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Hi everyone It’s great to read about all your experiences and the things you do to induce and improve lucid dreaming. @Boran
After three months of learning and trying day and night, I have not reached the point of experiencing lucidity myself. But I maintain the positive fighting spirit. Maybe you can help me makng a next step forward.
I seem to be stuck in step 1: poor dream recall. I come from zero dream recall…
After all my efforts I now squeeze out 3-4 small dreamfragments per week. And yet I seem to repeatedly take all the steps that I read in all the instructions and in the responses that I read on @raghav ‘s q...
Read MoreI seem to be stuck in step 1: poor dream recall. I come from zero dream recall…
After all my efforts I now squeeze out 3-4 small dreamfragments per week. And yet I seem to repeatedly take all the steps that I read in all the instructions and in the responses that I read on @raghav ‘s q...
Good morning everyone. Once more last night i unfortunately hard a really hard time to fall asleep. @Rob
I experience what i believe was my longuest sleep paralysis so far. I was not affraid or anything but it still felt weird so here is what happened:
I went to bed but i kept moving in my bed because i could not fall asleep.
At a certain point, i perfectly remember that my conscient was perfectly awake but my body was asleep. I say this because when i am awake, i breath normaly but at that point my breathing was snoring.
I never snore when i am awake.
It has happened randomly in the past that my sn...
Read MoreI went to bed but i kept moving in my bed because i could not fall asleep.
At a certain point, i perfectly remember that my conscient was perfectly awake but my body was asleep. I say this because when i am awake, i breath normaly but at that point my breathing was snoring.
I never snore when i am awake.
It has happened randomly in the past that my sn...
Good morning everyone, last night was a very bad night for me as i really had a hard time falling asleep unfortunately. @Rob
I did have a few pretty vivid hypnagogic states though. I am wondering if any of you ever succeeded to turn an hypnagogic state into a lucid dream because i know it is possible but i have never achieved that yet.
If yes, how did you do it ? How can i turn an hypnagogic state into a lucid dream ?
Thank you on advanve ;)
If yes, how did you do it ? How can i turn an hypnagogic state into a lucid dream ?
Thank you on advanve ;)
Hello everyone i am proud to tell yiu that this morning i had went fir a morning nap as i know it give higher chances to have a lucid dream and it worked for me so yed i have my very first fully lucid dream and here it is: @Rob
( MY FIRST FULLY LUCID DREAM EXPERIENCE )
My lucid dream started exactly where the end of my previous dream had ended. My previous dream had ended with me waking up in my bed. The strange thing is that i was in my bed like right now and i knew i only were taking a morning nap. But i realised that i had not really woked up, it was a false awakening and i said in my head, wait i am still dreaming. So i immediataly wanted to do a reality check because i have never been in a fully lucid dream befo...
Read MoreMy lucid dream started exactly where the end of my previous dream had ended. My previous dream had ended with me waking up in my bed. The strange thing is that i was in my bed like right now and i knew i only were taking a morning nap. But i realised that i had not really woked up, it was a false awakening and i said in my head, wait i am still dreaming. So i immediataly wanted to do a reality check because i have never been in a fully lucid dream befo...
Rob - Great questions last night in the webinar! Hope you enjoyed Robert's answers. @Jake
Will let you know when the responses are up on youtube so you can see them again. We'll do more webinars in the future
Jake Thompson
3 months ago
Hi everyone It’s great to read about all your experiences and the things you do to induce and improve lucid dreaming. @Boran
After three months of learning and trying day and night, I have not reached the point of experiencing lucidity myself. But I maintain the positive fighting spirit. Maybe you can help me makng a next step forward.
I seem to be stuck in step 1: poor dream recall. I come from zero dream recall…
After all my efforts I now squeeze out 3-4 small dreamfragments per week. And yet I seem to repeatedly take all the steps that I read in all the instructions and in the responses that I read on @raghav ‘s question yesterday. There is something I am missing here and I could really use the help of you more experienced dream recallers to find out what it is.
What I have been doing daily:
- I meditate 10 minutes before bed, 5 minutes when getting out of bed and 10 minutes during the day
- I’m practising mindfulness during the day, like on my two hour walk with my dog
- I’m doing a variety of 10-15 realitychecks per day
- I write extensively in my dream journal (Oniri) every night, even if I have recalled nothing
- I go to bed and wake up at the same time during weekdays and sleep in on weekends.
- I visualize the dreamscene I would like to have and fall asleep repeating intentions that I will lucid dream and remember my dreams.
With doing all this for weeks, I still get very little dream recall to work with. I made some progress understanding my sleep cycle timing and setting alarms to wake me at the most promising times for dream recall. I have found that my first sleep cycle is 90-110 minutes and all folowing are steady 110 minutes, so calculating with the average 90 min. is way off for me. I can now reasonably predict when my 4th sleep cycle will end. If I set my alarm 10min earlier I will probably wake either from REM, or from light NREM very shortly after REM.
So far, so good, but today I ran again into one of my practical problems: I don’t wake up from REM with the low volume wake up signal that works fine for light NREM, but a louder wake up signal wrecks my dream recall. This morning I spontaniously woke up minutes before the alarm, remembered to recall my dream en was on my way doing that. I suppose I woke up from light NREM: I am good at beating the alarm by a few minutes.
The dream was coming back to me and was really forming. Then my alarm went of, I was lying on my wrong left side, with my smartphone-alarm behind me in stead of in front. Moving to silence it would make me loose the dream, but in the 30 seconds that I waited for the alarm to auto-silence, I felt the dream slipping through my fingers anyway, from the distraction. Leaving nothing more than “ I was dreaming about solving some kind of conflict…”.
Have you had these practical problems with organizing dream recall as well? How did you solve them? Do you time wake up in relation to your sleep cycle? In the middle of REM or directly after?
All suggestions are much appreciated!
I seem to be stuck in step 1: poor dream recall. I come from zero dream recall…
After all my efforts I now squeeze out 3-4 small dreamfragments per week. And yet I seem to repeatedly take all the steps that I read in all the instructions and in the responses that I read on @raghav ‘s question yesterday. There is something I am missing here and I could really use the help of you more experienced dream recallers to find out what it is.
What I have been doing daily:
- I meditate 10 minutes before bed, 5 minutes when getting out of bed and 10 minutes during the day
- I’m practising mindfulness during the day, like on my two hour walk with my dog
- I’m doing a variety of 10-15 realitychecks per day
- I write extensively in my dream journal (Oniri) every night, even if I have recalled nothing
- I go to bed and wake up at the same time during weekdays and sleep in on weekends.
- I visualize the dreamscene I would like to have and fall asleep repeating intentions that I will lucid dream and remember my dreams.
With doing all this for weeks, I still get very little dream recall to work with. I made some progress understanding my sleep cycle timing and setting alarms to wake me at the most promising times for dream recall. I have found that my first sleep cycle is 90-110 minutes and all folowing are steady 110 minutes, so calculating with the average 90 min. is way off for me. I can now reasonably predict when my 4th sleep cycle will end. If I set my alarm 10min earlier I will probably wake either from REM, or from light NREM very shortly after REM.
So far, so good, but today I ran again into one of my practical problems: I don’t wake up from REM with the low volume wake up signal that works fine for light NREM, but a louder wake up signal wrecks my dream recall. This morning I spontaniously woke up minutes before the alarm, remembered to recall my dream en was on my way doing that. I suppose I woke up from light NREM: I am good at beating the alarm by a few minutes.
The dream was coming back to me and was really forming. Then my alarm went of, I was lying on my wrong left side, with my smartphone-alarm behind me in stead of in front. Moving to silence it would make me loose the dream, but in the 30 seconds that I waited for the alarm to auto-silence, I felt the dream slipping through my fingers anyway, from the distraction. Leaving nothing more than “ I was dreaming about solving some kind of conflict…”.
Have you had these practical problems with organizing dream recall as well? How did you solve them? Do you time wake up in relation to your sleep cycle? In the middle of REM or directly after?
All suggestions are much appreciated!
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