The Secret of Frequent Lucid Dreamers

I think that is up to you, each individual is different. I think I’m asking myself about once every 15 to 30 minutes. And it still hasn’t made it into my dreams. I think it is important to really, really question it, and look around you to really check. To strongly feel it in you when you ask. Emotions are easier to bring into a dream .

imj, i do agree with you that if you keep question reality you’ll go nuts.

But to ask yourself what you just did, that can’t be too bad ?(even if your aim is to question your surroundings)

Haha, this explains so much from when I was a kid. I had tons of nightmares and I always questioned reality, “Am I dreaming? Is this real?”. I had lucid dreams several times a night because of it.

Funny how I’m also a norwegian. Hahaha.

How long does it take before have a mindset?

I ask myself “Is anything out place or missing here? Is anything unusual happening?” at work, being a lifeguard. Hopefully I can carry this over to the rest of my day :happy:

That could work. Just make sure you don’t get too lazy, and even if you think you remember doing it just a few minutes ago, remember anything could just be a false memory :wink:

Very interesting article you wrote there. While I find it kind of intimidating to have more than one lucid dream per night (doesn’t that get exhausting after a while?) living ‘lucid’ might be a good idea, because I asked myself the same question as Christophe there:

I can just refer to my experiences after meditating, I often felt really lucid and aware of my surroundings. And while I’m usually a little bit of a choleric person, during that time it was really hard to get me angry - which I guess happened because of the higher awareness of myself and my surroundings.

It really is just a speculation, but I guess it would decrease violence in all forms drastically. But then again, I may be thinking that just because I’m a natural pacifist.

I don’t think it necessarily has to be lucid dreaming to achieve this worldwide lucid mindset, it’d probably already help if people meditated more. :grin:
Though I’d definitely appreciate more people coming to this forum… :beer:

Anyway, I guess this is the way to go for me, as I wish to have many lucid dreams and I also wish to be a better person IRL. Combining these two into one thing… awesome!

I just got done reading your article on attaining a lucid mindset and I must say that your article was very well written and very informative. I am definitely going to try and start asking myself a “critical question” everyday during the day and hope to see results in a increase in my lucid dreams. I found this article very interesting and the examples that you used fit the article very well. I like how there are people out there who find it weird that all people don’t have lucid dreams every night! Your point about people having to fend off nightmares and how that caused them to have a more lucid mindset made a lot of sense. Great article overall! Thanks for writing it!

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Awesome post just doing this very thing is how i Lucid Dream and it works amazing reality check just making sure im actually on ld4all.com :tongue: this is really cool and my first lucid dream took 1 month 17 days before this actually worked but after that it is really a awesome way of dreaming and i have lucid dream almost every time i can recall my dreams

I’m reading your lucid dream book Robert!

When using the ‘What was I just doing’ approach, say every hour in the normal day;

do you I say it aloud?

do I actually think back at what I was just doing?

could you please answer those 2 questions :smile:

thanks, corbin.

You don’t have to say it aloud, you can just say it in yourself but if you feel that you need to say it aloud then do.

Yes, try to remember what you were doing last hour… and in detail!

thankyou :smile:, i will now frequently start doing this in my life.

Corbin, the main thing you’ve got to understand is that it’s not the question per se, it’s the mind set. You’ve got to make sure to keep questioning things, always have a little bit of doubt. You can never be 100% sure you’re awake and there’s always a chance you’re dreaming. This is key to LL.

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Ok, will stick to it, thanks alot :smile:

I have been trying to keep a consistent lucid mindset for the past couple of years, yet I have yet to achieve more than 2 lucid dreams per months. I am constantly questioning my reality. I often think ‘how did I get here?’ or ‘what was I just doing?’ yet I still have trouble inducing frequent lucid dreams.
So what am I doing wrong?

Wow! Instead of doing this lucid dreaming thing as a causual hobby including writing in a DJ and hope I’ll ask myself if I’m dreaming at the right time, I’m going to make this a lifestyle! I’ll most likely update you all on how it’s been going in about a month from now!

This explains why I was able to remember nearly every dream I had after a nightmare. When I was young I sometimes had nightmares and after them I remembered nearly anything of other dreams.
But the theory about the frequently repeating reality checks while awake is VERY old. I heard about this 8 years ago in a newspaper, TV and such stuff.

Psychotic episodes are quite similar to hypnagogia or hypnopompic states. It’s fair to say that they are likely part of the same type of mental activation. There’s some empirical fMRI evidence for this connection actually. It’s also true that LD is performed within a hypnagogic or hypnopompic state. However, there’s a theorized mechanism which is disadvantaged in the schizophrenic brain.

The regions of the brain which allow them to reason critically are inhibited or overactive in the schizophrenic person. It’s theorized that micro-sleep periods occur after states of hyperarrousal which impose rapid degregation of the rational RL to hypnagogic states. Their neurotransmitters seem to be off. They experience hypnagogic states unintentionally and they occur during waking times.

Now that these things have been said, it’s important to note that we all experience dream states. Particularly we all “hallucinate” as it were during our sleep. This is a natural mechanism that is distorted with schizophrenic individuals through some means, particularly the timing of sleep phenomenon. There’s no reason to think that exploring your subconscious creates a chemical imbalance.

I use critical RC, it just seemed likely the reasonable method of RC. If thinking critically causes psychosis then all intelligent people should be psychotic, and contrary to popular opinion they’re not. :smile: I’m a philosophy major and found it very second hand. There’s explicit differences between dreams and reality which are quite comforting. There’s a lack of continuity and consistency in the dream world.

Perceptial differences differ quite clearly, for example convergence (eye) can disappear or not occur at all if it is tested in a dream. Dreams have a tendency to project our personal understanding of the world. When we test something, the dream does it’s best to project the reflection of that knowledge. However the time from critique to successful resolution of incorrect projection is quite noticable under scrutiny. Also, that RL includes endless information which we can resolve into knowledge. At it’s heart the SC and LD instead rely on our knowledge to project reality synthetically, it’s a different mode of awareness.

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Mr. Waggoner, it’s a pleasure to see you posting in this forum. Your book is on my shelf along with the works of LaBerge.