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 Lucis Elucidations is a set of cards that extend the [[lucid_dreaming_implementation|Lucid Peninsula]] installation in unexpected directions. The cards are based on processes, ideas and dreams that emerged in the development of the physical narrative. They contain instructions or suggestions designed to be used in a range of settings - from sidewalks and parks to kitchens or bedrooms. The cards enable the players to re-create different aspects of the story, the creative process or the experience of lucid dreaming beyond the walls of the exhibition. Lucis Elucidations is a set of cards that extend the [[lucid_dreaming_implementation|Lucid Peninsula]] installation in unexpected directions. The cards are based on processes, ideas and dreams that emerged in the development of the physical narrative. They contain instructions or suggestions designed to be used in a range of settings - from sidewalks and parks to kitchens or bedrooms. The cards enable the players to re-create different aspects of the story, the creative process or the experience of lucid dreaming beyond the walls of the exhibition.
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 +Download printable cards {{:future_fabulators:lucid-elucidations-cards.pdf|here}} (dimensions: 84x55mm)
  
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 +  - Look at your hands and feet. Are they the familiar shape? Do you have the right number of digits on each appendage? Look at one hand and one foot at a time for about a minute. Do you see anything changing?
 +  - Find a mirror. What does your reflection look like? If your body image strikes you as unexpected or unusual in some way, you are either dreaming or have seen through the illusion of your ideal self.
 +  - Try jumping on the spot. Can you jump over the moon or sustain a jump for an unusually long time and levitate? If not, go to sleep and try again.
 +  - If it seems you’ve gained supernatural abilities, it’s likely you’re not awake. Try performing a few checks to be certain: have you taken drugs or been poisoned? Are you an accident victim? Are you hallucinating? Could you be suffering from concussion or some other injury?
 +  - Can you remember why you’re here, how you arrived, or what happened an hour ago? Rewind the past hour in your mind’s eye. If you find memory gaps, or the linear flow of time seems disrupted, you might be dreaming. Practice time winding and unwinding: slow down to glacial time, or speed up to the duration of a dragonfly’s lifespan.
 +  - If the physical world appears more malleable than you are used to and you are aware of it, you are likely to be dreaming. Feel free to mould reality as you see fit.
 +  - While walking through the city, try reading anything you lay eyes on. Turn away and repeat it to yourself, then turn back and read it again. Do this twice. Do the sentences change when you read them twice?
 +  - If repeating the same action over and over changes your understanding of the world, you are probably creating your own reality. Stories within stories within stories. In this case, sit back, relax and enjoy the world of your own making.
 +  - As you are falling asleep, hold the suggestion in your mind that you will have a lucid dream in the near future. You can use a mantra such as “I will know that I’m dreaming”. Don’t try too hard. Sleep well and see you on the other side.
 +  - While sitting or standing in a moving vehicle, silently repeat a short mantra, such as: “When I’m dreaming, I will remember I’m dreaming”. Imagine yourself in a dream you’ve had recently, but this time you recognise that you are dreaming.
 +  - Try switching your attention constantly. Images and sounds should start to emerge on their own, gradually becoming very strange and illogical. You are now entering your own dream and can quickly become lucid. It might feel like being flipped upside down, spun around, or tugged by an outside force. You can expect strange auditory hallucinations, dark beings, or flying sensations.
 +  - “All phenomenal experience is a dream. Dream is only one type of illusion. Wakefulness is another.” Repeat these sentences as a mantra for one day. Observe how your experience of the world changes.
 +  - Try living your life for one day while meditating on physical reality as an illusion. Begin by contemplating the question, “Who is aware?” Continue to visualise the whole universe as it arises and dissolves like a mirage, an echo, or a city in the clouds.
 +  - Hold your breath while walking through the city until you see a plant. Go up to the plant and breathe deeply a few times. Then move on without breathing until you see another plant. Drift through the city from plant to plant, breathing only when you’re in close proximity to one.
 +  - As you draw this card it will transform itself into a box. Give the box to someone nearby and suggest they reach inside. Ask them to describe what’s in the box. As they describe its contents, the box transforms and empties, ready to be passed on to someone else. Repeat.
 +  - Look through a window and contemplate any geometrical patterns outside. Shift your attention to plant forms. Finally, focus on anything that moves. Now sit down, close your eyes and blend your visual impressions into a creature made of geometry, greenery and movement. Welcome to the Lucid Peninsula.
  
-<del>The first step in lucid dreaming is to open your awareness. Observe your thoughts and feelings as they ebb and flow across in your consciousness. Let them rise and dissolve as waves in the vast ocean of awareness, without grasping.</del>  +=== Discarded ===
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-Look at your hands and feet. Are they the familiar shape? Do you have the right number of digits on each appendage? Look at one hand and one foot at a time for about a minute. Do you see anything changing? +
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-Find a mirror. What does your reflection look like? If your body image strikes you as unexpected or unusual in some way, you are either dreaming or have seen through the illusion of your ideal self. +
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-<del>Look at the ground beneath your feet. Does it look normal to you? What happens if you walk on it? Try and take 10 steps with your eyes closed. Then retrace your steps with your eyes open. What do you notice?</del> +
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-Try jumping on the spot. Can you jump over the moon or sustain a jump for an unusually long time and levitate? If not, go to sleep and try again. +
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-If it seems you’ve gained supernatural abilities, it’s likely you’re not awake. Try performing a few checks to be certain: have you taken drugs or been poisoned? Are you an accident victim? Are you hallucinating? Could you be suffering from concussion or some other injury? +
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-Can you remember why you’re here, how you arrived, or what happened an hour ago? Rewind the past hour in your mind’s eye. If you find memory gaps, or the linear flow of time seems disrupted, you might be dreaming. Practice time winding and unwinding: slow down to glacial time, or speed up to the duration of a dragonfly’s lifespan. +
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-If the physical world appears more malleable than you are used to and you are aware of it, you are likely to be dreaming. Feel free to mould reality as you see fit. +
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-While walking through the city, try reading anything you lay eyes on. Turn away and repeat it to yourself, then turn back and read it again. Do this twice. Do the sentences change when you read them twice? +
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-If repeating the same action over and over changes your understanding of the world, you are probably creating your own reality. Stories within stories within stories. In this case, sit back, relax and enjoy the world of your own making.+
  
 +<del>The first step in lucid dreaming is to open your awareness. Observe your thoughts and feelings as they ebb and flow across in your consciousness. Let them rise and dissolve as waves in the vast ocean of awareness, without grasping.</del>
  
 <del>Find a secluded spot. Make yourself comfortable, close your eyes, focus on your breath. Keep your eyes closed and look around: what can you smell, touch, hear, see, taste?</del> <del>Find a secluded spot. Make yourself comfortable, close your eyes, focus on your breath. Keep your eyes closed and look around: what can you smell, touch, hear, see, taste?</del>
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-As you are falling asleep, hold the suggestion in your mind that you will have a lucid dream in the near future. You can use a mantra such as “I will know that I’m dreaming”. Don’t try too hard. Sleep well and see you on the other side. 
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-While sitting or standing in a moving vehicle, silently repeat a short mantra, such as: “When I’m dreaming, I will remember I’m dreaming”. Imagine yourself in a dream you’ve had recently, but this time you recognise that you are dreaming. 
  
 <del>Lie down, focus on your breathing. Feel the air as it passes through your nostrils and into your lungs and belly. After a few minutes visualise yourself breathing through your “third eye” in the centre of your forehead. In and out, in and out, until you fall asleep and begin lucid dreaming.</del> <del>Lie down, focus on your breathing. Feel the air as it passes through your nostrils and into your lungs and belly. After a few minutes visualise yourself breathing through your “third eye” in the centre of your forehead. In and out, in and out, until you fall asleep and begin lucid dreaming.</del>
  
-Try switching your attention constantly. Images and sounds should start to emerge on their own, gradually becoming very strange and illogical. You are now entering your own dream and can quickly become lucid. It might feel like being flipped upside down, spun around, or tugged by an outside force. You can expect strange auditory hallucinations, dark beings, or flying sensations.+<del>Look at the ground beneath your feet. Does it look normal to you? What happens if you walk on it? Try and take 10 steps with your eyes closed. Then retrace your steps with your eyes open. What do you notice?</del>
  
-“All phenomenal experience is a dream. Dream is only one type of illusion. Wakefulness is another.” Repeat these sentences as a mantra for one day. Observe how your experience of the world changes. 
  
-Try living your life for one day while meditating on physical reality as an illusion. Begin by contemplating the question, “Who is aware?” Continue to visualise the whole universe as it arises and dissolves like a mirage, an echo, or a city in the clouds.+=== Drafts ===
  
-Hold your breath while walking through the city until you see a plant. Go up to the plant and breathe deeply a few times. Then move on without breathing until you see another plant. Drift through the city from plant to plant, breathing only when you’re in close proximity to one.+Imagine what it might be like to live in a world where the air outside is unbreathable.
  
-As you draw this card it will transform itself into a box. Give the box to someone nearby and suggest they reach inside. Ask them to describe what’s in the box. As they describe its contents, the box transforms and empties, ready to be passed on to someone else. Repeat.+Pick a destination you want to reach (your home, a bar, a park…). As you step outside, hold your breath as long as you can and keep walking. When you need to breathe again, step inside the nearest building. Only take a breath when you are indoors. Breathe deeply a few times then go outside again and continue walking until you run out of breath. Repeat until you reach your destination.
  
-Look through a window and contemplate any geometrical patterns outside. Shift your attention to plant forms. Finally, focus on anything that moves. Now sit down, close your eyes and blend your visual impressions into a creature made of geometry, greenery and movement. Welcome to the Lucid Peninsula. 
  
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-Imagine what it might be like to live in a world where the air outside is unbreathable. 
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-Pick a destination you want to reach (your home, a bar, a park…). As you step outside, hold your breath as long as you can and keep walking. When you need to breathe again, step inside the nearest building. Only take a breath when you are indoors. Breathe deeply a few times then go outside again and continue walking until you run out of breath. Repeat until you reach your destination. 
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 Imagine a world where you must surround yourself with plants to be able to breathe. Imagine a world where you must surround yourself with plants to be able to breathe.
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 Task C: Offer air-purifying plants to your loved ones. Task C: Offer air-purifying plants to your loved ones.
  
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 Meditative exercise: Broadening awareness Meditative exercise: Broadening awareness
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 The first step in lucid dreaming is to open your awareness. You can do this through meditation. Imagine your attention is like a flashlight. Focus it into a narrow beam illuminating only your breath. Then broaden it to include your whole body, then the room you are in and its objects and sounds. Broaden your attention to embrace your thoughts and feelings and finally encompass everything around you, near and far, and feel your self dissolving, ebbing in and out of existence… The first step in lucid dreaming is to open your awareness. You can do this through meditation. Imagine your attention is like a flashlight. Focus it into a narrow beam illuminating only your breath. Then broaden it to include your whole body, then the room you are in and its objects and sounds. Broaden your attention to embrace your thoughts and feelings and finally encompass everything around you, near and far, and feel your self dissolving, ebbing in and out of existence…
  
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 Reality Check: Dream body Reality Check: Dream body
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 Try to find a mirror. What does your reflection look like in the mirror? If your body image strikes you as unexpected or unusual in some way, you are either dreaming or have seen through the illusion of your ideal self. Try to find a mirror. What does your reflection look like in the mirror? If your body image strikes you as unexpected or unusual in some way, you are either dreaming or have seen through the illusion of your ideal self.
  
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 Reality Check: Dream physics Reality Check: Dream physics
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 If you appear to have gained supernatural abilities, you are most likely not awake. However, it might be worth performing a few other checks: have you taken drugs or have you been poisoned? Are you an accident victim? Are you hallucinating? Might you be suffering from concussion or some other injury? If you appear to have gained supernatural abilities, you are most likely not awake. However, it might be worth performing a few other checks: have you taken drugs or have you been poisoned? Are you an accident victim? Are you hallucinating? Might you be suffering from concussion or some other injury?
  
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 Reality Check: Where are you? Reality Check: Where are you?
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 If the physical world appears more malleable than you are used to and you are aware of it, you are likely to be lucid dreaming. Feel free to change the world as you see fit. If the physical world appears more malleable than you are used to and you are aware of it, you are likely to be lucid dreaming. Feel free to change the world as you see fit.
  
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 Reality Check: Comprehension Reality Check: Comprehension
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 If repetition changes your comprehension, you are likely to be creating your own reality. Stories within stories within stories. In this case, attempt to sit back, relax and enjoy. If repetition changes your comprehension, you are likely to be creating your own reality. Stories within stories within stories. In this case, attempt to sit back, relax and enjoy.
  
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 The world behind your eyelids The world behind your eyelids
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 Breathe in the world behind your eyelids. Then slowly open your eyes and come back. Breathe in the world behind your eyelids. Then slowly open your eyes and come back.
  
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 Imagine what it would be like to live on the Lucid Peninsula.  Imagine what it would be like to live on the Lucid Peninsula. 
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 Visualise this dream slowly three times, to make sure that you know every detail. Then visualise the dream over and over. You should visualise the dream as though you are looking through your own eyes, not from a third-person perspective. If you find your thoughts drifting, ignore them and continue to visualise the dream continuously. Be patient and remember to thank your friend before going through the door. Visualise this dream slowly three times, to make sure that you know every detail. Then visualise the dream over and over. You should visualise the dream as though you are looking through your own eyes, not from a third-person perspective. If you find your thoughts drifting, ignore them and continue to visualise the dream continuously. Be patient and remember to thank your friend before going through the door.
  
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 Auto Suggestion Auto Suggestion
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 As you are falling asleep, suggest to yourself that you will have a lucid dream in the near future. You can use a mantra, such as “I will know that I’m dreaming”. Don’t try too hard. Let yourself think expectantly about the lucid dream you are about to have, but be patient if you don’t get one right away. As you are falling asleep, suggest to yourself that you will have a lucid dream in the near future. You can use a mantra, such as “I will know that I’m dreaming”. Don’t try too hard. Let yourself think expectantly about the lucid dream you are about to have, but be patient if you don’t get one right away.
  
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 Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams
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 As you are falling asleep, concentrate on your intention to recognise that you are dreaming. Silently repeat a short mantra, such as “When I’m dreaming, I will remember I’m dreaming”. Imagine that you are back in a dream you’ve had recently, but this time you recognise that you are dreaming. Keep repeating and visualising the mantra until you are sure that your intention is set in your mind or you fall asleep.  As you are falling asleep, concentrate on your intention to recognise that you are dreaming. Silently repeat a short mantra, such as “When I’m dreaming, I will remember I’m dreaming”. Imagine that you are back in a dream you’ve had recently, but this time you recognise that you are dreaming. Keep repeating and visualising the mantra until you are sure that your intention is set in your mind or you fall asleep. 
  
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 “With intangible breath in center of forehead, as this reaches heart at the moment of sleep, have direction over dreams and over death itself.” -Parvati by Shiva “With intangible breath in center of forehead, as this reaches heart at the moment of sleep, have direction over dreams and over death itself.” -Parvati by Shiva
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 Lie down and make yourself comfortable. Begin by focusing on your breathing. Feel the air as it passes through your nostrils and into your lungs and belly. In and out, in and out. After a few minutes visualise yourself breathing through your “third eye”, in the centre of your forehead. In and out, in and out, in and out, until you fall asleep and begin lucid dreaming. Lie down and make yourself comfortable. Begin by focusing on your breathing. Feel the air as it passes through your nostrils and into your lungs and belly. In and out, in and out. After a few minutes visualise yourself breathing through your “third eye”, in the centre of your forehead. In and out, in and out, in and out, until you fall asleep and begin lucid dreaming.
  
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 Hypnagogic dreaming Hypnagogic dreaming
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 Stimulate your thinking patterns by constantly switching your attention. After doing this long enough, the images and sounds should begin to develop a momentum on their own, becoming very strange and illogical. You are entering your own dream at this point and can quickly become lucid. It might feel like being flipped upside down, spun around, or tugged by an outside force. You can expect strange auditory hallucinations, dark beings and feelings of flying. Focus on the sensations of your physical body. Stimulate your thinking patterns by constantly switching your attention. After doing this long enough, the images and sounds should begin to develop a momentum on their own, becoming very strange and illogical. You are entering your own dream at this point and can quickly become lucid. It might feel like being flipped upside down, spun around, or tugged by an outside force. You can expect strange auditory hallucinations, dark beings and feelings of flying. Focus on the sensations of your physical body.
  
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 Incubating a dream Incubating a dream
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 As you fall asleep focus on your topic phrase. Visualise yourself dreaming about the topic and realising that you are dreaming. Make sure that the last thing in your mind before falling asleep is your intention to lucidly dream about the topic you want to dream about. You might want to wake yourself up when the dream starts to fade so that you remember more of the dream. Perform a reality check when you (think you) are awake. As you fall asleep focus on your topic phrase. Visualise yourself dreaming about the topic and realising that you are dreaming. Make sure that the last thing in your mind before falling asleep is your intention to lucidly dream about the topic you want to dream about. You might want to wake yourself up when the dream starts to fade so that you remember more of the dream. Perform a reality check when you (think you) are awake.
  
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 Dream Yoga Dream Yoga
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 After several months’ practice you can move to the next stages of this exercise. From the recognition that you are dreaming, you can move to transforming, multiplying and unifying the dream through the luminosity of true nature. Be patient. You might reach the last stage only at the moment of your death. After several months’ practice you can move to the next stages of this exercise. From the recognition that you are dreaming, you can move to transforming, multiplying and unifying the dream through the luminosity of true nature. Be patient. You might reach the last stage only at the moment of your death.
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