Incubation RC

**Sharpshoey** · 11-27-2014 03:42 AM

I don't know if anyone else has already made a thread about this, but I'm sorry if there is one already.

OK so I was thinking about dream incubation today, and how it could help a lot with dream control or if you want to go to a certain place or meet a certain person. Then an idea suddenly hit me...you could use incubation as an RC! I then remembered threads about incubating dream signs, and the VILD technique (which is basically just incubating a certain room into your dreams to get you lucid) My thoughts on those were that with the dream signs, those couldn't be everywhere with you in the dream, and I thought that for the VILD you wouldn't be able to dream about a single place in all your dreams because all my dreams happen in very different places every time. (I could be wrong, these are just my thoughts and how I feel)

So anyways what if you started to visualize something that was on you that you could use a constant RC. For example, I thought of using a watch with the words "I'm Dreaming" written where the time should be. You may be thinking that that wouldn't be a constant RC, because you'd have to look at the watch to become lucid and you can't constantly be looking at your watch. But what if you incubate the feeling of the watch on your wrist as well? (Or any other item you may want to use) Then whenever you feel the watch you'd look at your wrist and become Lucid.

Of course, you'd still have to look at your wrist throughout the day and see if it is there so if you don't feel the watch in your dreams, you can still spontaneously look at it. I'd couple this with traditional RC's in the beginning, and slowly do less and less of those until this method starts to get me lucid every night.

You could also meditate on the image of this watch on your wrist to implement it even more.

What do you guys think of this technique? I would just go ahead and do it, but I want to see if this would actually work so I don't waste a ton of time working on a method that takes me to a dead end.

**Bharmo** · 11-28-2014 01:51 PM

Ok, this is just my opinion, and I admit not having tried incubation techniques seriously:
Dream incubation is setting an intention for a specific element (thing, place, person, event, etc) to "happen" in your dream, so why setting an intention for something that might (or might not) remind you to RC when you can set an intention to get lucid straight away?
I hope that made sense.

**cooleymd** · 11-28-2014 02:04 PM

Incubation can be tricky

Last week I incubated by repeating in my head "I'm launching a new line of Victoria Secret products and I must recruit a new generation of supermodels"

In my dreams I'm always just missing or catching buses or trains, then getting off at the wrong stations and such. The train I was on headed thru a Kwanzza festival so I knew I was going the wrong way, So I got off and then was distracted by the little kitten running along the rail. I called to him "here kitty kitty kitty", a security guard with heavy accent came up and asked me you need 'security'. I missed the train but then I noticed that a lot of people had left stuff, there must have been at least 40 pairs of Love Pink all over the place. (Latter I did become lucid when I walked into the Light Rail Dinning Car)

**FryingMan** · 11-28-2014 04:21 PM

Yes I think it's a great idea, if you're good at dream incubation. I was having nightly dreams for a while about my childhood home and neighborhood (still do pretty frequently), so I started doing daily visualisation of these dream scenes and repeating to myself, "I'm dreaming! I'm dreaming! I'm dreaming!" and imagined myself in every room of my family home doing this as well). It worked pretty well, I had my first LDs in my childhood home not long afterwards.

In fact….makes me wonder why I stopped…..I think I'll start it up again, good idea!

**cooleymd** · 11-28-2014 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by FryingMan

I started doing daily visualisation of these dream scenes and repeating to myself, "I'm dreaming! I'm dreaming! I'm dreaming!"

Yea if I still hurry I can make it to the Black Friday Victoria Secret sale and go in there and spin around looking at all the people saying I'm dreaming I'm dreaming. Maybe a security guard with a heavy accent will come up to me and say you need a 'Kitty'

**FryingMan** · 11-28-2014 08:18 PM

^^ The mall is an excellent pace to to incubation/visualization work. All sort of wild people and flashy decorations to see. VS in particular is excellent

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