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I love lucid dreaming and have been practicing it for over 6 years now, and i love your channel, so i trust you'll take what i have to say as constructive criticism not hate. There is a lot of misinformation regarding lucid dreaming, so i want to help clear things up a small bit.
Before i criticize, i wanna give credit that you acknowledge there is a lot to still learn about the subject
1. A lucid dream is defined by waking levels of awareness and understanding what it means to be dreaming, not control. Dream control is a separate but related skill. One can be aware they are dreaming but not lucid if they don't understand what that means (say they're getting chased and realize it's a dream but don't acknowledge that it means they do not have to run, or some other situational justification for irrationality).
2.reality testing shouldn't just be done when weird things happen. It should be done when you're distracted, randomly, and when anything happens that is similar or related by schema to events common in your dreams.
3. Finger through palm is an unreliable test for most people. Take this from someone who did the finger count (also unreliable) for years without noticing failure, you will miss out on a lot of lucid dreams if you use unreliable tests. These test your ability to control the dream before even lucid. A better test is nose pinch because your real breathing is inaffected by sleep paralysis or reading text and looking away and back because the brain struggles with this so it usually changes.
Importantly, when testing, don't just test, think. How did i get here, does this make sense, where is this, when is this, how many reality tests have i done today, etc.
4. Waking up in tbe middle of the night is effective but disrupts sleep in an unhealthy eay. Morning naps after a 7-8 hour night of sleep are much healthier and are what stephen laberge studied.
5. I would emphasize dream journal first because it's more important than any technique to familiarize yourself with the anatomy of your dreams. Not wrong but deserves more emphasis. Also it shohld be looked at regularly and analyzed, not just written in.
6. As someone who fell for the REMEE scam years ago, it's not effective. It just disrupts sleep and more often than not wakes you up. Occasionally it works though, but not worth the price.
7. In no way can lucid dreaming blur the line between reality and fantasy because the entire skill is based on the ability to distinguish the two. You already mistake most dreams as reality and this won't get worse
7. Really minor and maybe unintentional but when acknowledging misinformation channels (great job), it cuts to one showing Daniel Love's channel when you mention people just on for the hype. While I'm not here to promote him, he has over 40 years of experience and is probably the most qualified people on the subject on youtube
Also great job acknowledging expectation in dream control, as well as the practice required. Although I'm being critical, this is a way above average lucid dreaming video.
Finally, if one wants to add something or challenge me with science, feel free
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Lucid dreaming is the most underrated skill in the world and everyone should experience it.
It often feels like real life, just as the moment you're in now (though vividness fluctuates)
You can also use it for practical things like solving problems, practicing other skills, getting rod of fears or nightmares, learning more about yourself ect.
It's also some of the most fun you'll ever have. Some of the most euphoric experiences as well
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I start my REM in 60 seconds. The last stage first. The diagnosis is Narcolepsy. That's how they get people. Calling your gift a disability. I remember a lot of my dreams. I would definitely like to talk with someone about my dreams. I call them visions. Most people have no interest in me sharing my life with my eyes closed. It's a lot. When I was younger I thought I was going crazy. I don't believe in fear in my wakeful life. It's noting like what I have seen when I close my eyes. I know I am powerful and I am protected. Not even tooting my own horn as much as they are facts. I have recently started dream Journaling and dream interpretation. It's been fun. Even though I have a good memory of past visions. Interpretation has been beneficial. If anyone wants to chat, I would love to hear about the experience of others.
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Man, I remember my first accidental lucid dream. I was in a high contrast suburb, suddenly gained control. I just walked into a house and found one of those magnetic stick and ball sculpture, and put my hand in it. The sculpture was too advanced for my brain to imagine how it felt falling down over my hand, but I got so excited I woke up a minute later. Since then I've been chasing them often.
My first controlled lucid dream happened a few years later, as I was walking down a dark road, and decided to spawn an entire stadium. And Apeture is right in the "expect it to happen", because I was expecting a stadium, and as I turned around I was in the tunnel leading into the stadium, and the road was still behind me, but the light from the stadium lit it up.
I have had dreams about exploring an ocean, had superpowers, met with friends, explored caves, and been in my favorite video game.
But the coolest way I've ever started lucid dreaming was a time I got woken up in the night. I had had an awesome dream, but was just watching it like a movie, and only became aware as I woke up, but I managed to close my eyes, and immediately sounded like rain started pouring all around me, I felt water on my skin, and the darkness of my eyelids became a nightsky as I was suddenly falling from the sky, face up, before landing in wet grass, a few meters from the house where the dream had happened. Literally felt like entering Narnia or likewise.
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(Sorry for the length. I'm just thorough with my thoughts and I want to make sure my intent is understood.)
I'm an insomniac and have had vivid lucid dreams every time I sleep since I was about 12 years old. My first was a crash course in how horrible it could be. Quick sum up, I learned later that the word for what happened to me was vivisection. I was tied down and had my organs cut out in pieces. I woke up crying and screaming into my pillow. I'll never forget the increasingly hollow feeling of my insides being pulled out.
I first learned to keep control of myself by picking up objects (rocks, debris, etc) and spend time throwing them something as a target until I had a comprehension of how the settings behave. I got bored eventually and just started going along and learned as dream time passes. Just like being awake I control my thoughts and actions, but everyone and everything else is its own thing.
In a subterranean Moon walkway near the subway, I enjoyed jumping and spinning to see how many rotations I could get, while listening to a performer on an electric synth violin. On a planet with orange tinted sunlight and sky, gravity was less so people wouldn't run, they'd do a kind of lunge and tap their foot on the ground to keep afloat.
Thousands of vivid lucid dreams, thousands of little lives and experiences that can last from hours to years in dream time. I've died too many times to count. I miss people I've never truly met and places I've never really been. I've lived easy and hard. I've seen peace and wartime with and without technology. It's a dice throw whether I'll wake up happy, depressed, or indifferent.
I've seen an annual event on a planet where the current race gather naturally occuring corrugated gemstones that have washed down the major rivers for millions of years. Every year around the same time, 40' machines left over from an ancient extinct race gather them as a fuel source to power the energy grid system the current race found and began using. They piled them in lines around the outskirts of cities close to the rivers that flow down from the mountain to watch the machines glow and hum mechanically, marking the beginning of a new year. It was beautiful and I'll never see it again.
Lucid dreaming is both a blessing and a curse, and most who deal with it don't have a choice of how it's going to play out. As a kid, I had to take 10-15mg Diazepam before I could just sleep and didn't guarantee non-lucid dreams. I eventually stopped taking it. I realized I'd end up having to increase it over time and nipped that potential addiction in the bud.
I'm saying all this to give a warning. Learning to lucid dream can absolutely be fun and beautiful and amazing. BUT you're also accepting the risks. You may feel and see the worst things you could and/or couldn't imagine if your brain gets messy.
For me, it's still a dice toss after 25 years.
If you give it a go and try to find ways to get lucid dream going, be cautious and safe. It can affect your mood and your outlook on life and vice versa.
Much love and be safe out there.
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For me lucid dreaming is becoming goku. I have learned flying, kamehameha, transformation(super saiyen), telekenisis. What I am struggling with is instant transmission.
I started lucid dream at the age of 12. At the time I didn't know what it was. What I understand is a necessary thing for lucid dream is more than enough sleep.
Like sleep in the afternoon when you are not actually feeling sleepy.
My personal technique is imaginng myself flying while slowly falling asleep.
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