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Here's a gift to open up the possibilities of your dream world. Those of you who already had lucid dreaming, I am asking a question. Have you ever used them as to improve learning, and was it effective ? It is one of the practical reason to have lucid dreams, practice, learn new things. Of course there are limits on this, but this would be nice to reclaim some of that time spent sleeping. It take some time to achieve Lucid Dreaming, I want to know if the results are worth it. I had a few LD, I wonder if it is worth it to continue for that.

Just so you know, dream magic is one of the ancient "unknown" druid magics, "lost" to history. It is The Door, the most powerful tool of self transformation, and any magical school which doesn't teach it is trying to keep you from creating the philosopher's stone which allows you to transmute your leaden lower self into a golden higher form. As always, the answer is a union of opposites. I'll not select for you a reference manual, you must seek to find. Instead I'll mention the process and let you search after whatever Silver Keys that catch your attention. Imagination is powerful, and rulers do not want to empower their serifs. This is why they focus the workers onto their system and discourage day dreaming. Begin training yourself to dream about a subject or environment at night. Begin thinking about it 90min before you sleep. Be prepared for bed and at 30min before sleep meditate on the subject / place / event, but don't lay down, leave a light on. Then turn off the bright lights, lay down, and fall asleep while concentrating on / imagining the subject – day dream yourself to sleep. Do not be discouraged if you don't remember your dreams. You'll need to maintain a neutral acid balance and take your vitamins, including potassium (eating foods is better than supplements). Keep a dream log, if you remember a dream about the subject, write it down. Most people only remember the dreams they wake up from or the lasts dream of the night. Your goal is to wake up from a dream in the morning with what you focused on still influencing the last dream before morning. Your imagination will be growing very strong and during day dreams they should feel more vivid, able to tune out background easier. Next proceed to lucid dreaming. You should also practice focused imagination and visualization during the day. Open one's mind with meditation but rather than dispel the thoughts that come to one's mind, latch onto ones that go in the direction you wish: To solve a problem focus on it, to escape latch onto more fanciful daydreams. These should get more pronounced with practice of unifying both nightly and daily mental states. Once lucidity has been unified with the subconscious while both sleeping and awake, you've been initiated into the practice of dream magic. Stay at this level if you like. Your sleeping mind does various things, it plays out scenarios to practice them, it commits short term practice to long term memory, helps create muscle memory. The spiritual conscious mind is largely a spectator there, looming over the lower beastly body, witnessing from afar the confusing subconscious shell sort itself out, and playing among the dreams this process produces. Becoming conscious of how dreams affect your life night and day will raise your level of awareness. You'll be shielded by your ego, so it's important not to have experienced ego death if you do not wish to proceed. Beware that in such a chaotic open dream state there are other forces grazing the aether that can influence you. If they notice you noticing them you may have to defend yourself. So, it's best not to proceed further until you've learned to dispel dreams and wake yourself immediately from the sleep cycle at will. This will be very handy later. The next stage is to create a familiar. This will be a thought form to help you in your dreams. It needs to be something or someone you like, but do not love. An angel or demon has traditionally been used as it's both likable and warns the mind it is dangerous / powerful, not to be trifled with. My brother uses an imaginary robot, which he enjoys programming, destroying and rebuilding rather than making separate thought forms. Your goal is to create a mental guardian, that which can defend you while you sleep. You may want to focus on scaring yourself with a movie or game, summoning that monster in your (day and night) dreams so that your guardian can practice destroying them. This is essential because next you may deal with monsters you did not summon yourself. 1/2

>>1519 2/2 Now comes the crucible of fire where you must stress and break bits of yourself to transmute yourself from a lower leaden Saturnian state into a Sunny Golden enlightened self. This is scary and best done with a partner or other IRL support. Now you will learn to induce sleep paralysis. Sleep deprivation (and optionally stimulants, caffeine, cocaine, crystal meth, etc. be careful but these are not absolutely required). A mild psychoactive drug may also help, the weed + coffee is common. When you have a weekend off, try not sleep starting Friday night. Sleep deprivation widens the gulf between awake and asleep and makes your day/night dreaming even more potent. Keep going for longer and longer without sleep. The goal is to induce sleep paralysis through insomnia. While very tired yet awake and unable (or unwilling) to sleep lay down, go through the physical motions of preparing to sleep but keep the mind engaged and hyperactive. You should feel brief pulsing waves accompanied by a rushing sound while slipping into paralysis. you're experiencing delta waves while your consciousness remains aware of itself. Proceed and create auditory and visual hallucinations this way. Time your REM pattern and use an alarm clock to wake you from your dream, a single loud clap, pop or bell is better than a recurrent ringing or alarm tone, but you'll have to engineer a contraption if you have no partner to help. The goal is to induce sleep paralysis while waking as well as going to sleep. During the time of sleep deprivation your day dreams may slip into brief dreams that last a few moments. You may nod off for seconds at a time in the middle of a task, do not drive or operate heavy machinery. Now you must learn how to control the sleep paralysis, to dispel it. You'll need to have your familiar trained to wake you from it at your command. Next you need to become so familiar with entering the sleep paralysis that you can go into the trance state at your will. Now your day dreams will be so powerful you can dream about anything. The sleep paralysis will allow you to see dreams overlaid into your wakeful vision. Your dream companion will be able to move about on its own. You risk possession and insanity if unprepared. To master the dream magic you will learn to build an interface to your subconscious, to link various thought forms to specific tasks. You'll be able to harness and command your physical body in ways others only dream of. A physical discipline that requires full body precision is helpful, dance or martial arts. You will be able to break the paralysis while still seeing the waking dreams. You'll trace sigils in thin air and see them and their magics carried out. No more "I've lost my keys", you'll be able to summon a sprite to fetch them for you. The aether and your subconscious record where you left them, the spectral being will flit over to where they are immediately, guiding you to the lost item with ease. Now you'll have mastered the dream magic. Next is to master the local aether. This will allow you to gain conscious control over the world beyond your physical body. Most witches will move to the woods or a secluded area unpolluted by interference from man and other people's technology. They will often make their own buildings, machines, paper, inks, cups, etc. The more things shaped by your physical self the more influence you have over them. Fear will activate your hyper vigilant state, it's important to still have fear to summon the forces you must battle if you want to dominate your local aethereal plane. If your mortal fears and basic phobias have been dispelled you may find it difficult to proceed, it's more dangerous to induce fear via risking your immortal being. Now you will actively confront and do battle with the local forces of nature and spirit. Be ware of any thing or being you did not create yourself, no alliance is permanent. Once you have concqured and dominated the local aethereal and physical forces your day dreams will be so powerful they influence others. With nothing impeding you locally you'll become a path of least resistance to much magical energy. Bits of the future will slip through you before becoming reality resulting in clairvoyance. I'm sure you can see where this is going. From there you can either seek to become one with the universe, or create a new one in your image. ---- Having pasted this, I should point out that even this is only hinting at HALF the dream magic, that's just the Luicd Dreaming part. All of that uses symbolism just to build an API to your subconcious. Next comes a truly ancient source of power, the real druidic magic of BECOMING. This involves another form of dreaming, where you stay fully conscious and watch the subconscious hallucinations of sleep form without becoming a prisoner to the dream world. As the night progresses you will rest while thinking about whatever you want. Watch for the dreams which are your exploratory "sandbox" which permit creation of "muscle-memory" by replaying practiced events in a dream hallucination. You can choose to focus on those to more quickly learn any skill. This requires a sacrifice however, as you will have to ignore some of the temporary memory you would have committed to long term. You can Gain one of the most powerful magics: The ability to forget, and then to rewrite your memories themselves. Pass any lie detector test, transform your self into whatever you want to believe you are. One can link a memory to a sigil, then forget the memory, cloud it with falsehood, but leave a clear path available only if you see the sigil. This is the true reason that druid magic is said to have been "lost". Druid magic is the power of becoming lost, and transferring your soul into other beings... Note that revealing deeply occulted secrets such as this should not be undertaken unless you have certain protections or permissions. There are forces searching out sources of Flame and snuffing their candles out... TL;DR: Magic is real, this world is ran by wizards. If you don't know so, then Lucid Dreaming isn't worth it for you, you're already too brain damaged to survive in this realm.

Cool I'm going to give this a read. Ive been practicing at Lucid Dreaming. Ive yet to succeed. I have an issue distinguishing a dream from intense visual thought.

>>1520 >The sleep paralysis will allow you to see dreams overlaid into your wakeful vision Just want to warn any readers: With everything you do, make absolutely sure you can turn it off and be away from it for extended periods of time or you risk being unable to turn it off. If you can't turn it off, you've lost control and it will drag you along helplessly. Welcome to schizophrenic hell. I'm speaking from experience. Silent-mind meditation helps, as does not overdoing it in the first place.

>>1532 Oh, and I'm not implying any of this stuff works as advertised or is remotely useful. It's a crock of soykaf as far as I'm concerned.