Glad I could help ^^
I was in a particularly good mood at that time; be sure to jolt down notes yourself too during those moments you feel that well, about your emotions, your thoughts, your experiences, so that you might recreate the right feeling just by looking at those notes.
It can be a tremendous morale and confidence boost, looking at how much can you achieve and how in peace with yourself you can be when you really mean it 
Treasure those moments guys. They’ll last much longer if you find a way to remember/share it. That’s what I did with that essay, and now that is terrbly useful to me too when I feel meh, to keep going the way I really want.
I think Lucid Living is one of the most important ideas, period. The effect it would have on the world if everyone practiced it would be tremendous. How many atrocities are committed because people are not thinking for themselves? How many tragic and life-changing mistakes are made because people are simply not thinking? How many people are suffering from depression, unfeeling and withdrawn from the world? How many people feel their lives racing by as they go through their daily routines without thinking?
Imagine a world where people think before they speak, think before they act, are aware of what they are doing. Imagine a world where people do things because they choose to, not out of habit. Where you are acting on the world, rather than it acting on you. Where you taste and feel and smell in three dimensions, aware of how incredible everything is, how everything is.
That is the power of Lucid Living.
I think Tos did an excellent job of describing the impact this can have on happiness. And obviously it has a huge impact on lucid dreaming: holding lucidity in waking life is good practice for holding lucidity in a dream, and for WILDing.
Being lucid constantly is a huge goal, but a good start is staying lucid for just a few minutes. If you can stay lucid for a 20 minute period while doing other things and being distracted, just do that when you go to bed and you should be able to WILD. So I am thinking of lucid living as WILD practice, and I am starting right now.
It is hard, though. I kind of want to start a movement, a way of life that makes it easier to keep it up, with a supportive community. Does anyone know anything like this that exists, and is not affiliated with a religion?
Zen is often associated with buddhism, but in itself, it isn’t a religion.
I really agree with your opinions, Tosxychor.
If you perceive your reality as a dream, you will perceive your dream as a dream.
Another thing, besides paying attention on your environment,
Pay some attention to your feelings, does it feel like a dream?
When you wake up in the morning or recalling your dreams,
That specific feeling of the dream is coming back to you, THIS is the feeling I’m talking about.
I guess that’s what naturals do, they just recognise that particular feeling of a dream.
They pay attention to their environment AND their feelings.
This is a great topic. I’ve read so many inspirational thoughts by various people. Amazing! 
I was unfamiliar with the concept of lucid living until now. I like it, although it seems to mean something different for each person. Personally I think there are many connections between the dream state and waking life. And I recognize some of the points made by others, such as the idea that real life is just as amazing as dreaming. But I wouldn’t want to use lucid living as a label for the best way of living.
Some people seem to think lucid living is about becoming aware of yourself and your feelings. They say that this would make you happy. I would disagree. Sometimes is important to think about yourself and place in life, but if you do it to much you will become reactive and eventually depressed.
I think life is all about having the right kind of energy. People are happiest when their energy is positive and directed outwards. If you focus your energy on your environment and the people in it, you can work on actively shaping it. If you focus your energy on yourself and your own awareness, you will focus mainly on your reactions to others. You will have little opportunity to be creative and your reactions will start to become negative.
So again, I like this concept of lucid living. But self awareness as a concept is overrated. It’s much more important to be aware of your environment and the people in it.
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the self is destructive, awareness on the outside will divide you from the self.
the outside is destructive, awareness of the self will divide you from the outside.
success of both is promoted by the knowledge they yeild.
there both over and under rated because WE are the creators of our own deception…but thats ok because ignorance is bliss 
How does one remember to Lucid Live? I keep forgetting during the day 
When I do remember I get distracted after a while, which expected in the beginning, I believe. The problem is then it lakes me hours to remember to do it again! 
any tips? how do you guys do it?
Well, to put it in a way that’s close to us dreamers, you could start an experiment.
Resolve one morning that the whole day is gonna be one of your dreams (where you will be just following the plot 
and carry out your normal activities). If you’re concerned about lucidity, then you’ll have no problem remembering Put intention and effort in it, and I’m sure you will see some great results.
I do that from time to time, and it’s amazing to me how I can manage to keep my attention high this way, plus learn to appreciate things happening around me that much more, not to mention I’m just so more relaxed during this day, it being only a dream that will be no more after I “wake up”, or better, go to sleep again 
. It can be a little tiring at first, I won’t deny it, but it’s a wonderful way IMHO to go through an ordinary day.
When I was practising Lucid living I found the most important thing is not to be frustrated when your mind does wander. If you do get frustrated, your motivation will nosedive, you’ll get angry and give-up. I found it helped a lot to think, yay I remembered, well done me, now lets see how long I can keep it in mind this time. The time between each remembering got shorter too, although it took time for it to do so, the first times between remembering could stretch up to a day. I ended up getting wrapped up in life shortly after this and didn’t keep it up. I had to “focus on what I was doing or I’d make mistakes” 
Kinda ironic in a way. Resolving to make it something you were going to put effort into today, as tosxyChor suggested also helped me a lot too.
Thanks 
Yeah, I’ve been trying this. Just like meditation, it’s normal for the mind to wander I guess.
I feel I REALLY need something like Lucid Living to boost my lucidity… 
I have just realise what the idea of lucid living means and I was wondering why is everyone intent on doing it 100% of time. I just don’t really think that its possible.
I mean, surely just a few moments is special enough. Just now I was walking down the stairs pretending I was in a lucid dream when I just stood and stared out of window for a few minutes. The sky was inky blue and the orange street lights shone through the wings of a moth on the window pane, and it looked beautiful and peaceful. I never normally would have noticed something like this and it made me very grateful.
I’m going to resolve to practice this at least once everyday and good luck to anyone else trying to achieve lucid living
lucid living is a deep thing
it is about a state of transformation and freedom
the best parallel i have to it is tai chi mastery
BEING HERE NOW in clarity
life is a dream in a different way than sleeping dreams, in that everything is still illusory and fleeting, and only the pure awareness of yourself existing and being eternal and not bound by time and space remains
the tai chi master stops time, transcends space ,
they know your thoughts and intentions , better than you do , and cannot be beaten combatively speaking ,
the yogi is also in this state, they call it the fourth dimension, or the fifth ,
the reason for thinking about life as a dream is to reclaim our innate sovereignty, the right to flourish and be happy, and take nothing seriously , so that, through selective attention, we will skip thru the mine fields of hypocrisy and ghosts , and find our way to our beautiful perfect life of our choosing, holding onto only what serves us
it would be like there is a straight line to a beautiful healing water fountain on a hot day and people keep pestering you along the way asking you to sign waivers and go on wacky adventures, but with lucid living you have the clarity to dismiss them and not take them seriously, and find only companions that will walk to the water with you
it is about thinking very deeply about the nature of realty not repeating affirmations all day long though those are useful
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example :
you have a dog, the dogs nature is confined to it being a dog, with dogness, but it can be shaped by your interacting iwth it into a “bad dog” or a “good dog”
and if yo9u are INSANE then your dog will do things that irritate “you” and you will react blindly and yell " bad dog" which creates the dogs infinite potential of being ANYTHING you wish it to be in your SOUL into being that which you are calling into fucs, i.e. “bad dog”
lucid living is the uncoloring of attachment and aversion to all situations and circumstances to gain a favorable sense of peace and freedom
when you realize the dogs behavior is not real then you can work with the dog to elicit and entrain proper and rightful patterns, and it will be healed but until you realize that there is no hope of changing the circumstances
every time we do anything we are looking at dreams, our col orations of thought-forms, if we send money we are having some sort of thoughts and feelings come up
and we can choose those differently and think and feel differently so as to believe different thoughts about money which then influence out future in conjunction with the types of thoughts, perceptions, feelings, imaginations, we are offering, through our focus.
Every time we spend money we can feel gratitude that we have some to use for our enjoyment, and ask that everyone has enough abundance to be flourishing in joyful happiness, and we can then strive to feel sure that this money will come back to us 1000 fold, because we intend for it to, and its our dream so why not ? This will make us eel good, and feeling good will create our future into congruence with the feelings.
so lucid living is an incredibly deep and simple thing
if someone says " money doesn’t grown on trees"
and someone is a millionaire and says " money comes to me with ease"
both are right, because its our individual liberty to create our experiences through focus that equates into lucidity
my typo of “focus” looks like a swear word, i didn’t mean to do that but it fits perfectly with the example, sorry
Nice explanation, thanks. But I’m still a little confused, are you saying that Lucid living gives us the freedom to shape who we are (like the dog and owner), or to shape the world around us (like the money analogy) or even both.
Is what you called Being Here Now, one of those moments when you suddenly realise how amazing it is just to exist and be you? I have these fairly often, I kind of assumed that lucid living is just like this feeling but all the time.
Also, I’m interested to know if you believe it is possible for an ordinary person to achieve it, I mean without say going into reclusion or something. Surely the real world is just too big and distracting?
It´s a little bit of offtopic, but I am reading this thread from the beginning and there is a term “pavlov’s reaction”. Can anybody explain to me what it means? Thanks!
Pavlov would ring a bell and give food to his dogs. After a few times the dogs would start to salivate just by hearing the bell. It’s the most simple conditioning, where the subject associates one thing (getting food) with another (bell). Crappy explanation, but I hope you get what I mean
Not to put a damper on such a great idea as lucid living, but what if your life is just too boring and quite frankly rather awful? I mean, I work all day doing a job I hate just to put food on the table. So lucid living for me would be lucid nightmaring! I guess my head is always in the clouds cause I put myself in zombie mode all day, just to get through it. After work I clean the house, take care of the pets, cook for the kids etc. You get my drift. It feels to me that I’m living a life I really don’t want to live. Don’t get me wrong, I do love my kids and enjoy being with them (even though they prefer to do their own thing), but at the moment this is not the life I had wished for myself. The only lucid living moments I can really enjoy are the moments on my motorcycle. I take off occasionally, just for half an hour or so and just ride! My happier life begins when I go to sleep! Responsibility does put a damper on many things. Still, I love Kauai, love the sound of the wind chimes on my porch, the beautiful sunsets (when I get a chance to see them) and many more little things. But fully Lucid Living I would not be able to deal with at this very moment, maybe once I figure out what it is I really want to be doing with my life I will. At the moment it’s just surviving and looking forward to any lucid dreams coming my way!
KauaiDreamer, I agree completely with what you said. I think of all my experiences as dreams (or at least I’m trying to think that way). Life, as with dreams, passes you by if you aren’t aware. Lucidity is to bring yourself into the present and experience what is happening. Just as with dreams, I only feel that I truly experience life if I’m aware. However, if I’m unhappy or uncomfortable, then I don’t want to be aware. For me, this reflects how, in some nightmarish dreams, my mind seems to resist lucidity because I have to focus on other things.
I don’t know about my nightmares, but in life, I feel that the resistance to lucidity can be solved with more dream metaphors. Fixing whatever makes one feel bad at the moment is what one would do in a dream, and is what one should do in real life. I don’t know just how much you can do to improve your situation right now, but doing something at all will help.
I recently got a new interest in Lucid Living, and I was wondering if I’m doing it correctly?
I was washing dishes a while ago and this is more or less how I kept going:
“I’m washing dishes. The water is hot, I can feel it running.
There is a glass standing in front of me; it’s blue, and hasn’t been washed yet.
But now I suddenly hear a car driving past the apartment; it sounds loud, and annoying.
What kind of car was it?
Oh who cares - now I feel the water again, it’s hot.
The walls around me are rather pretty - is this a dream?
Hm, probably not.
But I must check to make sure!.. nothing strange here.
I hear the water running; it’s still hot, which is not surprising, and I stand and clean a large, white plate; I can feel my hands holding it, and I will be happy when this is over, and I can watch it all done.”
And I went on like this, trying to focus on everything and pay attention to everything with all my senses.
Is this what you would call Lucid Living?
I know it’s a late reply, but it sounds right to me. I think lucid living will be easier to understand once you’ve had a lucid dream. Then you know how your mind changes when you become lucid. And you can try to recreate that transformation in the real world. Often words are not needed.
I would like to point out that I do not fully grasp the concept of lucid living yet so I would like someone else to confirm that you’re right.
I have been following the Topic from part One and after hours of reading I’ve finally finished.Lucid Living is a great idea and we have been discussing it so we can have LD’s .I want to know the progress you guys have made who are practicing LL.Has your frequency of LD’s increased solely relying on LL and not using other methods?