7 Steps To Start Lucid Dreaming
via Ultraculture | An Oneironauts Guide to Lucid Dreams.
Seven Steps to Better-Than-Reality Dreams
Dreams: Cool-ass movies you can watch for free with no download times and which often star you and often have porn. They can even tell the future (maybe), help resolve the past and give you insight into the present. What’s not to love about these flickery little bastards? Next time you’re complaining about life, just remember this: your brain, clever fucker that it is, has automatically provided for a good solid few hours every day where you get to be the star of the show, unicorns are real, you can fly, you get to have any kind of sex you want, and also Rodney Dangerfield is trying to kill you with a machete for stealing the plans to the replica of the Empire State Building he’s constructing from light and candy in his garage. Wait, forget that last one. That’s, uh, personal.
A lot of people complain they don’t remember their dreams. That can be fixed. A lot of people claim their dreams are boring. That can be fixed, too. In fact, turns out that dreaming is a skill you can build just like any other with a little persistence and some simple techniques. With a little practice, you can activate Lucid Dream Mode and have conscious control while dreaming.
So if you’re ready to throw out the TV and the YouTubes and get into some real deep inner territory, like balls deep, read on:
1. Write your dreams down every morning. This is the most important thing in this list. If you don’t do anything else, do this. Get a journal, stick it by the bed with a pen, and write down all the crazy shit you remember from your dreams the instant you wake up. Don’t stall; if you switch gears even a bit to check your e-mail or take a shower, you’re going to lose most, if not all, of what you dreamt. The more you do this, the more you’ll remember from your dreams. This is basically the lock and key that opens up your dreamspace. The more detail you record, the more detail you’ll remember the next night, and the more you’ll start to gain control of what you’re dreaming.
2. Set your intention. Tell yourself what you want to dream about before you go to sleep. Visualize the type of dream you want to have. Ask yourself a question. Pick one thing, and stick to it; maybe write it in your dream journal and then see how you net out in the morning. Coupled with the practice of dream journalling, this will help you gain more and more control over the dream state, allowing you access to new capacities for problem solving and satisfaction.
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OMG It’s the ’60′s all over again.
I like that PJMedia links to stuff like this; it’s better than having to slog through hippy-dippy liberal junksites with their concomitant needless attacks on all things conservative. I’ve tried lucid dreaming with various degrees of success throughout my life, and there’s nothing particularly lefty-weaselley about it.
Still, it’s too bad that Jason Louv has such a limited range of expression and vocabularity that he has to trot out all the untoward language. It really cheapens what is actually a fascinating bit of psychology.
Heaven forfend his range of expression be so vast that it would include such non-words as “vocabularity”!!!
I figured out lucid dreaming when I was about 7, long before I even knew it was a “thing”. I never had to write anything down, though. Spending a few extra minutes minutes in bed while THINKING works just as well, and is much faster than longhand or typing.
I really enjoy lucid dreaming, it’s kind of sad to think that not everyone can do it.
Jason Louv is a staunch anti-God occultist. A good writer, but there’s no way he’s not talking about sorcery here. If you’re religious views would lead you to avoid witchcraft, beware.
I had nightmares as a child. I told my father about them and he told me to take control of my dreams. Within a week I did. I kicked nightmares ass and I am most certainly not a hippy. It is possible.
I’ve never been able to ‘make’ it happen, but it’s happened a couple of times and when it does…wow!