this is one of the biggest mistakes a lucid dreamer can make and if you're
doing this all your other efforts are going to go to waste so what is it let's find out
hi dreamers well if I had a dollar that every time somebody made this mistake well firstly
I'd be American but I'd also be a very very wealthy person because this is easily the
biggest mistake that lucid dreamers make and it absolutely ruins your attempts so
in today's video I'm going to share with you this common lucid dreaming mistake and how to fix it
but as always first I'm going to ask you the question that is at the core
of this mistake and it is what is the worst trait for a lucid Dreamer
well there are certainly a lot of crates that are bad for lucid dreaming but one of the absolute
worst is arrogance or a belief that you're right all the time because if you feel that you're right
all the time then you're not going to notice when you're wrong but the problem is there's one thing
that almost everyone is incredibly arrogant about even the most humble lovely people are arrogant
about this thing what is it well it's believing that they know what reality they're experiencing
trust me everyone does it in fact you're doing it right now from the moment you were born to
this moment you're experiencing right now you have been convinced that every experience that you've
had has been here in the real world it's such a convincing illusion such an ingrained belief
that we genuinely can't imagine being in another world experiencing another state and this is a
problem for lucid dreaming because one of the core things we need to do as lucid dreamers is
to genuinely question whether or not we're dreaming and that question basically boils
down to am I really experiencing the real world right now and this problem is embedded into our
psychology our society the language we use we have sayings like seeing is believing and when
most people talk about dreams or think about dreams they imagine them as this otherworldly
strange place that should be easy to spot if they were like the way we described them but that's not
the true problem for lucid dreamers because if dreams were weird really really weird all the
time we would be Lucid all the time already if we could trust our judgment for telling when we were
dreaming we wouldn't have a problem there would be no one learning how to lucid dream the problem is
is that the dream world and the waking world are so so similar that we can't judge the difference
and on top of that we're arrogant about it and we believe that we can tell just by how we feel
so I'm going to be rude and burst your bubble and I'm gonna say this you are terrible at spotting
when you're dreaming you are also terrible at realizing when you're genuinely awake you cannot
tell the difference this is something that you and all other human beings are innately bad at we are
not designed to solve this problem based on our sensory input and our judgment we cannot do that
well and if you don't believe me let's test it right now wherever you are look around you and
ask yourself this question with all seriousness Am I Dreaming right now and pay attention to
how it makes you think how you feel about the question and what you're expecting to discover
and I'm willing to put money on you're secretly thinking well yeah I know it's real but I'm going
to play along anyway you've already made your mind up that you are right and there is no part
of you that is really ready to discover that this is all of dream in fact most people would be so
surprised that their socks would be completely blown off if they discovered they were dreaming
right now and this is why when people do get Lucid in their dreams they are incredibly excited
it's incredibly powerful and they're shocked with excitement because they were so unready
to be proven wrong now this is basically reality arrogance if you're suffering from this you're not
alone almost every other human being does but it's a big problem if you want to lucid dream
so doubting reality is a really really difficult thing to do but it is also
fundamental to lucid dreaming there's probably nothing more important than this
so how do we do it because we're so convinced we're awake right now how can we possibly doubt
that well first we need to ask the question what is our experience of reality and it's this
your experience of reality is a form of dream you have never experienced reality directly
everything you've ever experienced in all of your dreams and all of your Waking Life is a
mental model in Waking Life that mental model is based on sensory input the things that you
experience are a dream based on your senses your brain takes all of the information that
your senses provide it processes it and then you experience the end result it is a dream based on
the information your senses have given it based on reality now the only difference between your
experience of Waking Life and your experience of a dream is the thing giving you that mental model in
Waking Life your dream is based on sensory input in a dream your mental model is based on memories
and thoughts dreams are not different because of the nature of what they're made of because
both the mental models dreams are different because memories are more unstable than reality
so technically the question am I dreaming is the wrong question because the answer to that is
always yes the real question is what kind of dream am I having am I having a dream based on my senses
or a dream based on my memories that's the real question so you don't need to doubt the nature of
reality because every reality you ever experience is a form of dream what you need to doubt is your
ability to judge the difference because how you feel about reality is irrelevant you're terrible
at Discerning the difference because technically there is no real difference between one mental
model and another so start doubting your own ability to judge don't try to doubt reality
because you're already experiencing a dream you just need to ask yourself is this a dream based on
sensory input or is this a dream based on memories and I know this can really bake your noodle and
be a philosophical rabbit hole that you can get lost in but it's really very simple stop trying
to doubt reality stop trying to judge reality based on how it feels instead remind yourself that
everything you ever experience is a mental model and your ability to judge what kind of mental
model that is is really bad don't be arrogant about reality when you ask yourself is this a
dream don't listen to your opinion do your reality test and do it with a completely and truly open
mind to discovering that you could be dreaming it takes time and practice but the more you think
about it the more you think about the nature of perception and reality the more it will make sense
or in other words if when you perform a reality test you already feel like you know the answer
you already assume that you're awake you're doing it wrong that means you're doing it wrong that's
the fundamental mindset that you need to have is anything could be possible I really can't trust my
own judgment so if you already assume you're awake then you're doing your reality tests wrong most
people are so arrogant about their ability to know when they're awake your ability to judge reality
that even when they're in a dream at absolutely Bonkers things are happening they will assume
that it's real and then come up with weird excuses as to why it's happening that is why we have these
weird weird dreams that we don't realize that We're Dreaming because we're so arrogant about
our ability to judge stop doing that and your ability to lose a dream will go through the roof
just try to remember that old saying don't assume it makes an ass out of you and me and it's so true
when it comes to lucid dreaming anyway that's it for today if you've enjoyed today's video
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