Dr. Denholm Adventure-Heart

And it was just this like playground in your own mind.

The state of the brain is firing in when you're in a lucid dream.

It's like a tightrope walk between normal waking consciousness and normal non-lucid dreaming.

Exactly, exactly.

When it was at its worst, it was so limiting that it was, you know, it was very difficult and painful to even take the bins out at night.

I could do anything.

Not only could I get up and run and explore and go to new worlds and whatever my imagination could conjure, it actually really helped my quality of life because it gave me something to be excited about.

Yeah, and then try to inhale with your lips closed.

And it doesn't work, right?

It almost always will feel different.

You can feel this sense of closed lips, but at the same time, you can feel the air just entering your lungs and breathing in through your mouth at the same time.

Really?

Yeah, it's really bizarre.

And so it's almost like trying to prime yourself to accidentally discover that you're dreaming.

You realize, ah, I'm in a dream.

That's the moment of lucidity.

Oh, geez.

I went pretty overboard with it.

I probably was doing it hundreds of times a day at some of those periods.

Super frustrating.

I know how amazing these experiences are and I know that I can access them, but they're just not coming as often as I would like.

So it was incredibly frustrating.

Reality testing didn't seem to really make that much of a difference.

Oh, it was very surprising because.

thing like that and the more the better and it's not even like doing it a hundred times is better than 10 it just it didn't actually seem to matter that much and so it kind of goes against the grain of what most people will tell you

It's a very good rate.

Yeah, so it goes off at about five hours after you've gone to sleep.

Yeah, look, it's a bit of a necessary evil, unfortunately.

Okay, so once you wake up... Imagine yourself being back in a dream, ideally the one you were just in.

Imagine yourself walking around, noticing something like a pink elephant or something strange.

You keep doing it until you really are feeling into that intention that next time I'm dreaming, I want to remember that I'm dreaming.

That strength of intention has got to be strong.

Once that's set, then you just go back to sleep as normal.

So it shows that even beginners can learn this quite quickly.

I don't know for sure.

But if I had to hazard a guess, I would say there probably are some people that are

Couldn't spend a lot of time on this and still not be able to lucid dream.

But I would say for most people, it's a learnable skill.

And like you can hear, you can smell, you can even taste.

You know, I've had lucid dreams where I've just gone to a banquet and just tried all the different foods on the table.

I could also have superpowers and go on epic missions into outer space.