My Lucid Dreaming Journey Day 31 - I Was Allen Iverson and I Challenged Lebron!

trendo (58)in #spirituality • 6 years ago

My Alarm Was Too Quiet AGAIN!

I don't know what's wrong... As usual, I set my alarm to wake me up in 4 hours of sleep so I could perform the FILD method.

And just like yesterday, I didn't even hear the alarm! Gosh, why is this happening? I'm not even tired or anything. I should be able to wake up. Plus, the phone is really close to me, so it's really surprising that I don't wake up.

Maybe, I actually wake up, but I fall asleep in seconds, and I don't remember it? I'm not sure if that's the case or not. I think I would still remember something.

I might have been able to induce a lucid dream when I actually woke up at 10 AM. I felt a bit tired and I sorta felt like my body is slowly disappearing. I was really tempted to attempt and do the FILD method...

But I had to get up, because I feel extremely tired if I sleep for like 10-12 hours a day. So, No progress with lucid dreaming for today.

Well, I must figure out a way to wake up after 4 hours of sleep, because it seems like my body is ignoring the alarm, haha!

Seriously though... I hope it doesn't happen constantly, because I don't progress much if I can't wake up.

Anyway, my dreams weren't so vivid today and there's not much that I can remember. But there was this one scene where I was... Allen Iverson! (retired NBA player).

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Lebron Didn't Want to Play With Me!

I was just shooting some hops and then Lebron entered the court. I immediately challenged him to play a match 1 on 1.
But... He refused!

I kept telling him that we should play, but he gave me all sorts of excuses. Excuses like, "You're too short", "you won't be able to defend me", "I will win easily" and so on...

Damn, I just wanted to play some ball, but he wouldn't do it! If he could win so easily, why couldn't he prove it? Haha...

But the dream was pretty cool. I don't remember if I ever dreamed of being a famous basketball player, but it felt quite cool!

I was able to do all the moves that Allen Iverson is capable of doing, but sadly... I wasn't able to test them out against Lebron...

While I was practicing, I was making like 80% of my shots. It felt like I couldn't miss anything!

But... All good things must come to an end... And so my dream faded away and I found myself in my bed again. Ahhh I wish I could've stayed there for a little longer.

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Some Dream Interpretations

I never normally did this before I started this journey, but I think it's going to be fun to check out what my dreams mean, since I'm getting more involved with them.
I don't necessarily believe the interpretations, but it's a great way to get even more immersed into the dream world.

So, in my dream, I challenged Lebron to play with me. What could that possibly mean? Here's what I found:

If you challenged someone else to something in your dream, then you are not feeling challenged enough in the waking world. Everything seems to have lost excitement, and you are hoping to create some interest for yourself in the dream world. Challenging someone else to something in a dream also shows your own self-confidence. (Source)

I was surprised to find this chunk of text, because it might be somewhat right. It does feel like I'm not challenged enough in the waking world.

But it's not like everything has lost excitement. I still enjoy to do things that I do every day. It's just that I feel like I need more challenged in my life right now.

Each day passes by so quickly and way too easily... Well, it's not a bad thing really... I'm always relaxed and free of stress, so that's extremely good.

But I would like some challenges from time to time... Cmon, throw a challenge at me!

I'm ending this post here. At the end of each post I'll include my first post (down below) about this journey as it explains why and how I'm doing this! (Full Post Here)

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I Will Be Doing This Every Day!

The main reason I want to start lucid dreaming, is for self improvement.

I've been reading a lot about it and studies have shown that you can actually improve certain abilities by doing it in your dreams.

For example, if you wan't to learn a foreign language, you can practice it in your dreams. Since you're working with your subconscious mind while you're sleeping, you might find out that you know words that you were never aware of while conscious.

It's really all up to your creativity to what you wanna learn and improve upon in your dreams. Is it basketball that you want to become better at? You can do that!

Do you want to become a better fucker? Nobody is holding you back! Just make a nasty slut appear in front of you and do whatever you want with her!

Apparently while sleeping, the neural pathways engaged in the activity are strengthened, and not only imagined or visualized.

To achieve lucid dreaming, a lot of action has to be taken. Well... Some find it really easy to lucid dream, but most have to achieve it the hard way.

It's really important to think about lucid dreaming throughout the day. This way you're telling your subconscious mind that this is what you're focusing on and what you want, thus it gives you the access to control the dream world.

There are quite a few things I will be doing in order to achieve this goal!

So, first of all, I will be posting my whole lucid dreaming journey here on Steemit every day.

I will be writing down all of my dreams on a journal. A dream journal is basically essential if you want to achieve lucid dreaming.

I will do at least 30-50 reality checks every day.

Have a sleeping rhythm. That means I will be going to sleep at the same time every night. I'll also wake up at the same time every morning as well.

I will also experiment with some techniques to induce lucid dreams.

I won't look at any screens (computer, TV or even phone) 30-60 minutes before bed, because I've read that this helps a lot. For those 30-60 minutes I will be meditating.

Talk, read and think about lucid dreaming constantly.

Occasionally I will listen to lucid dreaming binaural beats and hypnosis.

I will use an app called Awoken. This app is designed to help you achieve lucid dreaming. It reminds you to do reality checks throughout the day and it has a dream journal, which is where I will be writing down all my dreams when I wake up.

I will experiment with the supplement called Dream Leaf, I already ordered it and I will use it when it arrives. I will take it only once or at most twice every week to see if it changes anything about my dreams and the ability to become lucid.

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Tracking All My Progress!

So, like I've mentioned before, I will be tracking all my progress and I'll be posting about it every day here on Steemit.

Also, after I achieve lucid dreaming, I won't stop posting about my experiences for some time still.

When I achieve my goal, I will be writing down a lot of experiences that I have inside the dream world, and I'll experiment if it's actually possible to improve real life skills while sleeping.

I set a personal goal to achieve lucid dreaming within 30 days starting today. I'm really excited and hopefully I'll be able to do that even faster than 30 days!

This is not the first time I try to achieve lucid dreaming, but I never took it seriously and I was too inconsistent, so I never even came close to becoming lucid.

But this time I'm gonna SMASH it and record the whole journey on this blockchain!

UPDATE: I achieved lucid dreaming for the first time on day 12

The alarm is going to wake me up this time!

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