Suenos lucidos
I realized some of y'all might not know what lucid dreaming refers to. Well, here goes...
(Start voice-over, in the style of Michael McKean playing Morris Fletcher in the X-Files double Dreamland)
There once was an American guy, I don't remember his name, who claimed to have lived with Tibetan monks who had taught him the secrets of lucid dreaming. He wrote a book about this which became an instant best-seller. Unfortunately, his claims turned out to be based on a scam. However, by this time, thousands had followed the 'Tibetan monk' method and claimed they actually worked.
This proves that it doesn't much matter how you try to achieve lucidity, it is the working toward it that counts. The pleasure of the trip is in the journey, not in the arriving, so to speak. (End VO.)
I realize I actually haven't said what lucid dreaming is. (Switches widgets.) Wikipedia defines it as "the conscious perception of one's state while dreaming, enabling a more cogent ("lucid") control over the content and quality of the experience". To cut a long story short, here's what you do.
- keep a notepad or better notebook by your bedside
- when you wake up, you write down the contents of your dream(s), in as much detail as you can remember, using first-person, present tense (trust me, this is important to keep you in the experience and aid recall)
- don't get frustrated if you can't remember much at first, just write down whatever you recall, just make sure that it's the first thing you do when you wake up, and
- soon, you will start to remember your dreams in much greater detail
- now you're ready for the next stage: at some point, you will become aware that you're dreaming while you're dreaming; don't force it, just ease into it, you are taken a first step toward becoming an
- oneiraut, literally, a dream explorer, conducting experiments and steering your dreams, or stepping out of dreams you don't much like
- you have to keep this up to advance; I did it for a while and then stopped; now, the only 'ability' I have left is the ability to snap out of dreams that are turning nasty
Beaux reves!
posted by Platypus Bill @ 10:21 am
7 Comments:
SO YOU DO SPEAK SPANISH TOO --- SEE WHAT I MEAN ABOUT LUCID DREAMS IT IS ALL AN ILLUSION. Heard of Fundacio Azmoz, no not Azimov, oh ok that one too Fundacion Azimov
"I had a dream ..." said someone - or was I dreaming that someone said "I had a dream ..." ? uhh??
If we only using 18% of our brain and we are destroying the planet, I guess we are lucky the other 82% of our brain is dreaming. Now if only I could remember what that 82% was dreaming I would have dreamt four point five somethin more than I dreamt when I was awake
Say I think the other 82% of the time when I'm not dreamin I'm here I could be a dolphin in the sea. I just hope I wasn't stupiod enough to swim up the Thames and be killed live on TV while rescue teams were tryin to rescue me. Incidentally what do you think of dolphin friendly Tuna. I never heard of Tuna's unfriendly to dolphins before. You?
No hablo Espanol. Sole: los plantos son las medicamentas del pasado, del presente y del futuro.
What's Fundacio Azmoz. I googled it, but no luck. El Fundacion Azimov, yo soy. I've read all of them.
All those statistics of how much of our brains we actually use, who came up with those? How did they compile these statictics? Did they set someone a series of all-involving tasks, after giving them a cocktail of radioactive sugar isotopes, them dissected their brain, counting all ten billion or so neurons? One active, nil inactive. One active, one inactive. One active, two inactive. Ring ring. Dammit, now I have to start all over again. Sigh. One active...
I can't remember how they measured it, but has somethin to do with multitaskin. ie you are doing only one thing driving smoothly (with no distractions) or you are driving with distractions the radio on fidgetting with the channels, waving in and out of traffic overtaking getting back in lane etc trying to listen to the kids in the back, whilst still doing the actual driving that is foot on accelerator pedal, foot on break, shifting gears, steering the wheel (which steers da car) flicking the indicators et al in automatic pilot without thinking. And then there is the Advanced driving test when like a copper doing a high speed chase acrosws Central london you not only have to watch out for the other traffic on the road or the kid about to jump out on the road from in between the cars or the old lady who is still trying to get across the road after you've swerved to avoid her, whilst at the same time giving a related (spoken) account of who or what is in your rear view mirror, detailing what colour t-shirt the kid is wearing, noticing if the parked cars have road tax disc and trying to like in chess where you are looking three moves ahead, trying to anticipate where the car you are following is heading or how the car going in the opposite direction is going to react if he sees you coming at him at 100 mph in a 30 mph limit zone or outside a school during the school run 3.30
Don't all the electrodes get in the way of driving a car in a high speed pursuit? Maybe that's why so many people get killed in them every year...
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