Although I have had a handful of lucid dreams (that I remembered, anyway) throughout my life, I didn't know much about them. I started reading about lucid dreaming about a week ago, and the last few nights I have made a conscious effort (waking up after 6 hours and going back to sleep after a few minutes or activity, etc) to have a lucid dream, and I succeeded last night. First, let me just say that it was CRAZY. I could not believe how real everything was. When I was going to sleep, initially I tried the WILD method. However, when I started to feel sleep paralysis, I started laughing because it felt so funny! hahaha. It will take some practice to master that method. So, I gave up on that and just tried some MILD. I just said to myself "When you go to sleep, you will know that you're dreaming." After a few minutes of this, I drifted off and was immediately back in my high school gym, fully lucid, and interacting with my old classmates. haha. I jumped up and down couple of times, and although I was slower than usual returning to the ground, I didn't take off like MJ or anything. I will have to practice that more. hahaha. Anyway, it was really fun, and I can't wait to play around with it more. Now here's what is strange, I ended up remembering another dream I had, but I was NOT lucid in that dream even though it took place after my first lucid dream. My only guess is that after I lost the first lucid dream, I mentally gave up and went back into the completely unconscious drifting along type of sleep that most people experience every night (and like I usually experience every night). I will have to work on staying lucid throughout sleep, as well as dream spinning, etc.
yeah, i slip in and out of lucid dreams. i usually try to wake myself up when i feel the dream fading since it would suck to not remember it.
Hey Bekele, since you've processed all this reading. Could you explain to me how to get into a lucid dream from sleep paralysis. I get sleep paralysis all the time but I can't do anything with it.
If you feel yourself losing lucidity, don't try to wake up! The thing to do is use your other senses besides sight within your dream, and sight is usually the first sense to fade in a lucid dream. Focus on sounds, objects, go touch something in the dream room, or engage in conversation with a dream person. Often times this will help you regain lucidity.
try looking at your hands. they never go anywhere, and looking at them will stabilize your consciousness in that reality.
I've had sleep paralysis but only in times where I've either A: been highly troubled by a relationship.eg Ive just had a massive argument with the women whos is in bed next to me or B: I've been drinking & smoking solidly for 3 or more days and then try and sober up. escaping it is not easy - I usually just freak out so much that I literally wrench myself out of it and sit up in bed saying 'holy fuck' the only way (I think) to get out of sleep paralysis is to do a fuck alot of physical stuff - so that you sleep due to physical fatigue rather than mental fatigue - which can be due to boredom/monotony of a job - or like me - you are just plain hyperactive and don't burn off enough energy during the day.Then you actually look forward to getting into bed and sleeping and feel excited about what the next day has in store
oh yeah - lucid dreaming rocks.I don't do it much now - but when I was 18-24 I used to 'wake up' and lift my legs up through the bedcovers and see I was wearing diamond patterned trousers and the sky outside was red - even though it was actually the middle of the night and I was sound asleep,face down,wearing nothing
Sleep paralysis is the gateway to astral travel. You are not dreaming per se so having a lucid dream which occurs in your mind (using the brain to see) and the astral plane simultaneously, is impossible. Sleep paralysis is when your spirit/consciousness/soul/ghost in the machine etc. has left the body, so of course you cant move or dream because your conscious energy is no longer with the body or the brain. You are seeing with your true eyes.
well i think a dream is a dream, made inside your brain, its your imagination. dreams are the gateway to who we are, the opened floodgate between conscious and unconscious. these are all physical things in the brain. that is my oppinion. what suggests metaphysics?
Well I guess its just what you believe. Science and spirituality are just two different languages explaining the great mystery. For me they are the same. Mabye the brain can project its experience to outside the body in a very real manner and float down all the streets around where you live. Mabye it is the spirit or your consciousness that astral projects. If your reality is tied to the physical so will your explanations and beliefs. If you live in the metaphysical, well everything will suggest it. I used to be a sceptical athiest, now a spiritiual warrior- two sides of the same coin really. I know that wasn't a very good answer but its the best I can do. In truth I don't know anymore than I did when I thought astral travel was bullshit
Please sir, all things are metaphysics as metaphysics are only more physics. There realms of reality you don't know about interact with the realms of reality you comfortably call "physical" all the time and to distinguish them is silly. Metaphysics are merely physics that are beyond our current understanding. It can be easily said that we do not fully understand dreams and so they fall in that realm of mysterious "spirituality." Granted they opperate in well known ways, but who is to say there isn't more that we can't see. ALSO, there are many people that use lucid dreaming as a gateway to astral projection that would argue dreaming is far more than a "physical" happening in the brain. Ok, just to clarify. I've heard of this sort of mind split before. Where there is the higher mind and then the mind of the body, and the mind of the body is left to watch over the physical being and whatnot while the higher mind runs off and plays. And what you're saying is that sleep paralysis is the experience of the mind of the body?
My body is out of my consciousness when I have been able to move past the panic of sleep paralysis. For those who are well experienced in astral travel they say that if you explore too far and the cord between your body and your astral body is cut, you die. I haven't gone far enough to say but this seems that the body is left simply as a functioning organism- heart beating, breathing, digesting etc- without the soul/astral bodyetc. The reason one gets paralysed is because all the CONSCIOUS energy has left the body- so it is rendered nothing more than a machine on "auto pilot" until the undying self returns. I guess the ego mind ,that develops as a result of the experience of life limited to that one body and other significant expeirience from previous incarnations, would be the one to stay with the body if there is such a split.
