So I’m Going to Start Trying to Lucid Dream
This is an archived forum post on my chosen method of lucid dreaming: Wake-Back-to-Bed. To do this, you abruptly wake up 4–5 hours after you’ve fallen asleep, using a soft alarm. You walk around for 10min half awake. Then you go back to sleep, slipping into dreamland more conscious than before. Now you can slip into dreams empowered, lucid.
That’s a collation of methods of lucid dreaming. I’m pretty terrified of people’s accounts of sleep paralysis. At least I was. I started analyzing some old dreams I’d taken notes on and I want to confront those monsters. I also realized while taking the Mandarin Paper 2, which I had studied not at all for, that I’d much rather be enduring sleep paralysis than that. At least in SP you can escape within a few seconds. Paper 2 took an hour.
So disregard the first paragraph, I’ll instead be using Wake Initiated Lucid Dreaming. For which, you maintain consciousness while you fall asleep and immediately slip into lucid dreaming. I’m pretty certain that this is what my grandpa used to lucid dream. He recommended I stare at my hands while I fall asleep. When I enter the Dream I’m supposed to look for my hands ASAP. Once I see them and see that they don’t look like normal (hands never look right in dreams, you can’t read either or speak, because these are recent civilized innovations and your unconscious hasn’t caught up yet (you are dealing with a dark ancient power when you dream; its something that’s older than humanity*, perhaps older than Earth** and the Universe***)), I should instantly snap into conscious agency.
*Dreams are the unconscious and monkeys operate in unconscious. Same for all animals. Humans only created consciousness 4000–10000 years ago.
**Given the theory that DNA and life (which leads to unconscious-dwelling animals) crashlanded here on a meteorite
***life is such a strange thing; why shouldn’t it precede time and space?
