Question What Inspired You To Do Lucid Dreaming

Your parents seem pretty rad

I was born Buddhist but eventually considered myself atheist. Two years ago my mom, who is a more devout Buddhist but doesn't mind me not being one, invited me to go try a particular sect of Buddhist meditation course. I agreed because it was important to her and I always felt Buddhism had a lot of philosophical and ethical values. I went and found that the course pretty much 80% taught many of the foundations of lucid dreaming. It taught awareness, awareness of self, and awareness of awareness itself. It encouraged participants to fall asleep while counting. It taught the stages of advanced meditation, and signs that you have achieved those stages, which sounded like SP/ OBE/ hypnogogic imagery/ sleep atonia. I still found great value from the experience, but also came to the same conclusion as you did that many religious experiences are forms of LD.

That's a good one!

You are an inspired idiot, take DMT in your dream and report back to us!

Wow! Had my first dream a week ago and it only lasted 3 seconds because I was exited af

This is wonderful. One little seed has become a big, beautiful tree.

Lmao

It's amazing.

Same bro, keep at it

Oh, cool!

Your mind is going to tell you that, what you expect that she would tell her. If you are unsure about the situation, in a dream she would say :EWWW THATS DISGUSTING. She would react that way,that you think she would in real life. So don't focus one that, just do it.

That's deep.

Calm down Satan!

That sounds like a really cool course. I'd like to take something like that. I'm interested in meditation but haven't really had a whole lot of "success" (I know you shouldn't think about it that way) with it yet. Can you give more details about the course?

I have! It's even MORE confusing! But still intense haha

Mine started out short, too. It gets better. I've gotten to where I can "summon" mirrors (to mess with my appearance) or read books without breaking the dream. Both used to instantly take me out.

well im not to worried, im just glad i quit my addiction and i can have some "fun" with dreaming.

I kinda disagree with you. I think she will say not what I expect, but what my subcounscious mind thinks of this situation. And these may differ. Anyways, I can't just do it, I am afraid she has bf/likes other guy, so I don't want that awkwardness when you say that you love somebody and they just oh, sorry, I already have boyfriend. I will be seeing her for atleast 3 years and, you know, if it would fail, it would be awkward for next 3 years. Yeah, so I don't want that, that's why I am asking my mind what it thinks.

It's called Vipassana Meditation. I took the course in Thailand, but the site seems to point to many different course centers in many countries. http://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index

Awesome that you can actually read! Could you read us a poem from a book in your dreams? I am very curious as to what art comes out of your subconscious! Especially if you regard yourself as not that creative, you might surprise yourself.

Yeah that's what I meant ,hahaha. My English is bad,sorry. :/

And good luck!

Talk to her first, get to know a bit about her life, ask her if she's in a relationship of some sorts after speaking to her long enough.

Talk to her first, get to know a bit about her life, ask her if she's in a relationship of some sorts after speaking to her long enough.

Thank you!

While I have always been very artistic, I have never considered myself a poet, in or outside my dreams. I do paint, sculpt, and compose music there, but none of those things have made it out of the dream realm (not for lack of ability, but more a sense of "putting the toys in the box when done in the playroom"). The stuff that I read in my dreams is presented as prose (which, I suppose, is entirely my doing), and is usually esoteric in nature. A lesson, an idea, or something meant to meditate on until it makes sense. Some of it is so nonsensical that I doubt it would have value to anyone else.

I can't talk to her. She is always somewhere else in the school or she is talking with her friends. It would look weird if I just came to her and said hey what's up.

no problem! I recommend it to anyone, religious or not, as even if you don't buy the religious parts, it still taught great insight into how moderation and mindfulness could help you in everyday life.

That sounds interesting as fuck tho

It is super cool, yeah. Definitely an experience I'd recommend. The spontaneous generation of music, especially, is fantastic. You don't just hear it, you *become* it. Maybe it's something like what synesthetes experience.