Thread: why I will never be able to lucid dream~

Thanks everyone for taking the time to respond and what interesting responses you gave me ! Pinching is only one of the reality checks that I do. I also inspect my body to see if everything is in order (as well as counting my fingers) I feel my clothing, hair and beard to check that it feels the way it should and I slap myself in the face really hard. @BrandonBoss; Gravity RC? Sounds cool. I don't recall seeing it in the RC tutorial section though.. and it's funny that pinching is actually in their when its clear that the general consensus is that it doesn't work. Does it have to be the gravity of myself or can I just drop something that I use on a regular basis and observe the rate of which it falls? e.g. my mouse or phone.

Last night I had some very weird dreams.. one was that I was playing world of warcraft with my friend jarrad (who hates that game) and we were going through a big raid. I was observing this from the first person though.. but it was so clearly fantasy why didn't I realise it? It is very frustrating to say the least.

Another question; What are your opinions on binaural and isotonic beats? Do they aid in LD at all? If so do you guys have any that you can suggest? and finally - I'm aware that isotonic tones don't have to be played through a headset but how loud should it be through my speak system? Should it be loud enough so I can clearly hear it or should it be a very feint background noise?

Originally Posted by moocowgoesmoo

Thanks everyone for taking the time to respond and what interesting responses you gave me ! Pinching is only one of the reality checks that I do. I also inspect my body to see if everything is in order (as well as counting my fingers) I feel my clothing, hair and beard to check that it feels the way it should and I slap myself in the face really hard.

Didn't we just tell you that pinching is the worst thing you can do as an RC? Did you even read the posts completely?

The "best" RC is a combination of two RCs. In my personal experience, the digital watch RC + finger counting = success.

Finger through palm = very unreliable (in my personal experience)

To each his own.

Originally Posted by Gills

Didn't we just tell you that pinching is the worst thing you can do as an RC? Did you even read the posts completely?

The "best" RC is a combination of two RCs. In my personal experience, the digital watch RC + finger counting = success.

Finger through palm = very unreliable (in my personal experience)

To each his own.

As you say "to each his own"

For me all techniques work fairly well, finger through palm being the best.

You are right, doing two RC's is definitely the most solid plan.

Originally Posted by Gills

Didn't we just tell you that pinching is the worst thing you can do as an RC? Did you even read the posts completely?

The "best" RC is a combination of two RCs. In my personal experience, the digital watch RC + finger counting = success.

Finger through palm = very unreliable (in my personal experience)

To each his own.

lol okay.. "Did you even read the posts completely?" The same can be said of you guy. I said that pinching is only ONE of the reality checks that I do. Which suggests that I do others as well. It is one that I use to do - I no longer do it because of the responses you guys gave me. Please read carefully what others have said before you jump to conclusions and dive down their throat.

Now I'd like to change the tone of this post by giving you all some wonderful news! I BECAME LUCID; though only for 5 or so seconds. It happened on the same night that I read the script for lucid dreaming off this thread http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...ml#post1769374. While I didn't feel any different after I read it I had a lucid dream that night so it must have worked. Anyway on to what happened: I was running from meteors (or something of that nature) and for some reason I brought my hand up to my face as I was running and began to count my fingers. I had the right amount and then all of sudden a structure appeared in front of me as I ran. This structure was double my height and I decided this was a perfect time to use the gravity RC that brandon suggested. So that's what I did - I leaped into the air and did a perfect forward flip over the object. When I landed it hit me that there was no way I could do that in real life so I put my hand in front of my face again and after counting two fingers I noticed instantly that I had more then I should (8-9). "I am dreaming.. lucid dreaming" Is what I thought.. I 100% this was a dream and I became so ecstatic I couldn't contain my excitement. I ran up to a tree, ripped of a very large branch (with ease might I add) and began to spin around. I was more happy then I had ever been in my life at this moment and then I realised it might end at any moment. I remembered reading that one of the best things to do when you first become lucid is to 'ground yourself' after spinning 3 or so times I looked down to touch the ground and focus entirely on that (so I wouldn't loose the moment). Anyway right before I touched the ground I woke up... yeaaa it sucked.

What is everyone opinion on this? Why did I wake up when I tried to touch the ground? Should I have no tried to do it? Will I be able to LD tonight or will it still be equally as hard?