Flexing Your Lucid Muscles

[Celeborn]

I am currently at the point where I can make myself have waking/lucid dreams almost every other night. Having gotten down all the basic techniques to make the dreams go lucid, and to keep them going for a fair amount of time, I am read to really start flexing my lucid muscles.

The Tibetan tradition suggests bending reality in the LD state as a way to expand consciousness. This is mirrored in Carlos Castinada's books. So far I have done teleportation, a lot of flying, space travel, small acts of creation, shooting laser beams from my fingers, and a bit of shapeshifting.


What have all of you done?

Also, does anyone have other ideas or suggestions for fun or enlightening things worth trying in the LD state?

[wstein]

There are several ideas in http://forums.astraldynamics.com/viewtopic.php?t=3688&highlight=lucid

Also on can try to convert it into an OBE.

I recomend developing several simultaneous awarenesses so that you can watch and learn about yourself.

Also activating lucidness while awake is very interesting.

[CFTraveler]

What have I done? Well, a lot of my dreams lately are of the 'lesson' variety. I have done a lot of what I would call 'psi practice' (I believe there is another thread around here- 'dreamstate lessons' I think it's called. But lately lately I have been exploring my relationship with the dream reality and the dream characters. It began as a reality test, and then I decided to continue the exploration to focus in how I relate to the characters (our relationship in the dream and it's comparison to reality)- I will approach the characters and question them and their role in the dream, for example, or I will challenge the veracity of the story, by imposing my waking consciousness on it. "But I know you're dead. So how come we're here and talking?" So I've moved from affecting dream reality to confronting/or studying it more directly. I feel I'm getting more from #2. But of course it's a process, and I don't know where it's going to unltimately take me.

[The Cusp]

Had a good one awhile back.

I was really pissed off in the dream and noticed how my mood affected the people around me. I realized I was dreaming, tried a happier mood, and watched how if affected everyone again. I went through the whole range of emotions, and each one had far reaching consequences on the people around me and even the animals.