# Lucid Dreaming **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [June 21, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/lucid-dreaming/263993 "2008-06-21T17:07:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Phenex](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/phenex/32/686_2.png) [@Phenex](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Phenex)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 6:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/lucid-dreaming/263993/21 "2008-06-22T06:45:07Z")
> [@sekasi;2346920](#): > > I know from personal experience that what you’re talking about is something completely different. Having your unconscious being ‘aware’ is definitely not a psychological disorder. There are a myriad of books and resources about lucid dreaming and it’s a phenomenon that is quite real. > [@Anogar;2346978](#): > > There’s a huge difference between whatever mental instability it is that you suffer from and controlled lucid dreaming. :lol: Har Har! Fuhnee! 😛 I’m not saying lucid dreaming isn’t real or that lucid dreaming itself is a disorder of some kind. Whether controlled, induced or natural, there is a very high chance that one could end up being cozy with a psychological disorder. Hypnogogia, cataplexy, sleep paralysis themselves are usually not psychological in nature, as I stated earlier, and are usually experienced by people who are constantly deprived of sleep, the result of which is a start with excessive daytime sleeping and then shifts into more vivid hallucinatory dreams or the so called “lucid dreams”. The induced form of lucid dreaming also makes use of more or less the same logic as people who get into substance abuse. One uses 5-HTP to help bring about such stages in the sleep cycle (which more or less acts like Serotonin or is the active agent that can be assimilated in the blood from Serotonin, if I’m not mistaken because I suck at chemistry). So essentially you’re just funking yourself up in order to a get a “lucid dream”. If that is all you want, I can show you and you prolly know better how to get “visions” for 10 hours non stop. :lol: Better still, painfully deprive yourself of sleep continuously for a couple of months, you’ll see the juices flow and the colors in the air. It might hurt your knee though after some time. :lol: ---
**Author:** ![tpspoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@tpspoons](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tpspoons)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/lucid-dreaming/263993/22 "2008-06-22T11:46:16Z")
[QUOTE=sekasi;2346987]Unfortunately every resource I was adhering to at the time was in Swedish. This was quite a while ago too, almost 10 years. I’d be happy to elaborate in a PM or something if you want though 😉 There’s a couple of other techniques but they all pretty much stem from the same thing, which is furiously repeating something to the extent of making your subconscious react to it as well. It’s pretty tedious and takes a long time but I’ve had quite a couple of clearly lucid dreams in my days and it’s pretty extraordinary. There are different “levels” of lucid dreams as well. Can’t quite remember all the steps but I remember one of the hardest ones is to flip a light switch in your dream and thus make the lights come on. No idea why that would be harder than anything else but… 👼[/QUOTE] they mentioned that in waking life, something about you can’t have sudden light changes, so turning a light switch on/off would not work, I think 😛 ---
**Author:** ![hl1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/hl1/32/849_2.png) [@hl1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hl1)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/lucid-dreaming/263993/23 "2008-06-23T00:31:56Z")
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