Thread: Stabilization Fundamentals

Don't take this as an attack on the great work you've done here, Mzzkc, I just want to delve deeper into the issue of stabilising dreams.

You talk about establishing an equilibrium, a balance of attention. But then you do not really state what you are balancing your attention between, you describe focusing on the dream environment but not the other thing that you need to balance your attention on, one side of the coin.

I think to have a successful dream you need to balance your attention between the dream scene and your cognition. The two ways that people waste a lucid dream is through losing touch with the dream scene (resulting in awakening) or through having low cognition (leading to a loss in lucidity). Any dreamer who does not invest enough attention in the dream risks detaching from the dream entirely while on the flipside, not giving attention to cognition may lead to becoming to engrossed in the content of the dream and losing awareness.

The majority of literature on stability mentions only engaging the dream environment (spinning and hand rubbing being the staples), while cognition is sorely neglected. How many lucid dreams have you had that resulted in a semi-conscious mess because you didn't think clearly enough to remember some sort of dream goal and instead rushed at the first mundane thing that caught your attention?

I've found doing simple mental maths is a very effective way of raising cognitive awareness.

Originally Posted by Ctharlhie

Any dreamer who does not invest enough attention in the dream risks detaching from the dream entirely while on the flipside, not giving attention to cognition may lead to becoming to engrossed in the content of the dream and losing awareness.

How true. I have to be careful sometimes not to get caught up in the 'drama' of a dream, because if I do it quickly leads to the dream collapsing. However when confronted with this problem I use the following beautiful technique to recycle my lucids.

http://www.dreamviews.com/f12/recycl...dreams-119041/

By the way Mzzkc an excellent tutorial nonetheless.