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Experts in Lucid Dreaming: A Question
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[quote:YouAreDreaming:MV80NzQ1MDA3Xzg2NDYxNjQxXzE4ODkyRjBD] [quote:eveningchaos:MV80NzQ1MDA3Xzg2NDYxMjkzXzQ0MjA5OEIx] The best one I ever had (I might pay good money to have this one again) was a flying dream. I was already flying when I realized I was dreaming and I was downtown about a mile or 2 from my house - flying over the cornfields between my subdivision and town - all of a sudden a thought came to me. I knew I (my body) was asleep on the couch upstairs in the bonus room and I contemplated going inside to look at myself. As I flying I’m literally mulling this thought over - something made me hesitate and then I decided it might freak me out too much so I decided not to. I don’t remember anything after that so I must have woken up. I think the reason I decided against it is because I had always read it was a bad idea to look at yourself in the mirror in a lucid dream (although I have done that since - and yah it’s a lil creepy and distorted, but so are your hands/fingers). I’ve had lucid dreams that were beyond what I could ever describe in this little comment box, but the flying ones are best. I can FEEL the wind, the temperature, I can TASTE food (any kind)...colors are unbelievably vivid. It’s an amazing gift. I don’t have them like I used to - I think I had them more when I was home during the day and slept a LOT (thanks Lunesta). I have them every now and then now but I feel like I’ve kind of lost the fascination with it. Except for the flying ones - I’d give anything to have those more often. You can really train yourself to have more if you have the luxury of a lot of time on your hands but now that I’m working I have other crap to concentrate on. To this day I wonder what it would have been like if I had decided to go inside the house, go upstairs, and look at my own body sleeping [/quote] The nice thing about dreaming is unlike going to the gym where you need to burn 45 minutes to get results, it's a cognitive skill that takes place just before we go to bed, then a bit when we wake up so fitting it into a routine can be very slimmed down for the results that can come. My dream prep is about 15 minutes as I fall asleep, then the review when I wake up but often to busy to write it all down due to career etc. [/quote]
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A little backstory...
Around the age of 16 I had the ability to lucid dream. I don't know all the technical words so I'll just explain it in simple terms. I could think of a subject/place/person, etc before going to sleep & then while asleep with 100% accuracy literally every single time I could tell you where a person was, what they were wearing, what they were doing, what they were going to do etc. I got a little cocky with this talent & started abusing it for personal gain. Long story short, the law got involved & I lost the ability seemingly overnight.
So here's my question: Can I regain this skill or did I f*ck that all up karma-wise? Previously I had the ability without aids such as background noises or whatever people use nowadays to enter that state of mind. I've sworn I'll never abuse that talent again (and I believe talents like this come from God) but I kinda feel like I had my chance & I abused it so He took it from me.
I'd like to hear what the experts in this field have to say about my query. Can I get it back? If so, how?
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