Don't know if this has already been discovered or not...
To get to the point please skip to the second paragraph.
Hi, I'm Jason and I'm fairly new to the prospects of lucid dreaming but became interested after I accidentally had one or two and was curious as to whether other people experienced similar things. Anyways, I felt the need to give a small introduction as this is my first post, I typically don't ever go out of my way to post on forums but from a little bit of research it has become apparent that there are a lot of people who are still trying to achieve lucidity.
Hypothesis:
My technique does not necessarily directly induce lucid dreaming, however it definitely has increased my ability to have very vivid dreams, which in turn increases the likelihood of becoming lucid. I'm just gonna come right out and say it I guess, despite the fact that it's slightly awkward. I have noticed that becoming extremely sexually aroused WITHOUT reaching climax prior to falling asleep increases the vividness of your dream.
Observations
The first experience I had with this was when I was at a party at a friends house, I had a few drinks and I met a nice girl and we made it through the first three bases (touching, oral, etc...) and then I realized I didn't bring a condom (<--DUMB. I learned two lessons that night) So I went to sleep RIGHT AFTER without getting any, and ending up becoming extremely aroused and didn't quite reach an orgasm. I had experienced lucid dreams before this but this was the most vivid dream I had ever experienced and despite it's almost HD clarity I still ending up realizing it was a dream.
My second experience was the night before a big anatomy & physiology test, I ended up staying up way too late studying to stay up any longer before the test at 7 in the morning. I had already promised my girlfriend that I would skype with her before I went to bed and we skyped and etc... I ended up becoming extremely aroused but yet again... no orgasm, because I was rushing to get to sleep for the anatomy test. That night I also had an oddly clear dream and I even remembered to 'spin' in order to keep myself in the dream because I became way too excited when I realized I was dreaming.
This started to make me wonder... when was the last time I had a lucid dream and what could be causing them? Honestly, for the first experience I thought it had been because of the alcohol. I even remember drinking before going to sleep once afterwards with the hopes of experiencing another lucid dream (FAIL)
Then with this second experience I thought it was probably the stress from the test and overloading my brain with material about the human body and layers of the skin. Obviously, I ended up connecting the two events and figured I'd do some experimenting... I can imagine you already know how I experimented... and if you don't I'll just inform you that it was a lonely but rewarding process.
Results
- You MUST stop when you have a strong desire to orgasm. I don't mean to sound like a coach but I noticed that you have to WANT the orgasm, after you stop yourself short of the orgasm if your not pissed that you had to stop then you didn't do it properly. Both of my first experiences I was somewhat depressed about the fact that I didn't get to orgasm, and I was craving more but I set aside my desire and went to sleep.
- It also worked when I would just be laying in bed extremely aroused from looking at pictures or watching arousing videos, etc... and only touching myself from the outside of my pants even though I was dying to go at it. So you don't even have to touch yourself if for some reason your opposed to that, and it still worked equally well.
-I noticed that achieving orgasm actually has a negative effect on my ability to dream (almost no dream recall after). Highly not recommended, this takes self-control.
Conclusion/Explanation
I've noticed personally that if I break down my dreams, a lot of the things within them tend to reflect things that have been on my mind or things that I have experienced throughout the day. Strong emotions are typically reflected even more. This may not hold true for everyone. So I believe that when you put the mind to work in such a passionate manner and leave the mind buzzing with that desire and have all of that strong brain activity prior to falling asleep, this passion and desire is reflected in your dreams. It really worked for me almost 90% of the time and I induced a lucid dream about 40-50% of the time. Obviously I'm only one man so my experiments were limited, however I would definitely like to hear if anyone else has noticed something similar or if someone would like to give this a try also and can post there results. I don't know, this is obviously my first time posting so I'm very sorry if I broke any forum rules, I understand the content was fairly graphic for some possibly. I'm not a typical user of forums, and I think I've only posted on two other forums for various things in my life (Usually I just creep around on them :P), but I feel like this might help a lot of people. Please respond with results, or comments, or questions.
Thanks,
JasonC
