I had a flying dream about a week ago (it was awesome! Hadn’t had one in a long time, I attribute it to my WL reflection/intention using flying as the becoming lucid dream action multiple times per day, I guess a form of dream incubation. Not lucid, though). But in the dream, I had absolutely no notion that flying was weird. It was completely natural, like an ability anybody could have and I was discovering that I knew it, too. So it couldn’t possibly trigger a “whoa, this is weird / something is out of place” based reality check to become lucid. I recall that in all flying dreams over the years this has been the case – it was just something I did and I never questioned that it was strange or out of the ordinary.
I suppose that this relates to WL awareness, constantly questioning one’s surroundings and context, but what if one always has the notion that all the weird things going on in the dream (from a WL perspective) are perfectly natural? Are there DILD techniques to break through that barrier? Relying only on habitual random RCs seems kind of hit-or-miss in that case…?
“Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange" -Inception
When we sleep our logic center is shut off, so we just act like we normally act and do what we normally do with the schema that is presented. The thoughts we think are all thoughts that we think throughout the day. Since nothing ever catches our eyes as “something that can only happen in a dream” it doesn’t do that in dreams either.
DILD (Dream Initiated Lucid Dream) is when something breaks through that barrier, so a MILD (Mnemonic Induced of Lucid Dream) of any type is a way to break through this barrier. You try to get the one idea in a dream “I am dreaming” People always have the question “Am I Dreaming?”, but I like “I am dreaming” because it answers the question and anytime the idea comes through I become lucid. With “Am I Dreaming?” you might just say “NO”. I don’t like RCs very much because people get confused with them a lot and think that the habit is to RC, when the habit is to get into a routine of checking your reality. If you just look at your hands or plug your nose randomly all day, then you are just OCD. If you constantly wondering if you are dreaming, the idea will seep into your dream.
Thanks alot! Just rewatched Inception yesterday BTW .
I like the “I am dreaming” statement rather than the question, I’ll switch to doing that. How exactly do you use it? Do you make the statement and then do a critical survey of your awareness/surroundings with RCs? Or do you just make it and try to believe in WL that you are in a dream? Something else?
I use my imagination to believe that I am in a lucid dream at the time. Normally done before bed, but I do it for upwards of an hour (normally 10-30 minutes) if I don’t have an LD for a day or two.
You see, you were incubating the feeling of flying in WL and it appeared in your dream. Do the same with realizing that this where you are is the dream. Incubate the “whoa, this is weird” state as you did flying.
You can say: hm, something is wrong, is this a dream? - RC! no matter what, you can do this because flying dream is the prove…
Hope this helps.
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