Thread: Help on Lucid Dreaming Essay.

Cool, an essay on lucid dreaming? Sounds good so far. Maybe you should do a paragraph on how we become lucid, like mention the dream journal, reality checks and all that good stuff.

I'm guessing its a Psychology class? They seem to talk about that at some point. I say write about what it means first of all, how we can all do it, and how dreams affect us and all that good stuff,

Yeah I agree with the above. Talk about the steps it takes to get into ld. Maybe about how some people use it to get rid of nightmares. Maybe even an experience that you had.

Also, what is this "controversy that surrounds" lucid dreaming>?

Originally Posted by hostetjm

Yeah I agree with the above. Talk about the steps it takes to get into ld. Maybe about how some people use it to get rid of nightmares. Maybe even an experience that you had.

Also, what is this "controversy that surrounds" lucid dreaming>?

Good idea, if you tell peeps about how you change nightmares into the best dreams you have ever had then you can probably make some of them want to become lucid dreamers.

A lot of people don't believe it is a real thing. If you go and start talking about it people think it is some sort of imaginary crap. I have that problem a lot.

Originally Posted by Shaelyn

A lot of people don't believe it is a real thing. If you go and start talking about it people think it is some sort of imaginary crap. I have that problem a lot.

funny thing is... it is imaginary! lol but it's all in your head. People who don't believe in Lucid dreaming are ignorant and closed minded. I understand people who don't think it's worth there time, that's there opinion... but people who don't believe in it? That's just stupid.

Lucid; having knowledge of your actions, surroundings and rationality in a vivid moment. Dreaming; the act of creating a world of illusion and imagination rather than objective reality while sleeping. Although it is a controversial topic lucid dreaming has had many different forms and practices within multiple cultures throughout history. Regardless of the controversy that surrounds it, it is slowly progressing and grasping on to this generation with or without their knowledge. Dreaming within itself is another realm of reality that can create anything or anyone desired, though, with time and practice it can become as vivid or far beyond as vibrant as life. Impossibilities in life can become basic activities. With knowledge of lucid dreaming comes gained control, over varied amounts of time, an alternate reality can be created fulfilling fantasies specific to a person or others if so chosen. Some individuals are lucky enough to be naturals and obtain complete control of their dreams without thinking twice these are the fortunate souls who don’t even realize the amazing spectacle they encounter while merely laying in their own bed, the unfortunate others must dedicate themselves and turn to techniques learned over years of research and trials.
With lucidity comes vigor unknown to any current life form, within dreams you are able to go as far as your mind will take you, for those who are not creative, the randomness of lucidity helps grant imagination hidden within crevices in their minds.

Lucid; having knowledge of your actions, surroundings and rationality in a vivid moment. Dreaming; the act of creating a world of illusion and imagination rather than objective reality while sleeping. Although it is a controversial topic lucid dreaming has had many different forms and practices within multiple cultures throughout history. Regardless of the controversy that surrounds it, it is slowly progressing and grasping on to this generation with or without their knowledge. Dreaming within itself is another realm of reality that can create anything or anyone desired, though, with time and practice it can become as vivid or far beyond as vibrant as life. Impossibilities in life can become basic activities. With knowledge of lucid dreaming comes gained control, over varied amounts of time, an alternate reality can be created fulfilling fantasies specific to a person or others if so chosen. Some individuals are lucky enough to be naturals and obtain complete control of their dreams without thinking twice. These are the fortunate souls who don’t even realize the amazing spectacle they encounter while merely laying in their own bed, the unfortunate others must dedicate themselves and turn to techniques learned over years of research and trials.
Controlling ones dreams is only a very small benefit that comes with lucidity, although it within itself is an epic win, other advatages and unique gifts can be granted from its understanding. Two of these unbelievable talents, as you might call them, that on a personnel level stand out are astro projection and
With lucidity comes vigor unknown to any current life form, within dreams people are able to go as far as their minds will take them, for those who are not creative, the randomness of lucidity helps grant imagination hidden within crevices otherwise unfound.

Originally Posted by Shaelyn

Lucid; having knowledge of your actions, surroundings and rationality in a vivid moment. Dreaming; the act of creating a world of illusion and imagination rather than objective reality while sleeping. Although it is a controversial topic lucid dreaming has had many different forms and practices within multiple cultures throughout history. Regardless of the controversy that surrounds it, it is slowly progressing and grasping on to this generation with or without their knowledge. Dreaming within itself is another realm of reality that can create anything or anyone desired, though, with time and practice it can become as vivid or far beyond as vibrant as life. Impossibilities in life can become basic activities. With knowledge of lucid dreaming comes gained control, over varied amounts of time, an alternate reality can be created fulfilling fantasies specific to a person or others if so chosen. Some individuals are lucky enough to be naturals and obtain complete control of their dreams without thinking twice. These are the fortunate souls who don’t even realize the amazing spectacle they encounter while merely laying in their own bed, the unfortunate others must dedicate themselves and turn to techniques learned over years of research and trials.
Controlling ones dreams is only a very small benefit that comes with lucidity, although it within itself is an epic win, other advatages and unique gifts can be granted from its understanding. Two of these unbelievable talents, as you might call them, that on a personnel level stand out are astro projection and
With lucidity comes vigor unknown to any current life form, within dreams people are able to go as far as their minds will take them, for those who are not creative, the randomness of lucidity helps grant imagination hidden within crevices otherwise unfound.

That's really good!

Personally i wouldn't put astral projection in there.

In my opinion it is something that isn't scientifically possible to prove and that is mainly based on belief. I think that some of the people hearing it main gain some relutance to the subject based on that reference because they will go "Oh, its esotherical stuff".

My personal belief is that astral projection is nothing more than the WILD technique with its peculiar characteristics and that people are somehow deceived to accepting that as an OBE. But that is my opinion so don't take it too seriously and get angry at me because i think that way and don't believe as you.

Why don't you put some references to the Stephen Laberge experiences in REM with the predefined eye movement patterns made in REM by experienced LDers to make a bridge between the LD and the reality?

You could also talk about the quality of the senses you can get emulated from inside the dream in a reality-like-style feeling that can deceive yourself into believing it is true.

Edit: Ah, forgot to say it seems really good to me! Hope you have success with it... xD

Originally Posted by Junknown

Personally i wouldn't put astral projection in there.

In my opinion it is something that isn't scientifically possible to prove and that is mainly based on belief. I think that some of the people hearing it main gain some relutance to the subject based on that reference because they will go "Oh, its esotherical stuff".

My personal belief is that astral projection is nothing more than the WILD technique with its peculiar characteristics and that people are somehow deceived to accepting that as an OBE. But that is my opinion so don't take it too seriously and get angry at me because i think that way and don't believe as you.

Why don't you put some references to the Stephen Laberge experiences in REM with the predefined eye movement patterns made in REM by experienced LDers to make a bridge between the LD and the reality?

You could also talk about the quality of the senses you can get emulated from inside the dream in a reality-like-style feeling that can deceive yourself into believing it is true.

Edit: Ah, forgot to say it seems really good to me! Hope you have success with it... xD

As far as the astral projection goes, I am simply appealing to those who I will be reading the essay to. I am a highschool freshman in a class of, well to be quite frank, redknecks. If you confront them with the idea of OBE they will immediatly be held by not the technical aspects but simply the concept. Thanks for all of the constructive critisism. It was taken to heart. =)

I have a good idea... You can make the essay interactive for the class... Tell everyone to hold their right hand in the air, facing themselves. Then, tell everyone to try and push their left index finger through their right palm... Go on to explain how this is an example of what's called a Reality Check and how RC's are used to attain lucidity.

Just a thought

So, I got lazy. It was due forever ago. I have to have it in by tomarrow... it sucks and my points were somewhat lost but it will due. I will ace it by their standards, but sadlt not my own. =(

Informative Essay

Lucid Dreaming

Lucid; having knowledge of your actions, surroundings and rationality in a vivid moment. Dreaming; the act of creating a world of illusion and imagination rather than objective reality while sleeping. Although it is a controversial topic lucid dreaming has had many different forms and practices within multiple cultures throughout history. Regardless of the controversy that surrounds it, it is slowly progressing and grasping on to this generation with or without their knowledge. Dreaming within itself is another realm of reality that can create anything or anyone desired, though, with time and practice it can become as vivid or far beyond as vibrant as life. Impossibilities in life can become basic activities. With knowledge of lucid dreaming comes gained control, over varied amounts of time, an alternate reality can be created fulfilling fantasies specific to a person or others if so chosen. Some individuals are lucky enough to be naturals and obtain complete control of their dreams without thinking twice. These are the fortunate souls who don’t even realize the amazing spectacle they encounter while merely laying in their own bed, the unfortunate others must dedicate themselves, turning to techniques learned over years of research and trials.
Controlling ones dreams is only a very small benefit that comes with lucidity, although it within itself is an epic win, other advantages and unique gifts can be granted from its understanding. Two of these unbelievable talents, as you might call them, that on a personnel level stand out, are astral projection and dream sharing. Astral projection is a subject quite hard to understand but to brush it on a basic level; it is simply projecting oneself out of their body, causing an O.B.E (out of body experience) in which volumes of incomprehensible journeys take place. Dream sharing, on the other hand, is as simple as it sounds sharing ones dreams with another by choice. These two subjects don’t even begin to brush the amazing feats made possible by simply studying the techniques of and within lucidity. With lucidity comes vigor unknown to any current life form, within dreams people are able to go as far as their minds will take them, for those who are not creative, the randomness of lucidity helps grant imagination hidden within crevices otherwise unfound. Let’s face the fact that life is quite bland without imagination, even with it life tends to become predictable, but within dreams anything is possible, with lucidity anything past everything is possible. Soaring above the clouds, letting go of ones real life drama, watching the sky line in its luxurious pastel colors of emotion, the smells of earth wafting around, tastes of any and every food imaginable lingering on ones tongue… Spending the night in Paris, out on the town, meeting lost loves and dancing the night away under vibrant lights circling above in the sky, whilst balancing ever so easily on the tip of the Eifel Tower… All of this can happen at the snap of your fingers, with the magnificent and ultimate power of lucidity.
To each is their own. It may take a long or rather short period of time to fully grasp not only the techniques, lucidity itself, but the concept in general. Regardless, there are many lingering around who hold this fascination and are more than willing to help pull you into their own world of controlled dreams. Forums such as, www.dreamviews.com, www.lunar-light.org, contain thousands of people who join to discuss and learn from one another. As a newbie one might learn that the easiest techniques to begin with include simple dream recall, keeping a journal of ones dreams from each night in order to boost their recall, or R.C’s (reality checks), during the day holding ones nose to see if they can still breath or checking the clock twice in a row in order to start a habit that will flow over into ones dreams, determining whether or not they are experiencing reality or not.
Reality will become less stressful with an outlet such as dreaming that takes no extra time out of ones day, and little deep thought. By doing small amounts of research one can easily find techniques that can start them on the path of a lush and vibrant world, created to their own taste. Might as well give it a test drive, what’s the worst possible loss? Nothing, not even a nights sleep. It is up to each person whether or not they believe control over a world of endless possibilities is worth learning simple techniques. Does it sound like a hard choice?

A good hook is really helpful when starting a paper.

I did a speech about lucid dreaming, and this is how I started it, more or less:

What would you pay to enter into a virtual reality every night, and be able to do anything you wanted to, with no limitations, no consequences? The truth is, people are doing just that every night--and it's completely free. It's called lucid dreaming.


(Feel free to steal that if you think it'll help. )

Nice hook Naiya... A lot of the time, getting people interested is almost like a sales pitch... At least that's how I look at it. You hit em with the catchy sales pitch, then give em all the details once they're interested.

Funny you should say that--I sell fine jewelry IRL, lol! We have to come up with catchy crap all the time.

This gold watch makes you even more charming. If you doubt it's ability, buy it for your ornery darling!

I wrote an essay on Lucid Dreaming last semester. I'm sorry this is the first time I'm reading this thread and it's too late to help you with your paper, but I'll attach it for the sake of reference, or if you decide you want to do a more in depth essay on Lucid Dreaming sometime down the road.

It's pretty standard stuff, but it's a good read and has gotten a decent number of my friends interested in the subject. It also got 100% when it was graded, so take that as you will.

Also, so people don't get mad at me for spreading misinformation, I took a small bit of creative license on the reality check bit. If the paper were anything besides an exercise in writing a How-To Essay with sources I would have corrected it.