I Am Lucid Dreaming

Binaural Beats & Lucid Dreaming

noreply@blogger.com (Brett Jackson) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:56:00 +0000

I have recently been researching binaural beats to see if they could be beneficial for lucid dreamers. If you haven't heard of binaural beats you may be interested to read more about them here: http://uazu.net/sbagen

My initial research shows that they do not provide an easy way for us to invoke lucid dreams. However, they can affect your mental state and help you to relax or become more alert. With this limited benefit in mind I intend to extend www.iAmLucidDreaming.com to have a binaural beats area where we can experiment and report on our findings.

Eventually I intend to increase the experimental parts of the website to include subliminal messaging techniques and self hypnosis techniques. When brought together with all our other lucid dreaming techniques these limited tools may provide the assistance many of us have been looking for.

I will be developing the binaural beats feature over the next few weeks. If you would like to be involved in the research you can read more about it and show your interest in the forum.

Sharing Your Lucid Dreams

noreply@blogger.com (Brett Jackson) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:30:00 +0000

I made an update to our online dream journal today at www.iAmLucidDreaming.com. You can now choose to share selected dreams.

Your dream will be presented on it's own page which you can link to from any forum or website.

A posting is automatically posted in our My Lucid Dreams forum to let our other members know about the new dream.

I have a few more ideas in this area so stay tuned for more information soon :)

I have also created a video page to hold our lucid dream video play list. I hope you are being inspired by the videos we have selected so far.

Inspirational Videos for your Lucid Dreams

noreply@blogger.com (Brett Jackson) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:19:00 +0000

Yesterday I started a new channel on YouTube especially for lucid dreamers. The channel will initially hold a playlist of videos that will help to inspire your lucid dreams. I have more playlists planned for later.

Some of the clips I have already added include scenes from the matrix showing abilities that we could mimic in our dreams and a relaxing video of someone flying through the clouds.

Click here to visit the channel. You can leave comments, share it or embed it in your own website.

Do you have any favourite videos on YouTube that you could use to inspire a cool lucid dream? Email me your ideas at brett@iAmLucidDreaming.com or come and post your idea in our forums.

Helping You To Lucid Dream

noreply@blogger.com (Brett Jackson) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:28:00 +0000

It occurred to me after adding more articles and features to www.iAmLucidDreaming.com, that it may be increasingly difficult for new members to know what to do first or for existing members to realise what new features have been added.

I don't want anyone to miss out on the most important tools and articles that we are providing as this will limit their lucid dreaming potential.

Enter the new "Website Guide" gadget. This is a simple gadget that is on the homepage by default. After registering for free or logging in, it shows a tab of articles that you should read, and a tab of tasks that you should perform. As you complete each of the suggestions you should check the box. The figure at the bottom of the gadget is updated to show how much of the website you are currently making use of.

As we add new features they will appear on the gadget and your site utilisation figure will drop indicating that there are more ways for us to help you have lucid dreams.

If you can't see the gadget on the homepage use the Gadgets main menu option to enable it.

Hover over the question marks to see more details on each item.

I hope this ensures everyone gets the most from our website.

Step 4: Our Online Lucid Dream Journal

noreply@blogger.com (Brett Jackson) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:36:00 +0000

Our website is 1 month old today. That went quick!! With the introduction of the online lucid dream journal we have already achieved our major goals. There is still plenty to do of course.

The Online Lucid Dream Journal
Keeping a dream journal is an essential key to achieving lucid dreams. They increase your dream recall and help you to identify dream signs.

We have created an online dream journal that, unlink most you will find, has been specifically created for lucid dreamers. This tool is not for sharing your dreams because blogs are better for that purpose. The idea is to save your dreams along with other data that will allow you to identify dream signs and track your progress while monitoring the various techniques you use to induce lucid dreams.

The dream journal is password protected and all the text is encrypted in your browser before it is sent over the network to our database. Your password is never stored anywhere to further protect your privacy.

We have further plans to extend the functionality if the gadget proves to be popular.

The dream journal gadget sits on our homepage, along with our Lucid Dream Clock which reminds you to perform reality checks, and our lucid dream to do list which you can use to plan what you will do when you become lucid. As you can see we are now building up a good collection of tools that compliment the articles we are writing on lucid dreaming.

Make us your homepage to get the most benefit from these tools and to keep up to date with any discussions in our forums. Remember you can also perform a Google search from any of our pages, making us an ideal starting point for browsing the web.

I hope you enjoy our new gadget. Let us know what you think.

Lively Lucid Dream Room

noreply@blogger.com (Brett Jackson) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:35:00 +0000

Google has just released their new virtual world at www.lively.com. I am always on the lookout for how new technology can help our members and this has some real potential!

One of the techniques used by lucid dreamers before they sleep is to tell themselves that they will have a lucid dream and imagine being in that dream in the hope of planting this thought in their subconscious.

The virtual rooms on Lively let us take this one step further to produce a powerful visualisation tool. We have created a virtual room that obviously you cannot visit is real life. This is quite a plain room that will be easy to visualise having a chair, a picture and an exit.

How will this help?

Visit the room. Hang out there, chat to your friends there, really get to know it well.
Visit it before you go to bed. Sit in the chair, look at the picture and tell yourself that you will go there in your dreams.
Go to bed and again visualise the room as you fall to sleep.
If you dream of the room, you will know that you must be dreaming as the room doesn't exist.
You should now be able to become fully lucid and leave the room via the exit.

For full details see: TheDreamRoom in our articles section, or Click here to visit the virtual lucid dream room.

This all sounds great in thoery, but let us know if it works for you by posting in our forums at www.iAmLucidDreaming.com

I hope you have fun there.

Lucid Dream Bloggers

noreply@blogger.com (Brett Jackson) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:52:00 +0000

Do you want to have lucid dreams?

Are you an experienced lucid dreamer?

Blogs are a great way to pass on your experience to others while being creative and having fun in the process. At www.iAmLucidDreaming.com we want to encourage people to publish blogs about their experience with lucid dreaming. If you are just about to start your quest for lucid dreams, now would be the perfect time to start your blog to chart your progress and let people know what techniques work for you. If you already have lucid dreams you could let people know of any experiments you are trying out in your lucid dreams and pass on tips that you have found useful.

We have created a new free Google gadget to allow us to share our blogs with each other. You can add the gadget to your Google homepage, blog or your own website. Click here to add the gadget now. The gadget shows a list of all our lucid dream blogs and allows us to sort them by popularity or date last updated.

Create your blog using one of the many free blogs such as www.blogger.com then click here to add your blog to our gadget. The gadget will help to increase the number of people who read your blog.

You can find my own blog here: brett.iAmLucidDreaming.com

I look forward to reading some of your blogs soon.

If you are new to lucid dreaming, read our short tutorial here to get you started.

Step 3: The Lucid Dream Clock

noreply@blogger.com (Brett Jackson) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:14:00 +0000

The Lucid Dream Clock is now available as a gadget on our homepage.

Performing regular reality checks is a key ingredient for having dream initiated lucid dreams. I wanted to make it easy for you and me to remember to perform our checks.

The lucid clock helps by allowing you to set the frequency that you want to perform reality checks. When you are due to perform a reality check, an alarm will trigger no matter where you are on our website (including the search results pages), and you will be given a couple of reality checks to perform.

The alarm sound is available for download as an MP3 file so you can load the sound on to your mobile phone and trigger it by setting your mobile phone alarm. If you use our new gadget regularly and set your phone alarm to go off gently while you sleep, you may follow your daily routine and perform a reality check in your dream which will help you to become lucid.

To read more see our article: http://www.iamluciddreaming.com/docs/LucidDreamClock

We have also published a set of articles describing the steps required to have a dream initiated lucid dream: http://www.iamluciddreaming.com/docs/DreamInitiatedLucidDreams

Good luck with your lucid dreams. Let us know how you get on in our forums.

Step 2: Lucid Dream Articles

noreply@blogger.com (Brett Jackson) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:47:00 +0000

I mentioned in my last blog posting that I would be adding articles about lucid dreaming to our website at www.iAmLucidDreaming.com

You will now find we have our very own wiki available in the Lucid Articles area. The great thing about using a wiki is that we can all publish our own articles and optionally allow other people to edit our articles to make them a group effort. For example, I have started a lucid dream glossary that you are encouraged to extend. If you are new to lucid dreaming I have also written an introduction to lucid dreaming which you may find interesting.

I will be adding more content myself, but please come and make your own contributions too. You don't have to be a great writer, or an expert and you are welcome to write about any lucid dream related topics you like.

I am looking forward to building up this area with the lucid dreaming community.

Step 1: The Lucid Dreaming Forums

noreply@blogger.com (Brett Jackson) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:42:00 +0000

It's been a few days now since I decided to start a new website for lucid dreamers www.iAmLucidDreaming.com, and progress has been swift. I have now uploaded the first working version of our portal.

The idea was to build a homepage for people who are actively trying to achieve lucid dreams. The hompage already has lots of general functionality:

You can Google search the whole web from the homepage and from any other page on the website too.
You can add, remove and drag and drop gadgets to personalise your homepage.
We already have 20 gadgets including news, weather, driving directions, games and useful tools that make us an ideal homepage for anyone.

Now I am beginning to build parts of the website specifically to help lucid dreamers. The first essential elements are the forums. We need a place to chat, exchange ideas and generally help each other to progress. The homepage includes a forum gadget that automatically refreshes itself and lets you know when new postings are made in each forum.

A key to successful lucid dreaming is to keep the idea of lucid dreams in the forefront of your mind throughout the day. This will make you more likely to think about it during your dreams too, which will help you question if you are dreaming and bring your mind to a lucid state. Setting www.iAmLucidDreaming.com as your homepage, and participating in the forums is one way to keep your mind on topic. I will be developing more gadgets soon that will further improve your chances of becoming lucid during your dreams.

Our next step is to add an area where both you and I can publish articles on lucid dreaming. I promise you won't be waiting long for this new feature :)

If you are interested in having or improving the level and regularity of your lucid dreams, please come and register and introduce yourself in our forums. It's free and I have lots of exciting developments planned for us.

I am lucid dreaming.

noreply@blogger.com (Brett Jackson) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:14:00 +0000

4:15am signals another sleepless night. I don't have insomnia, and given the journey ahead I hope to avoid it in the future. What I do have is an overactive mind that threatens to endlessly repeat it's thoughts unless I get out of bed and begin turning ideas in to something more tangible.

And so begins www.IamLucidDreaming.com.

I can't recall when I first heard about lucid dreams, but I know the concept intrigued me for years before I finally got around to investing time in researching, practising then achieving my first lucid dream. More followed, but what surprised me even more than the fantastic experiences I had in my lucid dreams, was that I let them slip away. The unfortunate truth is this; you have to work at lucid dreaming. That's fine, they are worth the effort. It's all the other stuff you have to work at that gets in the way, like jobs, cleaning the house, balancing your accounts etc.

So, I need to find a little time for working towards lucid dreaming every day. I have some ideas on how to do that, and I need to share them with you. Here are the concepts that were cycling through my mind at 2:00am this morning:

Build a website about lucid dreaming (there are already quite a few).
The site will be our homepage so we see it throughout the day.
It will include a forum so we can chat about our successes and techniques.
It will include a wiki so we can publish our own articles and help new members.
It will have a customisable homepage with gadgets that will be useful to lucid dreamers.

Gadgets will include:

A lucid clock, that prompts us to do reality checks every xx minutes, telling us which reality check to perform.
A dream journal that can be updated without leaving our homepage.
An automatically refreshing update of what's happening in our forum.
And other gadgets that are generally handy to have on a homepage (news, weather, to do lists etc.)

Ideas for other gadgets and features may come from you.

This may sound like a lot of work, but I have already created a website http://www.EquiPortal.co.uk which uses some of the same features to create a portal site related to horses.

If you are new to lucid dreaming and thinking, "What is this guy talking about?", don't worry!! It will all become clear soon.

That's all for this first posting. With any luck I have purged my mind enough to be allowed to get some sleep. Please check back soon to see how the new website is coming along.