Post by deadbull on Jul 27, 2017 22:29:20 GMT
I'm a self taught lucid dreamer. For about a year I've been kicking off lucid dreams by jumping reallly high up and landing. This triggers my lucidity and I go to my happy place which is a giant forest with tall trees, large rocks, and massive cliffs. I jump far up into the tree tops. I run along large branches and dive below onto some boulders and everything I can think of doing. Every morning I wake up wishing I could do that stuff. I just started yesterday.
I meditate often. My strong lucid dreams are a byproduct of that. I been with depression problems for a while and turned to nature to get rid of it. Two days in and it's worked. I am feeling like I felt before issues with anxiety and some adhd and mood issues hit me. I also have freakishly low body weight. I'm in my early 20's and my baseline weight is 108 pounds. If I do any muscle gaining exercise with weights I dramatically drop body weight and don't build muscle. Even if I use protein shakes and eat more real food I loose weight. ANYTHING that most people do to gain fat and muscle makes me loose weight. Even eating fat and junk food every day. Protein shakes or any supplements strip away all my body fat and my muscle wither away.
I found only natural movements and activities help me. I don't think I can call what I do parkour or free running. I would like to eventually do those things but don't know how. I am not anywhere near in shape for those activities either. I decided to ignore all the "How to learn parkour/freerun" beginner guides and figure things out on my own. I am starting with balance. I have a weak core so I take to the woods and walk along fallen trees at ground level. After an hour of that I felt like my balance skills were better than that so I got more ballsy and found trees and branches higher off the ground. After 2 hours of being so close to the ground I began to scale tall trees that have fallen over sturdy onto other trees that go anywhere from 10-100 feet off the ground. I actually found doing this easy. I have no fear of being high up there. After I walked up one that was only 15ish feet I needed to go higher. The next one was maybe 25 feet and the best one is easily about 100.
I don't know what it is about these activities. It's absolutely a mental thing. When I first started my balance wasn't well because I usually sit inside being the computer nerd I am. I got comfortable and I couldn't stop pushing myself and saying "I need to do bigger, higher obstacles". I was crazed after 3 hours and couldn't get enough. Once I started to scale the sloped branches only being 10-15 feet up didn't satisfy me. I needed a better high. I chased it and every freaking time it's so good.
Currently I just scoped out all the spots where I can practice balance and strengthen my legs. Today I started to practice jumping and landing. I sort of have a good grip on throwing my body weight around to jump further. Today while I was out I figured out the technique to land with a good stance so I quit loosing my balance and falling forward. I'm still really weak. I can't pull myself up or lower myself down with only upper body strength. My balance is well enough I can go to spots where I can jump upwards and down just like you would doing stairs, but on tree branches. I feel this gives me better skills because some branches are smaller and cylinder shaped, requiring more of my balancing skills.
I need to learn how to bail out of a jump if it goes wrong. I learned this mistake today when I jumped down onto the flat ground and the momentum threw me forwards. I'm comfortable jumping 24 inch gaps if the landing branch/tree trunk is large enough. I really have to work on how to grip vertical objects by coordinating my hand placement/footing. On the ground I naturally jump 5 feet 3 inches with no running start. About 6 feet with a running start in good shoes.
I can't try anything more involved like jumping over a short wall or pulling myself up and over anything. If I try to jump from a tree to the ground by sliding off and lowering down with my arms I just instantly fall, hanging with my arms fully extended. My upper body strength isn't in existence. I'm fixing this by carrying a light but heavy enough log around when I'm not doing any obstacles. Over one shoulder for a while, than the next, than behind the head over both shoulders like a jesus on the cross typereach (good or bad analogy?). These natural movements and things humans used to do before settling in communities like we do today is how I need to build strength. Anything unnatural hurts me.
I'm not really doing parkour or free running I think. I feel more like I'm just being a kid again playing at the jungle gym. Only different being I'm more mature and know my limits to not get hurt. Once I go out I loose time and come back 3 hours later. It's the ultimate meditation I can do while not meditating at home on the floor. I'm pretty addicted. One day I'll be doing real parkour or freerunning I think.
I meditate often. My strong lucid dreams are a byproduct of that. I been with depression problems for a while and turned to nature to get rid of it. Two days in and it's worked. I am feeling like I felt before issues with anxiety and some adhd and mood issues hit me. I also have freakishly low body weight. I'm in my early 20's and my baseline weight is 108 pounds. If I do any muscle gaining exercise with weights I dramatically drop body weight and don't build muscle. Even if I use protein shakes and eat more real food I loose weight. ANYTHING that most people do to gain fat and muscle makes me loose weight. Even eating fat and junk food every day. Protein shakes or any supplements strip away all my body fat and my muscle wither away.
I found only natural movements and activities help me. I don't think I can call what I do parkour or free running. I would like to eventually do those things but don't know how. I am not anywhere near in shape for those activities either. I decided to ignore all the "How to learn parkour/freerun" beginner guides and figure things out on my own. I am starting with balance. I have a weak core so I take to the woods and walk along fallen trees at ground level. After an hour of that I felt like my balance skills were better than that so I got more ballsy and found trees and branches higher off the ground. After 2 hours of being so close to the ground I began to scale tall trees that have fallen over sturdy onto other trees that go anywhere from 10-100 feet off the ground. I actually found doing this easy. I have no fear of being high up there. After I walked up one that was only 15ish feet I needed to go higher. The next one was maybe 25 feet and the best one is easily about 100.
I don't know what it is about these activities. It's absolutely a mental thing. When I first started my balance wasn't well because I usually sit inside being the computer nerd I am. I got comfortable and I couldn't stop pushing myself and saying "I need to do bigger, higher obstacles". I was crazed after 3 hours and couldn't get enough. Once I started to scale the sloped branches only being 10-15 feet up didn't satisfy me. I needed a better high. I chased it and every freaking time it's so good.
Currently I just scoped out all the spots where I can practice balance and strengthen my legs. Today I started to practice jumping and landing. I sort of have a good grip on throwing my body weight around to jump further. Today while I was out I figured out the technique to land with a good stance so I quit loosing my balance and falling forward. I'm still really weak. I can't pull myself up or lower myself down with only upper body strength. My balance is well enough I can go to spots where I can jump upwards and down just like you would doing stairs, but on tree branches. I feel this gives me better skills because some branches are smaller and cylinder shaped, requiring more of my balancing skills.
I need to learn how to bail out of a jump if it goes wrong. I learned this mistake today when I jumped down onto the flat ground and the momentum threw me forwards. I'm comfortable jumping 24 inch gaps if the landing branch/tree trunk is large enough. I really have to work on how to grip vertical objects by coordinating my hand placement/footing. On the ground I naturally jump 5 feet 3 inches with no running start. About 6 feet with a running start in good shoes.
I can't try anything more involved like jumping over a short wall or pulling myself up and over anything. If I try to jump from a tree to the ground by sliding off and lowering down with my arms I just instantly fall, hanging with my arms fully extended. My upper body strength isn't in existence. I'm fixing this by carrying a light but heavy enough log around when I'm not doing any obstacles. Over one shoulder for a while, than the next, than behind the head over both shoulders like a jesus on the cross typereach (good or bad analogy?). These natural movements and things humans used to do before settling in communities like we do today is how I need to build strength. Anything unnatural hurts me.
I'm not really doing parkour or free running I think. I feel more like I'm just being a kid again playing at the jungle gym. Only different being I'm more mature and know my limits to not get hurt. Once I go out I loose time and come back 3 hours later. It's the ultimate meditation I can do while not meditating at home on the floor. I'm pretty addicted. One day I'll be doing real parkour or freerunning I think.