(September 17, 2016 at 6:10 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:(September 17, 2016 at 10:05 am)bennyboy Wrote: I think I'm going to try lucid dreaming tonight using the waking-dream-check technique. In this technique, you tell yourself several times during the day, "Am I dreaming? Why. . . yes I am!" They say if you can do this in a dream, you have a pretty good chance of realizing you ARE in fact dreaming, and taking control.Good noctourneys!
When I really get into it, I can usually have at least a short lucid dream within a few days. I'll let you guys know if I have any luck.
I've had great success using the W.I.L.D technique, waking induced lucid dreaming. It's taking your conscious/volitional state directly into the dream state without passing through the subconscious dream state.
There are a number of different approaches/descriptions but I think I found the operational crux: Breath control. If your mind wanders and starts the subconscious story production, you lose awareness of your breath/body and the autonomic nervous system takes over. But if you are consciously breathing slower than the rest autonomic rate, your mind remains in control of itself and passes into the frequency realm of the subconscious. Do not follow or entertain any mental imagery, the transition from the waking state to a lucid dream state is a very physical experience! You will pass into and through what is described as "sleep paralysis" and that is the threshold of phase transition into the OBE/lucid dream state.
This happened to me a couple times when I was younger and was playing around with meditation. I felt the body was being pulled down by an incredible force of gravity, so I couldn't move (even though I wasn't really trying to). Then-- whoosh! Freedom.
But in my case, I didn't know it was a lucid dream, as I experienced it as an OBE. I started walking around my room, turned around, and saw myself lying there.
I think in my case lucid dreams mostly have happened when something almost woke me up, but not quite. So as I fell back asleep, I did so with some knowledge, "Hey. . . I'm sleeping." But definitely, thinking about lucid dreaming a lot made it occur more often. Keeping a dream diary and writing every morning helped a lot, too-- I started having much better dream recall, and a more general ability to pass between waking and dreaming states.
