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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? | - 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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| - 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. | - 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. | 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. | 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? | 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? | ||
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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, | If repetition changes your comprehension, | ||
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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, | 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, | ||
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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, | 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, | ||
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