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Maybe look up some info on video-game design and augmented reality. It's all created by human programmers (ignoring AI in recent years), and if someone else can create an entire virtual world from scratch, so you can you! Even better, you don't have to "reinvent the wheel" when it comes to dreams. You can even cut out the death-march of constantly trying to improve graphics software/hardware (unless you really want to spend a few months trying to get rain wetness to "look right") and skip straight to the cool stuff.

I'd recommend starting with something easy and objective, like a Diegetic Interface rather than trying for something subjective which only you can see. Do you have a favorite interface from a video-game that you like? You can image it appearing on a clear piece of glass in front of you. Later on you can try [wearing] the piece of glass and have yourself a old fashioned HUD. Mess around with different ways to display information and maybe even go for a book on interface design like About Face or The Joy of UX.

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This is a very good video introduction to Stoicism.

The main ancient Stoic books that have survived are Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, Epictetus's Discourses and Enchiridion, which is basically a summary of the Discourses, and Seneca's Letters to Lucilius and Essays. All these editions are relatively new translations and, in Seneca's case, abridged, but they will give you an idea of what Stoicism is about. I suggest you first read the Enchiridion (it is no longer than 40 pages) and then the Meditations (around 150-200 pages), and then dig deeper if you get interested.

There are other ancient sources, and quite a lot of modern work is being done currently, but those are the ones I suggest you begin with.

Then there are very active modern Stoic communities, like /r/Stoicism, the Facebook group, and NewStoa, with its College of Stoic Philosophers, that lets you take a very good four month long course by email.

The great thing about Stoicism as a way of life is that it has neither the blind dogmatism of organized religion nor the ardent skepticism of atheism. It puts the soul back in the universe, in a way, and, on the personal level, empowers you to take responsibility for your actions and to take it easy with what you cannot control.

Hey, /u/OsakaWilson! Hope you are well.

The best approach you can find toward the subject is Carl Jung's writings. I am almost positive. It is analytical psychology, so it is a bit more of a stretch with the mind, but you will find what you are looking for, I bet. His works on dreams are compiled and fairly easy to find: Dreams by Carl Jung. I will dig up what I can on nightmares for you. He analyzed dreams of his patients and helped work them through it. Nightmares are discussed, but I'm not sure there's a step-by-step guide... rather a good method that he used to help rid others that you could learn from.

Multiple effortless WILDs when I hadn't even come close for years beforehand, crazy and powerful dreams both lucid and non-lucid. They have an impact, they aren't magic pills that'll get you lucid every time if you don't do any LD work/prep but for experienced practicing LD'ers they get a legit 80-90% success rate from them, they increase awareness and memory in dreams.

Can get both off amazon. Also good to take some choline along with. Start with 4mg Galantamine, 300mg GPC, 250-400mg choline then if that doesn't do it for ya double them all. Take at least a night or two off in between doses to avoid tolerance buildup, take during wbtb.

https://www.amazon.com/Alpha-Choline-Supplement-Pharmaceutical-Capsules/dp/B00XWQSD7G/ref=sr_1_4_s_it?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1493492389&sr=1-4&keywords=alpha+gpc

https://www.amazon.com/Relentless-Improvement-Galantamine/dp/B00NEQ9MVA/ref=sr_1_2?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1493492420&sr=1-2-spons&keywords=galantamine&psc=1

Yes. Sounds like you are giving yourself a hard time about everything, and this is crossing over. Be compassionate and forgiving to yourself, firstly! :-) And, the magic: try to give up your thinking habit. Not, suppress all thoughts - passing thoughts are fine - just stop deliberately thinking. Whenever you find yourself doing that, go do something constructive instead.

Lucid dreams are a cool way to explore yourself and unfold things, but they also reflect your emotions back at you. Meditation and relaxation daily will work wonders.

Read the sidebar, journal, read all you can on dreaming. I personally recommend getting a copy of Conscious Dreaming by Robert Moss. This book changed my perception of dreaming. Its more than a guide on dreaming. Stay hydrated, and take life as it comes. Listen to lifes messages.
https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Dreaming-Spiritual-Path-Everyday/dp/051788710X

..and for some reason I feel the need to tell you to check out the podcast "Welcome to Nightvale". Start with the Pilot.

Anyways, Deam Adventurously!

Try daily meditation, this is a good start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHshOvzERHQ

Also watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwewhsDn90

On top read some books about this topic or get them as free audio books:

https://www.amazon.com/Lucid-Dreaming-Gateway-Inner-Self/dp/193049114X/

https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/mfpdp/B07T8KD4PJ?ref=tmm_aud_title_sr

(translations are available)

I would be happy to.

https://augtellez.wordpress.com/2016/10/22/the-nature-of-dreaming/

http://www.astralpulse.com/frankkepple.html

https://www.amazon.com/Far-Journeys-Robert-Monroe/dp/0385231822/

1. Everything is a dream
   
2. Everything is real
   
   The biggest mistake you can make is deciding one of these is truer than the other.

Stephen LaBerge touches on this subject in his 1990 book Lucid Dreaming. Here he talks about an experiment where two subjects, one male and one female, tried to orgasm in a lucid dream.
>One significant gender-related difference may be that while Miranda experienced vaginal muscle contractions during lucid dream orgasm, Randy apparently did not experience corresponding pelvic muscle contractions. Randy's failure to actually ejaculate in his dream, in spite of having vividly experienced the sensations of ejaculation, is consistent with my own experience in this regard. Among the nearly nine hundred lucid dream reports in my personal record are about a dozen instances in which I dreamed that I reached orgasm. In all of these cases, the sensation of ejaculation was convincingly vivid, so much so that these lucid dream orgasms were usually followed by false awakenings in which I dreamed that I had in fact had a wet dream. Yet as soon as I awoke in actuality, I always discovered that I was mistaken.

One experiment and an anecdote is hardly scientific though. I'm not sure if anyone has done any further research.

EDIT: Slightly misinterpreted the question. Orgasm: Yes, Ejaculation: Not necessarily

For me, it's Galantamine. Not 100%, but so close it's not worth mentioning. It must be used properly, though. My technique:

1. Set your alarm for 5 hours after you go to sleep
   
2. Go to bed
   
3. When the alarm goes off, get up, take 4-8mg of Galantamine
   
4. Stay up for 15-20 minutes
   
5. Go back to bed
   
6. Experience vivid, lucid dreams
   
   I should mention that I do spend a fair amount of time studying lucid dreaming during the day, so when the Galantamine-fueled dreams start, I recognize them right away and become lucid. I do not do any reality checks during the day.
   
   Here's the one I use:
   https://www.amazon.com/Relentless-Improvement-Galantamine/dp/B00NEQ9MVA/ref=sr_1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1494069901&sr=8-3&keywords=Galantamine
   
   And the book I learned the technique from:
   https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Lucid-Dreaming-Power-Supplements/dp/1430305428/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494070156&sr=8-1&keywords=lucid+dreaming+supplement+book

It might not be what you meant, but this is expanded upon a bit in the Very Short Introduction to Dreaming which I can only recommend!

I've read about a tribe in South America (I think, it's been a long time), who's dominate cultural theme involved dreaming. This book is amazing if you're interested in dreaming - what really makes this book great is the way antidotes and stories are used to give you a grasp on dream manipulation.

I'm going to imagine this is you.

As for the book, Missing Girls perhaps?

Read Castañeda's Art of Dreaming, and take it from there.....

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

Free pdf version

You can start with this.
https://www.amazon.com/Primer-Jungian-Psychology-Calvin-Hall/dp/0452011868/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1550253128&sr=8-1

I do this all the time. Its described in my yoga book for meditation.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0345388453

Check out r/yoga they might know.

This is not always true. Time perception is more often distorted in a dream. (As theoretically it is simply a reaction in the brain with nn,DMT. Outlined in the book DMT: the Spirit Molecule.)