To some degree or other, our dreams are all made up of things on our mind, and things that we’ve been thinking about that particular day. The closer you get to sleep, the more your thoughts have an effect on your dreams. This makes setting up dreamscapes, or “dream scenes” very simple to do. Much …
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Sep 23
Sleep Paralysis
Sleep Paralysis is a phenomenon whereby the entire body becomes paralyzed as the body drifts off to sleep. It is commonly thought to be an evolutionary response to prevent the physical body acting out dreams. It is likely that this gets disrupted to varying degrees with various sleep disorders such as the well known “sleep …
Sep 22
Relaxation exercise #1
Entering lucidity is unlikely when you get into bed at night but not impossible, as you’re tired, and generally cycle through REM and into deep sleep very quickly. One of the biggest mistakes I made at the beginning, was to go for all my WILD attempts at night as I was going to sleep – …
Sep 03
Sleep Patterns, History and Wake Back To Bed (WBTB)
A Wake Back To Bed (WBTB) involves purposely waking up during your sleep period at a time optimal to perform lucid dream induction techniques. First, it would be good to discuss a little about sleep patterns. An average person’s sleep cycle is 90 minutes long. This is not a set rule for everyone, and sleep …
Sep 03
Wake Induced Lucid Dream (WILD) #1
Wake Induced Lucid Dreams (WILD) are moving from waking consciousness to dream consciousness directly and without losing awareness or ‘falling asleep/unconscious’. It’s generally ‘ok’ to lose awareness for a few seconds, but any more than that, or if you start to recall regular dreams before you become aware again, it becomes a DILD. Ultimately, although …
Sep 01
Basic Reality Checks (RCs) and DILDs
Reality Checks or RCs are a key part of lucid dreaming. A reality check involves questioning “Am I dreaming?” A reality check is really an extension of awareness, i.e. becoming aware. The reason why we spend most of our dreams just dreaming our way through them, is because we do exactly the same in real …
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