream for the sake of making yourself pay attention to details. And to what's going on generally.
Rather than losing yourself in a fake world, you are actually training yourself to pay more attention to the world you are in. One interesting thing that happens to me when I do this regularly is that I start to find a lot of "dreamlike" things in the real world that I would not have noticed otherwise. Usually, when I discover one, it startles me and until I do a reality check, I think I really could be in a dream.
For example, the other day my mother told me that my uncle had shaved his head bald. For a few moments, I was 80% convinced I was dreaming. I told myself to remember this conversation and tell my mother about it when I woke up. But, I did a reality check and low and behold, it was not a dream.
mongreloctupus wrote:
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but when I'm involved in some activity that requires all of my attention, I get completely lost in that task, and I think that is the major problem with finding lucidity in dreams--[/b]
That's definitely my major problem. I've been thinking lately, though, that the brain can learn that skill. That is sort of what I am trying to get at with doing this. Teaching my brain to multitask. Thanks for the link to Dust Mote's project. I signed myself up for it.
To Dust Mote: I enjoyed reading your description of lucid living on the project post. What you said about practicing the piano is mainly what got me to thinking about this method. I realized that the only times I was practicing LD was those moments (extremely rare at the time) when I would actually HAVE an LD. I got to thinking, hey, I'm awake for 16 hours everyday and only dream for 3 or 4. Why not try and tap into that huge amount of waking time to re-train the mind?
Courtney wrote:
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Do you actually walk around and pretend your in a LD? Or do you just sit down, and imagine (kinda like daydream) your own LD? [/b]
I've done both, but what works the best for me is the first one. I walk around and pretend I'm dreaming all of this. Like right now, I'm saying to myself, you're not really typing this message, you're dreaming this and when you wake up, you'll remember it. I mean, you can't take it too seriously -- deep down inside, I know this is not a dream. I'm just pretending that it is.
It's like when you were a kid, and you had to clean the bathroom or mow the lawn and you invented a game to make it more interesting. You knew the game was not real and you could do whatever chore you were doing just fine without getting confused about basic reality. But you could play the game at the same time. I think for me it's like that.
