Thread: Testing your subconcious

Thank you, I was feeling down about the whole thing for a little while... And I'm glad that I don't seem like a troll to you, I wouldn't want that, hehe.
I'll continue posting around, it'll be funny if anyone else misunderstands my username name.

I would test my subconscious by opening anything that i can find

Yeah, me too.

Originally Posted by Nazi

Thank you, I was feeling down about the whole thing for a little while... And I'm glad that I don't seem like a troll to you, I wouldn't want that, hehe.
I'll continue posting around, it'll be funny if anyone else misunderstands my username name.

Well, people are always going to have things to be offended about. Honestly, we have users with name "penis" "ass" "dickhead" and whatever else you can imagine that others may find offensive. So long as you realize that your username is likely to illicit a certain response in some people, and may result in them reacting to you differently as a result (I can't imagine you would actually want that)...but if you want to change it, just make a thread in Talk To Staff or private message an admin and they'll change it for you this once free of charge. Also just FYI our forum owner is German and might also take offense to the nickname.

So my question is...what exactly does "testing your subconscious" mean? Testing against what? Common lucid dream idiosyncrasies such as looking in a mirror and having it be blurry, or trying to read and being unable, or turning on a light switch and having it not work? Or do you mean just more generally trying to test the limits of your own personal subconscious? Do you have specific tests that you want to try? It's a very broad topic.

Vindicator, regarding feeling and examining textures, whether you know it or not, that is an excellent dream stabilization technique to practice. And my experiences with mirrors have been similar, it's always crystal clear and I really enjoy looking at how sharp and focused my reflection is and really examining it up close.

Has anyone tried forcing yourself into a 3rd person perspective? I have non-lucids where I am in 3rd person, but it's always directly above/behind the 'actor', and the actor is never ME. It'd be really interesting if you could observe YOURSELF from a freely rotatable third person perspective.

Originally Posted by ThisWitheredMan

Has anyone tried forcing yourself into a 3rd person perspective? I have non-lucids where I am in 3rd person, but it's always directly above/behind the 'actor', and the actor is never ME. It'd be really interesting if you could observe YOURSELF from a freely rotatable third person perspective.

Sure. What's even more fun is 360 degree vision. Just trying to imagine it is hard enough when you aren't dreaming. I also like how the perspective angle changes noticeably depending on how tiny or how big I am. I remember once being a droplet of water, and I remember everything looking very fisheye lens style, and then when I was really big the view was all wide angle. Maybe it just happens because that's what the mind expects to see based on photographs that we've seen from the perspective of things that are really small or really big.

Here's a fun lucid task to try: morph into a little angel or demon and ride the lucid dream out on the shoulder of a normal sized version of yourself, giving yourself good or evil advice along the way depending oh whether you were an angel or demon. Maybe you could become both at the same time, AND still control the big normal version of yourself getting the advice. That would be trippy.

If my username bothers too many people or offends them then I will change it, but for now, I would rather not go through any trouble... I'm lazy, hehe. Thanks for telling me!

Well, at first I meant to test the limits of your own subconscious, but the ideas about opening cabinets and doors, etc, caught my interest, so I just kind of went with the flow. But originally I did mean testing the limits of your subconscious.