Lucid Dreaming
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:20 am
Hi, I tried to start a thread about this on the GLP forum, but I've noticed that there's a much nicer proportion of calm-sane-people to ignorant-loud-jerks on this forum, so maybe this is the better place.
I've remembered my dreams since I was a little kid, I had very long and vivid dreams but I was never able to control them or become aware. I don't think I have a strong personal sense or internal division between what is "real" and what is not real, so it has always been very difficult for me to come to the definite realization in a dream that it is not waking life.
However, after over a year of efforts specifically toward that end, I was finally successful in becoming lucid in a dream. It was a level above anything that had been previously experienced in the dream state. It's been a little over a year since I learned to do this, and I've learned and experienced such strange things that I have trouble describing them. It is really like a laboratory where you can perceive things in a totally new way.
This seems like a good subject to open up, people can add their own insights or ask questions if they are attempting to reach the lucid dream state. I've been given WIDELY varying opinions on the value or worthlessness of lucid dreaming, and I can't help feeling that becoming lucid and exploring that state is something of significance.
Firstly, there is the mystery of one's personal memories, even down to one's own name, being either partially or totally inaccessible. And yet, there is still a sense of self that is maintained through the whole experience and is taken back into waking life.
I've remembered my dreams since I was a little kid, I had very long and vivid dreams but I was never able to control them or become aware. I don't think I have a strong personal sense or internal division between what is "real" and what is not real, so it has always been very difficult for me to come to the definite realization in a dream that it is not waking life.
However, after over a year of efforts specifically toward that end, I was finally successful in becoming lucid in a dream. It was a level above anything that had been previously experienced in the dream state. It's been a little over a year since I learned to do this, and I've learned and experienced such strange things that I have trouble describing them. It is really like a laboratory where you can perceive things in a totally new way.
This seems like a good subject to open up, people can add their own insights or ask questions if they are attempting to reach the lucid dream state. I've been given WIDELY varying opinions on the value or worthlessness of lucid dreaming, and I can't help feeling that becoming lucid and exploring that state is something of significance.
Firstly, there is the mystery of one's personal memories, even down to one's own name, being either partially or totally inaccessible. And yet, there is still a sense of self that is maintained through the whole experience and is taken back into waking life.