Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Thursday, November 18, 2010

Making The Conscious Decision To Lucid Dream

By Rory Gallagan

A lucid dream refers to a dream in which the sleeper is aware that he is dreaming. A person who lucid dream's has the ability to vigorously contribute in and influence imaginary experiences in the dream environment.

Most of the lucid dreams are concerning things you want to happen. These dreams generally take place when a person is in the center of a regular dream and abruptly become conscious that he or she is sleeping and must be dreaming. It is at this time that the person is known to be lucid and could enter one of the many levels of lucidity.

When a person is known to lucid dream at the lowest lucidity levels, there are bleak chances that he recollects that he is in a dream, and may not be able to logically think or be able to recognize that anything that happens in the dream is not real. When a person is known to lucid dream at the highest lucidity level, then the dreamer is totally conscious that he or she is sleeping and have complete control over things occurring in the dream.

Your attempt to lucid dream should be superseded by an attempt first to work on improving dream recall. Incase you are able to retain some dreams a night, this will be good enough. There are different techniques by which you can induce to lucid dream and there are chances that you may even come up with your own personal techniques with time. Following is one of the techniques that shows how to lucid dream.

Reality Testing Technique is one technique to lucid dream is very simply and involves making an effort to decide whether you are awake or in a dream. You can find this out by looking at the world around you and to decide if it is real. One of the ways to achieve this is to become attentive to the world around you and look for dreaming signs.

You must also carry out standard reality checks through the day. It's a simple concept behind this method which is that you are able to determine that what you witness is just not possible, then in all likelihood you are dreaming.

Training yourself to be attentive for signs of during the waking hours is the first thing towards this. This is essentially done to recondition yourself to the acceptance of the world around you. This is not limited in the hours when you are awake only; these should be followed into the world of your dream as well.

Incase you are absolutely convinced that whatever you have witnessed is out of the ordinary and is fairly possible, you should perform one more unconnected test. Glance at a digital clock or watch or read some text. Repeat this after few seconds. If the time or text changes mysteriously, then you are for sure dreaming. As you get more consistent with performing reality checks, your chances get better of being able to encourage a lucid dream.

For lucid dream you simply need to understand that you are dreaming. A reality check needs to be carried out to check that you are dreaming.

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