I had another one this morning and all I seem to do in most of my LD's is to walk around outside my house until I 'wake up'. I've tried to fly countless times but I just feel like a baby bird who floats for a second or two before crashing down onto the floor. I seem to do the same things every time that I feel like I'm wasting the experience.
What useful things can I do whilst I'm LDing? Can I meet my spirit guides? If so, how? I call out to them but they just ignore me. Can I visit Akashic Records in an LD??
Please help.
I'm guessing you probably need more energy. Practice NEW more often, especially storing energy into you sub naval storage center. Then practice raising the energy of your chakras a few times a day and see if anything happens.
Quote from: kurtykurt42 on December 04, 2009, 07:41:37
I'm guessing you probably need more energy. Practice NEW more often, especially storing energy into you sub naval storage center. Then practice raising the energy of your chakras a few times a day and see if anything happens.
Need more energy for the flying do you mean? Or for prolonging the LD's? And is NEW when we focus our awareness on our chakras etc...?
Nah, the reason why you can't fly is because you haven't convinced yourself that you can. :)
You might not FULLY believe you're in a dream.
To stay *in* a lucid dream try this simple trick... SPIN! The moment you start to feel your hold on the Lucid Dream slipping just start spinning like a top.
I don't know how or why it works, but it keeps you in the dream and reinforces your lucidity. You don't get dizzy because you're not physically spinning.
Give that a shot. :)
Agreed that the reason you can't do things in dreams is because your subconscious feeling of what "should" happen is holding you back.
I've experienced the same thing. It can be very difficult to overcome and so is very useful in itself. The same mental habits keeping us from doing impossible things in our dreams, are the same habits keeping us from breaking the mold and challenging the status quo in waking life, only our beliefs in waking life seem stronger and more concrete. It's a good habit to break your beliefs and conditioning.
Do you meditate? If you value meditation, LD'ing is a great opportunity to meditate without a physical body.
You can learn ANYTHING in your lucid dreams. You can practice musical instruments, you can learn technical studies, you can practice martial arts, ANYTHING, as long as your awareness itself is up for the challenge. You can learn things about reality that never even crossed your mind before. I have learned how to play songs on guitar in my dreams (correctly!) that I never even looked up the tabs to. Your mind is truly amazing. :-o
Quote from: no_leaf_clover on December 11, 2009, 22:41:49
You can learn ANYTHING in your lucid dreams.
Well I can't seem to call on my spirit guides and talk to them. :roll:
Dear Gbob:
I've been projecting ever since I was a child- prob. from the age of 7 or 8- and I didn't meet my guides 'til I was around 49-50 years old.
The point is, that this stuff progresses, sometimes slowly, and sometimes in leaps and bounds- depending on 'where you are' in your life, and I suspect 'what you need'. I have had years without projecting (I think the longest was three years) and I had other times where I was being forcibly pulled out, 'cause I had 'stuff to learn'.
IMO, the best thing to do is to ask a Higher Power for guidance, and to keep practicing whatever you practice, not with the expectation that 'A' or 'B' thing has to happen, but with the expectation that the next thing that happens, whatever it is, will bring you closer to some sort of mission, or some sort of understanding on what's supposed to happen, which is better. IMO, of course.
Quote from: Gbob on December 12, 2009, 15:14:33
Well I can't seem to call on my spirit guides and talk to them. :roll:
To be fair, that particular thing isn't quite up to you... and doesn't require any belief on your part. ;)
Gbob I feel the same way. So far I have had over 10 OBE's. And don't get me wrong every one of them is great, but they get repetitive. I get OBE, walk out of my room, down the hall, usually go outside and fly around for a bit til I wake up.
I wish I could have something exciting happen. Maybe a visit to the moon or something. I wish I could try and learn more too. I just don't know where to begin while OBE really..
Quote from: CFTraveler on December 12, 2009, 15:44:06
Dear Gbob:
I've been projecting ever since I was a child- prob. from the age of 7 or 8- and I didn't meet my guides 'til I was around 49-50 years old.
The point is, that this stuff progresses, sometimes slowly, and sometimes in leaps and bounds- depending on 'where you are' in your life, and I suspect 'what you need'. I have had years without projecting (I think the longest was three years) and I had other times where I was being forcibly pulled out, 'cause I had 'stuff to learn'.
IMO, the best thing to do is to ask a Higher Power for guidance, and to keep practicing whatever you practice, not with the expectation that 'A' or 'B' thing has to happen, but with the expectation that the next thing that happens, whatever it is, will bring you closer to some sort of mission, or some sort of understanding on what's supposed to happen, which is better. IMO, of course.
Wow you must be really astrally experienced! Ok I'll take that advice and I'll see what happens next :-)
By the way...do you think that it's odd that I've never experienced sleep paralysis in my life? I usually wake up in the middle of the night for a drink of water and I've never had SP. Plus I've tried setting my alarm for 4am but I just wake up naturally.
But my body must be paralysed when I'm asleep otherwise I'd be sleepwalking... :? :? :?
What we call sleep paralysis is when you wake up paralyzed. Everybody gets paralyzed when they dream, so that doesn't count. :lol:
I think people that tend to get sp have more projections that those who don't, because of the propensity to wake up in dreams, but I don't think that it's a rule that people who project have sp.
Another thing about sp is that it seems to happen to people at certain times in their lives (like sleepwalking, for example) and then not for a long time.
I used to get a lot of sp when I was around 12, and didn't again 'til I was over 40, and only in clusters, but I never stopped projecting, except when other weird stuff was happening.