Do you believe in it?

Have any of you ever achieved it? How? Do you have a technique that works each time?

Isn't this fringing on the unscientific?

Not sure how much science you can apply to something as poorly understood as dreams. Sure you can do observations and monitoring of brain scans and bio signs while a person sleeps but what they actually percieve is known soley to them. It's not possible to rule out lucid dreaming imo... I read about it briefly and it intrigued me. Apparently people say you can learn to do it at will which is obviosly a thing I'd like to try

Keep reading up on it at night before youfall asleepand keep a journal of your dreams.

Shouldhelp you question your scientific values. smoking-devil

Anything intresting happen?....

Sometimes it sucks waking up and writing stuff down before you fall asleep again or forget but if you can keep itgoing for a month writing down key words you'll get better at it... also helps if you're not stressed and eat healthy as well. If you have like a back problem, a headache, or you're energy levels are bad chakra wise you'll find it tough to control your mind while dreaming. The imbalance drifts your focus.

EG; If you haven't had sex for a while your dream will be dominated by your need for nookie and you won't be able to control it.

To get a lil deep its all about what they call your astral body, what you see as your physical body in your dreams, any blocked energy or imbalance may only effect you slightly on this plane (reality) but the energies arefelt morein your dreams so those imbalances become blockages in your awareness of your astral body.You'll probably have a dream about writingdown your dreams before anything.

Normally people sleep walk in their dreams unaware of themselves, letting their subconsiouss lead them, its that that your are trying to break... as said in BPs thread... its about being consiouss that you are unconsiouss. Being aware that you are in a dream state. There are (apparently) diffrent levels of awareness or realms that you can be in which is in regards to how awake or how deep your sleep is. You can be in what they call real time astral where you fall asleep but your 'dream' is of your surroundings in the real world or you can be in a deeper sleep and find yourself in some abstract place completely yet fully aware of yourself. The adept can shapeshift, travel in real time to diffrent places, walk into photos or pictures like portals to change their surroundings, manifest objects at will, fight astral entitiesand all sorts. Keep it up and I guarentee you'll rethink a few things, it'll give you anew perspective onlife and your surroundings/capabilities.

When/if you do manage to leave your body in your dreams and travel (rather than just be subject to your s.mind in a deep state of trance/sleep), try and get away from your sleeping self... it'll draw you back in or make you feel afraid... any extreme emotion will whip you back into reality.Like when you're falling in your dream waking up at the last second.Things can be so real your physical body has reactions to themthat'll wakeyou up in a start like whip lash. If you have problems you might find that you end up being attacked by some conjuration, some image attachment of that problem in your dream. Kick its ass. Nothing can hurt you, everything is you. If you can realise yourself holding a sword it'll be there, the same way your mindmight attach your consern about your girlfriends slightly odd ways with the image of a giant bug with breasts trying to hug you you can use that same function to protect yourself or make things manifest.

The question now is... if people can control their dreams, what happens when you die?When your physical body expires?

Reccomend; Robert Bruce - Astral Dynamics. For theories on out of body experiences/astral travel/lucid dreaming/remote veiwing(all the same thing).Easterners and us African philosphers mastered it. Puts the europeans to shame. Not to be on a black power type tip. Books like Carlos Castaneda - The teachings of' and others are stories designed to throw you cues to pick up on, to make you dream of things in the story. ?Well weaved flyingrugs? Green women on broomsticks?Right brain learning. R.Bruce and other parapsycologists/spiritualists I've read up on will openly admit it. Certain things are approached from a strictly left brain, locigal, approach whena right brain, abstract, approach is needed.

You'll find R.Bruces theory intresting but get one of C.Castanedas books as well. Him and Don Juan take it all abit deeper.

HTP

RL

I'll try in Febuary when I'm not so busy and a little sleep deprivation won't be so bad

Cool.

Its not as though I actively practice any of this myself,just like reading into the so called paranormallike you this is something I semi studied and tried to do for a while from a scientific (rational) point of veiw.