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Hi, Can I ask if you know weather or not I have I burnt my bridges to the dream world with what I can only imagine as being a mistake I've made while lucid dreaming, and weather there is anything I can do to fix any damage I may have caused? I used to have lucid dreams very rarely, I've had about three and I cant seem to initiate them consciously. Recently however upon noticing I was in a dream I decided to look in a mirror. What looked back at me was absolutely horrifying, as I was struck with what felt to me as being very real existential dread. The creature I appeared to be had dark pools of burning flame for eyes and a jagged hole with burning black flames for a mouth. The visage from within the mirror then began to scream while pointing at me. This unsettling scene of cause caused me to wake instant and I haven't remembered a dream nor woke up to lucidity within a dream since. I am incredibly interested in the nature of the universe and I think I have exhausted all other avenues of being able to answer the questions I have in the 'real' world and would like to continue to ask questions in the dream world. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
@LucidDreamPortal Something and nothing exist simultaneously within Creation. Just as Dark (still silence) and light (sound of motion) are necessarily always present to distill the OMNI-VERSE... SO TOO IS... NOTHING WITHIN EVERYTHING... NECESSARILY PRESENT TO DISTILL THE OMNI-VERSE. Every single universe of the infinite OMNI-VERSE exists at the same place and time simultaneously. This is the ALL-SPARK WITHIN THE INFINITE DARK VOID. THIS IS THE SILENT SONG WITHIN THE LIFESTREAM. THIS IS THE PHOENIX FIRE WITHIN THE TREE OF LIFE. THIS IS THE DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED FORCES OF CREATION DELICATELY INTERACTING TO DISTILL THE OMNI-VERSE. LIGHT DOES NOT MOVE. THE DARKNESS CARRYING IT MOVES THE LIGHT. THE "SPEED OF LIGHT" IS ACTUALLY "THE PRESSURE OF DARKNESS ". THIS MEASURE IS THE FREQUENCY FOR ITS ACCOMMODATING UNIVERSE. THERE ARE INFINITE FREQUENCIES FOR INFINITE UNIVERSES... THE TOTALITY OF ALL UNIVERSES IS CALLED THE OMNI-VERSE. ALSO KNOWN AS THE "ALL-SPARK. " i am the BRIGHTEST NIGHT I AM THE DARKEST LIGHT.
@Wise_Milk2519Something and nothing exist simultaneously within Creation. Just as Dark (still silence) and light (sound of motion) are necessarily always present to distill the OMNI-VERSE... SO TOO IS... NOTHING WITHIN EVERYTHING... NECESSARILY PRESENT TO DISTILL THE OMNI-VERSE. Every single universe of the infinite OMNI-VERSE exists at the same place and time simultaneously. This is the ALL-SPARK WITHIN THE INFINITE DARK VOID. THIS IS THE SILENT SONG WITHIN THE LIFESTREAM. THIS IS THE PHOENIX FIRE WITHIN THE TREE OF LIFE. THIS IS THE DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED FORCES OF CREATION DELICATELY INTERACTING TO DISTILL THE OMNI-VERSE. LIGHT DOES NOT MOVE. THE DARKNESS CARRYING IT MOVES THE LIGHT. THE "SPEED OF LIGHT" IS ACTUALLY "THE PRESSURE OF DARKNESS ". THIS MEASURE IS THE FREQUENCY FOR ITS ACCOMMODATING UNIVERSE. THERE ARE INFINITE FREQUENCIES FOR INFINITE UNIVERSES... THE TOTALITY OF ALL UNIVERSES IS CALLED THE OMNI-VERSE. ALSO KNOWN AS THE "ALL-SPARK. " i am the BRIGHTEST NIGHT I AM THE DARKEST LIGHT.
This morning I had a "false awakening" dream where another person told me that if I went back to sleep then, I'd have an excellent chance of getting lucid in a dream. I then "tried to do so", and thought I had fallen back to sleep, but was still just looking around at the surrounding scene of the interior of my home (which was of course a sleeping dream itself... and in retrospect included aspects of my childhood home), and waiting for dream imagery to manifest. I was getting frustrated that I was still "seeing the waking world", and wondering why a dream scene "was not forming". I then woke up for real, and had to facepalm and laugh at myself. Oh well, at least my mind was still kicking around notions about lucid dreaming. Still a good sign that it is continuing to take root.
i had a Too Personal nightmare (or bad dream, because i wasnt realy waking up from it in sweat, but it was a painfull dream) but also in the dream there was like Zero Hope. it was like i was failing at everything. one thing i can say thats less personal stuff is that in many of my dreams i always am the only one surviving a Tsunami. but in this bad dream (or nightmare?!) i was drowning like the others and was so mad about myself when i woke up. i survived under the water because i stole a divers breathing gear but then he drowned and i felt dissapointed with myself but this was my Dream Me trying to survive in the weirdest way possible. then i woke up and when i woke up i hated that i dreamed about NOT surviving the Tsunami. makes me think that something in my life is falling apart and failing in most aspects of waking life and gets interprated this in the Tsunami the first i drowned in. its scary. also, a wasted opportunity for myself to net get lucid in either that Personal dream scenario as also that Tsunami problem. my last Lucid dream was a month ago and i did some cool space and flying stuff and even manifested dreamlings. whilst it was fun i think next Lucid Dream goal is to stay in the dream and not change much, and just feel the environment and try to get it into my memory for future story writing or drawing. stay Lucid
@@Carl_Frank yeah so that happened to me too you think that you’re up but you actually wake up afterwards so when you’re in that state when you could still see around your room and stuff so that you being conscious within your subconscious at that state, you could actually imagine anything and it will be like you’re actually there which is actually lucid dreaming so you were lucid dreaming it might actually even be an OBE that part I’m still trying to figure out myself but ya when you’re in that state where you can see around you and you think you’re still up you’re actually lucid dreaming
@@peterdavis7275 No, I wasn't lucid dreaming. I was dreaming that I had awakened and then gone back to bed, hoping to enter a dream lucidly, but was “frustrated that a dream scene was not forming”, all the while I was actually already in a dream and *didn't* realize it. I have had several lucid dreams over the years, dreams where I was fully aware that what I was experiencing was a dream generated by my sleeping brain, - that I was actually asleep in bed. Just recently in fact, I had one where I even smelled machine oil in a workshop with a lathe and other big machines… but I knew all of that was a dreamt illusion. I am unconvinced of OBEs being a real thing; I don’t see any good reason to think, for example, in the false awakening dream I recounted, that my consciousness had actually left my body and was traveling around my actual physical home overlaid with dreamt-up alterations, or some alternate version of it, or whatever. Occam’s Razor leads me to conclude the most likely fact is that what I was experiencing was a dream, where I had mistaken it for reality, while hoping for a dream to form. It was a type of what Daniel has called (in at least one of his videos) a “fake lucid dream”… or a dream about lucid dreaming. I have, on rare occasions, partially awakened, with dream imagery still happening briefly, overlaid on my sensory perception like “augmented reality”. For example I remember sitting up in bed once as a kid, and my hair brushed against the headboard, making a sound I thought, in my groggy state, sounded like insects buzzing, so when I turned around, the expectation had me see a ball of insects and spiderwebs there for a second… but then it faded away and I realized it was just a bit of leftover dream imagery. Not at all like the experience I had recently, which I realized had all been a dream once I actually woke up and was thinking clearly.
@@peterdavis7275 I don’t know what happened to my long reply to this, but *I’m* not seeing it now, so I will do the short version: No, I was not lucid dreaming in that one, because I was not clear-minded on what was happening. I had a confused mindset where I thought I was waiting for a dream to form, when I was already in one. When I woke up, I immediately realized that I had not been thinking logically, but was affected by “dream potato brain”. It was one of those “fake lucid dreams” or “dreams about lucid dreaming” that Daniel mentioned in at least one of his past videos. I’ve had actual lucid dreams- dreams wherein I was fully aware it was a dream, and was thinking clearly/logically. This wasn’t it.
Daniel, I started taking an anti-depressant and it has a very interesting side affect. Very long and vivid dreams. Last night, I had the most vivid dream that I ever had. I honestly think that this is the brain trying to get out of the depressed state of mind cause I haven't had dreams like this since I was a kid. I literally woke up in awe. Being depressed affects your dreams in a big way.
This makes a lot of sense. Most antidepressants influence the serotonergic system, which can significantly affect dreams and dream recall. Thank you, as always, for your kind support, and I'm glad to hear you're working with medical professionals to manage your depression. Maybe consider the vivid dreams as a little unexpected bonus!
I’m just a rando who enjoyed very much this video, but I would highly suggest that you document your dreams (if you’re not already doing so). Whatever our perception of reality is, vivid dreams are also stories told through symbolism. I assume there are interesting messages trying to reach your awareness. I wish you strength fellow dreamer🌈
@@miaumiaumiauy Thank you. I'm still getting long lucid dreams. They. I had two very long ones last night actually. I'm lucid almost all the time. It became natural thanks to this channel. It happened after 10+ years of doing it.
lucid dreaming is probably one of the best tools that we have in search of reality and understanding mind, but this video is not only about lucid dreaming, much more than that. you should write more books, Daniel.
Forget lucid dreaming, this is lesson in nature of reality! Absolutely nailed it, really great piece of work. I feel like this should be 101 in school. (p.s. if you want one tiny bit of constructive criticism it would be the screen glare in your glasses, but that is nit picking and only mentioned to help with future productions 👍)
You absolute legend, thank you so much for you kind support and lovely words! I really appreciate both the positive and constructive feedback. On the glasses front, I had made a mental note on that already, it's just a real pain to switch the monitors off while recording, or alternatively not being able to see the screen without glasses 🤣 - I'll try to work on a solution!
I just had a lucid dream that started with a video of you that was distorted. So when I saw the channel name change I immediately had to do a reality check. I got so excited for a second here!
Thank you for explaining Buddhism without using Buddhism language! It’s simply brilliant! Sometimes I find it difficult to explain Buddhism to people without sounding religious, lol! 🙏
@@ttuanmu deep in meditation I sometimes have original thoughts, discovery, only to find out latter it had already been known. I think truths are induring ,they keep popping up and we may believe they are our original ideas.
Schools 'teach' phish, to swim in unison - rather than exploring deeper awareness. Yet, this is shifting - with shifting in consciousness, and intentionality.
I'm 52 years old and have been lucid dreaming since I was about 7. My emotions in the dreams are far stronger and feeling safe all the time. The people I meet are like long lost freinds but I can't understand how they know me but it feels perfect x
One sunny summer afternoon last year I was out walking in nature enjoying the sunshine, the light breeze, and the sounds of birds singing. Then just as I was thinking to myself how lovely it was and that I had made a good decision to go out for a walk I remembered that I had in fact opted for an afternoon nap. As this realisation hit me I felt my whole being flip from the vertical to the horizontal then I opened my eyes to find myself lying on my bed. This is the second time I've woken up in the dream. The first time I just had the time to undo what I realized was stupid by snapping my fingers and I awoke on my bed.
I think there’s a lot more variation in how different people perceive reality than many think. I remember having vivid existential crises as a small child (maybe 7 years old) due to this reality not feeling real and trying to ascertain where I was before being born. As a child, I had many quite original ideas about things and I’d ask adults and they’d never know what I was going on about. I learned at a young age that the various systems in place didn’t make room for me and didn’t accept me as I was, so I was operating separately from much of society very early on. Thinking and learning completely independently much of the time. What I used to see as ostracizing, I now see as protection because I learned early on that people tend to be disingenuous and dishonest, even if they think they’re not. I saw the illusions very early on. For me, learning to trust my own intuition over society’s ideas was key, as my intuition (even as a small child) was very accurate. Original ideas in many cases. Now in my 40s, I am comfortable with living in a subjective reality and figuring out my own life through original thinking and not worrying about society’s ideas about stuff. I know I’ll never have an objective view of things and I know that’s the point. We live in two entirely separate dimensions at once, the shared illusion and our own personal realm. That’s highly subjective. But there are indeed many who do have a lot of original ideas from within. And while I’ve had lucid dreams, they aren’t often. I’ve always tried to be brutally honest with myself and seeking whatever truth I can find, fully knowing that it’s still a subjective viewpoint. But that doesn’t necessarily translate to lucid dreaming for all of us. For me, remembering that it’s an illusion and only my perspective is very comforting.
I think this is why human beings, on the whole, have such a fascination for stories, films, theatre, pantomime etc we are acting out a kind of "story" ourselves. I do have lucid dreams sometimes and it seems obvious then that there is just awareness going on, no sense of an individual "me".
Remember that although fiction may have some truths within it, it usually acts as a distortion to the truth. That's why stories should be told to teach a lesson about the truth and not the other way around.
It would have been pretty cool to have you as a philosophy professor in college! Nice overview! Understanding this can not only just help for having lucid dreams, but even dream control (or what I typically term "dream influence" these days), so very useful stuff!
Excellent talk. I’ve been in Buddhist groups for a decade or so, and I don’t recall having heard such a clear and approachable description of the principle of no self. I’m looking forward to pulling on that thread!
Love it. Very well explained. Truth. Ultimate illusion of self of this "reality". When I asked the One Who created this "reality" Why does this reality have so much deception ? Answer that I didn't expect and made me wonder in silence was this: This reality would not exist without deception.
Thank you for the great video! I've been meditating on the nature of lucid dreaming for a couple of days and the questions you posed helped me get across to a new state of understanding. I think the answer to the question "Who is lucid?" is that it is the same part in myself who becomes conscious of the illusion of the material world, or the "material dream". So it is not my ego, but something much deeper and profound. That inner being in me is intertwined with an all-encompassing existence that permeates everything. So if I consciously strive to live through that inner being, then lucid dreams become just another "world of existence".
Interesting Daniel. I'll certainly follow more of your work. I started lucid dreaming quite naturally when I was about 7 years old and used to summon these things up just by telling myself to 'wake up' while dreaming. Later in life, I got a book about lucid dreaming and read about the light switch experiment and during such a dream, I operated a light switch so that I could observe the delay in the lights switching on and off. I loved the idea of performing an experiment from within a dream. These days I guess I can't be bothered but this morning I had a section of a lucid dream where I was in a place full of people and I just took a moment to observe the faces of the people there and remarked to myself that all of these people are being 'rendered' in real-time in great detail. I'm interested in the simulation hypothesis and my confirmation bias tells me that quite clearly, a world can be created, no matter how bizarre, without sensory input that we just passively accept when not lucid dreaming.
After buying your book 'Are you dreaming?' and starting to read and watching a couple of your videos I had a dream in the past where you appeared. We were in a building and you asked me something but I didn't want to answer you. There were portals where you could go back 'home' to this time. Looking forward to reading.
I think in the internal world your self remains a constant. If in a dream I am watching myself in a third person pov then I’m the witness, I think our vision of the self for very good reasons to be highly relatable, so we inadvertently empathize with it so deeply we believe it to be the self.
I'm consciously different selves all the time. Because I am a DID System. Paraphrased - "Self is a narrative, a story, we tell ourselves to remain cohesive across time."
The point about the real question not being is this a dream, but what kind of dream is this? Really hit us. Because we struggled with that for awhile. Implicitly, for awhile we wanted to say YES this is a dream! In waking life, but, it's a different dream from the sleeping dream. So then how are they different? Is of the real questions.
Another great and informative video! A lot of what you mentioned reminded me of Steve Hagen's book, Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense. Not about lucid dreaming but definitely worth the read.
I had a dream where a dream character was showing me how to do reality checks and I was still oblivious to the fact that I was dreaming lol. This video is super deep but full of essential information! Thanks 🙏🙏🙏
I have always been an active dreamer. It's a gift imo. However I never heard of intentionally having a lucid dream. So two nights ago I watched your video on how you've been doing it for over 40 years. I recognized that I could do what you said, which was to catch yourself just as you start going into the dream state. I am generally always conscious of when i loose control of my thoughts and random things just start popping up. First night, nothing special. The second night, I watched this video and tried to do it again. My plan was to steal some of your ideas like flying or going to space. I have never done that in a dream. So I intended to fly and soon I'm in a very happy dream. I was with my wife and some musical little kids in what reminded me of a beautiful French chateau and we were all having a great time trying to do musical impressions and other music related things when we noticed the sun went dark for a few seconds. We all went outside next to a little pond looking up, and the sun just glitched out. It was basically the end of the universe. Gravity started doing weird things and I was paralized in a fetal position as everything went dark. I could hear one of the children who was nearby who was also experiencing the same terror. So here is the best part. As we lay there basically dying from a stellar flame out and gravitational randomness, I tried to console the child by saying "control the dream control the dream." As I was saying that into the darkness I felt myself start to float uncontrollably toward where the lake had been and knew I couldn't move and I was going to drown. Just then I woke up uttering "control the dream." So I was basically trying to remind myself to take control of the dream while I was already basically flying which was my original intention! Awake, I felt like I failed a test and passed one at the same time and I'm left with this feeling that I'm on the right track!
To me the dream state appears to be like the mental state I was in during the day. I was looking for some item and had to visit an, to me, unfamiliar department. The whole search took all my attention (or should that be brainpower) and only after I had left the building, I realised how similar the sensation was to my dream world. The same overwhelming, absorbing illusion.
Never heard it so thoroughly explained before - Yet easy to understand 👏 I always refer to it as a hologram, a 3D projection if you will of an inner personalised reality. The pineal gland secretes serotonin to produce a hologram which operates based off our real time sensory inputs. When we sleep, it secretes melatonin which creates a dream state. DMT is the underlying molecule which switches between melatonin/serotonin - The Spirit molecule. Thats why shamans have used plants that contain DMT since the beginning - Especially with people who have traumatic experiences stored in memory. It results alteration of perception and access to deeper memory storages, allowing the realisation of a new broader narrative.
At one time, I fell asleep and in that dream state found I had command of everything. On waking and further reflection, I found myself the subject of Someone Far-Mightier's Dream; although they say He never sleeps.
Watching this video again - about all these apparently different selves - reminds me of a little Zen tale - about a king who starts to have very realistic dreams about other lives, all of which seem equally real and he doesn't know which one is the real one so he sends for a Sage to ask him, how can he tell which life is the real one. The Sage tells him - to find out what is the one thing that is common to all of them.
"What is life, but a fevered dream?" - Lorna Shore It surely can be uncomfortable uncovering truths of reality. I love this style of content. It really gets me to try to think more than just surface layer thoughts.
Yesterday in my dream I remember trying to convince the people in my dream of it being a dream. So it was lucid in a way but lately when I notice it being a dream I don't do anything with the information. I just follow along with whatever the story is at the time. idk if my brain is just too tired to do something different and take control, or it's part of the spiritual path.
It depends what you believe what is "self". If it's a "product" of the basic functions of the body or the environment, it always be circumstantial, another "illusion" lays over the senses.
dreaming is a wild concept. you wake in a universe to your own experiences, shaped to your intrests, with no rememberance of how you got there, thinking you were always there. AND IT HAPPENS DAILY??
❤Love and Light Daniel, in regards to my previous comment just wondering if youre familiar with Link from Legend of Zelda?...I know youve heard of Peter Pan...My dreams have shown me these are real people I know, who may not see themselves this way.
Thanks so much! Sadly I never had the time to delve into Legends of Zelda (maybe one day!), the kaleidoscope of archetypes in dreams certainly has a way of mixing schemas and showing us some of our deeper views on those we know! I appreciate you sharing!
Can’t tell you how RELEVANT this is to where I am now. So exciting! This was already an adventure for me - to explore self-portraiture when I couldn’t even look at myself in the mirror (thankfullyul I’m through that bit). More please Daniel!
Good video. As if someone would play with our story, that’s our to tell in the first hand. To who we want to tell it. Even if everyone. Ending up distorting the truth of ourselves, too. And everything else’s truth too. Leaving us experiencing lies on lies o lies, etc. That are not ours, nor from the ones we would believe it is.
For me who gets lucid in the dream is best described as nobody. But i know this might lead to different understandings, misunderstanding. It's like just.. being. Floating through a blue portal some years ago was one of the coolest lucid dreams. So interesting how something so marvelous can seem so boring and dull when you just can tell about it, but can not really share the experience.
I've never really tried to have lucid dreams but I get them naturally every now and then. As soon as I realize I'm dreaming, the magic is gone. The dream stops progressing and I become stuck in that location or "scene". There's nothing I can do and nowhere I can go. I can look around and that's about it. I much prefer non-lucid dreams. In those, anything can happen: I can do anything, be anything and go anywhere. And it feels more vivid because I believe it to be real.
I think problem is that you have started expecting this to happen. In my and others experience whatever you expect will usually happen. You have to truly believe that you can change the dream or scene for it to actually work. Once you truly know that you can do everything, then you will have this ability.
@@bloxyman22 I don't know. In several of my past instances I've tried to experiment with an open mind. 5 things have remained consistent in all of my lucid dreams: 1. I'm always alone. 2. I can move around freely and interact with my surroundings like I normally would, but I can't leave the current scenario. 3. I can only do things I can do in real life. 4. I can't give control back to my subconscious even of I try. 5. I can move my real body to some extent. (If I move too suddenly, I wake up.) Maybe this is just how lucid dreams manifest for me. It can't work the same way for everyone, right?
Very chewy stuff but some sweetness here too thank goodness. I’m looking forward to parsing the different levels of lucidity and what the implications might be.
Great video! RE "illusion": Vedanta (one of the six major schools of Hinduism) uses the concept "dependent reality" rather than "illusion". Common example is that the pot's reality is *dependent* on the clay, yet the pot still has a practical functionality at our everyday level of reality which we wouldn't call an illusion. Having been in non-duality teachings many years ago, the word "illusion" can certainly be subject to misuse/abuse if not fully understood...eg people acting like d!ck$ because it's "all an illusion" or not caring about what happens in life because "it's all an illusion" etc. [Comment is not a criticism, but a continuation of the discussion].
Absolutely, 100% in agreement. Just to transparency: I'll generally use more familiar terms in videos just for accessibility. But your points are absolutely valid. Always enjoy thoughtful and intelligent comments.
I always suffered from insomnia as a child because I was always thinking about what happens after death, but now I am relieved. I already experience death several times a night in non-REM sleep. Yay.
Me wanting to lucid dream came from a random thought during the summer so I guess I influenced myself. Now I know why I want to lucid dream but it’s funny how random that thought was
@@omarbezzi It's like the induced message before the dream but on my part i can just say it in my mind and the brain just registered it as the message.I think
This discussion is heavily confirmed when encountering people who have serious dementia problems. My Mom has gone into permeant Manic mode. Her brain filters are so massively altered she can not longer work well with her perceived reality filters and has become impossible to reason with. All very unfortunate.
I wanted to ask a question on your livestream but could not use the superchat option. If you have the time for it, here is the questions: How to continue with lucid dreaming day-time practice during a military service, potentially as an active fighting soldier?
Hi flyingdutchman, I think those would certainly be very challenging conditions - but not entirely impossible. Can I ask you to ask again in the next stream, as that's something that I'd really like to explore in a little more depth than a comment will allow for.
@@DanielLoveOrg The superchat option did not work for some reason this livestream but I was considering becoming a member anyways so if I will buy a membership by the next stream I will ask again. Btw I'm currently reading your book, very great!
I once lived in a flat where something about the environment made me have lucid dreams every night for several months, I think my sleep quality was affected (maybe by high levels of EMFs from several close phone masts and a close transformer station - but that's just a hypothesis) and that a lighter kind of sleep caused the lucid dreaming. To be honest it soon became very boring. Being "lucid" in the sense that I knew I was dreaming, I would manipulate my dreams in a way that made me succeed or be liked or admired or (most often) loved the way I wanted - so in many mays they resembled more vivid daydreams, but since I knew it wasn't real, it wasn't all that exciting. It also made me feel shallow, because making my dreams into boring daydreams about being loved or succeeding was the only thing I would ever do. I find this video very interesting,, but for me lucid dreaming didn't really change anything. Also I have a brain that sometimes hallucinates - probably because the part of the brain that usually interprets visual sensory input, sometimes struggles with doing its job (and the brain then makes wild guesses or weird suggestions about the world I see), so I know very well how much of our experiences are interpretations and that they can't be blindly trusted. But even this doesn't make me especially wise or awakened. I still have no clue what all this we call life is about or if there is a reason I am here. And even though I know pain is an interpretation made by (different parts of) the brain or the mind, I don't handle it well at all, and I am still ridiculously afraid of suffering. It might be an illusion, but it feels so real (much more than the lucid dreams).
Had my first lucid dream when I was 7. I also had night terrors during my childhood and I think my mind was looking for a way to exit them, which is exactly the purpose I used lucid dreaming for. If I found myself in a night terror or just a garden variety nightmare when I realized I was asleep I'd find a building to jump from or did something like running into a wall as hard as I could. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I realized I had some control over the dreamscape. By the time I hit my early twenties I was lucid dreaming every single night. I nearly always just flew around. The feeling of being liberated from gravity's grasp is incredible. During a lucid dream I saw a star which came to fall at my feet and when it landed I saw what I can only describe as a gnome, specifically a garden gnome. He was around a foot tall, had a red pointed hat, long white beard and a blue suit. He said to me "You're not supposed to be doing this". After that night the lucid dreams pretty much stopped. Since then I'll have a handful every year but I don't have any control over them. I'll either immediately wake up or the lucidity will quickly slip away. I'm not sure how well that comment slots into the topic of the video other than to say don't count on your ability to see through Illusions as some permanent, static ability. I don't know if that gnome was a part of mind taking my ability away or if there's something that monitors the dream world and polices it for whatever reason, all I know is one day I could enter a dream and manipulate it Inception style and the next day I couldn't. I am upset with that gnome though so if anybody sees the little bastard try to find out where he lives because I have some words for him.
@@jamesstaggs4160 Very interesting, and your history is very similar to mine. I never saw a gnome that told me this, but I gradually came to the conclusion that the sleep state and dream life has a subconscious purpose that is more important than all the fun I was having in my lucid dreams. Now I have fewer lucid dreams, but I’m more trusting of my life purpose. Not sure this is what you want to hear, it’s interesting to compare notes, and it could be that your gnome represented a part of yourself that sensed you were becoming self indulgent. Just a thought.
The very idea of "the brain," and our identification with it, are stories we tell ourselves. Check out Hoffman's _The Case Against Reality_ and Kastrup's books on idealism.
@@DanielLoveOrg Interesting. I wonder if those who claim 'enlightenment' have glimpsed reality unfiltered in some strange way? As in, they've peeked behind the curtain. There are many people who claim to have 'directly' experienced the non-dual nature of reality - absent of 'self' & 'other'. Thanks, I bought your book.
I've had many lucid dreams in the past, not anymore but I would like to know what you think about dreams I sometimes get, it's not lucid but while in these dreams I only feel joy, bliss, peace etc. I feel no stress or worries nor depressed, I don't even know about this life except when someone I know is in the dream but still I feel that I can spend eternity there Please if you might know how and why I can't feel that way while awake
In simple words Stay Present by not getting attached to the plot, the farther you go with your thoughts more energy is at play. Stay safe, Stay in the Present
The way I think of the difference between reality and interpretations through the senses is the difference between the mind and the soul in which the soul is the dream self of Universal Mind that I see as Source Consciousness. I view that the self is the same in waking and dreaming state even if the true self is no self that may be the reason for the existence of Moksha even with the existence of the soul since perception is the essence of existence in which there is nothing underneath qualia even if perception could exist beyond the brain. I view the soul as analogous for what is eternal and the consistent perceiver from dream to dream and antarayama that is analogous to what it's like between lives in the waking state. I wouldn't say that I am a Hindu, but Hindu concepts is a good way of thinking about dreams.
I've been trying to Lucid dream for a while now and once i actually did a reality check in a dream but i couldn't become lucid. In the dream i was at school and of my friends asked me to count my fingers(this was the only reality check i did everytime i saw my trigger) So I tried to count my fingers and they were so weird that i kept trying again and again so it could work. In the dream i thought i was just doing it wrong because my fingers weren't looking like my friend's finger so i tried and tried and finally i was able to do it correctly, my fingers looked normal so i told my friend "I did it. I do this everytime" and that's when i woke up. Crazy huh? 😂
You know on the few times I've achieved lucidity that is my only failsafe reality check. Look at your fingers. Always. Couple of dreams I wasnt sure then looked at my hands...well each one had around 9 long spindly ET type fingers. That's all it took to validate in my mind I was being allowed to be aware I was dreaming...then off I went !!
You're so lucky! I'd love to lucid dream, don't think my mind will let me. Atleast I've had a transcendent experience a few times. I'm grateful for that
One kick starter for me was dreaming I was in my local high street where I saw Uri Geller selling cigarettes from a kiosk (??!!) . That was enough for me to say in my dream - hang on...Uri Geller what's HE doing here ??!! I think I did the fingers check straight away - saw my ET spindly grey fingers and then knew for sure I was in a dream. Geller in my dream winked at me. That's when I knew.
Daniel, I'm back :) yesterday I dreamt I was at a party, My Ex (Peter Pan) was there, working on music with his crew...but I saw twins too, Link and his brother who passed...before I woke up I think Peter slipped me a pill...
@@theodorandrews3589 Same, SERIOUS CHILLS! As a Gnostic who sees the upmost self, higher self, as God itself. To know there such an emphasis on not being able to see the face of God & to take much care as to not confuse it with a false image of it, it's just made something click.
Hi, I would like to know how do you know the difference between a vivid dream and out of body experience? After meditation I had a dream in which I would leave my body and fly out of the window. Then I was flying into a big ship, it was dark and inside the ship I would hear and see a baby crying in a bed. The cloth of the baby and from the ship and inside interior I had a feeling it was a timline from the past, when it was a war and poverty. I went to the baby and I hold the baby in my arms to calm the baby. At the same time I was afraid of all I would experience. Then I heard the noise of a text message and woke up instantly. Now I had 2 other dreams in which I would leave my body and fly. Can you please help me. I would like to know is this an out of body experience? Thanks ❤🙏
The answer to your question is in your description: "Then I heard the noise of a text message and woke up instantly." If you wake up from an experience, then it was a dream. "Out-of-body experiences" are a common misinterpretation of vivid dreams, but from a scientific perspective, they are simply dreams or altered states of consciousness. Or in other words, there's no scientific evidence of OBEs as genuine experiences of leaving the body, they are classified as dreams or hallucinations.
I think mine is over 50% because I was almost raised by wolves basically my material needs were met and I lived in the middle of nowhere and I basically taught myself everything and raise myself until I went to school and then at school no one interacted with me so I was always left to my own devices. Some say that neglect changes someone but if it doesn't destroy them it can be a benefit maybe
Hey man, I have been trying to lucid dream recently but I always wake up and I’m too tired and my rain just tells me that it’s not worth trying so I go back to sleep without trying or I only try for a few minutes. Do you have any tips for this problem?
this illusion of Own Mind reminds me of a V Sauce video about " Your Red is MY Blue!" or something like that, or it was in the video, maybe it wasnt the title. i dont know if you have watched that video of his or any of his videos but he's also very philosophical about stuff. like indeed, My red could be your blue in how you percieve color. its probably the reason why different people have a difference in Favorites like Favorite Color, food, music, animal, etc etc... when questioning reality and the Illusion of Self makes you smarter i think because its only those who want to get real answers, getting bored by not having a phone, can get breakthroughs in science, fiction and artwork. again, i highly recommend that video of V Sauce and so many of his other videos. if this is bad to recommend other channels, then feel free to ask me to delete the comment as i also want to support your channel. if its okay to recommend another channel, or if you know the youtube channel and have watched it and liked it, good.
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Hi,
Can I ask if you know weather or not I have I burnt my bridges to the dream world with what I can only imagine as being a mistake I've made while lucid dreaming, and weather there is anything I can do to fix any damage I may have caused?
I used to have lucid dreams very rarely, I've had about three and I cant seem to initiate them consciously.
Recently however upon noticing I was in a dream I decided to look in a mirror. What looked back at me was absolutely horrifying, as I was struck with what felt to me as being very real existential dread. The creature I appeared to be had dark pools of burning flame for eyes and a jagged hole with burning black flames for a mouth. The visage from within the mirror then began to scream while pointing at me.
This unsettling scene of cause caused me to wake instant and I haven't remembered a dream nor woke up to lucidity within a dream since.
I am incredibly interested in the nature of the universe and I think I have exhausted all other avenues of being able to answer the questions I have in the 'real' world and would like to continue to ask questions in the dream world.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
@LucidDreamPortal Something and nothing exist
simultaneously within Creation.
Just as Dark (still silence)
and light (sound of motion)
are necessarily always present
to distill the OMNI-VERSE...
SO TOO IS...
NOTHING WITHIN EVERYTHING...
NECESSARILY PRESENT TO
DISTILL THE OMNI-VERSE.
Every single universe of
the infinite OMNI-VERSE
exists at the same place and time simultaneously.
This is the ALL-SPARK
WITHIN THE INFINITE DARK VOID.
THIS IS THE SILENT SONG
WITHIN THE LIFESTREAM.
THIS IS THE PHOENIX FIRE
WITHIN THE TREE OF LIFE.
THIS IS THE DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED FORCES OF CREATION DELICATELY INTERACTING TO DISTILL THE OMNI-VERSE.
LIGHT DOES NOT MOVE.
THE DARKNESS CARRYING IT
MOVES THE LIGHT.
THE "SPEED OF LIGHT" IS ACTUALLY
"THE PRESSURE OF DARKNESS ".
THIS MEASURE IS THE FREQUENCY FOR ITS ACCOMMODATING UNIVERSE.
THERE ARE INFINITE FREQUENCIES FOR INFINITE UNIVERSES...
THE TOTALITY OF ALL UNIVERSES IS CALLED THE OMNI-VERSE.
ALSO KNOWN AS
THE "ALL-SPARK. "
i am the BRIGHTEST NIGHT
I AM THE DARKEST LIGHT.
@Wise_Milk2519Something and nothing exist simultaneously within Creation.
Just as Dark (still silence)
and light (sound of motion)
are necessarily always present
to distill the OMNI-VERSE...
SO TOO IS...
NOTHING WITHIN EVERYTHING...
NECESSARILY PRESENT TO
DISTILL THE OMNI-VERSE.
Every single universe of
the infinite OMNI-VERSE
exists at the same place and time simultaneously.
This is the ALL-SPARK
WITHIN THE INFINITE DARK VOID.
THIS IS THE SILENT SONG
WITHIN THE LIFESTREAM.
THIS IS THE PHOENIX FIRE
WITHIN THE TREE OF LIFE.
THIS IS THE DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED FORCES OF CREATION DELICATELY INTERACTING TO DISTILL THE OMNI-VERSE.
LIGHT DOES NOT MOVE.
THE DARKNESS CARRYING IT
MOVES THE LIGHT.
THE "SPEED OF LIGHT" IS ACTUALLY
"THE PRESSURE OF DARKNESS ".
THIS MEASURE IS THE FREQUENCY FOR ITS ACCOMMODATING UNIVERSE.
THERE ARE INFINITE FREQUENCIES FOR INFINITE UNIVERSES...
THE TOTALITY OF ALL UNIVERSES IS CALLED THE OMNI-VERSE.
ALSO KNOWN AS
THE "ALL-SPARK. "
i am the BRIGHTEST NIGHT
I AM THE DARKEST LIGHT.
This morning I had a "false awakening" dream where another person told me that if I went back to sleep then, I'd have an excellent chance of getting lucid in a dream. I then "tried to do so", and thought I had fallen back to sleep, but was still just looking around at the surrounding scene of the interior of my home (which was of course a sleeping dream itself... and in retrospect included aspects of my childhood home), and waiting for dream imagery to manifest. I was getting frustrated that I was still "seeing the waking world", and wondering why a dream scene "was not forming". I then woke up for real, and had to facepalm and laugh at myself. Oh well, at least my mind was still kicking around notions about lucid dreaming. Still a good sign that it is continuing to take root.
i had a Too Personal nightmare (or bad dream, because i wasnt realy waking up from it in sweat, but it was a painfull dream) but also in the dream there was like Zero Hope. it was like i was failing at everything. one thing i can say thats less personal stuff is that in many of my dreams i always am the only one surviving a Tsunami. but in this bad dream (or nightmare?!) i was drowning like the others and was so mad about myself when i woke up. i survived under the water because i stole a divers breathing gear but then he drowned and i felt dissapointed with myself but this was my Dream Me trying to survive in the weirdest way possible. then i woke up and when i woke up i hated that i dreamed about NOT surviving the Tsunami. makes me think that something in my life is falling apart and failing in most aspects of waking life and gets interprated this in the Tsunami the first i drowned in. its scary. also, a wasted opportunity for myself to net get lucid in either that Personal dream scenario as also that Tsunami problem.
my last Lucid dream was a month ago and i did some cool space and flying stuff and even manifested dreamlings. whilst it was fun i think next Lucid Dream goal is to stay in the dream and not change much, and just feel the environment and try to get it into my memory for future story writing or drawing. stay Lucid
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@@Carl_Frank yeah so that happened to me too you think that you’re up but you actually wake up afterwards so when you’re in that state when you could still see around your room and stuff so that you being conscious within your subconscious at that state, you could actually imagine anything and it will be like you’re actually there which is actually lucid dreaming so you were lucid dreaming it might actually even be an OBE that part I’m still trying to figure out myself but ya when you’re in that state where you can see around you and you think you’re still up you’re actually lucid dreaming
@@peterdavis7275 No, I wasn't lucid dreaming. I was dreaming that I had awakened and then gone back to bed, hoping to enter a dream lucidly, but was “frustrated that a dream scene was not forming”, all the while I was actually already in a dream and *didn't* realize it. I have had several lucid dreams over the years, dreams where I was fully aware that what I was experiencing was a dream generated by my sleeping brain, - that I was actually asleep in bed. Just recently in fact, I had one where I even smelled machine oil in a workshop with a lathe and other big machines… but I knew all of that was a dreamt illusion.
I am unconvinced of OBEs being a real thing; I don’t see any good reason to think, for example, in the false awakening dream I recounted, that my consciousness had actually left my body and was traveling around my actual physical home overlaid with dreamt-up alterations, or some alternate version of it, or whatever. Occam’s Razor leads me to conclude the most likely fact is that what I was experiencing was a dream, where I had mistaken it for reality, while hoping for a dream to form. It was a type of what Daniel has called (in at least one of his videos) a “fake lucid dream”… or a dream about lucid dreaming.
I have, on rare occasions, partially awakened, with dream imagery still happening briefly, overlaid on my sensory perception like “augmented reality”. For example I remember sitting up in bed once as a kid, and my hair brushed against the headboard, making a sound I thought, in my groggy state, sounded like insects buzzing, so when I turned around, the expectation had me see a ball of insects and spiderwebs there for a second… but then it faded away and I realized it was just a bit of leftover dream imagery. Not at all like the experience I had recently, which I realized had all been a dream once I actually woke up and was thinking clearly.
@@peterdavis7275 I don’t know what happened to my long reply to this, but *I’m* not seeing it now, so I will do the short version: No, I was not lucid dreaming in that one, because I was not clear-minded on what was happening. I had a confused mindset where I thought I was waiting for a dream to form, when I was already in one. When I woke up, I immediately realized that I had not been thinking logically, but was affected by “dream potato brain”. It was one of those “fake lucid dreams” or “dreams about lucid dreaming” that Daniel mentioned in at least one of his past videos. I’ve had actual lucid dreams- dreams wherein I was fully aware it was a dream, and was thinking clearly/logically. This wasn’t it.
Daniel, I started taking an anti-depressant and it has a very interesting side affect. Very long and vivid dreams. Last night, I had the most vivid dream that I ever had. I honestly think that this is the brain trying to get out of the depressed state of mind cause I haven't had dreams like this since I was a kid. I literally woke up in awe. Being depressed affects your dreams in a big way.
This makes a lot of sense. Most antidepressants influence the serotonergic system, which can significantly affect dreams and dream recall. Thank you, as always, for your kind support, and I'm glad to hear you're working with medical professionals to manage your depression. Maybe consider the vivid dreams as a little unexpected bonus!
@FireboltJB if you dint mind me asking, what med do you take?
J6st curious if it's same as mine or something similar.
I’m just a rando who enjoyed very much this video, but I would highly suggest that you document your dreams (if you’re not already doing so). Whatever our perception of reality is, vivid dreams are also stories told through symbolism. I assume there are interesting messages trying to reach your awareness. I wish you strength fellow dreamer🌈
@@miaumiaumiauy Thank you. I'm still getting long lucid dreams. They. I had two very long ones last night actually. I'm lucid almost all the time. It became natural thanks to this channel. It happened after 10+ years of doing it.
Lexapro? I have wild dreams on that.
lucid dreaming is probably one of the best tools that we have in search of reality and understanding mind, but this video is not only about lucid dreaming, much more than that. you should write more books, Daniel.
Forget lucid dreaming, this is lesson in nature of reality! Absolutely nailed it, really great piece of work. I feel like this should be 101 in school. (p.s. if you want one tiny bit of constructive criticism it would be the screen glare in your glasses, but that is nit picking and only mentioned to help with future productions 👍)
You absolute legend, thank you so much for you kind support and lovely words! I really appreciate both the positive and constructive feedback. On the glasses front, I had made a mental note on that already, it's just a real pain to switch the monitors off while recording, or alternatively not being able to see the screen without glasses 🤣 - I'll try to work on a solution!
@@aquacruisedb 💯
Came for lucid dreaming
Left with existential dread, a life crisis and a degree in Psychology and philosophy
@@aayanscreativelab1786 😅
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I just had a lucid dream that started with a video of you that was distorted. So when I saw the channel name change I immediately had to do a reality check. I got so excited for a second here!
Thank you for explaining Buddhism without using Buddhism language! It’s simply brilliant! Sometimes I find it difficult to explain Buddhism to people without sounding religious, lol! 🙏
@@ttuanmu deep in meditation I sometimes have original thoughts, discovery, only to find out latter it had already been known. I think truths are induring ,they keep popping up and we may believe they are our original ideas.
Thanks sir!
Thank you Jim, as always I hugely appreciate your kind support!
Thanks!
You're a starr, thank you so much for your support!
This should be taught in schools. Thank you, Daniel!
I relate to that notion, but that's a world quite divergent from the one we are apparently in.
Schools 'teach' phish, to swim in unison - rather than exploring deeper awareness. Yet, this is shifting - with shifting in consciousness, and intentionality.
@@musicingflowing I doubt that.
I'm 52 years old and have been lucid dreaming since I was about 7.
My emotions in the dreams are far stronger and feeling safe all the time.
The people I meet are like long lost freinds but I can't understand how they know me but it feels perfect x
One sunny summer afternoon last year I was out walking in nature enjoying the sunshine, the light breeze, and the sounds of birds singing. Then just as I was thinking to myself how lovely it was and that I had made a good decision to go out for a walk I remembered that I had in fact opted for an afternoon nap. As this realisation hit me I felt my whole being flip from the vertical to the horizontal then I opened my eyes to find myself lying on my bed.
This is the second time I've woken up in the dream. The first time I just had the time to undo what I realized was stupid by snapping my fingers and I awoke on my bed.
This is some of what they teach in Tibetan dream yoga
Wow that’s a lot to put on a single human at once. I couldn’t believe it when he said that we don’t see reality the way it actually is.
Have a look at the spinning dancer illusion in the video, see if you can find people to agree it's spinning the same direction :)
I think there’s a lot more variation in how different people perceive reality than many think. I remember having vivid existential crises as a small child (maybe 7 years old) due to this reality not feeling real and trying to ascertain where I was before being born. As a child, I had many quite original ideas about things and I’d ask adults and they’d never know what I was going on about. I learned at a young age that the various systems in place didn’t make room for me and didn’t accept me as I was, so I was operating separately from much of society very early on. Thinking and learning completely independently much of the time.
What I used to see as ostracizing, I now see as protection because I learned early on that people tend to be disingenuous and dishonest, even if they think they’re not. I saw the illusions very early on.
For me, learning to trust my own intuition over society’s ideas was key, as my intuition (even as a small child) was very accurate. Original ideas in many cases.
Now in my 40s, I am comfortable with living in a subjective reality and figuring out my own life through original thinking and not worrying about society’s ideas about stuff.
I know I’ll never have an objective view of things and I know that’s the point. We live in two entirely separate dimensions at once, the shared illusion and our own personal realm. That’s highly subjective.
But there are indeed many who do have a lot of original ideas from within. And while I’ve had lucid dreams, they aren’t often. I’ve always tried to be brutally honest with myself and seeking whatever truth I can find, fully knowing that it’s still a subjective viewpoint. But that doesn’t necessarily translate to lucid dreaming for all of us.
For me, remembering that it’s an illusion and only my perspective is very comforting.
I think this is why human beings, on the whole, have such a fascination for stories, films, theatre, pantomime etc we are acting out a kind of "story" ourselves. I do have lucid dreams sometimes and it seems obvious then that there is just awareness going on, no sense of an individual "me".
Universe is litteral one song / story
this is so good, really gets to the core of lucidity and metacognition
You just explained non-dualism. Loved this video. Very brilliantly put. Hat's off to you🙌🏻
Wow, this was one of the most eye-opening and philosophical videos I’ve seen in quite some time. Thank you for making it Daniel!
Remember that although fiction may have some truths within it, it usually acts as a distortion to the truth. That's why stories should be told to teach a lesson about the truth and not the other way around.
Great video! I'm going keep all of these in mind. Keep creating this type of videos.
It would have been pretty cool to have you as a philosophy professor in college! Nice overview! Understanding this can not only just help for having lucid dreams, but even dream control (or what I typically term "dream influence" these days), so very useful stuff!
This started out interesting and just got better and better
Great insights. All this makes one wonder what at all IS real... if anything. Can be a bit unsettling. No wonder we retreat into our egos so much :)
Excellent talk.
I’ve been in Buddhist groups for a decade or so, and I don’t recall having heard such a clear and approachable description of the principle of no self.
I’m looking forward to pulling on that thread!
Love it. Very well explained. Truth. Ultimate illusion of self of this "reality".
When I asked the One Who created this "reality" Why does this reality have so much deception ?
Answer that I didn't expect and made me wonder in silence was this: This reality would not exist without deception.
Thank you for the great video! I've been meditating on the nature of lucid dreaming for a couple of days and the questions you posed helped me get across to a new state of understanding. I think the answer to the question "Who is lucid?" is that it is the same part in myself who becomes conscious of the illusion of the material world, or the "material dream". So it is not my ego, but something much deeper and profound. That inner being in me is intertwined with an all-encompassing existence that permeates everything. So if I consciously strive to live through that inner being, then lucid dreams become just another "world of existence".
Interesting Daniel. I'll certainly follow more of your work. I started lucid dreaming quite naturally when I was about 7 years old and used to summon these things up just by telling myself to 'wake up' while dreaming. Later in life, I got a book about lucid dreaming and read about the light switch experiment and during such a dream, I operated a light switch so that I could observe the delay in the lights switching on and off. I loved the idea of performing an experiment from within a dream. These days I guess I can't be bothered but this morning I had a section of a lucid dream where I was in a place full of people and I just took a moment to observe the faces of the people there and remarked to myself that all of these people are being 'rendered' in real-time in great detail. I'm interested in the simulation hypothesis and my confirmation bias tells me that quite clearly, a world can be created, no matter how bizarre, without sensory input that we just passively accept when not lucid dreaming.
After buying your book 'Are you dreaming?' and starting to read and watching a couple of your videos I had a dream in the past where you appeared. We were in a building and you asked me something but I didn't want to answer you. There were portals where you could go back 'home' to this time. Looking forward to reading.
I think in the internal world your self remains a constant. If in a dream I am watching myself in a third person pov then I’m the witness, I think our vision of the self for very good reasons to be highly relatable, so we inadvertently empathize with it so deeply we believe it to be the self.
I'm consciously different selves all the time. Because I am a DID System. Paraphrased - "Self is a narrative, a story, we tell ourselves to remain cohesive across time."
The point about the real question not being is this a dream, but what kind of dream is this? Really hit us. Because we struggled with that for awhile. Implicitly, for awhile we wanted to say YES this is a dream! In waking life, but, it's a different dream from the sleeping dream. So then how are they different? Is of the real questions.
Thank you. Your lucidity extends beyond your dreams. A very well thought out presentation. I subscribed.
Thank you! Glad to have you here!
That was a great explanation of our current situation Daniel!
Great video, deep into human psyche, love it ❤️
This is the type of video I love to see.
Another great and informative video! A lot of what you mentioned reminded me of Steve Hagen's book, Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense. Not about lucid dreaming but definitely worth the read.
I had a dream where a dream character was showing me how to do reality checks and I was still oblivious to the fact that I was dreaming lol. This video is super deep but full of essential information! Thanks 🙏🙏🙏
I have always been an active dreamer. It's a gift imo. However I never heard of intentionally having a lucid dream. So two nights ago I watched your video on how you've been doing it for over 40 years. I recognized that I could do what you said, which was to catch yourself just as you start going into the dream state. I am generally always conscious of when i loose control of my thoughts and random things just start popping up.
First night, nothing special. The second night, I watched this video and tried to do it again. My plan was to steal some of your ideas like flying or going to space. I have never done that in a dream. So I intended to fly and soon I'm in a very happy dream. I was with my wife and some musical little kids in what reminded me of a beautiful French chateau and we were all having a great time trying to do musical impressions and other music related things when we noticed the sun went dark for a few seconds. We all went outside next to a little pond looking up, and the sun just glitched out. It was basically the end of the universe. Gravity started doing weird things and I was paralized in a fetal position as everything went dark. I could hear one of the children who was nearby who was also experiencing the same terror. So here is the best part. As we lay there basically dying from a stellar flame out and gravitational randomness, I tried to console the child by saying "control the dream control the dream." As I was saying that into the darkness I felt myself start to float uncontrollably toward where the lake had been and knew I couldn't move and I was going to drown. Just then I woke up uttering "control the dream."
So I was basically trying to remind myself to take control of the dream while I was already basically flying which was my original intention!
Awake, I felt like I failed a test and passed one at the same time and I'm left with this feeling that I'm on the right track!
I'm dreaming up this video
To me the dream state appears to be like the mental state I was in during the day. I was looking for some item and had to visit an, to me, unfamiliar department. The whole search took all my attention (or should that be brainpower) and only after I had left the building, I realised how similar the sensation was to my dream world. The same overwhelming, absorbing illusion.
Never heard it so thoroughly explained before - Yet easy to understand 👏
I always refer to it as a hologram, a 3D projection if you will of an inner personalised reality.
The pineal gland secretes serotonin to produce a hologram which operates based off our real time sensory inputs.
When we sleep, it secretes melatonin which creates a dream state.
DMT is the underlying molecule which switches between melatonin/serotonin - The Spirit molecule.
Thats why shamans have used plants that contain DMT since the beginning - Especially with people who have traumatic experiences stored in memory.
It results alteration of perception and access to deeper memory storages, allowing the realisation of a new broader narrative.
Absolutely amazing and helpful 🙏🏾 one of my favorites ever 🙏🏾 this is why this Practice is so meaningful.
Beautiful! Thank you so much. ❤️
What can I say besides Wow what a great video❤❤❤❤
At one time, I fell asleep and in that dream state found I had command of everything. On waking and further reflection, I found myself the subject of Someone Far-Mightier's Dream; although they say He never sleeps.
Watching this video again - about all these apparently different selves - reminds me of a little Zen tale - about a king who starts to have very realistic dreams about other lives, all of which seem equally real and he doesn't know which one is the real one so he sends for a Sage to ask him, how can he tell which life is the real one. The Sage tells him - to find out what is the one thing that is common to all of them.
"What is life, but a fevered dream?" - Lorna Shore
It surely can be uncomfortable uncovering truths of reality. I love this style of content. It really gets me to try to think more than just surface layer thoughts.
A line of song lyrics from Sun//Eater
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My mind is devided too but i was ready to watch this video anyway.
Yesterday in my dream I remember trying to convince the people in my dream of it being a dream. So it was lucid in a way but lately when I notice it being a dream I don't do anything with the information. I just follow along with whatever the story is at the time. idk if my brain is just too tired to do something different and take control, or it's part of the spiritual path.
It depends what you believe what is "self". If it's a "product" of the basic functions of the body or the environment, it always be circumstantial, another "illusion" lays over the senses.
Interesting, I’ll give it a go!
dreaming is a wild concept.
you wake in a universe to your own experiences, shaped to your intrests, with no rememberance of how you got there, thinking you were always there.
AND IT HAPPENS DAILY??
❤Love and Light Daniel, in regards to my previous comment just wondering if youre familiar with Link from Legend of Zelda?...I know youve heard of Peter Pan...My dreams have shown me these are real people I know, who may not see themselves this way.
Thanks so much! Sadly I never had the time to delve into Legends of Zelda (maybe one day!), the kaleidoscope of archetypes in dreams certainly has a way of mixing schemas and showing us some of our deeper views on those we know! I appreciate you sharing!
Daniel could you make a vid about how we shud do our things our reality checks our diet and more pls i think that would help ppl like me alot
Great video!
I ❤all my lucid dreams
Can’t tell you how RELEVANT this is to where I am now. So exciting! This was already an adventure for me - to explore self-portraiture when I couldn’t even look at myself in the mirror (thankfullyul I’m through that bit). More please Daniel!
Good video. As if someone would play with our story, that’s our to tell in the first hand. To who we want to tell it. Even if everyone. Ending up distorting the truth of ourselves, too. And everything else’s truth too. Leaving us experiencing lies on lies o lies, etc. That are not ours, nor from the ones we would believe it is.
S8LF = self plus infinity of possibilities and form
For me who gets lucid in the dream is best described as nobody. But i know this might lead to different understandings, misunderstanding. It's like just.. being. Floating through a blue portal some years ago was one of the coolest lucid dreams. So interesting how something so marvelous can seem so boring and dull when you just can tell about it, but can not really share the experience.
I've never really tried to have lucid dreams but I get them naturally every now and then.
As soon as I realize I'm dreaming, the magic is gone. The dream stops progressing and I become stuck in that location or "scene". There's nothing I can do and nowhere I can go. I can look around and that's about it.
I much prefer non-lucid dreams. In those, anything can happen: I can do anything, be anything and go anywhere. And it feels more vivid because I believe it to be real.
I think problem is that you have started expecting this to happen. In my and others experience whatever you expect will usually happen. You have to truly believe that you can change the dream or scene for it to actually work. Once you truly know that you can do everything, then you will have this ability.
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I don't know.
In several of my past instances I've tried to experiment with an open mind.
5 things have remained consistent in all of my lucid dreams:
1. I'm always alone.
2. I can move around freely and interact with my surroundings like I normally would, but I can't leave the current scenario.
3. I can only do things I can do in real life.
4. I can't give control back to my subconscious even of I try.
5. I can move my real body to some extent. (If I move too suddenly, I wake up.)
Maybe this is just how lucid dreams manifest for me. It can't work the same way for everyone, right?
Very chewy stuff but some sweetness here too thank goodness. I’m looking forward to parsing the different levels of lucidity and what the implications might be.
Great video! RE "illusion": Vedanta (one of the six major schools of Hinduism) uses the concept "dependent reality" rather than "illusion". Common example is that the pot's reality is *dependent* on the clay, yet the pot still has a practical functionality at our everyday level of reality which we wouldn't call an illusion. Having been in non-duality teachings many years ago, the word "illusion" can certainly be subject to misuse/abuse if not fully understood...eg people acting like d!ck$ because it's "all an illusion" or not caring about what happens in life because "it's all an illusion" etc. [Comment is not a criticism, but a continuation of the discussion].
Absolutely, 100% in agreement. Just to transparency: I'll generally use more familiar terms in videos just for accessibility. But your points are absolutely valid. Always enjoy thoughtful and intelligent comments.
I always suffered from insomnia as a child because I was always thinking about what happens after death, but now I am relieved. I already experience death several times a night in non-REM sleep. Yay.
Thankyou
Namaste
Me wanting to lucid dream came from a random thought during the summer so I guess I influenced myself. Now I know why I want to lucid dream but it’s funny how random that thought was
I can litteraly just say in my mind i want to Lucid Dream and i just Lucid Dream i have been doing this since 2020.
How long do you keep that thought so that you lucid dream by intention .
Do you have one pointed awareness ?
@@omarbezzi It's like the induced message before the dream but on my part i can just say it in my mind and the brain just registered it as the message.I think
@@CookieMAN200 so your intention is very clear .and when it's time it's just done .
I have done it before . But when my mind in racing I can't .
Do agree with what u said as everything we see in an illusion and different version of ourselves.
This discussion is heavily confirmed when encountering people who have serious dementia problems. My Mom has gone into permeant Manic mode. Her brain filters are so massively altered she can not longer work well with her perceived reality filters and has become impossible to reason with. All very unfortunate.
Dementia might b d'reaction of d'whimsical tracks a brain followed while being "healthy"
I wanted to ask a question on your livestream but could not use the superchat option. If you have the time for it, here is the questions:
How to continue with lucid dreaming day-time practice during a military service, potentially as an active fighting soldier?
Hi flyingdutchman, I think those would certainly be very challenging conditions - but not entirely impossible. Can I ask you to ask again in the next stream, as that's something that I'd really like to explore in a little more depth than a comment will allow for.
@@DanielLoveOrg The superchat option did not work for some reason this livestream but I was considering becoming a member anyways so if I will buy a membership by the next stream I will ask again. Btw I'm currently reading your book, very great!
I once lived in a flat where something about the environment made me have lucid dreams every night for several months, I think my sleep quality was affected (maybe by high levels of EMFs from several close phone masts and a close transformer station - but that's just a hypothesis) and that a lighter kind of sleep caused the lucid dreaming. To be honest it soon became very boring. Being "lucid" in the sense that I knew I was dreaming, I would manipulate my dreams in a way that made me succeed or be liked or admired or (most often) loved the way I wanted - so in many mays they resembled more vivid daydreams, but since I knew it wasn't real, it wasn't all that exciting. It also made me feel shallow, because making my dreams into boring daydreams about being loved or succeeding was the only thing I would ever do.
I find this video very interesting,, but for me lucid dreaming didn't really change anything.
Also I have a brain that sometimes hallucinates - probably because the part of the brain that usually interprets visual sensory input, sometimes struggles with doing its job (and the brain then makes wild guesses or weird suggestions about the world I see), so I know very well how much of our experiences are interpretations and that they can't be blindly trusted. But even this doesn't make me especially wise or awakened. I still have no clue what all this we call life is about or if there is a reason I am here. And even though I know pain is an interpretation made by (different parts of) the brain or the mind, I don't handle it well at all, and I am still ridiculously afraid of suffering. It might be an illusion, but it feels so real (much more than the lucid dreams).
Had my first lucid dream when I was 7. I also had night terrors during my childhood and I think my mind was looking for a way to exit them, which is exactly the purpose I used lucid dreaming for. If I found myself in a night terror or just a garden variety nightmare when I realized I was asleep I'd find a building to jump from or did something like running into a wall as hard as I could. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I realized I had some control over the dreamscape.
By the time I hit my early twenties I was lucid dreaming every single night. I nearly always just flew around. The feeling of being liberated from gravity's grasp is incredible. During a lucid dream I saw a star which came to fall at my feet and when it landed I saw what I can only describe as a gnome, specifically a garden gnome. He was around a foot tall, had a red pointed hat, long white beard and a blue suit. He said to me "You're not supposed to be doing this". After that night the lucid dreams pretty much stopped. Since then I'll have a handful every year but I don't have any control over them. I'll either immediately wake up or the lucidity will quickly slip away.
I'm not sure how well that comment slots into the topic of the video other than to say don't count on your ability to see through Illusions as some permanent, static ability. I don't know if that gnome was a part of mind taking my ability away or if there's something that monitors the dream world and polices it for whatever reason, all I know is one day I could enter a dream and manipulate it Inception style and the next day I couldn't. I am upset with that gnome though so if anybody sees the little bastard try to find out where he lives because I have some words for him.
@@jamesstaggs4160 Very interesting, and your history is very similar to mine. I never saw a gnome that told me this, but I gradually came to the conclusion that the sleep state and dream life has a subconscious purpose that is more important than all the fun I was having in my lucid dreams. Now I have fewer lucid dreams, but I’m more trusting of my life purpose. Not sure this is what you want to hear, it’s interesting to compare notes, and it could be that your gnome represented a part of yourself that sensed you were becoming self indulgent. Just a thought.
The very idea of "the brain," and our identification with it, are stories we tell ourselves. Check out Hoffman's _The Case Against Reality_ and Kastrup's books on idealism.
Do you think it is possible to apprehend reality 'directly' - i.e. unfiltered?
Probably not on account of our sense organs being filters themselves.
@@DanielLoveOrg Interesting. I wonder if those who claim 'enlightenment' have glimpsed reality unfiltered in some strange way? As in, they've peeked behind the curtain. There are many people who claim to have 'directly' experienced the non-dual nature of reality - absent of 'self' & 'other'. Thanks, I bought your book.
Red pill im ready
I used to read word up magazines
I've had many lucid dreams in the past, not anymore but I would like to know what you think about dreams I sometimes get, it's not lucid but while in these dreams I only feel joy, bliss, peace etc. I feel no stress or worries nor depressed, I don't even know about this life except when someone I know is in the dream but still I feel that I can spend eternity there
Please if you might know how and why I can't feel that way while awake
I wish our minds didn’t lie to us.
"Believing is seeing."
Mind bending 🤯
In simple words Stay Present by not getting attached to the plot, the farther you go with your thoughts more energy is at play. Stay safe, Stay in the Present
The way I think of the difference between reality and interpretations through the senses is the difference between the mind and the soul in which the soul is the dream self of Universal Mind that I see as Source Consciousness. I view that the self is the same in waking and dreaming state even if the true self is no self that may be the reason for the existence of Moksha even with the existence of the soul since perception is the essence of existence in which there is nothing underneath qualia even if perception could exist beyond the brain. I view the soul as analogous for what is eternal and the consistent perceiver from dream to dream and antarayama that is analogous to what it's like between lives in the waking state. I wouldn't say that I am a Hindu, but Hindu concepts is a good way of thinking about dreams.
I've been trying to Lucid dream for a while now and once i actually did a reality check in a dream but i couldn't become lucid. In the dream i was at school and of my friends asked me to count my fingers(this was the only reality check i did everytime i saw my trigger) So I tried to count my fingers and they were so weird that i kept trying again and again so it could work. In the dream i thought i was just doing it wrong because my fingers weren't looking like my friend's finger so i tried and tried and finally i was able to do it correctly, my fingers looked normal so i told my friend "I did it. I do this everytime" and that's when i woke up. Crazy huh? 😂
You know on the few times I've achieved lucidity that is my only failsafe reality check. Look at your fingers. Always. Couple of dreams I wasnt sure then looked at my hands...well each one had around 9 long spindly ET type fingers. That's all it took to validate in my mind I was being allowed to be aware I was dreaming...then off I went !!
You're so lucky! I'd love to lucid dream, don't think my mind will let me. Atleast I've had a transcendent experience a few times. I'm grateful for that
One kick starter for me was dreaming I was in my local high street where I saw Uri Geller selling cigarettes from a kiosk (??!!) . That was enough for me to say in my dream - hang on...Uri Geller what's HE doing here ??!! I think I did the fingers check straight away - saw my ET spindly grey fingers and then knew for sure I was in a dream. Geller in my dream winked at me. That's when I knew.
Daniel, I'm back :) yesterday I dreamt I was at a party, My Ex (Peter Pan) was there, working on music with his crew...but I saw twins too, Link and his brother who passed...before I woke up I think Peter slipped me a pill...
I think we already know this. But what do we do about it? How do we use this knowledge to substantially change the material world we're stuck in?
@@nikneumann9170 It's material only in the word.
@@nikneumann9170 change your inner state and the outer, so to speak, changes as a by product.
Hello, I am surprised you didn't talk about the real illusion of dreaming. The trap of the heart beat.
They just happen and I have fun with them. I don’t really overthink it.
interesting topic!
It's very hard to be a free thinker. How much can we really claim to know? Epistemology is important.
Life is a dream within a dream
I have lucid dream like entire life. Even remember most of them.
13:16 gave me goosebumps
@@theodorandrews3589 Same, SERIOUS CHILLS! As a Gnostic who sees the upmost self, higher self, as God itself. To know there such an emphasis on not being able to see the face of God & to take much care as to not confuse it with a false image of it, it's just made something click.
Hi, I would like to know how do you know the difference between a vivid dream and out of body experience? After meditation I had a dream in which I would leave my body and fly out of the window. Then I was flying into a big ship, it was dark and inside the ship I would hear and see a baby crying in a bed. The cloth of the baby and from the ship and inside interior I had a feeling it was a timline from the past, when it was a war and poverty. I went to the baby and I hold the baby in my arms to calm the baby. At the same time I was afraid of all I would experience. Then I heard the noise of a text message and woke up instantly. Now I had 2 other dreams in which I would leave my body and fly. Can you please help me. I would like to know is this an out of body experience? Thanks ❤🙏
The answer to your question is in your description: "Then I heard the noise of a text message and woke up instantly." If you wake up from an experience, then it was a dream. "Out-of-body experiences" are a common misinterpretation of vivid dreams, but from a scientific perspective, they are simply dreams or altered states of consciousness.
Or in other words, there's no scientific evidence of OBEs as genuine experiences of leaving the body, they are classified as dreams or hallucinations.
@@DanielLoveOrg thank you for your answer 🙏
I think mine is over 50% because I was almost raised by wolves basically my material needs were met and I lived in the middle of nowhere and I basically taught myself everything and raise myself until I went to school and then at school no one interacted with me so I was always left to my own devices. Some say that neglect changes someone but if it doesn't destroy them it can be a benefit maybe
Here's my problem: I get sleep paralysis as I'm falling asleep and it's so terrifying I have to shake myself out of it
Hey man, I have been trying to lucid dream recently but I always wake up and I’m too tired and my rain just tells me that it’s not worth trying so I go back to sleep without trying or I only try for a few minutes. Do you have any tips for this problem?
this illusion of Own Mind reminds me of a V Sauce video about " Your Red is MY Blue!" or something like that, or it was in the video, maybe it wasnt the title. i dont know if you have watched that video of his or any of his videos but he's also very philosophical about stuff. like indeed, My red could be your blue in how you percieve color. its probably the reason why different people have a difference in Favorites like Favorite Color, food, music, animal, etc etc... when questioning reality and the Illusion of Self makes you smarter i think because its only those who want to get real answers, getting bored by not having a phone, can get breakthroughs in science, fiction and artwork. again, i highly recommend that video of V Sauce and so many of his other videos. if this is bad to recommend other channels, then feel free to ask me to delete the comment as i also want to support your channel. if its okay to recommend another channel, or if you know the youtube channel and have watched it and liked it, good.
Vsauce is great, and no, I absolutely don't mind people mentioning quality science channels.