Originally posted by keeff
reply to post by deadline527
Deadline527 in your u2u it almost kinda sounded like it could be an out of body experience. do you think that maybe theses are one and the same?
Hookedfish: deadline suggested to me before that i try during the day when ever i remember to ask my self "is this a dream?,, am i dreaming?" to get
into the practice . and eventually,maybe while dreaming i would ask the same thing and realise i was dreaming. at that point you could do as yo
please.
i have lucid dreamed before when i was younger, nothing to fancy just realised i was dreaming and decidided" hey i wanna fly" so i started flying.
but i could never do it on a consistant basis. through the above exersice ihope i can achieve this.
edited to add: i will send more feed back in u2u when i get a chance, with my nephew here not the time or train of thought at the moment.
[edit on 4/13/2008 by keeff]
In my experience, reality checks work the best for people just starting to learn how to lucid dream. After a while, you will start to recognize
certain feelings in the dream that automatically trigger it as well, but you will need to get a few under your belt before that starts to happen.
For me, the majority of them occur usually from a sleep paralysis state. If I wake up in sleep paralysis, I know that I will be able to roll out of my
body, onto the floor, and proceed through my door, wall, ceiling, etc.. to do as I see fit. I dont know why it happens like that for me though. Also,
certain noises let me know when its time to roll out as well - sounds like a train running directly through the room - literally. Now if I find myself
in a state of semi-paralysis and also hear a loud almost rushing sound, or the noise of what I can only describe as a train, then I find it extremely
easy to fall out of my body. This is a lot different then when I am in a dream and become lucid that way, although the end results are still very
similar.
I really do wish I knew why I wake up unable to move, or if I can move, its the slightest bit - physically that is. Although, when in bed and rolling
out of my body, I swear it feels like I am going to fall right off the bed. It really takes some trusting on my part, lol. I usually roll out to my
left side, and its almost like I float to the ground. I dont open my eyes for a few seconds to make sure I am done falling though.
When I do open them, I am usually on my stomach and almost have to "swim" at first. It starts out really awkward but after a few seconds I get
better control and can fly around without much hassle.
Sometimes though, which I hate because it wakes me right up out of bed quicker then you could imagine, is when I get a sensation of falling FAST. Its
like the floor dropped out on me and scares me awake every damn time. I think there may have been maybe once or twice where I was able to stay with it
and not wake up, which resulted in the usual experience, but usually it is scary as hell and jolts me out of bed, lol.
[edit on 13-4-2008 by deadline527]
demons 
Only real thing I have to do is concentrate on a thought while I am
falling asleep. Eventually I start to see "half-dreams" is what I can best describe it as, when you aren't exactly asleep yet, but very close. More
so asleep then you are awake. 
