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"Have a lucid dream tonight!" "How to Lucid Dream in Five Minutes!" I would be the first to criticise and clown videos titled as such since I know - from 8 years of experimenting - that lucid dreaming does not work that way. But this morning, I had a lucid dream in about 10-15 minutes. I had only 20 minutes left before I had to get up and get ready for work, I wanted to get just some extra shut-eye because my sleep was messed up by a Series of Unfortunate Events. What I did in that 20 minutes was focus on FALLING ASLEEP. That is really all I was thinking about. I was not thinking about an anchor or what I was going to do in the lucid dream that would follow. My anchor by the way was me alternating between focusing on the breath(meditating) and staring through my eyelids; whichever was more comfortable in the moment. I just made sure my primary focus was falling asleep. I was having powerful hypnagogia until I felt my body able to move. It is like a visualization but more 'real' as in you can feel the senses better in the visualization. I got out of my bed to find a young woman more or less 19 with a white t-shirt and black yoga pants laying in my bed giggling. The ended there. So yeah, I had a 8 second lucid dream. Onward and Upward
Had two lucid dreams this morning. After today, I am taking my lucid dreaming technique to the next level. What I have changed over the last couple of weeks is that I am meditating 30 minute…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
I was sort of depressed that I could not recall any dreams from the night before. I woke up about 6:20 judging how no-one was awake, and I never heard the alarm. 10 minutes pass, then the 6:…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
This is the first time that i have ever inducted lucid dreaming by thought. I do not really know how else to explain it, so ill start from the beginning. So usually i would go to sleep aroun…
the accounts read alike, found by meaning rather than by shared details
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