Comments on: Practicing Japanese In Your Dreams. Can It Work?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:25:00 +0000

I don’t think your sleep would be affected at all. You sleep to rest your body, not your mind. You can rest your mind at any point in the day. When you sleep your muscles relax, and your breathing and heartbeat slows down. In a dream, even if you are in control, your body is still resting. I think lucid dreaming would actually rest you more. The only period of time during sleep where it is actually doing you good is REM sleep, and this is the period where you dream. Dreams usually last a few seconds each, but if you could lengthen the period of time you are dreaming by controlling it, you might be able actually shorten the amount of time you need to sleep and increase the quality of your sleep.

This is all just my personal speculation and opinion. I don’t claim that what I say has any merit, this is just my general understanding of the sleeping state, and my opinion on Lucid dreaming.

By: Blanca

Blanca — Thu, 19 May 2011 23:53:00 +0000

There are a few tricks to start lucid dreaming. First you have to remember your dreams, and I think actually trying to figure out what they mean may help your brain start to notice your dreams. Also writing them down while your still in the same position while sleeping really helps. Another thing, like at the time/sign/ any kind of words or even what someone said to you, and look at it again, or ask them to say it again. Its really weird, but when you look back the sign will say something completely different. Like if I was looking at a clock, I’d look at it and its 7:15, then I look at it again and its 12:45q3 or something like that. So thats one way to realize your dreaming. After that don’t try to change your dreams too much when you realize your dreaming. If you do, your prone to waking up sooner. So usually you can realize what your dreaming and then just enjoy the show, and if it starts to turn into a nightmare, you can turn on your lucid dreaming skillz and tell the looming dark figure to turn into a field of poppies or something.
As for learning japanese while dreaming, its definitely possible. You will remember a lot more in your dream, and if you write down what you dreamed about, without looking, often times you’ll be writing in japanese without even noticing. Though what you talk about with others will be comletely strange. Like dancing the polka with carrots. It really helps! Often times I’ll wake up, and wonder what the heck I was talking about then look it up and realize I was actually making sense! I think watching videos before you go to sleep that are in japanese, or reading especially will help with this process.

By: Sam Markel

Sam Markel — Sun, 15 May 2011 03:22:00 +0000

Lucid dreaming is the best! I’ve been practicing it on and off for over a year now, but just recently has my dream recall been stellar enough that I can lucid dream almost every night. I started doing the typical flying, spending time with people you’ve always wanted to meet, going to Japan ;), etc., but since I’ve used it for studying for tests, haha. I still have not had a dream in Japanese, though, but I’ll try again tonight!

By: Geil Rugner

Geil Rugner — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:54:00 +0000

I don’t have too much experience with lucid dreams, it’s just that every few months I have a “Oh come on! Really!?” moment during a dream, resulting in me waking up immediately. This happens when something takes place during the dream that strikes me as suspicious. Obviously everything in a dream is suspicious but most of the time you don’t notice it.
So it’s all about having established a set of rules that clarify what can happen in real life and what cannot. I’m all for being open-minded, but being open-minded will hurt your chances of getting awareness in dreams. For instance, for those of you who have played Heavy Rain on the PS3 this will be a nice example.

There’s a scene where Madison, a journalist, is alone in her apartment and suddenly gets assaulted by a robber. When you fend him off and try to run, a second guy stops you. At that point I already thought “Okay, didn’t see him before, I’m pretty sure there’s only one in the room…”. You fend them both off and escape to the bathroom. Madison locks the door and… out of nowhere a third (!!) guy grabs her from behind in an attempt to slit her throat. You are supposed to fight him but as soon as the third guy appeared I stopped doing anything. My friend asked me what the hell I was doing, so I just replied that that’s obviously a dream sequence. Not a chance that there’s a third guy in the bathroom.

The lesson learned here is that instead of considering the possibility that the robber did indeed bring two others with him and that one of them was hiding in the bathroom for some reason, I never gave that train of thought a chance. The second one was already strange, but the third one just too much.

This is really all I can offer. There’s all this advice about checking your hands, feet and watches constantly to train your awareness. Just don’t believe.
You are being chased by a pink elephant? It’s a dream.
You fly? It’s a dream.
Zombie Acopalypse? Dream.
Three robbers break into your house? It’s real. Better dismiss a chance to have a lucid dream in favor of saving your life.

By: Andy_Megara

Andy_Megara — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:33:00 +0000

I dont know if you know about this, but I think you may find it interesting: http://www.scn.org/cmp/aural.htm There you can find a method to get fluent in a new language just 3 months after you started to learn that language. ¿What do you think of this method?

By: bigrob1

bigrob1 — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:32:00 +0000

i have achieved lucid dreaming on many occasions, it wasnt on purpose or anything it just kind of happens. the thing is most dream i weird and you tend to do things that dont make since all you have to do is stop and think. for example say you having a dream about something trying to kill you. the person is behind you and your trying your best to run from him but it seems you are barely moving most of the time the place your are in is not very clear. also what i tend to notice is a lot of times my dreams change from first person to third person a lot, i think that its from the fact i play videogames so my mind is mimicking it. but back to what i was saying when you take time to notice those weird things thats happening the rest of your mind starts to work so you began to test your theory(this all happens so fast) one i stay very still and wait for the person to attack me. most of the time what happens is your mind changes up the dream because what i think happens is your will kicks in and you dont wanna die so you just erase that person from existence thus changing your dream. Or you can do what i like to do, phase through walls, which seems to be quit easy, and one i do that i know im dreaming. when that happens you should be able to manipulate your dreams. you should be able to fly, but the thing is sometimes you realize you should be able to do these things so your brain trys to ground you but you just got to force it( i fly really weird in my dreams, i have to hold my arms like a t-rex, but anyways) once you do this a few time it starts becoming easy.