IN DREAMS AWAKE, Stephen LaBerge
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2024
- IN DREAMS AWAKE: An Overview of Lucid Dreaming, West and East a presentation by Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. (Founder of The Lucidity Institute) at the Science and Nondaulity Conference in 2010.
Screw the evidence!!!!!! I've experienced lucid dreaming!!! It is very real, and it is fucking awesome!!! I have skydived, gone bungee jumping, flown planes, and I can say lucid dreaming is the most incredible things that I have experienced!!!! Thanks for this post!
me too
I try explaining this to people. When I wake up from some lucid dreams I'm overwhelmed by the experience, sometimes tearing up. It's honestly one of the greatest things I've experienced in life and I have lived.
I have tried to achieve this state for quite some time and I can never seem to merge the two states of consciousness... Ppl clearly can do this, but at 36 years old, I am yet to be able to do so.
@@timreagan777 My first successful time was continuous - I mean I didn't lose conciousness while falling asleep. Most of the time lucid dreaming is associated with first going to sleep then "wait" until the dream starts and then becoming lucid. But it's not necessary - you can start dreaming without losing attention from the beginning. The easiest way to do it ( tho it's not very healthy in a long run) is a slight sleep deprivation - you will start falling asleep so no relaxation skill will be needed - your goal is only to remain consciousness while falling asleep.
Same. While dreaming I’m usually thinking “I can’t wait to tell my friends about this one when I wake up”.. flying down river steams is fun. So are gun fights lol might just be me though
What I mean with this is - the moment you wake up, try to go through your dreams in your mind until you are sure you have remembered everything you can remember, then write them down - this will make you more familiar with your dreams and teach your brain that your dreams are important.
And there is this kind of "meditation" called Lucid Living, where you use all your senses as much as possible during your waking life.
The way I usually do that is that I pretend that real life as a lucid dream.
“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
― Zhuangzi, Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang-Tzu
because you didn't wake up as a butterfly ;)
because you didn´t remember you wake up as a butterfly ;)
Stephen Laberge always jokes around like that.
I like that interview when he speaks to Russian people, every single time the translator speaks his words in Russian he sits there and is like "lulz I don't understand a word O_O xD Oh well".
I like that side of him, always merry and spontaneous like that.
I guess it's because he feels so great since he can have lucid dreams so often.
wow same happen to me after i stop smoking weed!!!!
I have the same experience from a retreat where there where no tv, computer etc. I had lucid dreams many nights in a row. thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Once when I was a child, I realized I was dreaming while asleep, and in the dream I opened and closed my eyes and then realized I could just open my real eyes and somehow I did while realizing I was fully conscious.
Thanks for the thorough reply, I'll try that out.
I smoke too, I noticed a dream journal helped me so much the more i remember the easier it is to keep it up. And Yes I also will wake up on occasion once I realize im lucid I become to excited and it wakes me up. A particular dream a man came floating to an upstairs window and I instantly became lucid realized I was in the astral plain and woke up. funny thing he was just as excited to see me as I was to see him.
And it was you. I love thinking about that…. 🥰
Maybe it was another dreamer
One time I dreamed that I was scooting my feet on a wooden deck and I got a splinter. The pain of the splinter was so bad that I woke up. Upon awakening the pain did not go away. So I got up and turned the light on. Lo and behold there was really a splinter in my foot! And it was a big one. I pulled it out and put it on the night stand next to my bed intending to show it to people and tell them what happened. But the next day it was gone. Several months later my foot started hurting and feeling like it had a splinter again. I looked to see if there was more splinter buried deep in my foot trying to work it's way out, but I couldn't see any more splinter. I was working on a book and getting really close to being finished at the time. And before I could get it published, the delete key went out on my computer. I took my computer to the shop. They pulled the key off and there was the splinter underneath it. About a year later my foot started hurting again. Then I had a dream that a man who modeled for the photos for the book was laying on the deck where I got the splinter having convulsions. There were people standing around trying to figure out whether to call EMS. I put my hand on his chest and said, "Are you going to be okay?" He stopped having convulsions and said, "I had decided I wanted to try it." I woke up before I could find out what he wanted to try. Sometimes my foot still hurts in the same spot where I pulled the splinter out.
Dreamed of an elephant last night, synchronicity.
Synchronicity or dream of a larger mind 🤔🤷♀️😊
Just a tip for those getting started:
Work with visualization techniques when going to bed, and be patient. Things like musical instruments, fitness routines or anything else that takes time to grow in are no different than this.
Just give it time and keep practicing. Visualization techniques are the best method.
Well, the most important thing is that you believe in your potential to become lucid, I mean really believe in yourself - everyone can lucid dream, and you're not an exception.
Secondly, start practicing your awareness in general, both of your waking life and of your dreams.
Two great ways to do that are to record your dreams with as much detail as possible for some time, and to try being aware of your waking life more than you may usually be.
wow hes amazing
Thing that i like about lucid dreaming is if you are a skeptic then it wont work you usually have to believe it works to do it
Yeah, Stephen LaBerge is serious about this and doesn't delve into drugs and dream limbo and other crap, he treats this topic with respect.
I really like that about him. That’s why I went to a Lucid Dreaming workshop with him. 🥰👍🏻
you can gently disrupt your sleep while you are dreaming and when you wake up, dont move but go to sleep again .. you will mostly enter a similar state as you were before this 'gentle wakefulness', but you will be more aware than before .. lucid dreams (if you have nt mastered it) occur during early mornings .. if you have time, you can set up silent alarms on your phone to disrupt your sleep every couple of hours, and you might just wake up in a dream trying to turn off your alarm :)
Great book!! Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming - I had my first lucid dream about a month ago and since then ive been trying your techniques but i still have not had my second one :( i am persistent; however, and am not going to give up. I can remember dreams a little better now tho. Any tips?
I recently read that our dreams go through different stages every night, which I found consoling as the parts of my dreams I remember are bizarre, if not downright disturbing.
However, I've had many lucid dreams, the most recent of which lasted an entire week It was whilst I had no sensory input at all (motherboard died on my computer and don't have a tv/radio).
Would this lack of external stimuli have been the reason I had such wonderful dreams?
I recently had a regular dream that I was *having* a lucid dream. So my question is this: Was I lucid or not? Serious question.
if you have a lucid dream and decide to "fall asleep" in this lucid dream then the dream will last longer. its explained in many researches .
if you say i was having a regular dream that i was having a lucid dream... you figured out it was a lucid dream . if you were able at this really moment to know it was lucid then it was just a lucid dream. probably coming from a regular one when you fell asleep in it for exemple
I'm cutting-back-to-quit :P Went from a G lasting me a day to about two or three, and I'm not buying anymore, this is it. But just the amount I cut back has let me recall a pretty astonishing amount already. I never thought I'd quit but fuck it LDing is something I never accounted for.
i have a question, i have been dreaming alot lately, and i remember pretty much everything i can remember hehe, its always kinda lucid for me, sometimes i just let the dream pass me by, and sometimes i stop and say "hey this is my dream!" i have so many memories of places and happenings, its like 200000 milions of terabytes literely a eternity. my question is, is it healthy to be remembering so much? and wont it effect my sleeping if i am always lucid in my dreams? i kinda like it =) its nice
same problem. smoked about 3 years. no dream recall whatsoever. stopped smoking for 3 days now. how long did it take for you to get vivid dreams in wich you can detect dreamsigns?? i only have blurry dreams now...
almost had a WILD, i saw a dream world in front of me but my muscles started twiching and i popped out...
I got pissed of from my parents and went to bed. I was having a nightmare i could not scream or stand i fell on the ground and Freddy Kruger was standing right in front of me and was crying and when he laughed i said to my self "WTF i am the pure evil here not you so that makes me stronger" and i realized that i was dreaming.
it might be external stimuli might play a part in it. as soon as i stopped smoking cannabis i started to have tons & tons of dreams, i remember them very clearly to, so much information kinda sick actualy so many dreams i can remember! all the places and stuff. its wicked
yeah me too
heres a question,doyou think its possible to dream about daytime reality checks that passed as reality,i mean memories of reality checks rather than a present one in your present dream,wouldnt that pass as normal?
Haha no problem, keep at it. =D
Also keep in mind that it's important to sleep long enough during the nights, because your best chances to become lucid are a few hours before you would naturally wake up.
8 hours should be enough, because your longest dreams usually take place about 6-7 hours after you have fallen asleep.
Ok, so I could always always remember my dreams when I woke up and througout the day. but as soon as I started to attempt lucid dreaming, my mind completely shuts off my memory of any dream, it freaking sucks!
There's certain drugs out there that help. I take kratom and it makes me lucid about once every week or 2.
how long did it take for you to have vivid dreams again? i have the same problem with weed, and i recently stopped smoking.. plz rply
Thanks for all that
I got half lucid acouple of nights ago, and stayed at an upside down hotel before getting chased by mr smiths :P
the video sometimes wont work good,on some parts so i constantly need to reloded..
i have a lucid dream, but all my dreams are to short, how do i get the longer lucid dreaming?? plizzzz help :))
one question ive googled and not found much info on is,if lucid dreaming is so good(from my minimal experience it is)then why do so few people know it exists?
martin brown. Because its difficult and because not many people are interested.
And it can shift your view of reality. Shamans like that. The average person not so much. There are many different personality types. Many different lives. “When the student is ready the teacher will appear.”
me too ..i get more then one...but still i need to be expert lol why not...i had between 6 to 8 lucid dream....5 of theme i really lucid dream last one i was in sea very deep and swim without brithe ^_^ was really nice...but short ^_^
Does anyone have any working tips for lucid dreaming??
I'v been trying to get lucid for quite some time, but the things im doiing seem to be doing the opposite
Josh read Stephens books
Consider if you will........recurring nightmares
That's adorable chris...but if open that door of perception a little more and you'll see that "astral projection", "spirit walking", "O.B.Es"(which are all fundamentally the same thing) are more similar to lucid dreams than your 'waking dream' is...
forget about dreaming, i just want him to talk about perception. ;)
lol @ 4:00 "Let there be less light."
I've heard that if you rub your hands you will not wake up so early.
I sobered up a month ago and am experiencing the same. To think, as kids, we thought that drugs would help us expand our minds. Such ignorance! lol
Enjoy the lucid dream until the REM period is over.
It really is no different from ordinary dreaming whatsoever, except for the fact that you know you are dreaming.
But if you really want to wake up you could lie on the dream floor and close your eyes, since this makes you feel more close to your physical body in bed.
Stephen needs to update his wardrobe. It looks like he bought that suit in the 90's.
Anyone knows what are these "new technologies" making lucid dreaming much more accessible? I'm guessing some kind of chemical drugs
+balkanmachine i believe there is a mask/goggles that shines a light during certain stages of sleep to help signal you're dreaming and donepizil, which is a drug. Those are the only two I've heard of so far.
+balkanmachine galantamines another one
oke thanks, you mean meditating before going to bed?
That is possible. Some out of body experiences are real enough that common dream tests aren't effective. It's best to have at least two, but on top of that, taking a moment and fully perceiving your surroundings during all of your reality checks will make it far more likely that if you DO perform one in a dream, it will successfully induce lucidity.
How to wake up from a Lucid Dream?
Lahcene Belbachir it will happen by itself. The body will wake up.
haha you know you want one!
dont try swallowing during sp or lucid dreams.
RIPxBlackHawk Why?
it hurts srsly dont try, u cant fully swallow so it has a weird effect that hurts and freaks u out...
r u in sp when u swallow because it paralyzes all of your muscles and u use muscles to swallow so it doesnt work and for me it feels really weird and painfull, but i have lucid dreams almost everyday so im not doing anything wrong
No, that is a direct contradiction in terms!
He had less than 25 minutes of time...why was this set up in such a way?
@martin brown it's not that famous becouse not everybody believes it or doesn't want to learn it so bad. So it won't become famous in that way
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Keep trying. The maidens will appear in your dream. 😂
Yeah but watch out for false awakenings! When you wake up from a LD do a reality check.
STEPHEN LABERGE spent over 20 years in India, learning from the yogis. he never mentions any of the things he learnt in India and blindly plagiarizes shit.
i thought you must know that.
Mustang 1981 what are you talking about. Evidence please. He allready wrote about lucid dreaming in the 80s and never denied old eastern (or old western) knowledge on lucid dreaming.
Every single person in your dreams does that too. I see what you did there. Nice. 🥰 Thanks for being you.