Originally posted by Coby

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Nebetsu, mind if I ask how you achieved Lucid dreaming? I've been trying for a few days now with no result, I'm even keeping a dream journal. It's mostly incomplete but it has some stuff in it. (Last night I was cruisin' on a GTAA Sanchez , too bad the dream wasn't lucid )

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Originally posted by Etath WindForce at this site

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I know there are many who think they could never be able to achieve this, but with right amount of training, everyone should achieve this. Of course, some will have no problems at all in achieving this, while others will struggle very much with this. Do not expect to succeed within a week or a month. Have in mind that there are those who can use years before they finally succeed to have lucid dreams. And once one gets a lucid dream, much more training is still needed to be able to get them at will and get full control over them.

To start off with, what is lucid dreaming? I am sure some would bring up a different explanation on what that is, but officially known, lucid dreaming is when one dreams and is aware of that. This gives one the unique ability to change the environment in the dream with one?s imagination as the only limit. Since when you dreams, your senses are cut of from your mind, it would also make it suitable for meditation and reaching higher levels (like the astral). This would of course take a lot more training on top of the training needed for successfully entering lucid dreaming on will and have full control over them.

Before there would be any idea to train for lucid dreaming, one should train up to remember one?s dreams. No idea to lucid dream when one does not remember them. To remember dreams well, it is pretty important to have a stable sleep pattern. That means it would be wisest to go to bed about the same time every evening (or night). One way to remember one?s dreams better is to lie absolutely still when waking up. Motion do disturb weak memories to a certain degree, so when waking up, lay absolutely still and think through the dream until you remember it well, then it is to get it written down as fast as possible. Your memory from the dreams is also strongest if you wake up from some external event one or two hours before you normally would wake up and not on your own. An alarm clock is probably not the best idea, since then you are up running to shut it down, and it goes well enough without waking up before you normally would wake up too. To improve memory further, drinking a glass of water with sugar in before going to sleep would also do well.

Another way of remembering dreams is to have alarm clock turned on two hours before you normally would wake up, and then fastly type down what you have in your mind on a computer (which usually is the fastest way to get information down for one used with the keyboard), or record your thoughts on a cassette. Afterwards you could be able to complete your records once all has been put on a physical medium. It is quite easy to alter your memory of your dream this way, though, but it is easier than the other explained way.

Now to how to experience lucid dreams. When you start this training, you should already be good on remembering your dreams. Good enough to recall your dream without greater problems. Before you goes to sleep, set your alarm clock to wake you up about two hours before you usually wakes up. When you wakes up, try to recall the dream you had to the best of your ability, and when you has the dream recorded in your memory, you goes up and stays awake for about an half hour while you remembers the dream. Then you go to bed again. Try to focus on that you have newly wakened up from a dream while you try to recall it again.

When you fall asleep again, concentrate on that you will discover you are dreaming. It can be helpful to repeat saying ?Next time I am dreaming, I will know that I am dreaming? over and over again, so that you only concentrates on that sentence. While you are focusing on this, imagine that you are back in the dream you newly woke up from. Look around in the environment you are in and try to find something that would not exist in this reality, which would tell if you are dreaming or not.

After some time you will eventually fall asleep again while doing this, and when you enters the dream world your knowledge on that you are dreaming will be present in your mind. If your thoughts would fall on something else right before you fall asleep, try to get it back on track, so that the last thing you thought on before falling asleep was that you will know you are dreaming.

This will require much training before it will give you any lucid dream, but following this guide will after enough training let you experience that. To help you get aware on that you are dreaming, you can make some things a habit that would not give the same result in dreams as in reality. Since dreams are a part of your reality in your mind, a habit you repeat several times a day would eventually become a habit in your dreams after some time.

One such habit would be to read a sentence, look away and then read the same sentence again. If you would be dreaming, this sentence could be hard to interpret, and by looking away and back again, the sentence would also look different than when you looked at it the first time. In dreams one is a very bad reader, has troubles to interpret more advanced signs, and a sentence would therefore also change appearance when you take your sight from it and looks at it again, since that sentence is nowhere else but in your mind.

I wish you good luck in getting lucid dreams. Remember that this is a skill that takes time to learn. Do not expect to get a lucid dream the first month. And to get this become a common experience for you, there would be many, many months of training, but considering that when you are in a lucid dream you could do almost anything you wanted, I think this is very much worth it."

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Originally posted by Sion Traydor

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During the days of my DBZ addiction I had spent a good 3 days doing everything DBZ related for hours and hours....Then I had a dream where I wanted to become a Super Saiyan. I concentrated all my might and amazingly it worked. I felt myself become all powerful and I was all glowing and stuff it was cool...then I woke up I had other dreams where I tried to go Super Saiyin but they havnt worked in a long time.

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Originally posted by Kratos Aurion

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Oh, I can think of a lot of things related to DBZ that are worse than that. Like, uh... Hmmm...

I tend to have a lot of lucid dreams, actually. The main thing I do in them is fight stuff. With, y'know, energy blasts and fire. And swords.

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