Lucid Dreaming.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I don't wanna fuck around with dreams anyway. At worst case that's basically the same as fucking around with your computers filing mechanism when you have no idea what you're doing.

Yeah, if dreams are your brain's way of taking out the trash, why the fuck would you monkey with it?

Odds are, you'll just wind up with the trashman on strike and your head full of garbage.

It would start leaking out your various orifices in a glompy manner.

It would not look 'smart casual' at all.

My neighbors already make signs against the evil eye when I walk out of my house.  No need to push things.

Um, well, yes...Actually there's a real need to push things.  But not with some pseudo-Zen woo.

[Payne]

I don't wanna fuck around with dreams anyway. At worst case that's basically the same as fucking around with your computers filing mechanism when you have no idea what you're doing.

Yeah, if dreams are your brain's way of taking out the trash, why the fuck would you monkey with it?

Odds are, you'll just wind up with the trashman on strike and your head full of garbage.

It would start leaking out your various orifices in a glompy manner.

It would not look 'smart casual' at all.

My neighbors already make signs against the evil eye when I walk out of my house.  No need to push things.

Um, well, yes...Actually there's a real need to push things.  But not with some pseudo-Zen woo.

"Push things with your truck, not your mind"

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I don't wanna fuck around with dreams anyway. At worst case that's basically the same as fucking around with your computers filing mechanism when you have no idea what you're doing.

Yeah, if dreams are your brain's way of taking out the trash, why the fuck would you monkey with it?

Odds are, you'll just wind up with the trashman on strike and your head full of garbage.

It would start leaking out your various orifices in a glompy manner.

It would not look 'smart casual' at all.

My neighbors already make signs against the evil eye when I walk out of my house.  No need to push things.

Um, well, yes...Actually there's a real need to push things.  But not with some pseudo-Zen woo.

"Push things with your truck, not your mind"

Damn right.

[Bruno]

I wouldn't call it "lucid dreaming" per se, but I have made a conscious change in how I behave in my dreams over the years. I never run from anything in a dream, anymore. If anything fucks with me, I murder it to death. Also, no more falling dreams since I learned that you can't fall if you're holding your breath.

I do still get sleep paralysis accompanied by various boogiemonsters. By the time I'm able to gain control of my limbs to choke the shit out of whatever is in my room, it's always gone. 

Sometimes they come back as soon as I'm asleep again, and I have to get up and punch some walls to let them know I mean business, and that they should get the hell out of my walls.

[Messier Undertree]

The easiest way to induce a lucid dream is to stay awake for 48 hours or more and then sleep for 12 hours or more.

This is also the least healthy way to do it but it has worked for me several times. I wasn't actually trying to lucid dream in those situations but it works.

I've also started to lucid dream during ordinary sleep which might have a lot to do with me having kept a dream diary in the past along with having experienced full control when sleeping after bouts of insomnia.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Anyone practice it.I mean, it's merely a form of entertainment, not some one stop to enlightenment. I usually end up grabbing titties. Which is a bit shallow, I'll be the first to admit. Generally, with this thread, I'm hoping to get some tips on getting something more substantial out of it.

What is it you want to do? I am shitty at sleeping and as a result I find myself lucid dreaming a lot. All you have to do is realize that you're dreaming, and then you can control what happens, which is really useful when your dreams are frequently horrific.

[Odibex Grallspice]

Anyone practice it.I mean, it's merely a form of entertainment, not some one stop to enlightenment. I usually end up grabbing titties. Which is a bit shallow, I'll be the first to admit. Generally, with this thread, I'm hoping to get some tips on getting something more substantial out of it.

What is it you want to do? I am shitty at sleeping and as a result I find myself lucid dreaming a lot. All you have to do is realize that you're dreaming, and then you can control what happens, which is really useful when your dreams are frequently horrific.

I really don't know exactly. That's kind of why I was asking. I really have a lot of respect for the dream world, and was hoping for a more substantial dream experience, I guess. I don't know. I've got the basics of lucid dreaming down and figure about 40% of my dreams are lucid.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Anyone practice it.I mean, it's merely a form of entertainment, not some one stop to enlightenment. I usually end up grabbing titties. Which is a bit shallow, I'll be the first to admit. Generally, with this thread, I'm hoping to get some tips on getting something more substantial out of it.

What is it you want to do? I am shitty at sleeping and as a result I find myself lucid dreaming a lot. All you have to do is realize that you're dreaming, and then you can control what happens, which is really useful when your dreams are frequently horrific.

I really don't know exactly. That's kind of why I was asking. I really have a lot of respect for the dream world, and was hoping for a more substantial dream experience, I guess. I don't know. I've got the basics of lucid dreaming down and figure about 40% of my dreams are lucid.

Do you want more interesting things to happen? Because that might require doing interesting things IRL.

[Odibex Grallspice]

Anyone practice it.I mean, it's merely a form of entertainment, not some one stop to enlightenment. I usually end up grabbing titties. Which is a bit shallow, I'll be the first to admit. Generally, with this thread, I'm hoping to get some tips on getting something more substantial out of it.

What is it you want to do? I am shitty at sleeping and as a result I find myself lucid dreaming a lot. All you have to do is realize that you're dreaming, and then you can control what happens, which is really useful when your dreams are frequently horrific.

I really don't know exactly. That's kind of why I was asking. I really have a lot of respect for the dream world, and was hoping for a more substantial dream experience, I guess. I don't know. I've got the basics of lucid dreaming down and figure about 40% of my dreams are lucid.

Do you want more interesting things to happen? Because that might require doing interesting things IRL.

I'm totally allergic to RL interesting things 

[minuspace]

The levels of interesting in my dreams enjoy an inverse relation to that same quality in waking life?

[Odibex Grallspice]

That would actually make sense to me, as dreams, I think, are designed to give you what you're not getting in life.

[Reginald Ret]

In my experience dreams are for your brain working through the shit your consciousness won't let you work through during the day.
Obidex, I think you are overestimating your worth to reality.

[Odibex Grallspice]

Obidex, I think you are overestimating your worth to reality.

Who could even postulate such a thing? A god maybe.

[carnival]

I'm quite proficient at it, if you have any questions feel free to ask.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Anyone practice it.I mean, it's merely a form of entertainment, not some one stop to enlightenment. I usually end up grabbing titties. Which is a bit shallow, I'll be the first to admit. Generally, with this thread, I'm hoping to get some tips on getting something more substantial out of it.

What is it you want to do? I am shitty at sleeping and as a result I find myself lucid dreaming a lot. All you have to do is realize that you're dreaming, and then you can control what happens, which is really useful when your dreams are frequently horrific.

I really don't know exactly. That's kind of why I was asking. I really have a lot of respect for the dream world, and was hoping for a more substantial dream experience, I guess. I don't know. I've got the basics of lucid dreaming down and figure about 40% of my dreams are lucid.

Do you want more interesting things to happen? Because that might require doing interesting things IRL.

I'm totally allergic to RL interesting things 

Go watch "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and then talk to me.