Learn lucid dreaming: part 1 (video)

## Synopsis

**Learn lucid dreaming: part 1** is a YouTube video by the YouTube channel *lucidipedia* which is made by one of Lucidipedia's founders explaining their motivation for learning lucid dreaming and how the site they created came to be.

## Transcript

Well, welcome to the first DVD of Lucidipedia. My name is Tim, I'm the founder of the Lucidipedia project, website, Lucidipedia.com as you can visit online now. And this is a capture of one of the most famous official lucid dream techniques that's called the Wake Back To Bed technique, also the Napping technique, that the Lucidipedia Institute has designed to induce lucid dreams. And instead of just providing you the texts and the step-by-step lessons that you can find on the Lucidipedia website, I thought well "maybe it's a nice initiative to capture it on video and really give you an impression of how to apply those techniques". Which is completely different than knowing what step one is and what step two is. So, I hope you enjoy and well, let's see how, how it works out.

Well let me introduce myself. Well, my name is Tim I'm 23-years old, I study at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. I study educational science and technology here - this is by the way my room, it's located on the campus of the university and this is the place where I'm going to show you all about lucid dreaming. I'm going to show you all the tips and tricks that I have collected and archived myself during the past seven years when I was really, well, busy learning to become an expert in lucid dreaming. So I hope you have, you get some useful tips along the way. And, welp, let's talk about when I discovered lucid dreaming - it's nice to have some background information.

I discovered lucid dreaming when I was about seven years old. So I'd describe that as a while ago, and it was a nightmare. It was a lucid nightmare, and I remember it very vividly because it was a - there was a witch - that witch from *Snow White*, that captured me in some kind of cage. She locked me up and it was terrible. It was a kind of constructed matrix - white space - only that cage in the middle, and that witch would walk around and life was terrible, and I was really frightened at that time.

Now shouting to my mom - in the dream - "Mom please wake me up! Wake me up! I want to wake up! I think this is terrible!". So it was a lucid dream actually, although I didn't know what a lucid dream really meant - I didn't know that I could take control and just fly away and go to Neverland, so to speak. So I didn't have a clue what lucid dreaming really was, but I had a conscious dream, a lucid dream, a lucid nightmare.

So when I was about seventeen years old I discovered lucid dreaming on a website. A classmate of mine showed me an interesting website, and I discovered what lucid dreaming really meant. And of course I already knew what lucid dreaming was about - because I had that lucid nightmare - so I knew what it, what consciousness and dreaming was. - But I didn't know I could take control and just fly. Actually learn this phenomenon. There were techniques and methods to really enjoy your dreams, in that way.

So at the time I was watching *The Matrix* movie (I don't know if you've seen it), from what it was, with Keanu Reeves, the first one, it was terrific, beautiful, enjoyable, amazing movie, I really enjoyed it. And it's a great metaphor actually for lucid dreaming, if you take a look at the text of Morpheus for example - "free your mind", and "don't think you can, know you can", and well if you haven't seen the final scene where Keanu Reeves stands up as Neo and stops the bullets in front of him - it really is a nice metaphor for lucid dreaming, and well at that time the discovery of lucid dreaming really connected with that energy. So I could really motivate and really inspire it to become well, a kind of Neo myself, and hack into The Matrix, plug into my own dreamworld.

So at the time my first website was in Dutch about lucid dreaming - I called it The Matrix, and it was the first one where I shared my tips and tricks, and along the way I built another website with I called it [*unknown*] I think, with more interaction, more dynamic stuff in it. And eventually when I came to the university I had this idea: "well, I know a lot about lucid dreaming and I have a lot of experience but I would like to have a platform - an online platform - well, place so to speak - a home for all those lucid dreams around the world, and give them the tools to share their knowledge and experience with lucid dreaming. Not only my tips and my lessons but really enjoy our share of knowledge of lucid dreaming.

So we built on a project, which I call Lucidipedia. And I organized my first workshop, and my first talk on the University of Twente here. And it was about three years ago, maybe four years ago, and that was my very first workout on lucid dreaming and it was very enjoyable, exciting. And there were sixty students came along, it was, well it was a success. And well, at the end five students came along and were really enthusiastic about the project and would really like to contribute and collaborate on this idea that I had. So eventually we build a website about lucid dreaming, make lucid dreaming more accessible to the world, more learning and material of course. And we build a MediaWiki library so a kind of library or a kind of webpage where you can edit articles yourself and add your text a little like Wikipedia.

So it's the same technology, so it's a great to give visitors the tools to [*unknown*] their own experiences and skills, and share them with the world, so, that was one. And the second was an online dream journal. At that time I didn't have a clue what anyone has - hadn't built a dream journal online - it was obvious to me. Because when you digitally archive your dreams online you can share, you can do all these kinds of neat neat statistical analysis. So, well, we built it ourselves, so eventually we made the Lucidipedia that you can visit now today and we're really proud and are still intensively developing this website and have a lot more ideas.

And this DVD is one of them. So we've put this online, on YouTube, and I share this to make well, lucid dreaming as far more accessible than it is right now.

Lucidipedia.

**Website:** YouTube
**Channel:** lucidipedia
**Title:** Learn Lucid dreaming: part 1
**Length:** 6:21
**Date:** 8 October 2007