Helping with the algorithm. I had a very cool experience this morning. I woke up and looked out my window and there was a tree in front of it. The whole tree had purple and white flowers. I didn't think nothing of it and went back to sleep. It was so real that I didn't recognize that it was a dream. I usually do but this one caught me off guard lol.

I’ve had a few rather embarrassing instances of doing this. At times I find it hard to avoid. When that happens, for me personally, telling myself “But what if I’m wrong? That would be incredibly cool!” seems to help me “reset” my thought process. Then I start my reality test again.

@Ben-ve8js

Жыл бұрын

man thats awesome, i will try this

The closet I was to lucid dreaming was around this morning. I was in a dream and then I pinched my nose and I breath right through my nose smoothly, but for some reason my awareness did not improve, just stayed at the level of your average dream After that, I dreamed about you giving tips and that's all I remember. Keep in mind I was trying to lucid dream for a few months now, but around this month I started actually putting the effort. So actual attempts were a month long. And recently I was remembering my dreams for a few days straight, a week ago that wasnt the case.

Yeah, I’m still working on the ability to first question my reality (mental model) instead of trying to explain nonsensical things right away. And yes, this subject does make you really think about perception and sensory input a lot!

What should I comment? Maybe I am dreaming!

What kind of dream am I having?…. Brilliant….Now that makes a lot of sense 👍

I love this video Daniel it’s my favourite, for me it’s absolutely on point probably because I’ve been gradually coming to the point through reflection that all experience is dreamed but you’ve managed to unpick the last knot with “am I dreaming through the senses or memory?”

I've been in the habit of doing reality tests in situations where I can't fully do them, whether that is at a stop light or when listening to people. It's not at the point where I've already made up my mind but it's not taking them seriously either. Previously I was able to get success out of doing tests like these but with the changes in my life recently, these more thrown together tests aren't fully cutting it. Moreover, I've known that the quality has been getting worse but I haven't been able to fully fix them as I know the timing of these tests are important as I have lost a few potential lucids due to not doing them as soon as possible. While I don't have too much to say besides that it was a great video (and that it appears that I do this a lot more than what I would of liked to imagine), these videos for the whole run of 2023 have made me consider changing up what I do in terms of lucid dreaming and my health. I do need to sit with myself (either figuratively or literally (lucid dreaming joke)) and figure out how to rework and problem solve what hasn't been working in both parts. I won't go into details but thank you for the wake up calls!

Thank you for sharing, this is valuable! Definitely have been making that mistake before - and probably am doing it right now, writing this comment .. -, trying to get better at not doing it. I like the switch from "Am I dreaming?" to "What kind of dream am I having?", or, "Which dream am I in?" .. it does make me re-think how I should do my reality tests and also opens new possibilities ..

I was thinking it was gullibility, because if you can be persuaded into thinking everything around you is real, you wouldn't realize you're dreaming. But arrogance is understandably more prone to stop you from realizing that you're dreaming.

the best channel for who want to stick with lucid dreaming

Bedankt❤

@LucidDreamPortal

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Jim, I hugely appreciate it!

@jimvanhall217

Жыл бұрын

@@LucidDreamPortal i can say i always wait for the shock of becoming lucid during a reality check. I also sometimes feel like I'm dreaming if i awake. Real? what is real?🤔

This was honestly mind-opening for me. I've always felt there was something wrong with the way I was doing my reality checks. They were too automatic and shallow, because I was too confident that I was awake. Today I think I made my first REAL reality check, thanks for this video :)

@cyril4046

Жыл бұрын

For how have you been doing it wrong? Me, since 2019 😆

Pre-watch comment! I hope I'm not doing this mistake!

_Feeding the algorithm_

This is precisely how I managed to start lucid dreaming . The ability of believing in impossibility is actually quite important.

You teach as a professional who really knows what he is talking about. I really learn so much from your teaching and insights. Ummm. So good.

Hah, I never really questioned the saying "seeing is believing"! But yeah, this is definitely no the right mind-set for lucid dreaming.

Thank you so much Dan for the amazing videos that you make have a lovely day

This is honestly one of the kost under ratted channels on youtube

Yep, got me bang to rights Guv. To be fair to myself I am improving on that front but as you say a lifetimes habit takes time to break.

can we all appreciate that he manages to convey information in an exciting way ❤

this made me feel better because ive been having dreams that feel very real after I wake up, like memories from yesterday that strongly affect me emotionally. I was honestly starting to feel a bit weird about the defree to which they feel real

I know it’s been 5 months but. I got my first lucid dream from a normal dream, I was going out of my home with a bike and then remembered that my bike needs tires pumped up and did a reality check. I got so shocked that I, for some reason, closed my eyes for too long and woke up. I just started trying to lucid dream and I really home it will work soon! But if not I’ll keep and keep trying.

Thank you so much because you helped understand even more the dreams and specifically the real and the dream world 🙏

Yay that's 2 vids I get to listen to tonight at work can't wait!

Was right on the precipice of this notion. Thank you!

I had a dream about a month ago where I was sitting next to people who were chilling and chatting. I decided to reality test and it worked. I was so shocked instead of the excitement we all usually get. I was shocked due to the fact that the dream was so much like waking life. Since then iv always said to myself that 'yes everything seems normal asif I'm awake, but so was that dream I had'. It really helped me to realise that no matter how 'non dream like' the situation is your in, it could definitely still be a dream. I felt a level of dissociation during this one, which I strangly like. Thanks again for a brilliant video keep em coming 😁🙂 Imagine a non member watching this video and starting it at 3:29 🤣

It's FUNDUMENTAL!! Like so many of things you share with us.

You are totally right!!!

Let me guess? Not being honest with yourself?

I had quite an interesting occurrence in a dream this morning. I thought I was lucid, but when my dog was asking to be let outside, I was so sure that it was occurring in the real world that I didn't even think to question it. I transitioned from knowing I was dreaming to thinking I was in the real world, and once I entered this "real world" I did not find it weird that I had went there directly from a dream.

I approach my reality test like a hypothesis I have to prove. My hypothesis is that I'm awake, but I have to prove it to myself before I can accept it as the truth. By studying my environment, feelings, short term memory, and doing a test or two. But maybe this is not the right way to go about it..

@LucidDreamPortal

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely the perfect way to go about it. Spot on!

Very helpful and good information👍

Thank you, Daniel ❤

@LucidDreamPortal

8 ай бұрын

Thank you RainisaurusRox, I really appreciate your support - you're genuinely helping to keep this channel alive, so thank you!!

This one is SUPER!!!

I find doing reality tests to be quite tedious most of the time. I don't daydream nearly as often as I'd do before I started lucid practices. It's only when something bizarre happens that I feel motivated to do a test. I often forget to do a test in the moment of a surge of emotion, usually a few minutes late. But even so, I can still achieve lucidity when I try, which, unfortunately, has only been about three times per month.

If my first lucid dream, I was sure I was in a dream and I was right, I think though it was a 1 time thing

I love your sense of humour

@poseidon1800

Жыл бұрын

“I’d be American” lol 💀

My first superthanks this video is worth it❤I was using oposite reality check from tibetan yoga so I was close but I remake it little bit instead of answering is this a dream? I told to myself this IS a dream and try to prove it isnt...i really try to feel like in a dream but no didnt work so well Tibetian yoga:just feel and stop your mind and tell yourself more times a day this is a dream realy feel it... not for me In the past I was anger to tell myself this is reality when I knew it isnt because this isnt so real as we think Especialy when you read buddhist books..you understand that nothing is as real as it appears This video helped me a lot to put last part of mosaic how to do it right

Oh man Daniel I just had probably my best lucid dream so far. It was in a morning nap and I was probably lucid for at least 25 minutes. It was one of the craziest experiences ever. Everything cool I've ever done or seen in a dream had some form in that. What's crazy is I didn't even try a ton of dream manipulation; I was just focused on senses and experiencing the dream. Also very high thinking level so I made great use of the time. I did start to slip near the end and irrationally concluded my alarm was going off when I didn't set one, leading to a false awakening. But even the false awakening led to one scene that was super memorable

@LucidDreamPortal

Жыл бұрын

Oh brilliant Samuel, well done!!! Those morning naps are an absolute gold mine for lucidity, I'm glad it's paying off for you. Thanks for sharing, I love hearing success stories like this!

Thanks

@LucidDreamPortal

Жыл бұрын

Alpha you're an absolute star, than you so much! - And I hope they offer a little distraction from work! (what is it you do if you don't mind me asking?)

@MALLEN22DRUM

Жыл бұрын

@Lucid Dream Portal I'm a support worker for the special needs. At night when everyone's sleeping I have plenty of time to write down dreams and listen to wkd podcasts 🙂

This week i got a dream about having a lucid dream twice and it was super weird

Hello, Yes this is a huge problem for me. Even when I sometimes remember doing a reality check I am often so sure that I am awake, that I do it halfhearted.

about mental models, there's interesting hypotheses in science that space and time are constructs of our minds. this is already the case with color. because what is light, just persistent fluctuations in the electric and magnetic fields. color is the way our eyes detect these fluctuations - without brains, there is no color, just fluctuations in fields. what if time is just our way of breaking down some sort of 5-dimensional object we live in, because we can't experience it simultaneously? point is "you could be wrong", a quote from another of your videos, is the penultimate question for discovering the truth of reality

Thanks!

@LucidDreamPortal

7 ай бұрын

Thanks pbrown, I really appreciate your support. Stay lucid! 👽

Yet, when dreaming, i still fail to question reality when doing something as ludicrous as fighting zombies with Jordan Peterson and hiding from zombies with chibi robots inside a lamppost that is bigger on the inside...

I made two ridiculous excuses in a dream this morning. I was in my old apartment and I was worried my landlord would be upset with the mess I made. And then I saw my upstairs neighbor. Trouble is both of them are dead for a few years now. What an idiot I am in my dreams. I even noted that my neighbor was dead and then I made the excuse it was all a misunderstanding. But at least I got lucid later.

Thanks for your help 😊 Your awesome

@LucidDreamPortal

Жыл бұрын

Happy to help! (and thank you!)

This video is very thought-provoking, really amazing, even if you're not trying to learn how to lucid dream.

about that "Dream Shock"... i had a dream this past week about me getting lucid but i wrote in my journal that it was Fake Lucidity. i watched a youtube years and years ago talking about Lucid Layers and i believe i can say i was Lucid for one second or two and i think that youtuber (i forgot who it was or what know lucid tuber it was though) talked about layers and i felt like it was a Layer Zero Lucidity. where i dont get fully aware i'm dreaming but i feel like i Did think i was dreaming. immediately i went berzerk and tried to do fun stuff but the slightest movements got me into a False Awakening were more crazy shit happened but i was never lucid again. woke up for real, and wrote about the "Fake Lucid Dream" but i believe i was just Layer zero (knowing your dreaming but like you said in the video, beeing shocked that you'r dreaming and waking up, but when I wake up in lucid state i always end up in a False Awakening). the dream when i got lucid got pretty broken and the colors melted, it was like the whole world fell appart when i was realizing i was dreaming. and most of the time i wake up in another dream. but if i'm lucid and end up getting nonlucid after a couple of minutes i wake up normaly in real life. any answers as to why i get so many False Awakenings when waking up in Lucid State?! and how can i battle this?! i find False Awakenings realy scary and always waking up in real life but very disoriented and scared and confused.

@LucidDreamPortal

Жыл бұрын

I'd ignore the "layers of lucidity" concept, consciousness is far too complex and personal to categorize in such a way. Think of the brain as a city, with a huge number of different working parts and areas - all of which could be online or offline during REM. It becomes near impossible to simplify that into layers, as there are too many variables to account for. False awakenings are really common after lucidity, our expectation is that we're going to wake up, and therefore we're essentially performing inadvertent dream control and shifting the entire dream scene to what we expect. This is why it is vital to always perform a reality test immediately after waking up.

"Reality is an illusion" -Bill Cipher

really useful!!

Hi Daniel I have a question is it possible to turn a false awakening to a lucid dream 😊

@LucidDreamPortal

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely, false awakenings are a great way to lucid dream - this is why you should always reality test when you wake up

@luciddreamingfreak

Жыл бұрын

@Lucid Dream Portal yeah I was thinking the same doing reality check whenever I wake up

@netabolt6546

Жыл бұрын

to me its the opposite way. if i'm getting lucid and getting too excited i wake up in a False Awakening, than i dont get lucid anymore. its annoying and scary and feels like getting stuck. when waking up from those False Awakes (not always due to Lucid Dreaming though) i'm always confused and a bit scared.

This really is one of those incredibly fascinating videos I NEED to share, Daniel !! Very clearly explained and appealing to the ones for whom lucid dreaming is calling them for the right reasons ! Thank you so much !!

Is this a dream based on sensory input (awake) ⇿ Or is this a dream based on memory/imagination (asleep). I need to question my reality or the mental model I am using right now ⇿ A true reality test ⇿ is it based on sensory input or is it based on memory/imagination. The mental model is either sensory or memory/imagination. Which mental model employed is the defining/definitive question of a genuine reality test?

@LucidDreamPortal

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. We humans only every experience the "virtual reality" created by our minds. It can be sensory, memory, or a hybrid of the two (hallucinatory states). The sensory state model, when functioning correctly, is bound by the information our senses provide so is more stable, whereas the memory/imagination model is a world built on the nature of mind alone. The curious thing is, that as you delve deeper into this, you start to notice how even the sensory state model is very much a creative interpretation. It's a fun journey, and this aspect of lucid dreaming is (in my opinion) among the most fascinating.

@robertsterler7091

Жыл бұрын

@@LucidDreamPortal So, last night I woke up in the middle of my night, thinking about the mental model as sensory and/or memory/imagination. I was half asleep and half awake - so I used my voice recorder for the following thoughts over 40 minutes or so: 3:42 am - there is a subtlety to reality testing that involves temporal awareness. Whether or not the test is triggered by regained awareness or maintained awareness - and the ever shifting consciousness of perspective awareness or perspective memory which can shift almost instantaneously between maintained and regained awareness. There is a subtle difference which we try and apprehend in configuring/understanding our consciousness. 3:49 am - When we are consciously aware/awake - the sub-conscious does not go away. It is still present and vice-versa. When the sub-conscious is the primarily mental state, the conscious mind does not disappear. They both exist simultaneously and there is a connection between regained and maintained awareness of both the conscious and sub-conscious mind. 3:51 am - the trick is to use a prescriptive memory to understand the relationship between conscious and sub-conscious. The mental model of where we exist in the temporal realm of existence. 3:57 am - prescriptive memory is an intentional desire/wish in our awareness of our memory. It is a memory desire to regain our intention/volition, our purpose of a specific goal. It is a memory goal or memory token with intention. A memory of our volition. A desire to manifest a certain memory or behavior or disposition. Prescriptive memory is regained memory of a desire/wish/intention. 4:00 am - The most profound prescriptive memory is that of love. We want, wish for and desire love more than anything in the universe. We regain a self-love or love of another with prescriptive memory. Once we regain self-love, it can shift to maintained awareness. The same is true for love of another. However, we rely upon prescriptive memory, first, to remind ourselves that we love ourselves; before we can maintain this awareness. Prescriptive memory is a feature/characteristic of consciousness - it reminds us we have volition. Without volition there is no possibility of love. Volition and love are two sides of the same coin. 4:04 am - There is uncertainty in our self-love. Our self-love shifts between worthiness and unworthiness. This is also related to maintained and regained awareness. Feelings of unworthiness is associated with all of humanity. We are part of humanity and it presents a picture to us, in part, of unworthiness which is shameful throughout all human history. Everyday, every moment we feel/experience the sins of our species. 4:18 am - Self-love is related to the unworthiness of humanity because we are part of what has manifested. It reminds me of the Rolling Stones song - Sympathy For The Devil. We are unworthy because all humanity is unworthy. It is a dilemma that never goes away. We are in a never-ending fight to prove our worthiness to ourselves and for all humanity. This is at the essence of regained and maintained awareness. Our prescriptive memory is used to regain self-love and then to maintain self-love. 4:23 am - We flitter between self-love and rejection constantly. The shadow never leaves us. Doubt never leaves us. We are wrapped in this dilemma and we take this conflict to the Bardo. The Bardo is not some future event, the Bardo is now - “to be or not to be’. 4:28 am - To maintain our self-love and love of humanity, we must find our compassion for ourselves.

Thanks for this video Thanks for the ballerina 😉 And thanks for suggesting that we write out a mission statement! I've just done mine and it was incredibly insightful 😊 (Oh and thanks for starting your next book - warning, mum moment incoming - don't work too hard 😬)

@LucidDreamPortal

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Aeowyn! (as always hugely appreciated) I'm glad you found the mission statement idea useful, sometimes these little practical practices can be way more insightful than we'd imagine. And "mum moment" taken onboard 😂, I'll make sure for moments to recharge! (fortunately the springtime forces that... the urge to be out in nature becomes impossible to ignore)

@Aeowyn23

Жыл бұрын

@@LucidDreamPortal yes indeed Happy Equinox

I think I'm going to try asking "is my mental model externally based or internally based?"

Niice thank you

So if I have a very bad memory, does that mean my chances of lucid dreaming are slim, having said that I’ve been trying for 6 months now , was able to just realising that I’m dreaming, start flying, get exited and wake up. This happened 3 times in the last 6 months.

I don't really understand what you tell in a video, maybe I need to watch more times but can you give me an example of how do to a reality check in this "correct" way?

@LucidDreamPortal

Жыл бұрын

There are various tutorials here on the channel, take a look around and you'll find that and much more :)

Another great video.

I tried lucid dreaming for like almost 3 years now I only had 2 decent lds I had lots but they're bad because some of them immediately loses lucidity or the dream as I became lucid or my awareness is low which also leads to losing lucidity My 2nd Decent LD is just like 2 days ago, and in that ld I had mid awareness and by awareness I meant is how much memories or sense of self I retain entering a dream or an ld Which is in my 2nd decent ld, I remember what my goals are but I really dont act too much like myself, Its like despite me knowing its a dream, doing some of my old dream goals I still feel like im on a autopilot not that different to a normal dream, the only thing that stands out in my ld is that they are more vivid than normal and lasts longer in my memories, unlike in normal dreams where mostly in a week I would remember none, in those 2 years and almost turning 3 years of being into ld, I had cycle of going back and giving up. Do you know what things im lacking? (I relate to the video through I sometimes think Im in the real world and does reality check just because I had to do it not because Im really questioning what state of consciousness am I in right of those moments ) And one more question, I already heard from others that lucid dreaming "feels" real, but what I wanted in all those years chasing ld is that Im capable of to get the feeling of "me being there in the dream" not some autopilot or script to follow, based on your experience. Were you able to act, think, decide the same as you do in the waking world/real life? or whatever you call it

Ďakujeme.

@LucidDreamPortal

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Michal! Your support is really appreciated. And that's a great approach, it's similar to what I shared in my book "Are You Dreaming?". There is a lot of crossover between lucid dream training and many Buddhist practices (also Daoist and other traditions too!) The nature of mind is a very curious landscape, and one that is full of very convincing illusions. We need to be vigilant that do not fall for our own illusions!

I had a lucid dream last week but it was kind of unusual. I basically entered the dream lucid. I did not do WBTB, it was during my night's sleep. I immediately knew I was in a dream and it was very stable. Is this normal? And then the second I thought about waking up I did indeed wake up.

Daniel Love not American confirmed

About 8 years ago i had a very weird dream I was naked except for a tee shirt I was wearing I entered a diner kind of 1950's style so here I am ordering a milk shake tugging down on my shirt to cover my thing thinking I really don't want to be hear this is embarassing but everyone was acting like everything was fine next thing I know I'm in a field still tuging on my shirt but nobody was there then I say wait a minute this has got to be a dream and woke up laughing. And then when i was tenish I had a nightmare where I opened my bedroom door and this monster got me I screamed and woke up opened the door and a monster got me again woke and it happened one more time a woke one last time slung the door open and kick as hard as I could unfortunately this time my dad was behind the door and I had kicked him hard in the groin. Oops. Explained about the recurring nightmare apologized and he went back to bed and I never had that dream again.

4:34

You are dreaming right now, wake up

It's very intereting and I like how you explain but I didn't understand how do a reality test. Could you explain to me, please ? PS : Sorry for the mistakes, I'm french.

@LucidDreamPortal

Жыл бұрын

You can find some video tutorials in other videos on the channel :)

Hi Daniel. Ive just started lucid dreaming and only had 1 before this week. I had three lucid dreams this week. The first lucid I could feel some graying of my vision and I could feel the dream falling apart. The last 2, I my lucid dream just goes black instantly and I wake up. This happens well after I am lucid and I don't feel the dream fall apart, it just stops. My average lucid dream time is around 5 - 8 mins. What should I do for the abrupt stops with no signs of losing lucidity?

@LucidDreamPortal

Жыл бұрын

This is quite normal, especially for beginners. It sounds like you reached the end of REM, so in those cases there's not much that can really be done - it's just the natural time limit on the dream. The length should improve over time, as you'll start to get lucid closer to the start of REM (it's common for beginners to get lucid nearer the end of REM).

Know something from the Vedantic philosophy?

@LucidDreamPortal

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely, bug similar ideas can be found throughout many philosophical models :)

@caioferreiraperes5864

Жыл бұрын

@@LucidDreamPortal this video reminded my of the Vedantic idea that consciousness is the origin of everything and that really there's not a external reality

@iwannapayback

Жыл бұрын

@@LucidDreamPortal I´d say that Advaita Vedanta takes things too far in advocating some sort of absolute idealism. At least in Shankara´s model, there is not even the question of primacy of mind over matter as there is really only one substance (mental). I find it more useful to look into some Buddhist philosophical schools, mainly some types of Yogachara. Their approach could be called epistemological idealism rather than ontological one. In Asanga, for instance, the existence of matter is not really disputed, but it is said that it can never be known. This is also why it is said here that there are no external objects - at least not in any way that would allow for relevant discussion. Objects can only be conceived as "of/inside the mind" - every consciousness appropriates and interprets them for itself, and therefore they cannot possess an inherently objective existence. Exactly as was said in the video, the mind constantly fabricates reality, even if we think it does not. In this sense everything is indeed mind, there is nothing outside of mind that could be talked of in any relevant way.

all of your videos are quality

"What kind of 'reality' am I in, right now?" "What kind of 'awake' am I experiencing right now?" With a touch of Chuang Tzu's butterfly?

Thanks!

@LucidDreamPortal

Жыл бұрын

Than you Michael, I really appreciate your support. Stay lucid!