Greetings Everybody -
First off, I’m VERY happy to see that this has become a Sticky Topic. It was slightly my original intention (thus the name, Lucid Living Topic). As has been discussed, I believe this is the basis of all lucid dreaming and needs to be addressed and talked about by all of us.
Fixos: Thank you SO much for the link. The author has hit on MANY things I firmly believe in. Especially the part about meditation its relation to lucid dreaming. If you haven’t read this yet, I strongly enourage each and everyone on this board to puruse and/or read it.
LL has, essentially, the same goal and results as LL. Meditation is a natural state of being and has been a time-tested method of the discipline of increasing awareness, which has benefits unparalled by any other mental exercise.
One thing that has greatly concerned me is the whole RC regimine. I agree that RCs are essential if not vital to lucid dreaming, but it’s very hard to understand when to do them. That is a whole other topic, but in relation to LL, I find that more and more of my RCs come from the fact that I get that feeling that I might be dreaming. Those who have had LDs can understand the rush you get when you think you might be dreaming (before the BIG rush of realizing you’re dreaming). For example, I see something odd and get that feeling that I might be dreaming, the pit in my stomach. I then perform a FULL reality check (see the link posted by Fixos on what I mean by FULL). This is my goal for RCs. I want to relate my RCs to the actual possibility of dreaming instead of randomness. I still check them randomly, but I want to lessen that and increase my RCs to actual PROVE I’m not dreaming.
I hope that makes sense, but I have been doing consistent reality checks for a year, and until I started practicing LL, I had never actually done one in a dream. I recently have had my first experience of doing a reality check while dreaming. For some people, just doing RCs randomly will help spill over into the nighttime, but not me.
Well, I would be really interested in hearing everyone’s ideas on RCs and LL. Basically what do you think should change about RCs in relation to the LL reality? Anything? Nothing? Everything? Also, for those of you who have seriously delved into this practice, have you noticed an increase in RCs in dreams?
As always, thank you so much for listening and sharing.