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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!labtam!labtam!philip
- From: philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens)
- Subject: Re: help with lucidity
- Organization: Labtam Australia Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:27:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <philip.722226471@labtam>
- References: <Bxn57E.J3t@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- John P Demarco writes:
-
- >I want to know how i can have lucid dreams. I have never heard of them before
- >I started reading this group and they sound amazing. People have suggested to
- >others that have asked to write down what they dream of right after they wake
- >up. The thing is--I don't remember most of my dreams, maybe only two or three
- >a week.
-
- One of the purposes of keeping a notebook and pen beside the bed is to
- encourage yourself to remember dreams better; that is, you are trying to
- improve your dream recall by placing the intention firmly in your mind that
- you wish to remember your dreams when you wake up.
- It may help if in addition to having the pen and paper handy, you psyche
- yourself up with such statements as "I am going to remember what I was
- dreaming when I wake up" just before going to sleep. There is really no
- other way but to get into the right frame of mind--dreams are not predictable
- enough for anyone to give you specific techniques for dream recall that
- will work without fail.
-
- >When I'm dreaming it seems like I'm experiencing it from two perspectives at
- >once. One perspective is of myself watching the dream on a screen and the
- >other is from the eyes of my dreamself. I never seem to realize that I'm
- >dreaming while I'm dreaming---sometimes I think "gee this is weird" or
- >something of the sort but I never seem to become aware.
-
- Don't feel discouraged that you haven't had a lucid dream before. It
- *is* an ability that you can learn to develop over time, but it doesn't
- happen overnight. Most people on this newsgroup are not regular lucid
- dreamers, and those that are have generally just taught themselves how to
- become aware that they are dreaming in their own way. Myself? I have had
- the occasional lucid dream achieved through nothing else but desire to have
- them, but I haven't learnt to have lucid dreams at will, yet.
-
- >I've been doing reality checks every so often. How often should you do them,
- >anyway?
-
- I don't know, as I've never tried the reality-check technique before--I
- could never remember to do it often enough in real life, let alone in a
- dream!
-
- >This is very frustrating 'cause i'm so psyched to have one--even though I
- >realize that me beeing so anxious probably gets in the way.
-
- Yes, being worried over whether you're going to have a lucid dream is a
- sure-fire way of preventing it from happening. You've just got to loosen
- up and not *expect* it to happen on any given night. All of my lucid
- dreams have been a surprise to me--that is, I've psyched myself up for them
- over a period of time, but only when I relaxed about it did they actually
- happen.
-
- Good luck!
-
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