Comments on: Dream Food

By: David Whyte

David Whyte — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:05:49 +0000

Hi Steve, – recently i just achived my first induced lucid dream, i have had a few before but more so by accident. In the field of shamanism – the skills that you talk of being able to practice in the dream state interest me alot especialy dying and shape shifting, i was wondering if you could perhaps give me some pointers of other skills to practice first before pursuing more indepth skills?

Thanks alot.

P, s Have you ever met up with your wife on the atral plane? if so did she at the same time meet up with you?

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:01:38 +0000

Vitamin B12,in large amounts,has been shown to improve memory and lucid
dreaming by increasing RNA synthesis.(try 1000 ug.just before bed)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 09 May 2005 16:26:37 +0000

Lucid dreaming is real. I had never had one before I started reading about it, but I had two within a few months after I started reading about it a lot. Once it becomes a possibility for your mind, you are more likely to have one I imagine.

By: Steve Pavlina

Steve Pavlina — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:51:09 +0000

Just go to Babelfish and have the site translated into Golgafrinchan — that will turn all the lucid dreaming posts into telephone sanitizing tutorials.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:40:28 +0000

Hey Steve:

Good to see fredom of speech isn’t dead here! Get your head out of the sand and come back to the world of the awake!

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:13:50 +0000

SSSssssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeee!

Steve , please wake me up when you come back to reality. You’re an excellent writer, but this fluff lately is a waste of everyone’s time!

Please get this codswallop out of your system.

Patiently,

Fred

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:16:20 +0000

Well…

“Mental rehearsal” of movements has been used in sports and the motor parts of the brain are still active during dreaming, although the actual control over the muscles is not. (dream paralysis)

Briefly, you will not “gain muscle” or “loose weight” but you can rehearse difficult movements and might very well benefit from this sort of “dream training”.

By: Steve Pavlina

Steve Pavlina — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:49:33 +0000

I don’t know if dreams have a significant effect on the body. But I do know that if you get beat up or sliced up in a dream, you don’t wake up with bruises and cuts. And there’s also no danger of dreaming you’ve died. I’ve died in my dreams a few times — a weird experience, but I still woke up alive. So as far as I can tell, there’s no significant lingering effect on the body.

For many years I’ve tried to control my physical body on the bed while in a lucid dream — that’s really hard. With extreme effort I can get my real-world voice to make an audible noise while I’m in a lucid dream (or when I’m astral), which my wife can hear, and then she’ll physically wake me up. Otherwise my physical body seems totally paralyzed. I can sense it as something separate from my dream body, but I can’t move it.

I don’t think exercise in a lucid dream has any effect on the physical body. You’d think that running 600 miles per hour would burn a few calories, but apparently not.

On the bright side, you don’t get winded when you exercise in a dream, so you have unlimited endurance.

One thing I’m going to try soon is shape-shifting. I’ve never done it before, but my wife has, once becoming a rabbit and once growing into a giant. She said it was a very unique experience. I think I’ll start by trying to stretch out my arms.

The kinds of experiences you can have in lucid dreams are endless. With a lot of practice (years), some people can have one every night, even without induction devices.

By: Jim Jones

Jim Jones — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:30:46 +0000

Steve -

You have me so intrigued with Lucid dreaming I’ve been trying to figure out how to build my own induction device (the NovaDreamer is quite expensive).

Just out of curiousity, do activities within the dream have a physical effect on the body? Or do they only have an effect on the body if you instruct your subconsious that they will have an effect? Could one exercise in their lucid dream as a means of losing weight?

By: Homer J Simpson

Homer J Simpson — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:11:40 +0000

Mmmmmmmmmmm…..dream donuts……