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How to Induce Lucid Dreaming
A lucid dream is any dream in which one is aware that one is dreaming. The phenomenon was referred to by Greek philosopher Aristotle who observed: “often when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream”.
One of the earliest historical references to personal experiences with lucid dreaming was by Marie-Jean-Léon, Marquis d’Hervey de Saint Denys. The person most widely acknowledged as having coined the term is Dutch psychiatrist and writer Frederik (Willem) van Eeden (1860–1932).
In a lucid dream, the dreamer has greater chances to exert some degree of control over their participation within the dream or be able to manipulate their imaginary experiences in the dream environment. Lucid dreams can be realistic and vivid. It has been shown that there are higher amounts of beta-1 frequency band (13–19 Hz) experienced by lucid dreamers, hence there is an increased amount of activity in the parietal lobes, making lucid dreaming a conscious process.
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60 Things to do in a Lucid Dream!
A quick roundup of some things I’ve been thinking about, trying out or just playing around with recently. I’m sure you’ve all had a dream or two where (all of a sudden) you’re stuck for things to do. To help out with that I’ve put together a quick list of ideas to get your brain going – quite simply things to do in a lucid dream!
This is by no means exhaustive… in fact I’ll likely continue adding to it as times go on (see my old post of 47 things to do in a lucid dream – yeah it’s a rounder number this time).
Also I’d love to see any cool ideas of your own,
Enjoy!
1. Procrastinate
2. Turn into a dog
3. Teleport to another country
4. Eat a Rainbow
5. Become a ghost and haunt people
6. Keep flying upwards to see what happens
7. Walk to Mordor
8. Travel back in time
9. Become a Billionaire
10. Be a Superhero – fight evil
11. Drive your dream car
12. Ride a Dinosaur
13. Turn Gravity upside down
14. Visit another planet with Alien life
15. Become a tree
16. Find a sleeping version of you and wake them
17. ‘Inception’
18. Turn your cat into an octopus
19. Telepathically talk to others
20. Invisibility
21. Play the Banjo
22. Eat your favorite food
23. Defy physics
24. Be a Ninja
25. Change the weather – inside
26. 360 vision
27. Climb on a plane and see where it goes
28. Prison Escape!
29. Create a new universe from scratch
30. Ask for life advice from a dream character
31. Put the radio on
32. Walk through walls
33. Lick random objects
34. Put yourself inside a video game
35. Convince dream characters they are dreaming
36. Go for a walk
37. Have a holiday on the Moon
38. Steal famous art pieces – tell no one
39. Stop time
40. Breath underwater
41. Go to work
42. Look in a mirror
43. Talk to a deceased person
44. Reinvent the Wheel – make is square
45. Get a Tattoo
46. Lots of explosions
47. Ride a giant Roller Coaster
48. Become a pigeon and drop turds on people
49. Go to sleep
50. Walk on water
51. Befriend a dragon
52. Have a cup of tea
53. Be a Jedi
54. Change your age
55. Fly a helicopter upside down
56. Run up the walls and on the ceiling Matrix style
57. Glue random strangers to the floor
58. Write in your dream journal
59. Rearrange everything a few mm to the left
60. Do nothing
Always good to keep a list handy! Reblogging this to hold onto it :)
Lucid Dreaming – WILD Induction Techniques
Hey there again dreamers!
(Firstly a quick apology for the ugliness of the post, I tired to slim it down a little but it still looks like a horrid block of text…)
I noticed that I hadn’t really put much effort into to writing about dream induction recently, WILD’s specifically, so I thought I’d take some time this weekend to put something together for you all. I’ll be going through a the best methods I’ve found for inducing dreams from the waking state as well as explaining when to go about trying out a WILD and some tips on maintaining focus.
Just to make clear! In this sense, WILD stands for ‘Wake Induced Lucid Dream’. This is where you can take your waking awareness (or lucidity) directly into the dream without any lapse of consciousness.
Due to the possible experience of sleep paralysis, WILDs have a reputation within the lucid dreaming community for being frightening and upsetting. Firstly I’d just like to state that sleep paralysis happens to every one of us each night to ensure that we don’t effectively ‘act out’ our dreams. It is also something that we all experience differently but it’s important to remember that you are in complete control and can wake at any point.
When inducing a lucid dream using any of the WILD methods, clarity is usually much better in comparison to DILDs meaning your awareness (and lucidity) is much more pronounced. What’s more, once if you get to the point that you can successfully produce WILDs at will, they can act as a ‘print on demand’ way to produce any type of lucid dream you want.
There are some limiting factors to it all though, which I’ll explain now…
The Wake-Back-To-Bed Method [WBTB]
There are some drawbacks to WILDs based upon what times of the night you are asleep and dreaming. Inducing a lucid dream will only be successful if you are falling asleep at a stage in the night when you are naturally dreaming.
Each night when we go to bed our bodies go through cycles of both REM (when we dream) and non-REM sleep (sometimes called nREM). At the start of the night when you first go to sleep our brains are but into non-REM sleep where we are not dreaming. Each cycle lasts around 90 minutes with REM periods increasing in length right up until morning. For a WILD to work, we need to be falling asleep during one of these periods to lucid dream.
The wake-back-to-bed (or WBTB) method is useful in catching these REM periods in time to induce lucid dreams. The idea is simple, waking yourself at the right point of the night and then trying to induce a WILD, falling back into a REM (and therefore dreaming) stage of sleep. The WBTB is simply an organized way of doing this.
Start off by setting an alarm to wake yourself around 5-6 hours after you first go to sleep. Upon waking, occupy yourself for 30 minutes planning your strategy for lucid dreaming or reading up on some more information. Once the time is up, simply return to bed performing the WILD.
~Techniques for Focus~
When you go about performing a WILD you can imagine it much like walking on a tightrope, it’s about balancing your awareness. If you start concentrating too much on keeping your mind awake you won’t be able to fall asleep. Concentrate too little and you’ll fall into a non-lucid dream.
These methods are something to focus your mind on, practices that place you attention (and therefore awareness) in a state where you can stay awake without it being too obvious. In this way you can trick your body into thinking it is asleep and you’ll slip into a lucid dream.
For the first three, it’s likely that the dream environment you find yourself in will be the same as the one you fell asleep in. You’ll be lucid in your dream bedroom, so it might be worth remembering to do a quick reality check when you think you’re dreaming.
Catching the butterfly
This is a beautiful method which I found surprisingly I had been using for some time without any knowledge that it was a specific named technique.
The idea is that you can become aware of your thoughts, following the images that go through your mind as you fall asleep until you are dreaming. The metaphor is this, for much like you would watch a butterfly skip from flower to flower, you can watch your own thoughts skip from scene to scene before one materializes into a dream.
For this to work you need to remain passive, an observer of the images going through your mind as it wanders. It’s hard to explain but is similar to when you sit daydreaming, letting your mind work without directing it through visual images. Achieving the right form of awareness can be difficult but will come with practice as you learn to remove the part of you that is conscious and follow your thought patterns.
You should find that as you ‘watch’ the images and scenes creating in your mind flick about wildly, focusing on random scenarios for short periods of time before flicking again. As you spend longer following these images you should find they start appeared more clearly and last for longer. Eventually one of these images will form the dream and you’ll be lucid dreaming.
Remember to maintain some amount of focus and awareness when using this method as it’s very easy to fall asleep. For example each time you flick to another scene quietly remind yourself that you are dreaming.
Anchoring your Awareness
This is a very simple method and once perfected can be very simple to achieve without much effort. It can be difficult to get the right amount of awareness as described above so could result in you staying awake or falling asleep too easily.
The idea is that you can choose something form waking life to focus on as you fall asleep. The common object of focus used is some type of sound whether that’s a clock, computer monitor buzzing or relaxing music.
Find something you can listen to without directly disturbing your sleep, loud enough to hear clearly but not too loud to keep you awake. Music is effective but avoid drum-beats and lyrics as these can be distracting.
The trick is to be able to focus on the noise completely, ignoring everything else going on. Gradually as you maintain all your focus on the sound you’ll find it starts to slip away as if your moving further from the source, spiralling away into the distance. At the point when you can no longer hear the noise then your awareness has been transferred over to the dream and you are now lucid dreaming.
Like before, this can be a difficult method to get right. Concentrate too solidly on something and you won’t fall to sleep, don’t concentrate enough and you’ll slip into sleep.
The Impossible Movement Practice [IMP]
As the name suggests, this method is based around trying to move parts of the body which cannot. The focus in placed on a part of your body where upon dreaming the action your are trying to perform will become possible and you’ll be placed in a lucid dream.
How to go about doing this is quite simple, try moving some part of your body that cannot be moved in the sleeping position that you are in. For example if you’re lying on your back, imagine swinging your legs back and forth at the knee as if you were sat on a bench. Though impossible when lying in bed, once dreaming this action will be completed proving you are now dreaming.
I recommend using your hands for this practice due to their natural instability during the dream and the ease of the visualization for yourself. Trying to clench your fist when it’s tucked under your head, or close your hand through the mattress are both things you can picture and repeat quite easily.
When performing the impossible movement practice remover to focus all of your awareness on the movement you are trying to perform. If your thoughts start to stray, bring your attention back to the impossible movement though not forcefully otherwise you’ll be too awake.
The action you are imagining yourself performing will suddenly come to life when you slip into a dreaming state.
Familiar Scene Visualization
Like before this is an easy to do method though it does require more advanced visualization skills. On the other hand it’s very effective at creating a specific dream environment of your choice without much effort.
The practice is based around your ability to imagine a scene or environment as you fall asleep. AS you slip into a lucid dream the scene you imagined will come to life around you and suddenly become ‘real’.
To start off with, choose a place which you can comfortable picture in your head. Make it complex enough to keep yourself from getting bored but not too difficult that you struggle to visualize it. A place you visit a lot or know very well is helpful. Now, upon going to sleep start picturing the scene you have chosen. Engage all of your senses, imagining yourself walking round and touching things, smelling things and most of all, seeing things.
If for example you have chosen an indoor office of work room, go round and feel the walls, the scent of coffee and the coldness of the air on your skin. Of course all of this is in your imagination but as you progress closer and closer to sleep these things will become increasingly more real until you’re really stood in the scene and therefore a dream.
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Well I hope that was helpful for you all! I will most likely do a follow up tutorial from this with more WILD techniques but try experimenting with these and see what you think. Some of these ideas were taken from a book I recently brought called ‘Are you Dreaming’ by Daniel Love. It contained ideas that I hadn’t seen anywhere online before so I whole heartedly recommend buying lucid dreaming books for the further insight and explanations that you sometimes don’t get when researching on the web.
As always feel free to send in any questions, dreams or tutorial suggestions. I’m writing book reviews at the moment so I hope they’ll be up soon!
Sweet Lucid Dreams!
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Reality checks!
By Thomas Cain
For some reason, I always find a different way to levitate in my dreams. Sometimes it’s like swimming and I constantly have to push myself up against walls, and sometimes I just “let” the air lift me up :)
LUCID DREAMING: HOW TO
SO LUCID DREAMING!!
Some people asked because of my TONGUE IN CHEEK POST about it the other night, well!!! all it is, is being consciously aware that you’re dreaming. You can kinda train your brain to do it and it’s fukken awesome ok! I learned from a bunch of books I got out from the library one summer back in high school and I have kept up all the habits since then until shit got weird but we don’t talk about that
sometimes you get to a point where you can control your dream and force yourself to dream about a certain thing . either way it’s really damn neat to just have conscious awareness while you’re asleep and if nothing else, it’s something fun to do that doesn’t cost anything.
I got into it a few years before Inception came out, if you can believe it. So when that movie came out talking about the same ideas my mind was blown
First things first:
1) DREAM RECALL:
This is your ability to actually remember your dreams. Because imagine, even if you end up having a lucid dream, what’s the point if you completely forget it as soon as you’re awake? Some people think they don’t dream anymore but it isn’t true, everyone dreams. Some people just don’t remember.
So Write down all your dreams, anything that you can remember as soon as you wake up.
I just text it to myself first thing in the morning and usually they’re super disjointed and barely readable but it’s just enough to have me remember them again. even if you can only remember little snippets, the more you do this the better you can get at remembering.
2) DREAM CUES
Dream cues are these little things that make you realize you’re asleep because they differ between reality and your dreams. They’re kind of like triggers that will make you realize you’re dreaming. The idea is to check in on these cues even when you’re awake, so that when it becomes a habit in real life, it will become a habit when you’re asleep.
It’s also a good way to check if you’re actually awake because sometimes dreams are super realistic. I’ve had a lot of dreams where I woke up in my bed, then did the reality check only to figure out I was dreaming.
Different people have different ones but there’s some common ones:
-mirrors: In real life you look like yourself. in a dream you’ll look like a really distorted version of yourself or like a completely different person. I don’t recommend this one because what you see in the mirror might freak you out into just waking up lol
-counting your fingers and seeing more or less than the amount of fingers you have
-electronics that don’t work
-text that changes when you read it, look away and then read it again
-dim lights [i hate light dimmers for this reason eugh]
-loose teeth
My personal ones are the and fingers and the changing text! So in real life, I count my fingers, and read some text, look away and read it again to see if it changes.
If I have more than 5 fingers, I realize I’m asleep and that’s where the lucid part starts.
Personally for me, all of these have served as dream cues, but these two are the ones that i literally check on. Another big one for me is if my teeth are loose, it’s an automatic cue for knowing I’m asleep.
INDUCING A LUCID DREAM
So you made a habit out of checking in on your dream cues and writing down your dreams. Now how do you actually do this thing….
There are some REALLY SPECIFIC METHODS To inducing a lucid dream . Some people practice one method that brings you from wakefulness directly into a dream, with NO LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS. I find this a little rarer but it’s definitely happened to me
Others have the method where you fall asleep as usual, end up in a dream, and then your consciousness wakes up while you’re in the dream. This is more common I think.
my sleep science might be off but this is it as I’ve understood it.
so the general method is to go to bed super early. like 9pm. And set your alarm for Stupid O Clock. I am talking some ungodly hour that you will never be up, like 4:30.
Reason being: You will literally never go to sleep and immedeitly start dreaming. You have to have been asleep for a few hours, having gotten a few sleep cycles in. The longer you sleep, the deeper your sleep cycles run and the more restful sleep you’ll have as the night goes on. It’s only in the later sleep cycles that you start to dream.
This is the reason you’re groggy in the morning [you were just in the middle of your deepest sleep cycle] but not groggy at all if you wake up at like 12
So the goal is to wake up right before you’re gonna go into a deep sleep cycle.
Stay awake for a few minutes, go to the bathroom or something, read some stuff on lucid dreaming on your phone… You want to wake up your brain so that your mind is conscious and running even though you’re dead tired.
Now you can go back to sleep, and the conditions are pretty much met for having a lucid dream.
SO GENERALLY NOW, it’s really likely that you’re gonna have a regular dream.
But if you’ve been making a habit out of doing your dream cues/reality checks while you’re awake, at some point you’re gonna do it while you’re asleep.
stuff from the waking world carries over into dreamtown. it’s the same reason you’ll have super realistic dreams about your job or people you know.
IT’S ACTUALLY SUPER COOL When you do your dream-cues and you see different results from real life. Like I’ll count my fingers and realize there’s 6 of them and be like Ohhh shit! I’m asleep! Time to go wild.
Usually I just fly around like a motherfucker but it’s so cool to be your exact same self who is able to think about your family/friends/homework/life/memes except you’re flying
CONTROLLING THE DREAM
OK SO NOW THAT YOU’RE AWAKE while dreaming, you can try controlling your dream. This is a bit harder to explain but in my opinion it’s as easy as focusing/dwelling on what you want to do..kind of like repeating a mantra mentally.
Like lets say you’re dreaming and you come across a house. As you’re walking towards it, tell yourself “Captain Kirk is in this house and we’re gonna have the time of our damn life.” TELL YOURSELF WITH CONVICTION! BELIEVE IT! CAPTAIN KIRK IS IN THE HOUSE! OVER AND OVER!
also try practising controlling on little things first. Like point to the sky and say “brighter” or “more purple” or “bluer” or think “I want it to be night time instead" and it SHOULD change.
STAYING IN THE DREAM
There’s 2 tricks I know of that will keep you in a dream for longer when you feel like you’re about to wake up and you don’t want to.
One is spinning: If you feel yourself waking up, try spinning around on the spot till you’re dizzy. Things will blur around you and then they will clear up and get super sharp! Especially spinning while crouching. I have no idea why this works, but it does and others have said the same thing.
The other is, when you feel like things are getting blurry, focus on ONE spot in the dream. I usually crouch and like, stare at the details and texture of the road really really close up. For some reason, pinpointing your focus on one little thing will refocus the dream.
finally,
READ UP!!
Honestly the more you read about lucid dreaming, the more likely you are to have one for yourself..Even by reading this you’re more likely to have one. It’s weird, but it works. When I would regularly read books on the topic they’d say the same thing and it was true. It’s kind of like, the fact that you’re aware that it can happen makes it likely to happen..
SO YEAH, before you go to sleep or when you wake up at 4 in the morning, google it, see what others have to say. Get your brain in gear for it. there’s lots of posts online that will probably talk about the same stuff that I have here but this is my legit personal experience with it and stuff over the years.
IN SHORT
DO YOUR DREAM CUES/REALITY CHECKS
WRITE DOWN YOUR DREAMS
SET YOUR ALARM FOR A REALLY DUMB TIME!!
HAPPY DREAMING
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Pain is in the brain
Chronic pain results from disease or trauma to the nervous system. Damaged nerve fibres with heightened responses to normal stimuli send incorrect messages to pain centres in the brain. This phenomenon, called “peripheral and central sensitization” is one of the key mechanisms involved in the condition which touches people with diabetes, cancer, and those suffering from multiple sclerosis, among others.
The study, published in the Sept. issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, provides insights into the role of the hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels, which control the transmission of pain signals to a particular region of the brain, the anterior cingular cortex (ACC), identified as the most consistently stimulated region in pain processing.
“We were able to show that reducing hyperexcitability of the ACC by blocking the HCN channels had analgesic effects – basically the feelings of pain were dramatically decreased. Our study has revealed one important mechanism linking chronic pain to abnormal activity of the ACC and it provides a cellular and molecular explanation for the overstimulation of neurons in the prefrontal cortex. This gives us new perspectives on therapeutic strategies that could target the HCN channels to help relieve chronic pain,” says Dr. Philippe Séguéla, Professor in the department of Neurology & Neurosurgery and senior author of the study.
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