Introduction:
Lucid Dream: A dream in which the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming while in the dream.
How many people have had a lucid dream?
My Background...
Quesitons / discussions / audience comments welcome
"The journey is most enriched by the traveler who brings the visions of the night, into the light of day."
- Anonymous
“To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.”
- Bernard Edmund
Overview:
- Dreams / consciousness
- How to dream more
- Lucid Dreaming
- Reality Test
- Dream Enhancers
- Questions / Audience Experiences
Sleeping / Dreaming:
Which direction is she spinning?
Dreaming is perception unconstrained by sensory input.
Perception is Dreaming constrained by sensory input.
nature of consciousness (elephant)
"Dreams are real while they last. Can't you say the same about life?"
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Increase dream recall:
- Good night sleep. Good sleep schedule
- Interest level
- dream journel
- Wake up earlly, then go back to sleep
Lucid Dreaming:
- How often, how long.
- common experiences.
- quality of the dream world
- dreams signs, dream spinning.
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
W. Clement Stone
"Do or do not, There is no try." - Yoda
Audience Experiences? questions?
Reality Check:
- text re-reading
- light switches
- floating
Nightmares:
Pre-determine Intentions:
“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
- Lewis Carroll
Dream Enhancers:
Lucid Dreaming in the Media:
- Documentary
- News media
Movies:
waking life,
vanila skys, the matrix, the science of sleep, The good night, Mirror Mask,
