Category: Reality Checking
Dreams with reality checks – tests for the reality of the world around you.
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Dream Initiated Lucid Dream(DILD)
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Pre-Requirements
You need to be able to remember at least one dream/night.
You need to know how to do a reality check.
What is DILD?
Dream initiated lucid dreams are those witch start as normal and turn into lucid dreams after a while, usually after performing a reality check.
For example, you go to sleep, have a normal dream and something triggers the thought : “This is weird, is this a dream?”, and soon you realize that you are actually dreaming.
How does it work?
Our conscious brain is partially shut down while we are sleeping which results in low awareness. We can dream about flying or traveling into the future but most of us won’t even think about the fact that it might just be a dream!
However, most parts of our subconscious remain active and our daily habits are carried over into our dreams. So our goal is to intentionally build a reality checking habit that will be also carried over into our dreams.
3 Steps for Creating a Reality Checking Habit :
1. Choose your reality check triggers
This are the things that will remind you to do a reality check. When choosing your triggers, search in your dream journal and find things that constantly recur. A person? Place? Activity?
If you don’t have a dream journal or you haven’t recorded enough dreams, you can use some general triggers like:
- Going out or in your house
- Being in the bathroom
- Entering your school/workplace
- Each time your wristwatch beeps(hourly)
2. Do a reality check when you see some trigger.
3. Repeat for 21 days to make it a habit
You will probably have your first lucid dream in about a week.
Tips for creating habits:
- Lucid Dreaming Reminder
1. Create notes and hang them on your bathroom door and your main door. Create smaller notes and put them into your wallet or pockets. They will also increase your awareness and remind you that you might really be dreaming.
2. Create symbols – Things that will associate and remind you to reality checking and lucid dreaming. For example you can do a reality check each time you see your cellphone. Or you can find a small rock/coin and name it : The Magical Lucid Dreaming Object and carry it around with you.
Reality Checking
Reality checking consists of 2 parts:
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1. Questioning Reality
2. Reality Check Techniques
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Questioning Reality
Questioning reality simply means asking the question : “Am I dreaming?” or “Is this a dream?”.
It means being aware for the weird things that happen around you and being aware of your
dream triggers. So you need to start questioning the reality around you even when you are totally sure that you are not dreaming.
Why would I question reality if I am totally sure that this is not a dream ?
The spooky fact is that 99.9% of the time when you are dreaming you are actually assuming that you are in the real world. Like, right now, this is weird right ? Is there a chance that this is a dream ? This post might not be real.
That’s what I’m talking about. Now its time to do a reality check.
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Reality Check Techniques
1.The nose check:
- Use your hand to pinch your nose
- Try to breathe in
Do this now. Shut your nose and try to breathe in.
If you end up breathing trough a closed nose, then you are dreaming.
If not, continue reading.
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2.The Hands Reality Check
Start by looking at your hands, now count the fingers on one of your hands, then look away and count them again. Now try to find something weird/out of the ordinary.
When you are in a lucid dream you will actually find something really out of the ordinary, line 10 misshaped fingers
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3.The Reading Check
Look at some text(newspaper/alarm clock digits). Now close your eyes and then look again. If the text changed in any way, you are in a lucid dream.
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4.Jump
Try to jump, if you start floating or you are in the air for abnormal time then you are in a lucid dream.
The 10 Fundamental Lucid Dreaming Questions
I picked the 10 fundamental questions with the intention to give you a clear picture about lucid dreaming. Here they are:
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1. What is lucid dreaming?
It is conscious dreaming, a dream where you know that you are dreaming. Once you are aware you are dreaming you can change your dreams and decide what will happen.
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2. What can you do in a lucid dream?
Well it depends from the level of control and imagination you have and that’s mainly increased with practice.
But don’t worry most starters can fly and have sex 🙂
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3. Why have lucid dreams?
Unimaginable Adventures and Fun.
– Experience your deepest sexual fantasies without having to fight with the constraints of society. 7 tips for better lucid dreaming sex
– Fly high into the clouds
– Go back in dinosaur time and ride a T-rex
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Unlock Creativity
When you are in a lucid dream its really easy to be creative because logical part of your brain is partially shut down. You can use this to ask smart questions and get innovative and creative answers back from your subconscious mind.
This can be very effective for profession like: Artist or Designer
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Self development
– Taking down phobias and nightmares
– Saying goodbye to lost friends or family.
– Having a chat with your subconscious mind and getting to know yourself better.
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Hang out with people from history/celebrities
– Einstein, Alexander the great, Bruce lee
– Your favorite rock band
– Your favorite movie star
– Cartoon characters
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4. How can I have a lucid dream?
There are many methods for entering in the state of lucidness, my favorites are:
- Learn how to induce lucid dreams with the WILD technique for instant results.
- Learn how to have lucid dreams with increasing your intent for lucid dreams.
- Learn how to have lucid dreams by creating a reality checking routine.
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5. What is the best method for lucid dreaming?
Synergy.
All of them are different and good but when you combine more lucid dreaming tactics you will get synergistic results – the sum-result of all parts-methods will be greater than the sum of all individual parts.
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6. How often will I have lucid dreams?
Depends on how much you want to have.
Lucid dreaming is like a muscle, the more you work on it the better it gets. The more dedicated you are to lucid dreaming the faster you will progress.
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7. How often do I Dream?
We have approximately 5 dreams/night but most of them are simply forgotten. People usually confuse not remembering with not having dreams. So if you think that you don’t have dreams you are actually just not remembering them.
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8. How can I remember my dreams?
Dreams are usually stored only in our short term memory and lost few minutes after waking up. The best way to ensure that you will remember what you were dreaming is to access your short term memory immediately after waking up and write it down in your dream journal. To learn more go to : Remembering dreams.
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9. How can I prolong a lucid dream?
You can prolong your dream with using :
- The Palm Rubbing technique
- The Tornado spin technique
- The Focus technique
- The shouting technique
To learn more go to : How to prolong a lucid dream.
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10. How real does a Lucid Dream feel?
Real as reality itself, the feelings are real as in the real world.
Did you know that your body is paralyzed when you sleep? This is a safety mechanism disconnects the mind from the body so you can have a really vivid dream and not kill yourself in the real world.
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I hope that one day everyone will enjoy lucid dreaming and the benefits that come with it. So share this with your friends and give them a chance to give lucid dreaming a chance.
– Alex
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