MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - lucid dreaming/obe update;

first off, there's 2 types i've been doing since november of last year - MILD and WILD.

WILD is 'wake induced lucid dreaming' - this is learning to put your body to sleep and stay conscious during the brain's transition into sleep/dreaming mode. it can be used to experience out-of-body episodes in short order. you will experience a slowly induced sleeping paralysis, and then bare witness to the bizarre fuckery of the unimaginable. i don't mess with this technique anymore at night because it only leads to sleepless nights for me. i have done it during the daytime when i feel more safe, and there's a world of shit to experience. voices, colors, floating, seeing yourself sleeping, etc. after messing with WILD, i'm fully convinced that this type of brain activity accounts for almost all paranormal experiences; alien abductions, angel/demon visitations, seriously anything you can imagine and more. it is very hard to explain unless you experience it. you will become aware of the sort of... "raw code" you are made of. you'll understand better that you are actually multiple thinking "people" or entities inside one body, and that your understood identity really is a socially-faceted construction to harness your thoughts and focus them into something that's socially viable.

during WILD, it's my belief that your dream body is being built and most of your physical body awareness gets turned off. your eyes, ears, hands, etc are like very slow input devices (keyboards, mice, etc) to your brain. once your physical input devices are turned off, your brain can simulate this input much faster and better on its own. again, it's very hard to describe the experience, but it's worth pursuing. even though i don't have much success and can't get to a full out-of-body experience, i feel that it's extremely worth trying just to convincingly subject yourself to an experience that may help take the supernatural mystic out of these experiences. i've seen impossible machinery, nearly indescribable textures, whispering in english and other languages, hearing people talk, nature sounds, etc etc. the one part of this that bugs me the most is a get a strong "intruder in the room" sometimes that wigs me out. once i even felt myself rise off the bed and explode into pieces (very similar to the falling feeling most people experience, but they are stronger and more definite during WILD).

MILD is "mnemonic induced lucid dreaming", with which i have had runaway success using other people's techniques and some i have devised on my own. with this technique, you can bring parts of your brain into function that aren't normally firing during dreams - this includes most parts that you identify as your conscious, waking identity. this technique allows you to literally experience a dream as a virtual reality sandbox. we've all had very vivid dreams that seemed real and even some that we may have FELT like we had control of, but until you have this full brain awakening in a dream, you don't know what you're missing! it is entirely a completely different experience than just a vivid dream. you'll know it when it happens. =)

getting to the point of having these MILD dreams is very involved and it takes practice, but it is achievable for everybody i think. some people (including me) at some point in their adulthood feel like they don't even have dreams anymore, which is false. we all dream rampantly. the trick is reconditioning ourselves back into a mental state to start remembering them, and then controlling them. i have actually gotten 4 other people at my office involved, and they have started being able to lucid dream as well. we even have dream challenges in our group now. (the current challenge is to summon a teddy ruxpin bear, and then hit somebody in the face with it).

there's a wealth of things to discuss here (i've had a ton of sandbox dreams), but i thought i'd just throw out this very brief summary in case anybody here has had lucid dreaming/out-of-body experience, or is interested in doing so. having done this stuff for 6 months now, i can say it's hand-down the coolest shit i've ever done. i have extremely detailed and specific techniques that work for me. every time it happens, it is exhilarating and a learning experience in many ways.

if anybody's interested, i can start drafting up detailed techniques and experiences. feel free to add your own experiences as well.

thanks!

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