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Lucis Elucidations is a set of cards that extend the [[lucid_dreaming_implementation|Lucid Peninsula]] installation in unexpected directions. The cards are based on processes, ideas and dreams that emerged in the development of the physical narrative. They contain instructions or suggestions designed to be used in a range of settings - from sidewalks and parks to kitchens or bedrooms. The cards enable the players to re-create different aspects of the story, the creative process or the experience of lucid dreaming beyond the walls of the exhibition. | Lucis Elucidations is a set of cards that extend the [[lucid_dreaming_implementation|Lucid Peninsula]] installation in unexpected directions. The cards are based on processes, ideas and dreams that emerged in the development of the physical narrative. They contain instructions or suggestions designed to be used in a range of settings - from sidewalks and parks to kitchens or bedrooms. The cards enable the players to re-create different aspects of the story, the creative process or the experience of lucid dreaming beyond the walls of the exhibition. | ||
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- | The first step in lucid dreaming is to open your awareness. | + | <del>The first step in lucid dreaming is to open your awareness. |
- | Look at your hands and feet. Are they the usual shape? Do you have the right number of digits? Look at one hand, then one foot at the time for about a minute. Do you see anything changing? | + | Look at your hands and feet. Are they the familiar |
- | Try to find a mirror. What does your reflection look like in the mirror? If your body image strikes you as unexpected or unusual in some way, you are either dreaming or have seen through the illusion of your ideal self. | + | Find a mirror. What does your reflection look like? If your body image strikes you as unexpected or unusual in some way, you are either dreaming or have seen through the illusion of your ideal self. |
- | Look at the ground beneath your feet. Does it look "normal" | + | <del>Look at the ground beneath your feet. Does it look normal to you? What happens if you walk on it? Try and take 10 steps with your eyes closed. Then retrace your steps with your eyes open. What do you notice?</ |
- | Try jumping on the spot. Can you jump over the moon, or maintain | + | Try jumping on the spot. Can you jump over the moon or sustain |
- | If you appear to have gained supernatural abilities, you are most likely | + | If it seems you’ve gained supernatural abilities, |
- | Are you able to remember | + | Can you remember |
- | If the physical world appears more malleable than you are used to and you are aware of it, you are likely to be dreaming. Feel free to change your reality as you see fit. | + | If the physical world appears more malleable than you are used to and you are aware of it, you are likely to be dreaming. Feel free to mould reality as you see fit. |
- | While walking through the city, try reading anything you lay your eyes upon. Turn away and repeat it to yourself, then turn back and read it again. Do this twice. Do sentences change when you read them? | + | While walking through the city, try reading anything you lay eyes on. Turn away and repeat it to yourself, then turn back and read it again. Do this twice. Do the sentences change when you read them twice? |
- | If repeating the same action over and over changes your understanding of the world, you are likely to be creating your own reality. Stories within stories within stories. In this case, attempt to sit back, relax and enjoy the world of your own making. | + | If repeating the same action over and over changes your understanding of the world, you are probably |
- | Find a secluded spot. Make yourself comfortable, | + | <del>Find a secluded spot. Make yourself comfortable, |
- | As you are falling asleep, | + | As you are falling asleep, |
- | While sitting or standing in a moving vehicle, silently repeat a short mantra, such as “When I'm dreaming, I will remember I'm dreaming”. Imagine | + | While sitting or standing in a moving vehicle, silently repeat a short mantra, such as: “When I’m dreaming, I will remember I’m dreaming”. Imagine |
- | Lie down and make yourself comfortable. Begin by focusing | + | <del>Lie down, focus on your breathing. Feel the air as it passes through your nostrils and into your lungs and belly. After a few minutes visualise yourself breathing through your “third eye” in the centre of your forehead. In and out, in and out, until you fall asleep and begin lucid dreaming.</ |
- | Stimulate your thinking patterns by constantly | + | Try switching your attention |
- | All phenomenal experience is a dream. Dream is only one type of illusion. Wakefulness is another. Repeat these sentences as a mantra for one day. How does this change | + | “All phenomenal experience is a dream. Dream is only one type of illusion. Wakefulness is another.” Repeat these sentences as a mantra for one day. Observe how your experience of the world changes. |
- | Try living your life for one day while meditating on physical reality as an illusion. Begin by meditating on the question, | + | Try living your life for one day while meditating on physical reality as an illusion. Begin by contemplating |
Hold your breath while walking through the city until you see a plant. Go up to the plant and breathe deeply a few times. Then move on without breathing until you see another plant. Drift through the city from plant to plant, breathing only when you’re in close proximity to one. | Hold your breath while walking through the city until you see a plant. Go up to the plant and breathe deeply a few times. Then move on without breathing until you see another plant. Drift through the city from plant to plant, breathing only when you’re in close proximity to one. | ||
- | As you pick up this card it will transform itself into a box. Give the box to someone | + | As you draw this card it will transform itself into a box. Give the box to someone |
- | Stand at the window. Look outside. Observe the geometrical patterns | + | Look through a window |
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Test your strength and abilities. Can you fly or lift extremely heavy objects? | Test your strength and abilities. Can you fly or lift extremely heavy objects? | ||
- | Look at the ground beneath your feet. Does it look "normal" | + | Look at the ground beneath your feet. Does it look “normal” to you? What happens if you walk on it? |
Try jumping on the spot. Can you jump over the moon, or maintain a jump for an abnormally long period of time? | Try jumping on the spot. Can you jump over the moon, or maintain a jump for an abnormally long period of time? | ||
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First make sure you are relaxed. Your brain begins to empty out and you are becoming sleepier. Visualize a dream which you have prepared beforehand. Here is an example of a prepared dream: | First make sure you are relaxed. Your brain begins to empty out and you are becoming sleepier. Visualize a dream which you have prepared beforehand. Here is an example of a prepared dream: | ||
- | "I am in the Dragonfly pilot’s bathroom. I am the pilot, citizen of the Peninsula. Plants are filtering the air I breathe. I am in the shower, cleansing the toxins accummulated during the flight. When I step out of the shower, a friend next to me asks me to show them what a reality check is. I do my reality check which shows that I am dreaming: I open the window and try to breathe. If I can’t breathe outdoor air, I am dreaming. I tell my friend that I am dreaming, and head towards the door to the bedroom." | + | “I am in the Dragonfly pilot’s bathroom. I am the pilot, citizen of the Peninsula. Plants are filtering the air I breathe. I am in the shower, cleansing the toxins accummulated during the flight. When I step out of the shower, a friend next to me asks me to show them what a reality check is. I do my reality check which shows that I am dreaming: I open the window and try to breathe. If I can’t breathe outdoor air, I am dreaming. I tell my friend that I am dreaming, and head towards the door to the bedroom.” |
Visualise this dream slowly three times, to make sure that you know every detail. Then visualise the dream over and over. You should visualise the dream as though you are looking through your own eyes, not from a third-person perspective. If you find your thoughts drifting, ignore them and continue to visualise the dream continuously. Be patient and remember to thank your friend before going through the door. | Visualise this dream slowly three times, to make sure that you know every detail. Then visualise the dream over and over. You should visualise the dream as though you are looking through your own eyes, not from a third-person perspective. If you find your thoughts drifting, ignore them and continue to visualise the dream continuously. Be patient and remember to thank your friend before going through the door. | ||
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Auto Suggestion | Auto Suggestion | ||
- | As you are falling asleep, suggest to yourself that you will have a lucid dream in the near future. You can use a mantra, such as “I will know that I'm dreaming”. Don’t try too hard. Let yourself think expectantly about the lucid dream you are about to have, but be patient if you don't get one right away. | + | As you are falling asleep, suggest to yourself that you will have a lucid dream in the near future. You can use a mantra, such as “I will know that I’m dreaming”. Don’t try too hard. Let yourself think expectantly about the lucid dream you are about to have, but be patient if you don’t get one right away. |
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Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams | Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams | ||
- | As you are falling asleep, concentrate on your intention to recognise that you are dreaming. Silently repeat a short mantra, such as “When I'm dreaming, I will remember I'm dreaming”. Imagine that you are back in a dream you've had recently, but this time you recognise that you are dreaming. Keep repeating and visualising the mantra until you are sure that your intention is set in your mind or you fall asleep. | + | As you are falling asleep, concentrate on your intention to recognise that you are dreaming. Silently repeat a short mantra, such as “When I’m dreaming, I will remember I’m dreaming”. Imagine that you are back in a dream you’ve had recently, but this time you recognise that you are dreaming. Keep repeating and visualising the mantra until you are sure that your intention is set in your mind or you fall asleep. |
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- | "With intangible breath in center of forehead, as this reaches heart at the moment of sleep, have direction over dreams and over death itself." | + | “With intangible breath in center of forehead, as this reaches heart at the moment of sleep, have direction over dreams and over death itself.” -Parvati by Shiva |
- | Lie down and make yourself comfortable. Begin by focusing on your breathing. Feel the air as it passes through your nostrils and into your lungs and belly. In and out, in and out. After a few minutes visualise yourself breathing through your "third eye", in the centre of your forehead. In and out, in and out, in and out, until you fall asleep and begin lucid dreaming. | + | Lie down and make yourself comfortable. Begin by focusing on your breathing. Feel the air as it passes through your nostrils and into your lungs and belly. In and out, in and out. After a few minutes visualise yourself breathing through your “third eye”, in the centre of your forehead. In and out, in and out, in and out, until you fall asleep and begin lucid dreaming. |
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Incubating a dream | Incubating a dream | ||
- | To incubate a dream about a specific topic, first think of a phrase that summarises that topic, e.g. “I want to go to to the Lucid Peninsula”. It may help to write the phrase down. If there is something you want to do in the dream, think of a phrase to summarise that too, e.g. “I want to become a Dragonfly pilot”. If you want to become lucid in the dream, write something like “When I dream of the Lucid Peninsula, I will remember that I'm dreaming” beneath your topic phrase. | + | To incubate a dream about a specific topic, first think of a phrase that summarises that topic, e.g. “I want to go to to the Lucid Peninsula”. It may help to write the phrase down. If there is something you want to do in the dream, think of a phrase to summarise that too, e.g. “I want to become a Dragonfly pilot”. If you want to become lucid in the dream, write something like “When I dream of the Lucid Peninsula, I will remember that I’m dreaming” beneath your topic phrase. |
As you fall asleep focus on your topic phrase. Visualise yourself dreaming about the topic and realising that you are dreaming. Make sure that the last thing in your mind before falling asleep is your intention to lucidly dream about the topic you want to dream about. You might want to wake yourself up when the dream starts to fade so that you remember more of the dream. Perform a reality check when you (think you) are awake. | As you fall asleep focus on your topic phrase. Visualise yourself dreaming about the topic and realising that you are dreaming. Make sure that the last thing in your mind before falling asleep is your intention to lucidly dream about the topic you want to dream about. You might want to wake yourself up when the dream starts to fade so that you remember more of the dream. Perform a reality check when you (think you) are awake. | ||
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All phenomenal experience is a dream. Dream is only one type of illusion. Wakefulness is another. | All phenomenal experience is a dream. Dream is only one type of illusion. Wakefulness is another. | ||
- | Try living your life for one day while meditating on physical reality as an illusion. Begin by meditating on the question, | + | Try living your life for one day while meditating on physical reality as an illusion. Begin by meditating on the question, |
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- | After several months' | + | |
+ | After several months’ practice you can move to the next stages of this exercise. From the recognition that you are dreaming, you can move to transforming, |