Lucid Dreaming -- The Inception Movie

[lucidbrotha]

I've been lucid dreaming somewhat lately. But it never happens during my normal sleeping hours. But it often happens when I'm lazy and decide to sleep in, both late in the morning, or when I decide to take an afternoon nap. Then I very often lucid dream. Why? Why don't I lucid dream during normal sleeping hours?

Also, I had the lucid dream the other day where I felt like I was stuck in the dream and I was desperately trying to shake myself and wake myself up, without success. I felt pressure in my ears. Heh, this seems to indeed prove that pain is partly a fiction of the imagination. I decided to relax and let the dream continue, and woke up some time after that.

But I gotta ask, would it be possible to be stuck in a dream for many years, if not ages, in a lucid dream--and then find out you wake up in real life only a few hours later? (Like happened to that guy in Inception who turned old in a dream, but woke up minutes later in real life.) That could seriously damage you right? Or would that only seriously damage you within the dream, and not make your "real-life brain" turn toast? Still, what an experience, to get stuck in a dream for ages! Makes me wanna try and be careful with this lucid dreaming!

Thoughts from experienced lucid dreamers on this appreciated.

[SkylightMT]

Lucid dreams are more likely to occur when you have had plenty of sleep and are in a lighter sleep, such as a nap or sleeping late. It can also help to have a cup of weak coffee before sleep (assuming it doesn't keep you awake entirely).

Being lucid also happens in degrees, which can explain why you felt unable to wake yourself. You would have if you were more lucid. I really like Stephen LaBerge's work on lucid dreaming. One thing he suggests is that when you become lucid, you clear all hallucinations (all dream events and props) and create from a blank slate. Otherwise there is a tendency to get drawn right back in to the dream events and lose lucidity.

[MiBeloved]

Originally Posted by lucidbrotha

I've been lucid dreaming somewhat lately. But it never happens during my normal sleeping hours. But it often happens when I'm lazy and decide to sleep in, both late in the morning, or when I decide to take an afternoon nap. Then I very often lucid dream. Why? Why don't I lucid dream during normal sleeping hours?

Also, I had the lucid dream the other day where I felt like I was stuck in the dream and I was desperately trying to shake myself and wake myself up, without success. I felt pressure in my ears. Heh, this seems to indeed prove that pain is partly a fiction of the imagination. I decided to relax and let the dream continue, and woke up some time after that.

But I gotta ask, would it be possible to be stuck in a dream for many years, if not ages, in a lucid dream--and then find out you wake up in real life only a few hours later? (Like happened to that guy in Inception who turned old in a dream, but woke up minutes later in real life.) That could seriously damage you right? Or would that only seriously damage you within the dream, and not make your "real-life brain" turn toast? Still, what an experience, to get stuck in a dream for ages! Makes me wanna try and be careful with this lucid dreaming!

Thoughts from experienced lucid dreamers on this appreciated.

When one is mentally tired and when one is at the end of the day, lucid dreaming is still possible if one is proficient at it, otherwise one has better luck when the body and mind are rested, like when you already have slept sufficiently and then you rest again. In that case the mental energy is not occupied with fixing the worn out material body and it has more sensitivity on the astral side of existence

Sleep paralysis or cataleptic trance usually occurs when one is about to astral project and when an astral projection is finishing and your mind is transferring back into the physical body. If at time the astral body and the physical body do not synchronize together, one experiences that out-of-sync condition as the inability to move the physical body. It feels as if one is restricted. In that condition one can at least operate the breath and can by holding the breath, make the two bodies go in sync,

Sometimes one is able to move an arm or leg and that too will jerk the subtle body back into the physical one in the normal way.


It is possible to get stuck in a parallel dimension or any of the adjacent astral worlds but it is hardly likely that that would happen. The reason being that when you astral project, your life force remains in the physical body. So long as it is in the physical body, you will have to come back to this physical existence. Only when the life force permanently leaves the physical body, do you find yourself permanently on the outside of physical existence.

In the inception movie that was indicated by the fact that if someone was awakened on the physical side, their lucid dream existence was immediately finished. In astral projection experiences that is realized sometimes when one’s physical body is sleeping and when someone shakes or calls the sleeping form.
At that time one is immediately yanked back at the speed of light into the physical body and one wakes up on this side either forgetting the astral experience or remembering it and wishing that one had remained in it.

Sometimes during an astral projection when one finds oneself in an adjacent astral world, the people there might ask one to stay on there forever but even though one might want to do that, one finds that one is drawn back into the physical existence and has to continue life here anyway.

[lucidbrotha]

Originally Posted by MiBeloved

When one is mentally tired and when one is at the end of the day, lucid dreaming is still possible if one is proficient at it, otherwise one has better luck when the body and mind are rested, like when you already have slept sufficiently and then you rest again. In that case the mental energy is not occupied with fixing the worn out material body and it has more sensitivity on the astral side of existence

Sleep paralysis or cataleptic trance usually occurs when one is about to astral project and when an astral projection is finishing and your mind is transferring back into the physical body. If at time the astral body and the physical body do not synchronize together, one experiences that out-of-sync condition as the inability to move the physical body. It feels as if one is restricted. In that condition one can at least operate the breath and can by holding the breath, make the two bodies go in sync,

Sometimes one is able to move an arm or leg and that too will jerk the subtle body back into the physical one in the normal way.


It is possible to get stuck in a parallel dimension or any of the adjacent astral worlds but it is hardly likely that that would happen. The reason being that when you astral project, your life force remains in the physical body. So long as it is in the physical body, you will have to come back to this physical existence. Only when the life force permanently leaves the physical body, do you find yourself permanently on the outside of physical existence.

In the inception movie that was indicated by the fact that if someone was awakened on the physical side, their lucid dream existence was immediately finished. In astral projection experiences that is realized sometimes when one’s physical body is sleeping and when someone shakes or calls the sleeping form.
At that time one is immediately yanked back at the speed of light into the physical body and one wakes up on this side either forgetting the astral experience or remembering it and wishing that one had remained in it.

Sometimes during an astral projection when one finds oneself in an adjacent astral world, the people there might ask one to stay on there forever but even though one might want to do that, one finds that one is drawn back into the physical existence and has to continue life here anyway.

Wow, cool. This sounds a lot like meditation. Supposedly one can do the same thing with meditation. I have tried a few times, and sometimes gotten into or close to the "no thought state". But it has only lasted for a few minutes. I guess I'll keep practicing. By the way, I currently follow this meditation video: YouTube - Learn How To Meditate Part 1 of 5 Seems to be working, but like I said, I need practice. In these videos, they mention the same things you were talking about--astral bodies and such. If you know about better meditation programs, please let me know!

I'll also keep on practicing lucid dreaming, although it seems that I have more control when I meditate. Both seem somewhat related though. Hmm.