I would gather that you already know a few of the tricks to maintain lucidity. If you find yourself on the ground, rub the grass/pavement/whatever with your hands. If you are on your feet, spin in circles like a madman. Try to talk to yourself. I find tilting your head upwards also benefits. While looking down can bring on the losing it feeling. To ease flying, get a running start. Don't envision jumping, envision flying. When you do jump, flap them arms one time and leave them by your side. Corny sounding I know, but it works.Thanks for trying to help guys, it means a lot. I guess ill let you know how this praying thing works out... it's super weird, but i can't really think of anything else. I just hope i can have just one lucid dream where i can control it, rather than it control me... it's been far too long.
I couldn't agree more.Get a mouth ful? That is fucking nasty.
The inadequacy lies in the confession not being enough to make him feel he has a grasp on his situation. I didn't mean to suggest confession has no merit. Unburdening yourself to others often helps tremendously. It is both necessary and insufficient to address the problem.It is not inadequate to speak to others about something you think you have a problem with. It is the first step.
Praying is more than just thinking, it is surrender and appeal to a higher agency predicated on the assumption that a higher agency exists. It is a surface comfort which seems to offer no solid practical advantage, therefore I can not recommend it, though I do not begrudge others if it works for them. Just as I wouldn't instruct others to simply "smile and make yourself happy", yet I wouldn't attack someone if they find smiling through life does the trick.Praying is a comfort. It is not blind it is not even worship. It is just acknowledging the problem internally and asking for help. It reinforces your decision.
Instinct gives him the temptation, the struggle comes from his personal narrative, which has developed from knowledge, experience, intellect and compassion, conflicting with instinct. To a person who is used to resolving conflict with logic and pragmatism, I can see how this could feel imposing and extraordinary.His INSTINCT is that he is wronging himself and his girlfriend. He is struggling against temptation, which is a life struggle. Not because the temptations are good for him, but because they FEEL good at the moment.
Instant gratification vs Long term gratification.
AY UP Zaehet , you need to get your logical head back on and start thinking straight , ive had lucid dreams of floods quite often, that fucks with my head , literally i look out my window and the whole world outside is under water with just the tops of houses and tall things sticking out the top , everything is swelling and swaying just like being out at sea , its truly terrifying , but i remind myself that its a dream and its my brain still firing all kinds of shit around whilst im sleeping .So, i just had a lucid dream... but i couldn't control it, this has been happening for about 6 months now, many aspects about these lucid dreams have been the same. This one started out with me waking up from from my girlfriends bed (as i was taking a nap in it when i fell asleep), i noticed a distinct burning smell, as i looked outside through the window there was a car, and a boat on fire... my girlfriend was beside me and turned and i said look at that, they are on fire, when i turned again they weren't on fire.
I then looked through the window at a peculiar house, part of it was missing... i squatted down to get a better look and as my eyes traveled past the middle divider of the window it was back to normal, that's when i knew i was in a dream.
My girlfriend disappeared, i walked over to the door... but somehow i knew even before i got there that it would be locked, sure enough, it was. I turned around and knew that i wouldn't be able to get out the window either... (as this has been happening for months now) so i sat down cross legged... then all the sudden i appeared outside, and i saw the trees start to burn, a fire bigger than the landscape, and a feeling of dread comparable to my sleep paralysis night terrors.
I knew i was dreaming so i tried to fly into the sky like i usually do, to only come back down, i turned away from the fire and started to try to fly away, but it was more like a really long jump.. i started losing control and moving in circles until i managed to catch onto a tree branch, i didn't know what else to do... i figure, a back flip seems kind of scary from up here... lets just try that, so i did... and i slowly woke up with my eyes open looking at my pillow. The feeling of dread, guilt and fear did not subside for a while after i awoke.
I haven't told anyone about these things, but they have been happening regularly, different signs, different things happening that i can't explain even within this reality (yet nothing supernatural). I am afraid i am going to go to hell, and i think i have been getting extremely minor glimpses of what it is going to be like. I don't know what to do, I'm either going mad, or i need to make a change, or both. I have to stop doing things that go against what i think is right, if i don't, i am terrified that i will suffer for it when i die. I hate thinking like this, but it just won't go away, it keeps staring me in the face, the more time passes the more intense the feelings and reality of it all becomes. The more i try to deny it, the more powerfully it seems to bombard my mind.
I think I'm going to start to pray, though i don't like the bible nor the teachings. These things are really hard for me to say, because they go against everything i stand for, logic, science, evidence, this reality... but it is so persistent that i can't deny it any longer, and i don't really have anyone else to tell this stuff to.
I think I'm just going to try that out for a while, to see if these visions stop, to see if these dreams come to an end. I haven't been the best person lately, cheating on my girlfriend, which is something i know i need to stop doing... though i haven't done it in months and it was only a few times.
I don't know, i guess I'm ready for the ridicule, the scientific hypothesis, the spiritual interpretation, and the theological explanations. I guess I'm just looking for any kind of advice that may be able to help me out with this. The only other things i can think of are to pray for forgiveness to some god, and to try my best to refrain from doing things that i think are wrong... any other advice, thoughts or ideas are more than welcome.
Thanks RIU.
Thanks bro, means a lot.AY UP Zaehet , you need to get your logical head back on and start thinking straight , ive had lucid dreams of floods quite often, that fucks with my head , literally i look out my window and the whole world outside is under water with just the tops of houses and tall things sticking out the top , everything is swelling and swaying just like being out at sea , its truly terrifying , but i remind myself that its a dream and its my brain still firing all kinds of shit around whilst im sleeping .
i highly doubt you are having some kind of religious awakening , i reckon you just got a lot of stress going on thats playing out in your dreams .
Yes.Sometimes the connection dips as I press submit lossing all data,so I type too notebook.Enjoy the vids...LULZ^wut? I had a very hard time reading that. Was it copy pasted?
its cool man ive been in your position a few times , you have to remember the bible and nearly all other religious scripture is so vague , literally anyone anywhere in the world can pick bits out of it , that they can relate to, and then be tricked into thinking its personal , its kind of like how tarrent readers work , look at the commandments , everyone is guilty of breaking commandments because they were written by humans who knew what humans were guilty of and are very likely to be compelled to indulge in .Thanks bro, means a lot.
are you fucking kidding ? EVERYTHING about religion is negative , according to like yourself , you are BORN with SIN , but hey whats fuckin negative about that , QUIT nit picking little bits of religion you like and take a look at it as a whole.I don't understand why people are so opposed to religion.
It is not a negative thing unless PEOPLE use it for negative things.