mikeman7918

You are right, physics in dreams are as good as your knowmage of them. For example: people who have never played the portal games often have a hard time getting portal guns to work right in dreams, especially if they don't know Newtonian laws like the back of their hand. If you play Kerbal Space Program then I can almost guerentee that orbital mechanics in your dreams will be realistic.

Ending dreams if something goes wrong is actually quite easy (and good to know because you can feel pain in dreams), just blink over and over very quickly, close your eyes and force them open as hard as you can, or just verbally tell your dream that you want it to end. Looking into it more is definitely a good idea, but when it comes to that kind of thing lucid dreaming doesn't pose a greater threat then normal dreaming.

Kerbals were loosing interest in the space program and we firgured this would make it more interesting. Someone puts black hat (the guy in my forum signature) in charge of building a rocket.

Do you by chanse have aspergers syndrome or some other form of autism? I looked up how (and if) it affects lucid dreaming because I have it, and I did find that it causes persistance like that in both lucid dreams and imagination among other things. I am certainly happy about that because I am a big sucker for persistant sandbox games (like KSP). There are many tactics to induce lucid dreaming, and which one works the best varries from person to person. The one I have found success in is Mantra Induced Lucid Dreaming (MILD). In that, you basically repeat an intention to yourself over and over to sort of drill it into your mind. What I do is I go to bed normally, and then I wake up naturally in the night after 4-5 hours of sleep, after that I go to sleep again while repeating a mantra in my head like "I am dreaming", "the next thing I experience will be a dream", or "I am about to dream". Sometimes it's hard to go to sleep while doing that, and it's OK to stop once you get tired as long as you think about lucid dreaming as you go to sleep the rest of the way. It's also helpful to use mantras while awake like "I will become lucid in my dreams" and things of the sort. The exact wording is unimportant, just as long as you have the right meaning. If you did this right then before you know it you will find yourself in a dream, and the mantras you repeated before will still be bouncing around your mind subconciously. This will cause you to question weather you are dreaming. At this point, you need to do a reality check. My favorite reality check is to plug my nose and try to breathe, and in a dream you can still breathe just fine (and it feels incredibly weird). This is where things get tricky, and where I am still struggling. At this point, this tends to happen: dream.exe has stopped working. [End Now] Joking aside, the realizatoin that you are dreaming wakes you up unless you do something about it. There are multiple ways to go about stabilizing it, but they all involve immersing yourself in the dream world and forgetting all about your real body lying in your bed (which you may or may not be at least somewhat aware of at that point). You have to interact with the dream world or stare at your hands as you rub them together. Pay attention to every sensation in the dream down to the direction of the wind. You must also come to grips with the fact that this is all in your head, and therefore that you are in complete control of everything. In a dream, believing something makes it real. If you think that you will wake up, you will, but if you believe that you can make the dream last as long as you want. The dream also responds to commands, and it really helps to vocalize them. Vocally demand that the dream become clear by saying something like "CLARITY NOW!" if things become unclear (which is almost guerenteed as you first become lucid). Expect some trial and error when doing this, because it takes a while to get the hang of. If you can get past this step, you are in a lucid dream! Things may become unclear and unstable after a while, so you will need to stabilize the dream again. It's also possible that you may forget that you are dreaming (which happens to newbies sometimes because your brain works a bit differently when you dream), and that can be prevented by regularly doing reality checks and remembering that you are dreaming at the back of your mind. To control the dream, just believe something and it will become real. It is recommended that if you want, say, a portal gun (or any other object) you should not make it apear in front of you, you should just believe that it's behind you or around a corner and when you look it will be there. You can also make anything (even yourself) morph into anything (or anyone). Dream control can be a bit tricky, and one of the easiest ways to do it is to vocalize your intention like "When I open this door, the surface of the Moon WILL be on the other side!". I highly suggest you look up things to do in a lucid dream, because there is a lot of cool stuff you might never think of on your own like telling your dream that your worst fear is behind a door and then confronting said fear with a lightsaber and superpowers. You can even ask dream characters what they represent and they will give you a strait answer, and I hear that convincing a dream character that they are not real can be quite entertaining.

Yes, you can improve productivity. You can talk to your subconcious as if it's a face-to-face conversation with another person which can be verry informative and interesting, and your creativity and probelem solving ability is drasticly improved. Lucid dreaming can also reduce depression and increase morale for obvious reasons. As for how restful it is, some say they feel slightly less rested when they di it and some say they feel more rested when doing it. In theory it doesn't really effect quality of sleep because you are still dreaming. In any case, I would say that it's worth it.

It's so easy you can do it in your sleep (Sorry, I just had to make that joke...) In all seriousness though, it's more time consuming then hard, and all the work involved is mental stuff like repeating mantras. A website called "world of lucid dreaming" is a great resource which I used a lot. Link.

Well, I definitely recommend it. Most people can reliably have stable lucid dreams within a month of practice.

He was framed! You see, there are no ants on Kerin. Ants are only found on Earth. Bill spills his Koka Kola all over the return vehicle's control pannel.

That's not uncommon. Roughly 50% of people have had one spontaneously at some point, and about 10% of people spontaneously do it monthly. Antone can do it with some time and effort though.

For those of you who don't know, a lucid dream is a dream where you become aware that you are dreaming and you can control it. Everything feels just as real as real life, and when lucid dreaming you can experience whatever you want. Lately I have been experimenting with it and trying to induce it. My only problem is not waking up right after I figure out that I am dreaming, which I know how to do and it's just a matter of time before I master it. Considering what forum I'm on, I have to point out that you can play KSP in a lucid dream. When flying the rockets you will be able to feel the acceleration, feel the weightlessness, see Kerbin (or Earth) from afar, feel the incredible power of the engines, eat all the snacks (which actually taste like sacks), and see what it's like to be on a rocket experiencing all sorts of failures. You can even morph into a Kerbal! I have been to space in a semi-lucid dream (where I know in the back of my mind that I am dreaming but don't take control), and let me tell you first hand, the weightlessness is awesome and Earth looks beautiful. When dreaming, your creativity is actually on overdrive and you can solve problems much easier. It's really interesting. I remember recently I listened to music generated by my subconscious. I don't remember the tune, I just remember that it sounded pretty sweet. That is really saying something because I haven't touched a musical instrument in years. I am very exited to have my first lucid dream over 15 seconds long. Once I get dream stabilization mastered I will be able to have lucid dreams up to an hour long, possibly multiple times per night. It might even happen tonight, in fact that's pretty likely. At that point I will officially be an oneironaut (which is the epic Greek way of describing someone who explores dreams). Are there any experienced oneironauts here? Any oneironauts in training like me? Is there anyone here interested in learning lucid dreaming? Are there any dreams (lucid or otherwise) that anyone wants to share?

The space center convinced him to build a space elevator instead of a wall around Kerbin to keep the krakens out. Your Jool orbiting refueling station combusts.

The Kerbal coordinating the burn was listening to sick beats and he didn't hear Gene Kerman telling him to kill the thrust. (Based loosely on a dream I had last night where I was in a mission control room listening to sick beats.) You accidentally burn retrograde instead of prograde.

A negligent engineer accidentally got the shuttle guidence program switched with a Super Kerman Brothers video game.

Some idiots at mission control thought that Kerbin really needed a set of rings. The thrusters of the space plane docked to your station accidentally fire, putting the statoin into an uncontrolable spin and deorbiting it.

The end of the universe is technically a natural disaster, which is covered by cheap insurance because Kerbin has no weather. The second stage boosters fire while the first stage is still attatched.

It was because the stream was very bugged. (Maybe the kraken getting revenge) your launch escape system misfires.

Jeb: "Bob, did you eat all of the snacks?" Bob: "It wasn't me!" -Rocket Man

You know you are a nerd when your phone has 5 different calculator apps. You know you are a nerd when you read a book about how computers work just for fun. You know you are a nerd when you regularly think about all the crazy stuff happening inside of you right now. You know you are a nerd when your favorite classes in school are science classes that your classmates say are really hard. You know you are a nerd when you regularly have probelems that can be solved with a computer program, and you make computer programs to solve those probelems.

Here is a website all about how mountains don't exist and oceans are actually very shallow. It's all a conspiracy! http://libertyjfreedom.wix.com/theearthisflat

Our white hat hackers lost their white hats and they wer busy trying to find them. Your Duna rover looses a wheel.

6/10 it's probobaly funny but I don't get it, By the way, a Delta-Glider is an iconic space ship from Orbiter space flight simulator, and I really want one. Alas, just like a portal gun, a TARDIS, and Rico's grappling hook it doesn't exist.

Yeah, it's pretty cool.

It's gr8 m8, I r8 8/10

I actually live in Utah, USA which has a lot of igneous rock scattered about and the terrain is made of oxidized sedimentary rock. If it weren't for the blue sky, flora, and the Moon then the place would look just like the surface of Mars. NASA has actually used regions near here to test various Mars surface exploration technologies. This place was also once underwater and now it's a desert, it just has so many parallels with Mars. It's like I am living on a terraformed Mars (with Earth gravity and Earth's Moon). It's pretty awesome.

I redirect an asteroid to hit the hill and I build a new hill in the remaining crater.