Actual practical LD advice.

This is complete word salad nonsense.

OP just uses pointlessly long terms to try and blind you with science, I mean ffs "Conceptual retention of the unreal", is anyone really buying this BS?

He's not once considered that his own regular lucid dreams might just be something to do with his brain chemistry and his advice might be empty useless nonsense, which is what it sounds like to me.

A prime example of this is due to a rare skin condition I'm unable to swim. I have had flying dreams my entire life and have never once been in a swimming pool or the sea.

The only good bit of advice OP gives is number 5. I can agree with that one.

For the others:

1) Understand that something cannot come from nothing. Instantly disprovable by one word, "imagination". I want every one of you to imagine a purple apple or an elephant with wings. It's easy to do. The mind can combine different memories and it can easily create things that have no basis in reality.

2) Exercise is good advice for general health but it doesn't increase your chances of REM. Babies have the most REM of any humans and they are hardly very active. Too much exercise might even mean less REM because you're increasing the bodies need for NREM.

3) Physical stimulus exposure (more pointless use of fancy words to sound smarter than he is). Also instantly disprovable. OP says " Your mind cannot create the sensation of actions you have never done. ", Oh really? Ok everyone i want you to all imagine what placing your balls in lukewarm baked beans would feel like. Pretty easy to imagine right? I'm pretty sure no one here has done that. OP has zero belief in the creative power of the human mind. BTW OP all of this has been disproven by psychology decades ago.

4) Conceptual retention of the unreal (word salad) - OP claims " It is the wish fulfillment of controlling fire, you cannot do it unless you have seen or started actual fires (be safe) ". Again totally untrue. There are plenty of accounts of people from ancient history prior to TV and film, who dreamt of things they could have had to experience of. Dragons, demons etc.

Sorry OP. The only good advice you give here is to keep a dream journal. The rest is just your ill-informed beliefs dressed up in fake intellectual language.

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