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Same here. It's just too easy to lose consciousness again, one is in a rush to do things.

This could be connected to the dissociated status you have during a lucid dream. You have full control over your body, yet you wont have to fear pain or death, what enables you to do risky or even impossible things, making even the prospect exciting. Thus you feel the urge to do something worthwhile with your spare time, a lesson we can learn from.

A guy I knew a long time ago would dream in computer code, and often it would be a problem he was working on which he would then solve in the dream. He'd wake up and go to his deck and complete the code as he had dreamed it.

Not me, as soon as I realize I'm lucid I start to fly like Superman. Nothing is better in this reality or that one.

I realized that it is of high importance to have stepwise ordered goals with specific measurable progress: At least one for the day, one for the week, one for several months.

Say you would want to learn lucid dreaming. Your daily is the preparation before going to bed and keeping your journal in the morning. The weekly goal could be to increase the average number of dreams recalled up to two. The long time goal is of course the lucid dream and it is the reward in itself.

In addition you could try the Eisenhower matrix, a method to organize your tasks.

important | not important
+ urgent | + urgent
_____________________________

important | not important
+ not urgent | + not urgent

strategy for good self management:

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Maybe this would be better in >>>/r/ ?

How I induce lucid dreaming is lay still, don't itch, don't move a muscle. Then after about half an hour you'll find you body has sort of gone to sleep, you can't move.

Then open your eyes for a second and close them again.

I have always figured all of my dreams were a direct consequence of my real-life experiences in recent days.

Do you notice this, now what you have a record of you dreams?

Since I'm the guy who started this thread and it's still going, I thought I'd give you all an update.

I believe I have had at least 2 more lucid dreams since I last posted, and the last one was particularly vivid. I have had trouble keeping my dream log up to date and detailed because I have a very busy work schedule and do off hours. I try to do what I can, and write anything down at all when I wake up, even if it's just a vague sentence. I'm also eyecover poster OP, and that thing has helped me tremendously I feel. I can realize I'm in a dream often now, but I still have trouble taking control of it. Sometimes in the dream itself I can even feel myself fading back into belief that it's actually a dream, and then my memory fades as I accept the world I am experiencing.

My most recent LD involved me walking around through a town with some people and noticing that the weather was spectacular out and the sky was my favorite shade of blue. I looked off into the sky and saw a very strange looking geometric/angular car hovering there, zipping back and forth, and slightly changing its shape into other angular, geometric car shapes. I assumed it was an alien car. I then turned away to talk to someone and it flew right behind that person in the sky. I looked up and it continued to change shape into all sorts of odd angular looking things (reminded me a little of starfox ships). I then thought to myself, wait, this is silly. This is definitely a dream. At that thought I started racing through the town… I can't remember what it was I was trying to do, but I remember understanding that I was in an LD and I had to reach my goal… at one point I stopped and was like wait, better confirm this, and glanced at my hands for a reality check. Sure enough my fingers were very weird and twisted. I remember thinking to myself alright, I did it! and then I slowly slipped back into the dream. I don't remember much. I did choose to run in that dream though.

>>816
This gets me to something else; many LDers who post on LD blogs or reddit claim that LDs are alternate realities. Biocentrism theory seems to agree with this. I'm a little skeptical; even in my most vivid dream there is always ONE reality I seem to keep waking up in. The problem is when I'm dreaming I also believe this… and then I read this article http://www.npr.org/2015/01/29/382483367/you-can-be-convinced-to-confess-to-an-invented-crime-study-finds

Also if you have ever had a precognitive dream (not deja vu, a full up dream that you literally experienced in reality in the future) then this also calls things into question.

Any thoughts? If your reality really is just invented and exists in your mind then the idea of dreams being just another reality is likely. Then again… posting this on lainchan REALLY feels real…>>816

>>817
Maybe we're not going to sleep.

Maybe we're waking up.

i've only ever experienced this once, where, i realised i was dreaming, and for i brief moment, could do anything i wanted
i chose to fly
it was great, but very fleeting
that was years ago

I've been practising dreaming and lucidity for a few years now and consider myself quite good at it, so I can offer some tips that worked for me.

1. Keep a dream journal under your pillow, and write in it as soon as you wake up. Just write whatever you can, even if it's short or fragmented.

2. Read your dream journal before you go to sleep. This seems to remind you of what a dream is, which will help you distinguish between dreams and reality, and also help you remember your dreams better.

3. Find something that can tip you off as to whether you're in a dream or not, and occasionally test this in reality. I choose to try to float, as I can always achieve this in my dreams, and it looks totally inconspicuous irl.

4. Have an idea of what you want to do in a lucid dream before you have the dream. If you spend too much time thinking during your dream it will make you wake yourself up. Instead, as soon as you're lucid, start doing what you want and focus more on the action than the thoughts involved.

Hope that helps!! :)

>>13
that's what i did the first and second time i lucid dreamed. both times i soon lost control and fell into water and into another dream. lately though i've had a few more. it's really random sometimes i become lucid and just don't do anything. in one i was being drivin around by a rich older woman and decided i liked the ride so i just sat there. other times i've played video games in my head, practiced flying and remaining lucid, made a cigarette appear in my hand. right now my goal is to talk to my subconscious. my only problem is i can't decide what i want to talk to it about. i should really write some things down and drill them into my head so i can remember

>>107
Writings things down for the goal of exploring ones dream is never a bad idea.

>>13
>>107

That's also what I did the first time my dream turned lucid. There were magical girls in the air.

>>800
>>802

how do i embed video?

>>805
wow. my bad. i was using quick reply. thanks!

>>809
No problem, if you have any more questions ask on /q/, but if conversation is off OP topic then please use sage :)

Can anyone upload the files to pomf.se?

Related: http://iso-tones.com/index.php/tones/miscellaneous

Does it matter what volume you have them on? I've trouble sleeping with background noise, so I wonder if I were to lower them to where I practically couldn't hear them if they'd still have effect.

Listen to a hardstyle mix. Like one of those "radio" mixes by a big artist. It will activate your REM dreaming and memory and your eyeballs will be spinning around (according to my friend who woke me). Felt so good to wake up to pounding hardstyle.

>>114
Just install libc6-dev-i386

>>754
We could alternate sleeping in different brain hemispheres like dolphins, but it'd cost our ability to do stuff that needs both hemispheres awake at the same time, unless we also do something to have our brain larger and more divided.

>>772
>We could alternate sleeping in different brain hemispheres like dolphins
citation required

>>774
I was more interested in "we could", but I guess you are just proposing it as part of sci-fi idea.

>>775
Yeah, it's something I figure better genetic engineering could make later.

I once woke up midday on day 1, worked a night shift, but didn't go to bed day 2 morning, just playing vidya and stuff. I got called by the boss at 7pm day 2 that a lot of people called in sick and they really really need me there, so I did another night shift. I went to bed sometime around 2 pm on day 3 feeling quite numb and dumb. I don't really stay awake for days intentionally mostly because I'd be just sitting somewhere and try not to think about how comfy, soft and awesome my bed is right over there.

About 60 hours. Had a really messed up routine an went on an early flight, didn't feel like sleeping. The numbness and stuff felt kinda nice.

>And when you returned to sleeping, how were your dreams effected (if at all)?
Can't really remember. I did wake up feeling extra comfy tho.

something like 40-50 hours, i don't remember exactly which is a direct effect.

first you feel sick and whatnot, then you feel ok and awake again and are sort of in a good mood usually, which is about 16-24 hours i think, and after that, i gradually get less concentrated and the cold can make you super tired of you're not careful. you start being very unproductive and your short term memory is bad and for me personally my eyes go really bad and all that stuff, i mean for someone who can't drink alcohol that would be an ok approximation maybe. and then comes the point where you should probably stop and go to sleep

i don't dream usually and especially not in the comatose-ish sleep when i'm recovering from sleep deprivation. if you sleep longer than that you can get dreams of course.

also sleep deprivation disrupts my digestion which is uncool, i should do it less.

I fucked some girls and my dick (outside the dream) exploded with ejaculate. It happened quite a few times when I was around 10, and also sometimes when I haven't fapped in weeks due to exhaustion from work, etc.

Wet dreams are pretty cool until you have to clean up for the nth time, not to mention that the orgasm and ejaculation wakes you up.

>I could fly by tripping
"There's a knack to flying. The knack is throwing yourself at the ground and missing." (Douglas Addams)

I had a dream about Lainchan.

>>310
>>, not to mention that the orgasm and ejaculation wakes you up.

You poor thing, waking up from fuarrrking orgasms.

I had a dream in which I was at an airport bar getting ready to leave on vacation. I was traveling with Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Steve Martin, and Woody Harrelson, and we were all wearing the same Hawaiin shirt.

I can't remember a single joke but I remember it was a hilarious time at the airport.

Care to elaborate as to the events of these dreams?

all i remember was that we were in a room making casual talk with a lot of other people. the 2nd night i had the dream she got on top of me and kissed me on the cheek. i woke up. after i woke up i realized the girl in the dream was a mirror image of this girl at work i know.

>This is bad..
Why, this is real life, no one forces you to make a pass at her just because you dreamed of her :D

It's likely she merely represents your feminine side (anima), and merely chose to manifest as someone you know as to attract your attention. Being that she's practically a female version of you, she'll seem your "soul mate", and this may cause unintentional feelings towards the way your anima chose to manifest itself; as your coworker.

This is rather common as I've come to see it, once a guy in some other site said that he dreamed of Yolandi Visser and that he sometimes dreamed of somebody and suddenly couldn't think of that person. Happened to me about 3 times last year too.
Why? I believe we are inadvertedly attracted to someone and our subconscious reveals that in our dreams, we dream of that person in a sexual/romantic way and then we wake up with the idea of having done something with that person, putting our hopes up and revealing the hidden attraction.
You probably got over it already or sperged all over your workplace