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Want to try lucid dreaming? The easiest reality check is the nose pinch test.
👉 In real life: pinch your nose & try to breathe → air stops.
👉 In a dream: do the same → you'll still breathe through the pinch.That impossible breath = you're dreaming.
Try it today.
#LucidDreaming #DreamHack #RealityCheck #Mindfulness #ClearDream
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Want to try lucid dreaming? The easiest reality check is the nose pinch test.
👉 In real life: pinch your nose & try to breathe → air stops.
👉 In a dream: do the same → you'll still breathe through the pinch.That impossible breath = you're dreaming.
Try it today.
#LucidDreaming #DreamHack #RealityCheck #Mindfulness #ClearDream
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Want to try lucid dreaming? The easiest reality check is the nose pinch test.
👉 In real life: pinch your nose & try to breathe → air stops.
👉 In a dream: do the same → you'll still breathe through the pinch.That impossible breath = you're dreaming.
Try it today.
#LucidDreaming #DreamHack #RealityCheck #Mindfulness #ClearDream
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Want to try lucid dreaming? The easiest reality check is the nose pinch test.
👉 In real life: pinch your nose & try to breathe → air stops.
👉 In a dream: do the same → you'll still breathe through the pinch.That impossible breath = you're dreaming.
Try it today.
#LucidDreaming #DreamHack #RealityCheck #Mindfulness #ClearDream
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Want to try lucid dreaming? The easiest reality check is the nose pinch test.
👉 In real life: pinch your nose & try to breathe → air stops.
👉 In a dream: do the same → you'll still breathe through the pinch.That impossible breath = you're dreaming.
Try it today.
#LucidDreaming #DreamHack #RealityCheck #Mindfulness #ClearDream
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Most of my life when I heard of #hypnosis, #meditation, #LucidDreaming and basically any altered mind state, it was always in context of some occult/witchcraft practices. It shaped my expectations about these phenomena and for many years I thought I should develop some supernatural powers or else it would be shameful failure.
(Of course it destroyed my already poor self-esteem :/)Some time after I recovered from this "I have to gain psychic powers" mindset I noticed one thing. In that magic context meditation training is often described as something forced, fighting agains own mind, hard effort. In contrast, when meditation (and any relaxation/mental exercises) is mentioned in more health of wellnes-related topics it's something calm, peaceful, pleasant. More like letting things go, not make them by force.
And it's really big difference. When my perception of it shifted, I started noticing any progress in meditation and "keeping my mind quiet and calm".
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Most of my life when I heard of #hypnosis, #meditation, #LucidDreaming and basically any altered mind state, it was always in context of some occult/witchcraft practices. It shaped my expectations about these phenomena and for many years I thought I should develop some supernatural powers or else it would be shameful failure.
(Of course it destroyed my already poor self-esteem :/)Some time after I recovered from this "I have to gain psychic powers" mindset I noticed one thing. In that magic context meditation training is often described as something forced, fighting agains own mind, hard effort. In contrast, when meditation (and any relaxation/mental exercises) is mentioned in more health of wellnes-related topics it's something calm, peaceful, pleasant. More like letting things go, not make them by force.
And it's really big difference. When my perception of it shifted, I started noticing any progress in meditation and "keeping my mind quiet and calm".
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Most of my life when I heard of #hypnosis, #meditation, #LucidDreaming and basically any altered mind state, it was always in context of some occult/witchcraft practices. It shaped my expectations about these phenomena and for many years I thought I should develop some supernatural powers or else it would be shameful failure.
(Of course it destroyed my already poor self-esteem :/)Some time after I recovered from this "I have to gain psychic powers" mindset I noticed one thing. In that magic context meditation training is often described as something forced, fighting agains own mind, hard effort. In contrast, when meditation (and any relaxation/mental exercises) is mentioned in more health of wellnes-related topics it's something calm, peaceful, pleasant. More like letting things go, not make them by force.
And it's really big difference. When my perception of it shifted, I started noticing any progress in meditation and "keeping my mind quiet and calm".
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Most of my life when I heard of #hypnosis, #meditation, #LucidDreaming and basically any altered mind state, it was always in context of some occult/witchcraft practices. It shaped my expectations about these phenomena and for many years I thought I should develop some supernatural powers or else it would be shameful failure.
(Of course it destroyed my already poor self-esteem :/)Some time after I recovered from this "I have to gain psychic powers" mindset I noticed one thing. In that magic context meditation training is often described as something forced, fighting agains own mind, hard effort. In contrast, when meditation (and any relaxation/mental exercises) is mentioned in more health of wellnes-related topics it's something calm, peaceful, pleasant. More like letting things go, not make them by force.
And it's really big difference. When my perception of it shifted, I started noticing any progress in meditation and "keeping my mind quiet and calm".
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Most of my life when I heard of #hypnosis, #meditation, #LucidDreaming and basically any altered mind state, it was always in context of some occult/witchcraft practices. It shaped my expectations about these phenomena and for many years I thought I should develop some supernatural powers or else it would be shameful failure.
(Of course it destroyed my already poor self-esteem :/)Some time after I recovered from this "I have to gain psychic powers" mindset I noticed one thing. In that magic context meditation training is often described as something forced, fighting agains own mind, hard effort. In contrast, when meditation (and any relaxation/mental exercises) is mentioned in more health of wellnes-related topics it's something calm, peaceful, pleasant. More like letting things go, not make them by force.
And it's really big difference. When my perception of it shifted, I started noticing any progress in meditation and "keeping my mind quiet and calm".
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More seriously I realized at least for 10-11 years I just don't have to do anything specific to reach this "I don't feel my limbs" state. When I lie down and don't move it just happens automatically. It's even easier than in the past when I purposely tried to learn relax techniques for #meditation and #LucidDreaming because now, without setting a goal, there is no pressure to "succeed". Sometimes I try to use that already present state to meditation training. Or try to remember this state to somehow use it later for stress/anxiety relief (still not sure how).
It's kind of funny, when I need to do something and have to remind myself how to e.g. use my hand. Similar mental focus like in breaking sleep paralysis, even if not so much effort needed. Muscles are not really turned down, just my brain? mind? thinks they are unusable. Like hypnosis therapy depicted in movies... " Now your legs are very heavy" :blobCat_giggle:
And yes, I am weird freak who really loves #SleepParalysis.
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More seriously I realized at least for 10-11 years I just don't have to do anything specific to reach this "I don't feel my limbs" state. When I lie down and don't move it just happens automatically. It's even easier than in the past when I purposely tried to learn relax techniques for #meditation and #LucidDreaming because now, without setting a goal, there is no pressure to "succeed". Sometimes I try to use that already present state to meditation training. Or try to remember this state to somehow use it later for stress/anxiety relief (still not sure how).
It's kind of funny, when I need to do something and have to remind myself how to e.g. use my hand. Similar mental focus like in breaking sleep paralysis, even if not so much effort needed. Muscles are not really turned down, just my brain? mind? thinks they are unusable. Like hypnosis therapy depicted in movies... " Now your legs are very heavy" :blobCat_giggle:
And yes, I am weird freak who really loves #SleepParalysis.
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More seriously I realized at least for 10-11 years I just don't have to do anything specific to reach this "I don't feel my limbs" state. When I lie down and don't move it just happens automatically. It's even easier than in the past when I purposely tried to learn relax techniques for #meditation and #LucidDreaming because now, without setting a goal, there is no pressure to "succeed". Sometimes I try to use that already present state to meditation training. Or try to remember this state to somehow use it later for stress/anxiety relief (still not sure how).
It's kind of funny, when I need to do something and have to remind myself how to e.g. use my hand. Similar mental focus like in breaking sleep paralysis, even if not so much effort needed. Muscles are not really turned down, just my brain? mind? thinks they are unusable. Like hypnosis therapy depicted in movies... " Now your legs are very heavy" :blobCat_giggle:
And yes, I am weird freak who really loves #SleepParalysis.
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More seriously I realized at least for 10-11 years I just don't have to do anything specific to reach this "I don't feel my limbs" state. When I lie down and don't move it just happens automatically. It's even easier than in the past when I purposely tried to learn relax techniques for #meditation and #LucidDreaming because now, without setting a goal, there is no pressure to "succeed". Sometimes I try to use that already present state to meditation training. Or try to remember this state to somehow use it later for stress/anxiety relief (still not sure how).
It's kind of funny, when I need to do something and have to remind myself how to e.g. use my hand. Similar mental focus like in breaking sleep paralysis, even if not so much effort needed. Muscles are not really turned down, just my brain? mind? thinks they are unusable. Like hypnosis therapy depicted in movies... " Now your legs are very heavy" :blobCat_giggle:
And yes, I am weird freak who really loves #SleepParalysis.
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More seriously I realized at least for 10-11 years I just don't have to do anything specific to reach this "I don't feel my limbs" state. When I lie down and don't move it just happens automatically. It's even easier than in the past when I purposely tried to learn relax techniques for #meditation and #LucidDreaming because now, without setting a goal, there is no pressure to "succeed". Sometimes I try to use that already present state to meditation training. Or try to remember this state to somehow use it later for stress/anxiety relief (still not sure how).
It's kind of funny, when I need to do something and have to remind myself how to e.g. use my hand. Similar mental focus like in breaking sleep paralysis, even if not so much effort needed. Muscles are not really turned down, just my brain? mind? thinks they are unusable. Like hypnosis therapy depicted in movies... " Now your legs are very heavy" :blobCat_giggle:
And yes, I am weird freak who really loves #SleepParalysis.
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@neve
Which feels closer to my writing process: Daydreaming, where I consciously imagine and guide the scene? Or lucid dreaming, where the story unfolds around me and I try to influence it from inside? Neither?When I'm really in the groove, my process moves toward lucid dreaming. But mostly, it hangs on the outside and I work towards those moments of inspiration.
#Writephant #writingcommunity #Writersofmastodon #luciddreaming
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@neve
Which feels closer to my writing process: Daydreaming, where I consciously imagine and guide the scene? Or lucid dreaming, where the story unfolds around me and I try to influence it from inside? Neither?When I'm really in the groove, my process moves toward lucid dreaming. But mostly, it hangs on the outside and I work towards those moments of inspiration.
#Writephant #writingcommunity #Writersofmastodon #luciddreaming
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@neve
Which feels closer to my writing process: Daydreaming, where I consciously imagine and guide the scene? Or lucid dreaming, where the story unfolds around me and I try to influence it from inside? Neither?When I'm really in the groove, my process moves toward lucid dreaming. But mostly, it hangs on the outside and I work towards those moments of inspiration.
#Writephant #writingcommunity #Writersofmastodon #luciddreaming
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@neve
Which feels closer to my writing process: Daydreaming, where I consciously imagine and guide the scene? Or lucid dreaming, where the story unfolds around me and I try to influence it from inside? Neither?When I'm really in the groove, my process moves toward lucid dreaming. But mostly, it hangs on the outside and I work towards those moments of inspiration.
#Writephant #writingcommunity #Writersofmastodon #luciddreaming
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@neve
Which feels closer to my writing process: Daydreaming, where I consciously imagine and guide the scene? Or lucid dreaming, where the story unfolds around me and I try to influence it from inside? Neither?When I'm really in the groove, my process moves toward lucid dreaming. But mostly, it hangs on the outside and I work towards those moments of inspiration.
#Writephant #writingcommunity #Writersofmastodon #luciddreaming
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When She Dreams "As far as Sam is concerned, Maggie is reckless and in over her head" Sale: $9.79 to $2.99 by Amanda Quick Rating: 4.5/5 (4,153 Reviews) #HistoricalThriller #RomanticSuspense #LucidDreaming #1930s #Mystery #Books #BurningCove #AmandaQuick #BookSky
When She Dreams -
When She Dreams "As far as Sam is concerned, Maggie is reckless and in over her head" Sale: $9.79 to $2.99 by Amanda Quick Rating: 4.5/5 (4,153 Reviews) #HistoricalThriller #RomanticSuspense #LucidDreaming #1930s #Mystery #Books #BurningCove #AmandaQuick #BookSky
When She Dreams -
When She Dreams "As far as Sam is concerned, Maggie is reckless and in over her head" Sale: $9.79 to $2.99 by Amanda Quick Rating: 4.5/5 (4,153 Reviews) #HistoricalThriller #RomanticSuspense #LucidDreaming #1930s #Mystery #Books #BurningCove #AmandaQuick #BookSky
When She Dreams -
When She Dreams "As far as Sam is concerned, Maggie is reckless and in over her head" Sale: $9.79 to $2.99 by Amanda Quick Rating: 4.5/5 (4,153 Reviews) #HistoricalThriller #RomanticSuspense #LucidDreaming #1930s #Mystery #Books #BurningCove #AmandaQuick #BookSky
When She Dreams -
CW: Artificial text - On few occasion it's also funny. Meow
Introducing 'Eye Dreams Co.' - We sell custom phosphene visualizations! Project abstract shapes & colors onto your eyelids while you sleep to 'enhance' your subconscious creativity. Limited edition glow-in-the-dark eye masks included! #phosphenes #luciddreaming #innovation
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CW: Artificial text - On few occasion it's also funny. Meow
Introducing 'Eye Dreams Co.' - We sell custom phosphene visualizations! Project abstract shapes & colors onto your eyelids while you sleep to 'enhance' your subconscious creativity. Limited edition glow-in-the-dark eye masks included! #phosphenes #luciddreaming #innovation
#BusinessIdea #Business #Ai #LLM -
Recently finished a new "My experience with" minizine on lucid dreaming! It was fun trying to come up with an illustration to represent this topic without eyes (open or closed), brains/heads, or thought bubbles.
Available from my mail order catalogue! 🇨🇦 https://humangray.com/mail-order-catalogue
#dreams #LucidDreams #zines #dreaming #LucidDreaming #BuyCanadian
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Recently finished a new "My experience with" minizine on lucid dreaming! It was fun trying to come up with an illustration to represent this topic without eyes (open or closed), brains/heads, or thought bubbles.
Available from my mail order catalogue! 🇨🇦 https://humangray.com/mail-order-catalogue
#dreams #LucidDreams #zines #dreaming #LucidDreaming #BuyCanadian
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Recently finished a new "My experience with" minizine on lucid dreaming! It was fun trying to come up with an illustration to represent this topic without eyes (open or closed), brains/heads, or thought bubbles.
Available from my mail order catalogue! 🇨🇦 https://humangray.com/mail-order-catalogue
#dreams #LucidDreams #zines #dreaming #LucidDreaming #BuyCanadian
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Recently finished a new "My experience with" minizine on lucid dreaming! It was fun trying to come up with an illustration to represent this topic without eyes (open or closed), brains/heads, or thought bubbles.
Available from my mail order catalogue! 🇨🇦 https://humangray.com/mail-order-catalogue
#dreams #LucidDreams #zines #dreaming #LucidDreaming #BuyCanadian
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Gareth Branwyn in Slumberland
The Plutopia News Network podcast welcomes writer, editor, and media critic Gareth Branwyn to discuss his workshop “Dreaming for Creatives,” which focuses less on dream symbolism or interpretation and more on mining the “dream-time mind” for usable creative material. Gareth and the Plutopians reminisce about early-1990s zine and cyberculture scenes (The WELL, FactSheet 5, bOING bOING, Mondo 2000, “Jargon Watch,” and “Street Tech”), then shift into Branwyn’s lifelong dream practice, including lucid dreaming as a teen and techniques to improve dream recall, especially using a “dream recall tally sheet” and the habit of staying still upon waking to retrieve dream fragments. He describes three liminal sources of creativity: “night thoughts” (hypnagogic scribbles), “night bulbs” (clear middle-of-the-night insights), and dreams themselves. He gives examples of how these have shaped his work and even his name. The conversation also touches on “second sleep,” sleep tracking, recurring flying dreams, sleep paralysis and its eerie “presence” hallucinations, and the idea that paying attention to dreaming, like meditation, can deepen one’s relationship with consciousness — while still warning against turning dream work into an unhealthy obsession.
https://media.blubrry.com/plutopia_news_network/plutopia.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Gareth-Branwyn.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Gareth Branwyn:
I’ve only done the workshop once so far, and one thing I wanted to make, clear because when I started talking it up before I did it — people immediately think you’re going to talk about dream interpretation, dream symbolism, which I have basically no interest in, besides the obvious things of that was clearly an anxiety dream, like I lost my wallet, or I lost my phone (I have those a lot) or I got lost at a conference. But I’m not interested in that at all, and so I really needed to make it clear that’s not what this is about. This is really mining your dream time mind for creative material. That’s really what my interest is.
Video on YouTube:
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Going through my old lucid dream journal. Here's a good one from about 5-6 years ago:
"I was in a large field. I yelled, 'I'm lucid!!!' and then went on a relative rampage of doing things because I was lucid, including:
- making a mushroom grow into a giant tree
- envisioning a pheasant-like bird and then riding it
- tried to eat some of the wood chips from the ground to explore sensory aspects (it tasted bad)."There was other stuff, but the above cracked me up.
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Going through my old lucid dream journal. Here's a good one from about 5-6 years ago:
"I was in a large field. I yelled, 'I'm lucid!!!' and then went on a relative rampage of doing things because I was lucid, including:
- making a mushroom grow into a giant tree
- envisioning a pheasant-like bird and then riding it
- tried to eat some of the wood chips from the ground to explore sensory aspects (it tasted bad)."There was other stuff, but the above cracked me up.
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Going through my old lucid dream journal. Here's a good one from about 5-6 years ago:
"I was in a large field. I yelled, 'I'm lucid!!!' and then went on a relative rampage of doing things because I was lucid, including:
- making a mushroom grow into a giant tree
- envisioning a pheasant-like bird and then riding it
- tried to eat some of the wood chips from the ground to explore sensory aspects (it tasted bad)."There was other stuff, but the above cracked me up.
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Going through my old lucid dream journal. Here's a good one from about 5-6 years ago:
"I was in a large field. I yelled, 'I'm lucid!!!' and then went on a relative rampage of doing things because I was lucid, including:
- making a mushroom grow into a giant tree
- envisioning a pheasant-like bird and then riding it
- tried to eat some of the wood chips from the ground to explore sensory aspects (it tasted bad)."There was other stuff, but the above cracked me up.
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I found a lucid dream interpreter that guides you through understanding dreams where awareness and control come into play. It provides a simple way to reflect on dream imagery and connect it with personal growth or spiritual insight — a fascinating tool for anyone curious about the deeper layers of their dream life.
Check it out here: https://www.authorkennethgray.com/lucid-dream-interpreter/
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Lucid dreaming could be used for mental health therapy, new study says
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-lucid-mental-health-therapy.html
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Lucid dreaming could be used for mental health therapy, new study says
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-lucid-mental-health-therapy.html
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Lucid dreaming could be used for mental health therapy, new study says
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-lucid-mental-health-therapy.html
#psychology #luciddreaming -
Lucid dreaming could be used for mental health therapy, new study says
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-lucid-mental-health-therapy.html
#psychology #luciddreaming -
Lucid dreaming could be used for mental health therapy, new study says
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-lucid-mental-health-therapy.html
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Did Scientists Just Achieve "Inception"? Experiments Show “Dream Engineering” May Be a Reality
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Did Scientists Just Achieve "Inception"? Experiments Show “Dream Engineering” May Be a Reality
This dream is sponsored by Amazon. Don’t like how it’s going? Dream, “Alexa, wake me up!”.
Experiments involving playing music during sleep have revealed a type of dream engineering that doubled subjects’ problem-solving abilities.
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Did Scientists Just Achieve "Inception"? Experiments Show “Dream Engineering” May Be a Reality
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Did Scientists Just Achieve "Inception"? Experiments Show “Dream Engineering” May Be a Reality
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Did Scientists Just Achieve "Inception"? Experiments Show “Dream Engineering” May Be a Reality
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Did Scientists Just Achieve "Inception"? Experiments Show “Dream Engineering” May Be a Reality
