Thread: Lucid Living With Sensei

I'm a postcasting fan, so I love the idea!
PS: Please, try to get MP3 or similar if at all possible, my internet is too slow for WAV.

I will try to listen, hopefully it will get me to focus on remembering to do my control experiments

Often lately my lucid dreams are short (distraction and failure to stabilize immediately) and I can't seem to survive the Void (my dream hands become paralyzed WTF?). But even if they aren't short I don't seem to actually do these control experiments. There seems to be 3 main reasons: Brunets, Blonds and Redheads, they just appear in my dream. (Or I just totally forget to have any objective, probably a good reason to end up with a short dream) So maybe you can test this control plan see if its any good, since I never get around to even checking my pockets.

Coin Flip Control exercises:
reach into pocket and get the coin, (first believe it will be heads) look at one side if it is heads, imagine a different heads on the other side (like Canadian heads) if it isn't heads turn it over first then imagine Canadian heads on the other side. Twist the coin back and forth, seeing the different heads, then toss the coin and call it in the air. Call "TAILS" and see how it lands: objective two headed coin lands tails.

Take a coin toss it when it is in the air call "EDGE" (believe it) see if it lands 'edge' repeat like 10 times: objective land as many edge as possible

Take 3 coins like Quarter, nickle and dime. Stack them on hand in this same order, then flip them all at once call it in the air "SNOWMAN": objective the quarter lands on edge, the nickle lands on edge on top of it, the dime lands one top of the nickle (all three lined up in one plain)

Take 5 Quarters, stack them on hand, flip them all at once call it in the air "PYRAMID": objective 3 quarters land on edge side by side, two quarters land in this same plain in the recesses of the 3 below also on edge and touching, finally a sixth quarter lands to complete the pyramid

Take no coins, set your hand as if to flip a coin, flip the zero coins as if they were there (imagine the huge solid gold coin that will land) call it from thin air "EDGE": objective a huge mint condition ancient solid gold coin lands on edge

Purpose of objectives

pulling things from pocket: knowing that you can always have small things you need in your pockets

control the other side of a coin in hand: learn to control other side of doors with very specific location (far away, impossible) or objects (to large to pull from your pocket or from behind your back)

landing edge: learn to expect improbable outcomes

landing snowman: learn to expect absurd outcomes

landing a sixth coin: learn to expect impossible outcomes

ability to conjure gold coin from the air: should be useful in barter and its the ultimate in impossible outcome.

set up and practice for this in real world is easy, you just need six US quarters, one CANADIAN quarter, one nickle, one dime (oh I don't have a large solid gold mint condition ancient coin so could someone please send me one)
you'll also need at least one hand. To imagine outcomes just set the US and CANADIAN coins side by side heads up set a US quarter on edge on a flat surface maybe all of them. set the snowman up but just flat on surface, set up the pyramid but just on the flat surface. As for the gold coin you'll probably also need an imagination (without one you won't likely dream at all)

Awesome, Sensei! Looking forward to it!

Whatever length episode you feel like doing is good, but I would be more likely to be able to listen daily if they were under 15 minutes, like minisodes covering one or two topics.

To upload to Dropbox:

1. Make a Dropbox account
2. Upload your audio file (convert to .mp3 first to save space, you can do it online if you don't have a program)
3. Click "Share" from the Dropbox website to get the link
OR go into your Dropbox folder on your computer and right click, then select "Share Dropbox link"
4. The link will start with https:// www. dropbox. com/
Change that to the following format so the audio file plays in the browser: https:// dl. dropboxusercontent. com/
Leave the rest of the URL the same.
5. Post the link to your audio file!

Good luck!

Nice idea Sensei. I will be listening! Well at least for the first few

I actually also enjoyed your other recordings you posted a while ago. Though you tended to stray off topic a lot wich can be very distracting. Hope you will have a clear view of what you want to talk about in these Then again, that's just my 2 cents.

Either way, great idea Sensei! You shall be my new busride music

Best idea ever. I'm actually surprised, I have never heard your voice. It's very agreeable, it's nice to listen to while I play games.

I liked the weird rant. It makes a lot of sense to me why so much people fail continually, myself included. Not that I drink, in fact I drink very little. It's the monotony of intensive tasks that gets me in a flow, I'll be so in the zone that I can forget to reality check for hours. It's something to work on.

Really I just want to listen to the highs and lows of someone else's dream life, especially one as awesome as yours.

I think 15-20 minutes would be an ideal time. No need to burn yourself out, but long enough to feel like a session.

I agree about utilizing the mp3 or .ogg format, it's a lot smaller than wav and will still have a good quality.

You are having second baby? Congratulation!

Originally Posted by dutchraptor

Not that I drink, in fact I drink very little.

Sober irish man is like elf in the desert.




cmooon!!!

Alright. I have an audio made, but it is about 30 minutes. I shall shorten it tomorrow and then upload it.

Thanks for all the feedback so far everyone. The new baby is here and healthy and everything is going great. thank you for your time ideas and dreamer for the audio upload steps. I should be able to put it in that format.

I know that, to some of you, I will be updating a day late, but it will be tomorrow night that I put it up. Baby stuff is keeping me busy until then. I am still definitely going to be doing this for a month. get excited! Haha.

Originally Posted by Nfri

Sober irish man is like elf in the desert.


cmooon!!!

Hahaha tell me about it. I still have my whiskeys and Guinness though, nothing better than a hot whiskey in the evening.

Bro, why dont you try SoundCloud?

DAY 1!

Ok. So I am kinda short on time for now, but I will be switching these tomorrow when I am on a computer. At the hospital is not the best place to try and figure out why when I convert a file it won't let me share unless I connect to a computer. So these are still wav files, but I will switch them to mp3 tomorrow. I shall also format this post to something presentable. One hand (baby) and phone messing with me is not working. Gonna try and get these up in the morning in the future. Not 1130 at night.
My dream journal blog:
Dream Log 1

The links didn't seem to work for Google Chrome
So I tried to cut and paste them into IE
then I was able to downaload the 2 wav files
and then play them

Thanks for going the extra mile just to listen. As I said, I will he making it much easier tomorrow when I get behind a computer device. hope you enjoy.

Another great one, thanks! I don't think you should talk any faster than normal though, I chose fifteen minutes to you could just leisurely take some time to talk about something small, and if you want to expand just make the recording a bit longer

Gotcha. I hope it was coherent! Lol. I shall try to find a small subject to talk about today. Think I found something fun. Gonna have to make some time today.

For those listening to my dream journal, I got lucid twice last night, and had I not had interruptions I would have had a 3rd lucid. It was a good time. Baby boy slept from like 3-8, only waking and feeding every couple hours. So I slept from 3-8 hahaha.

Day 2!


This video reminds me of the flying and new beginnings. I was checking out AMVs and this AMV brought me to this anime. Made me watch Air, Clannad, and Kanon.

Dream Journal 2!

If you guys don't know what the water ball is, I would recommend going to another youtube video about it, but I am not going to post it unless asked, because I don't want to have lots of videos or you will all just skip them.

Got these over to mp3. Even with more time on my hands I couldn't get it unless I got on the computer. :/ Downloaded a lot of crap onto my phone and still couldn't get it right. lol. Updated the other post as well. Let me know if ya'll like this format, I am gonna see if I can get sound cloud working on my phone.

I'm having trouble with my internet connection but will catch up in a couple of days.
First, congrats on your 2nd child!!!
Second, I firmly believe family is first, so I'm sure we can wait if some day is too busy for you to post here

Originally Posted by Bharmo

I'm having trouble with my internet connection but will catch up in a couple of days.
First, congrats on your 2nd child!!!
Second, I firmly believe family is first, so I'm sure we can wait if some day is too busy for you to post here

Thanks! I am pretty excited. This second kid seems super chill so far. It would be awesome if he could just keep being that way. My daughter was not like this at all the first few days.

I am gonna try and keep it up. I feel like it is helping my motivation a lot. I have something I want to get lucid for. I really like LDing, but I am just a little content with my progress lately. I need to be content with where I am at, but not content with being there tomorrow! This is helping me so far, I am going back pretty quickly to the max I have been before and hoping to exceed it like crazy!

It's really helping my motivation. I had that feeling you mentioned multiple times today where I really knew I was gonna be lucid tonight.

I love both of the podcasts, I'd love to try a candy doorknob.

Originally Posted by dutchraptor

It's really helping my motivation. I had that feeling you mentioned multiple times today where I really knew I was gonna be lucid tonight.

I love both of the podcasts, I'd love to try a candy doorknob.

Glad it is helping! I am enjoying it so much. I forgot to mention that there was a girl there that was not happy with me stealing it and eating it in front of her. I told her that she could catch me if she wanted, but I was gonna fly for a while. In that small world I probably would have run into her again soon. lol

I love podcasts...especially from someone who is lucid dreaming at a high level. I listened to two on here so far and I like your style. Have you talked about your closed eye teleport? That would be a great topic.

DJ:
Chasing booty, like a pirate
A little bit of a crazy organization, about 2 or 3 lucids.



I love this video, when I first started listening to Motion City Soundtrack I watched this video a bunch. Nothing better than anime characters that we all know and love.

Lucid dream count!
Sorry about an episode on LD count, but I think it is important for people to hear.
WARNING! 21 minutes long. Sorry about the length. Redid it like 4 times and it didn't get shorter. :/

Great idea Fogelbise! I just made tomorrow's with that in mind since I saw your post.

Well I'm stoked. Only just been practicing two days and I already had my first lucid straight away.
It was great, not that I did much except for try to jump whilst lifting a table. But man did I have some crazy good stability, it was that feeling where you just know that you could accomplish anything.

On the topic of lucid count, I think that the only part I don't fully agree with is on dream control. Maybe I'm just good at it, I don't know why. For me it hasn't really been linked to my lucid count, some of my more experimental lucids were right at the start two and half years ago. What really does increase though is your ability to have more lucids, like you said, you might have a few within the first few months and later you can almost dream every single night.

Thanks for mentioning me in the podcast To be honest (and not to toot my own horn) I probably was better at dream control than you, not anymore though. I think the true cause of this is what we are content with doing. I love flying or just exploring but ultimately it's the mind bending stuff that fascinates me.
I didn't have to practice most stuff like other's because I've never gone down the traditional route of dream control. If I know what something looks like and I have a clear image of it in my head, it will be easy in the dream because I have a deep understanding that essentially all actions are equally easy/difficult to achieve. Basically just through away every single inhibition you have
The only time I would ever violate this rule is when I want to fit into a dream world.

I'm so happy to have become lucid again though, it's just been to long.

DAY 4!!!

Dream Journal 4: We wrote a prelude to our own fairy tale



One of my favorite Owl City songs. I have a lot of songs that are just great for dreaming, so it is interesting when I have a dream that goes with them well. I can't wait till I have some dreams to go with "dirty paws" by Of Monsters and Men.

Tomorrow is gonna start a lot of dream control in a row. I think that it is an interesting subject.

Dutchraptor
True. I might be wrong about that. Haha. After ojisan showed me "walk control" I didn't have any issues with control as long as I was aware enough to use walk control. I rarely cared about doing this though, except the first time that I would use a control. Then I would get the feeling and use the feeling next time. Dunno if that makes sense. I am gonna make one on control now.

Even so, almost all the things that I have done would be in my category of easy dream control.

I am so glad you got lucid. It is so fun going back down there after a hiatus.

Originally Posted by Sensei

DJ:
Chasing booty, like a pirate
A little bit of a crazy organization, about 2 or 3 lucids.

Sensei, I'm getting a "File doesn't exist" there