Not sure whether this subject fits this section.
I’ve been thinking of how to make use of LD’s in real life and now hope that I finally came up with something promising.
The major problem with this quest is that the connection between the DL and NL is one-way only. You can bring things from NL to DL but not the other way. Apparently, nothing in NL can be affected by whatever you do in your LD (I am quite sceptical about all magic stuff). Nothing but one thing. The part of yourself called ‘the subconscious mind’ (SM).
One way to use it is to practise skills in LD. But this is too specific and can only be used while in LDs.
My idea is to develop your skills of changing objects in your LD’s using, say, your finger. Once you develop this ability you can try to do some RL-magic. You can point your finger to yourself and make an order to get a certain ability. I doubt that you will manage to turn yourself into a Superman, but it can help you to change instantly the state of your waking mind. Or have more LD’s. Or whatever your SM is otherwise reluctant to accept.
you say you are skeptical of magick but what you described is the key staple of just about every magical tenet ever…
i.e. look into mudras.
buddhanet.net/mudras.htm
exoticindiaart.com/article/mudras
kundaliniyoga.org/mudras.html
google.com/search?hl=en&q=mu … gle+Search
of a related but more “scientific” approach.
navaching.com/hawkeen/pmap.html
yes, its a great idea… i think it is best to borrow upon gestures that have already been widely used by mankind, as they hold a place in the “collective unconscious” if you will, and if nothing else will give you better placebo results, and if there is something “magical” that can be done, you’re probably more likely to succeede by using gestures that carry a universal (in terms of earth) significance.
Thanks for the links. When I said that I am sceptical about magic I meant that so far I don’t believe that any actions we perform in LD’s can directly affect anything in RL outside our minds and bodies. We can’t make the state of real people or things better or worse by our actions in LD’s.
I don’t refute the effectiveness of the guestures used in different spiritual traditions such as mudras in Hinduism. However, I believe that NLP explains well their nature. They serve as anchors to respective states of minds.
The ‘magic finger’ is yet another anchor but more effective and non-specific while each mudra relate to a particular state of mind. The dream environment is created and maintained by our SM. If you manage to change objects by will in your LD’s, this effectively means that you learn to control your SM. You teach it to do whatever you wish and the finger becomes the conduit of your will that will work in RL as well.