QUOTE(Bio-Mage @ May 3 2006, 06:36 PM) [snapback]1172655[/snapback]
The meditation mumbo jumbo does not work. The lucid dreaming phenomenon is based on rare occurances where your brain does not go to full shutdown when you try to sleep. This can be induced by extreme psychological and physical fatigue although it offers no guarantees. Everything else is self suggestion efforts to replicate lucid dreaming.
Thats not true. I could lucidly dream almost all night everynight at one stage because I became so aware so what reality was. I learned this through practice and I pretty much lived it as much as I could. Anotherwords I thought about wanting to lucidly dream and what I would do etc if I was.. I kept a dream journal ect.. you know.. I really got into the wanting to lucidly dream mode.
What I found worked well for me was I just tested my reality as much as I could whenever I thought about it. By testing your reality you can try impossible actions to see if they are now possible or the easiest way is to read something that is written down and then shut your eyes and then open them to read it again. In a dream the words will always change or go weird or backwards or something.. so if you do this test heaps during the day you find yourself naturally doing it during your dreams. Basically the more you think about if you are dreaming or not, the more you get used to knowing it naturally by heart. I really got into it heaps and did a course on it and I know you can do it whenever you want its just a matter of thinking about it correctly and wanting to.
The only reason you dont ask yourself if your dreaming when your dreaming is because you dont
seriously do it during the day. You must seriously think about it too and not just half heartedly.. otherwise you do it half heartedly during dreams which is not as effective.
Also a more.. short cut way.. is to wait until that time when you know that if you go back to sleep you will enter a dream.. when your at that stage just keep telling yourself you will know when you are dreaming.. keep thinking it as you fall back to sleep and it will be the first thing that you will think of when you enter back into the dream. You will just find yourself standing there like wondering it.
Those two techniques are pretty boss when done well.
Ive even made a lucid technique but you must be able to lucid dream first. What you do is go lucid and then you run on your hands and turn into a wolf. Then if you do that heaps..afterwards.. you find that when you run in normal dreams you do it that way(on your hands thus turning you into wolf)and then that triggers you to go lucid.
So yeah if I run really fast in dreams I run with my hands which Ive done for years now. It triggers me into going lucid and shapeshifting.. but I had to learn to run while lucid first.