last night i had an incredible and very vivid dream but i was not lucid…i was dreaming that i was in a very strange blue room, talking philosophy with some people and also explaining very positively how to completely control ours mind’s perception of dream time…i was so positive and everything was so real that i was absolutly terrified to become lucid because if i did my mind would be trapped in the dream state for eternity…but i see more clearly than ever on how to do it, although i havent gotten to try it last night because of overwhelming fear but i want any LDer reading this forum to try it ASAP and reply to this forum with results and even any theories to this…
the trick is when you become lucid, ignore your surroundings and the illusions of dreaming and just close your eyes and focus on thinking, but it will be hard not waking up so keep your mind completely clear and focus, look for it and want it make time the only thought on your lucid mind and keep at it as long as you need until you find it then open your eyes with pure confidence and return to whatever dream situation it may now be (if there even is one) and without even trying you should be perfectly certain that you can do it, for start just try the simple slow motion, and then make things go faster, just keep alternating but more than that be certain that you will stay dreaming as long as you want and lucid too, think of time as YOUR playground and how you own it in your dream world just as everything else…dont think or try JUST KNOW! have no doubts, its just a real pity because i was petrified to become lucid during all of this because if i did i would stop time entirely and be stuck forever…good luck to whom ever cares to try but i will myself until i get it, tell me how it turns out!
Hmm i dont think you would be stuck forever, because your body would eventually die, but it would be a veeeerry long time depending on how much you slowed down the time. I doubt its possible to totally stop time in the Dreamworld because that almost defies existence in a way. that would mean your physical body would become immortal somehow. To everything humans experience, there is a beginning and an end
my goals are to break the barriers of reality! but this topic i posted DOES sound rather insane, but the dream was so damn intense that i woke up and posted this first thing (right after my DJ of course…)
thanks for the reply, did you get a chance to try it though please let me know if anything turns out…
No problem. I’d be more than happy to try it because it sounds like a great idea for extending LD’s, but i need to break my dry spell and have one first. We need someone who has no problem having at least 20 LD’s a month to test this for us because they probably have a better idea what they are doing though
I’ve always been fascinated by this subject, i think i will join you, and attempt to do this over winter break
good luck to all of you (by the way i don’t know how much help i will be, i’m still trying to get a good amount of LDs a month XD)
thanks for your support friends, i havent had an LD after that night, but as soon as i do im gonna practice over and over until i master the technique…and yes we really should get some pro LDers, because even if it doesnt entirely work in one LD practice always makes perfect…reply with more results…thanks!
well … i can sort of confirm this helps in making LDs longer, I don’t do it like that, but when I start waking up if I do in fact keep my head clear, try not to move, and really focus on going back, I can re-enter a dream 3-4 times before I finally wake up for real, thus, greatly lengthening the dream experience…
but… it’s also, i’m not always confident it will last long, I have to say “i’ll have 15 more minutes” or something like that… so you suggest meditating upon the concept of time in the dreamworld until you feel like you can determine how long you want to be in the dream, and then tell yourself you will be in it for that long, is that what you are suggesting?
it’s possible to be lucid throughout the entire night’s sleep, for me it requires going to bed in a dream and waking back up when it’s time to continue it, and it’s hard and usuall happens in NDs for the most part, but yeah… i’ll give that a try sometime soon if I remember.
im sure it helps to lucid as possible though, probably even more so through the good ol’ WILD…im gonna try next LD (hopefully soon) because ever since that ND its driving me nuts!
thanks holy reality, tell us how it goes for sure!
I just remembered an LD I had, not sure if it was relating to the WILD/MILD or not, but I used the time alteration method… someone in here posted about it, where you sort of deoncstruct the dream, focus very hard on “time” and then you just “know” that you can do it, and in fact it worked, it really worked,there was this CLICK and I was like … yeah! and I went back into the dream, and I said, this dream will last a long time, or it will last another 15 minutes… or something, maybe even I said it will last the rest of the night, because… yeah… it may have been after the WILD, and so, that may be why the dream continued for such a long long time after losing lucidity… hmm.
i’m color coding my dream system in order to maintain lucidity, red for dream subject, indigo for the dream, and dark red for dream commentary, i’ll just use black for random typing though, but this sort of qualifies as dream commentary (the above was taken from my dream journal on today’s respective entry)
i had a dream last night were i was slowing down time whenever i wanted but i was still not lucid, i dont know how to take advantage of when i control time in my dream to do an RC or something and realize its a dream, because slow motioning everything is something i’ve been doing lately…any tips?
Sounds to me like you were lucid, although with low low lucidity. I mean, in a dream you can’t be afraid of becoming lucid without already knowing it’s a dream (thus you were lucid).