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You don't have to post everyday, or even every week.  Just keep them coming on a trickle basis.

Just keep up the will and the motivation! 

Will do! But be sure to follow! Motivation comes partially from good comments and knowing people read my blog 

No posts yet, but they'll be there. I probably won't upload every day, as I'm a lazy bastard , but it will never go dead, that's for sure. I will try to post at least once every third day or so.

http://noboringdreams.blogspot.com/

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Perhaps so. But aren't the swedish people in general so extremely left-winged? Like, it's unbelievable. If you aren't a nearly communist Jan Helin-kinda guy and ultra feministic, you're no good. And if you're just the least bit critical when it comes to Swedens "open arms and the more the merrier" immigration policy, you're a racist. The lines are so harsh and so many, that it's hard to not step over them. But yeah. Don't go blaming politicians for doing anything with your country, you get to decide what it means to you. If I was to cast any blame, go blame the media. Especially Jan Helin...he and Reinfeldt are ranked high on my facepalm/just shut up already-list. And to me, nationalism on the rise is not such a bad thing. Love for my own country does not mean that I hate every other country.

Sweden recently voted in a nationalist party into parliament, it seems to be a trend in Europe now . People are getting tired of the problems a multicultural society brings. Especially the rising crimes and demands from religious and ethnic groups. 

Don't forget all of the votes out of sympathy.
My bf voted for them. Might do the same in 4 years! If I still live here at that time. I really hate Sweden, a lot, but my friends here are awesome.

My dreams are so vague, that I'm actually not really sure. I do recall seeing snakes before in a dream with a blue pattern on them, so I guess I dream in color. DULL colors mind you. But sometimes they are black/white, such as my latest dream.

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Nice suggestion, but I had extensive leg surgery last year, just stopped taking morphine on a regular basis about 3 months ago...If I'd start working out like that, it could cause inner bleedings. Nothing too dangerous, but very, very painful.

Long walks might do the trick though, I should start taking a 1 hour stroll before I go to bed perhaps?

The purpose of life is to find the purpose of life 

Will be trying this out, seems like a method suitable for me (hard time falling asleep at night - super easy to fall asleep within 10 seconds of waking up early) I might have to adjust it a bit though, as my sleeping pattern is weird and unreliable.

Thanks for your suggestions, I tried sleeping with a sleeping mask, didn't work out that well...but I'll look into some of those natural meds. I'm not that much for those things, but it seems necessary. 3-4 hours of sleep in a row is just not healthy, regardless.

Nope, before I had ever heard of astral projection or lucid dreaming, I had never had anything like that, nothing weird, no flying dreams, nothing but regular dreams. Not until I started practicing (around 18) did I start experiencing this stuff. I'm proof that you don't have to be a natural at it and anyone can learn to do it.

But yes, over the years there have been several people who mentioned that they'll have a week with several experiences, then nothing for a month or 2, and then another cluster. It seems fairly common.

You can't believe how happy I am to hear that! Never had any flying dreams either, just regular (and slightly blurry) dreams. I have extremely bizzare dreams though. But yes, I'm 22 and I've just started out keeping a dream journal about a month ago, and I've only had this one, brief experience. But I'm really happy feeling that anybody can become an experienced lucid dreamer ^^

Wow, I wish that was me. I remember many dreams from my childhood, and I also remember thinking to myself "there's got to be a way to wake yourself up, to know that you dream when inside of the dream" (I never knew anything about lucidity back then) and I remember trying for SO LONG to gain some sort of control in my dreams, I was obsessed with it. No luck. It'd be really lovely to have just one lucid dream in a year, I'd give anything for that.

I was just thinking, since I had a major breakthrough with becoming aware, it might all start to move a little bit faster now. I'm not in any hurry at all (trying to stay as relaxed as possible!), but I would really love to explore more.

Thanks for all of your input! I haven't come close to anything since that night, but I've only slept once since then, so I guess it's all right. I just hope that this wasn't my last experience with lucidity ever! I'm desperate for a lucid dream!  

Congrats! 

Thank you! 

My two reality checks are always pinching the tip of my nose and blocking for air (with my mouth close of course), followed up by trying to see if my finger pushes through the palm of my hand.

The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that I was actually lucid...I tried to clap my hands when lucid, that's when it actually ended for good, and I woke up, finding myself immediately wanting to clap my hands. It was like being teleported.

Thanks for the tip about creating stuff! I realize Rome wasn't built in a day, but I never thought about starting small and "building up"...seems very logical now that you mention it.

For those of you who have been lucid many times, how long was the time between having your very first few seconds of lucidity in a dream, until the next day/night that you had it?

Once again, I'm uncertain  

I was in a regular dream, nothing special going on. At one point I was sleeping in a bed that did not belong to me, standing in a room that I did not recognize. What happened then was that I did a reality-test: I squeezed the tip of my nose, blocking my airway. I could breathe through it, and I thought: "Then I'm...in a dream? Sweet!" But I was never ONCE super enthusiastic about it, just a little bit curious. I thought I would try to rub my hands because I was starting to feel like I was being pulled out of it, so I did, and I remained where I was. I tried to "conjure up" stuff, but I was completely unable to modify my dreamworld. I then just got an urge to jump out of the window and down on the grass, so I did. At that point I lost any kind of lucidity.

What was it all about? Maybe I was just lucid, but not able to control anything, just aware but too inexperienced to play around? Or was it just a dream about being lucid?

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Oh, I forgot to mention: It's my first lucid dream

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I think I've tried that about 8-9 days in a row, but I don't seem to be making any progress  I don't think I get enough sleep at all, the ideal would be to wake up about 6 hours after I went to bed, but that would be like a marathon nap to me! Getting 4 hours of sleep in a row is more my standard.

Would it be dumb to try some meds to try and see if I can sleep for longer periods at a time?

So I'm trying to achieve a lucid dream...I've never had one in my entire life (as far as I can remember) and my dreams are always very, very blurry and vague. However that is besides the point.

I've been trying to do the WBTB technique, but no matter how tired I am when I go to bed, I ALWAYS wake up at least 1-2 hours before my alarm goes off. I'm so frustrated.
How can I stop myself from waking up when I shouldn't? I try my best not to think about the alarm, and in fact I never do think about it...I don't know why I always wake up too early.
Help? 

Thanks to all of you

I'm sorry if it sounded cheesy, but that's the reality of it; I was madly in love with a guy who's no longer here, and that's the only reason why I do this and fight so hard to see him again. I don't feel like lying, even if it's the internet. I'm talking to a psychiatrist at the moment and trying my best to handle my anxiety and grief; I understand that these feelings of regret and self-blame only stand in my way to achieving anything.

I'm very thankful that I got so far, because I understand that many people struggle to get as far as I did for years to get where I was. I'll keep practicing meditating, because I seem to be unable to clear my mind for more than 5 seconds at a time :/

Hey there! Since I'm new here I might also just do a super quick introduction.

Name: Mia.
Age: 22.
Nationality: Danish.
Experience with OBEs and APs: Close to none.

-Now on to the fun part!

About a month ago or so, I read a random article on wikipedia. It was part of a forum game. It so happened to be on sleep paralysis-and I was stunned for a second while reading it. So that was it! What I'd experienced once as a teenager, and a lot more now as an adult (I'm a horrible sleeper, I can stay awake for days, and then collapse and sleep for days too). I googled it, and when I read about astral projecting I was even more shocked. What an amazing thing!

And then it struck me. I could meet him again. The guy I fell in love with, who commited suicide May this year. I'm still not over the grief, and this is the one, big reason why I so desperately wanted to learn this. I relaxed myself. I would have to go into sleep paralysis again first, and that doesn't happen to me all that often -maybe once or twice a month, at best.

The most amazing thing happened that same night. I went into sleep paralysis. I was about to fall asleep, but then I remembered what I'd read about online. All of the different methods, how to stay calm and not get excited; to go with the flow. And I did. I tried to get out of my body by simply standing up, and here's what happened:

A sound roared in my ears, and the best way to describe it, was that it was similar to when experienced a slight pain in my ears from even the slightest noises, when I accidentically overdosed slightly on morphine once. Like, when a baby screams really loud, and your ears reacts by going *crack*. It was very dark, and my entire body felt peculiar. Tingly and almost ticklish. I also heard very highpitched noises. I suddenly saw what I was SURE was someone's face with my eyes closed, and it was in bright yellow/green, like neon. I don't know who it was, it was blurry but clear at the same time. It was at that point that I just stopped what I was doing, because it was all very new to me, and honestly I was freaked out. Right before I saw the face, my heart was going crazy in my chest, and I'm not sure that it was just from being terrified. I was as calm as I could be.

So, was I any close? Or miles away from projecting? Please tell me!