Lucid Dreaming by Wikibooks

Author:Wikibooks [Wikibooks]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Glossary

CAT see Cycle Adjustment Technique

Cycle Adjustment Technique

The technique in which you adjust your sleeping cycle to promote awareness in your dreams.

DC see Dream character

DILD see Dream-Initiated Lucid Dream

Dream character

Any character inside your dream. Some people believe they are real people or spirit guides, others that they’re just products of the dreaming mind.

Dream-Initiated Lucid Dream

A lucid dream that starts as a normal dream, but in which you become lucid.

Dream recall

Remembrance of what you dreamt.

Dream result

Result from a reality check that shows that you are dreaming. You only want these in dreams.

Dreamscape

The landscape and scenery in your dream.

Hypnagogic imagery

The images, sounds, etc. that you perceive as you fall asleep. Not to be confused with phosphenes.

LD see Lucid dream

LILD see Lucid Induction of Lucid Dreams

Lucid dream

A dream in which you are aware that you are dreaming.

Lucid Induction of Lucid Dreams

The technique in which you do something in a lucid dream that theoretically will remind you that you’re dreaming in your next dream.

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MILD see Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams NST (named subconscious technique); see Getting more help with MILD from your subconscious, under Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams This technique is a useful aid to the MILD technique where the dreamer actively engages his/her subconcious for dream results. (VERY easy)

Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams

The technique in which you mentally repeat to yourself, as you fall asleep, your future intention to realize that you’re dreaming.

Oneironaut

Somebody skilled at travelling through dreams.

Phosphenes

Patches of colour (usually red or blue) that you can constantly see while your eyes are closed.

Rapid Eye Movement

The stage of the sleep cycle that your most vivid dreams occur in.

RC see Reality check

Reality check

A way to determine if you’re dreaming or not (e.g. breathing with your nose shut, switching lights on/off, etc.).

Real-life result

Result from a reality check that shows that you are awake. You want these in real-life, but you don’t want these in dreams.

REM see Rapid Eye Movement

VD see Vivid dream

VILD see Visual Induction of Lucid Dreams

Visual Induction of Lucid Dreams

The technique in which you incubate a dream that reminds you to do a reality check and become lucid.

Vivid dream

A dream with unusually good recall.

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Wake-Back-To-Bed

The technique in which you wake up for a bit after a few hours of sleep and go back to sleep again. Usually used in combination with other techniques.

Wake-Initiated Lucid Dream

A lucid dream that you enter consciously directly from the waking state, and already lucid.

“Wake-Initiation of Lucid Dreams” is often used to refer to techniques in which you go directly from consciousness to the dream state.

WBTB see Wake-Back-To-Bed

WILD see Wake-Initiated Lucid Dream

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Appendices

These documents are currently kept here but at some point all the useful information in them will be in the rest of the Lucid Dreaming wikibook!

• The Lucid Dreaming FAQ is frequently posted on alt.dreams.lucid and describes many less common techniques.

• Pedro’s VILD documentation is Pedro’s original description of the VILD technique, along with some other things.

• The CAT method is an integrated method to get lucid dreams.

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Further Reading

On the web

ld4all.com has general lucid dreaming information and a very active forum with a mixture of scientific, skeptical, and spiritual members.

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