Lucid Dreaming/Glossary
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- CAT
- See Cycle Adjustment Technique.
- Cycle Adjustment Technique
- The technique in which you adjust your sleeping cycle to promote awareness in your dreams.
- DC
- See Dream character.
- DILD
- See Dream-Initiated Lucid Dream.
- Dream character
- Any character inside your dream. Some people believe they are real people or spirit guides, others that they're just products of the dreaming mind.
- Dream-Initiated Lucid Dream
- A lucid dream that starts as a normal dream, but in which you become lucid.
- Dream recall
- Remembrance of what you dreamt.
- Dream result
- Result from a reality check that shows that you are dreaming. You only want these in dreams.
- Dreamscape
- The landscape and scenery in your dream.
- Hypnagogic imagery
- The images, sounds, etc. that you perceive as you fall asleep. Not to be confused with phosphenes.
- HI
- See Hypnagogic imagery.
- LD
- See Lucid dream.
- LILD
- See Lucid Induction of Lucid Dreams.
- Lucid dream
- A dream in which you are aware that you are dreaming.
- Lucid Induction of Lucid Dreams
- The technique in which you do something in a lucid dream that theoretically will remind you that you're dreaming in your next dream.
- MILD
- See Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams.
- Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams
- The technique in which you mentally repeat to yourself, as you fall asleep, your future intention to realize that you're dreaming.
- Named Subconscious Technique
- (See "Getting more help with MILD from your subconscious", in the forum links box in the MILD section.) This technique is a useful aid to the MILD and autosuggestion techniques where the dreamer actively engages his or her subconscious for dream results.
- NST
- See Named Subconscious Technique.
- Oneironaut
- Somebody skilled at travelling through dreams.
- Phosphenes
- Patches of colour (usually red or blue) that you can constantly see while your eyes are closed.
- Rapid Eye Movement
- The stage of the sleep cycle that your most vivid dreams occur in.
- RC
- See Reality check.
- Reality check
- A way to determine if you're dreaming or not (e.g. breathing with your nose shut, switching lights on/off, etc.).
- Real-life result
- Result from a reality check that shows that you are awake. You want these in real-life, but you don't want these in dreams.
- REM
- See Rapid Eye Movement.
- Sleep paralysis
- The inability to move brought on by sleep, which is what allows people to move in dreams while lying at rest. May be experienced conscouslly, for example during the WILD technique.
- SP
- See Sleep paralysis.
- VD
- See Vivid dream.
- VILD
- See Visual Induction of Lucid Dreams.
- Visual Induction of Lucid Dreams
- The technique in which you incubate a dream that reminds you to do a reality check and become lucid.
- Vivid dream
- A dream with unusually good recall.
- Wake-Back-To-Bed
- The technique in which you wake up for a bit after a few hours of sleep and go back to sleep again. Usually used in combination with other techniques.
- Wake-Initiated Lucid Dream
- A lucid dream that you enter consciously directly from the waking state, and already lucid. "Wake-Initiation of Lucid Dreams" is often used to refer to techniques in which you go directly from consciousness to the dream state.
- WBTB
- See Wake-Back-To-Bed.
- WILD
- See Wake-Initiated Lucid Dream.
