VBIM Lucid Dream (Vision Board Induction Method) by AstronomyDomine

[AstronomyDomine]

I had an LD this morning which came as the result of a hybrid induction technique I've been experimenting with. The LD itself was brief, but duration was not what I was aiming for -- I was aiming for awareness and instant lucidity. And this I achieved. In fact, the shortness of the LD was due to my sheer surprise and excitement upon realizing that the technique actually worked. I've called it VBIM - Vision Board Induction Method. It is essentially the same method I use to manifest wealth through the laws of attraction via creative visualization. The method consists of only two components: one simple mantra, and one simple visual. The mantra is: "When I am dreaming, I am aware that I am dreaming," and the visual is two hands, palms up. The mantra was given to me by my subconscious higher-self during a period of hypnogogic activity, word-for-word. When I tried to exclude the word "that" from the mantra, I was instructed not to exclude it via a dream guide who appeared to me as a little girl sitting in a park. To make the method work, you'll need to construct a vision board. The vision board's purpose is to implant the mantra and its associated image directly into your subconscious. Thus the two items become inseparable in your mind. For this, I use a 20 x 30 x 3/16 inch foam board that you can pick up at any hobby store for less than two bucks. On the board, I centralize the mantra and then surround the text with its associated image: the pair of hands. The vision board I created looks like this (please click to enlarge): IMG_0784.jpg I look at this board frequently, several times a day. When I'm not in front of it, I visualize it in my mind. While I am driving, for instance, I can easily conjure the image. When I see the image in my mind, I do it holographically: meaning I attach emotion, sound and feeling to it, simulating the induction as though it were actually happening in a dream. When I see the hands, I automatically recite the affirmation (in my mind); when I recite the affirmation, I automatically see the hands (in my mind). I do this frequently throughout the day, pretending that WL right now is the dream. You can do this as frequently as you do your regular RC's throughout the day. Only this is much more powerful. It is like an RC on steroids when done properly. It also serves as an tremendous autosuggestion, as I explain below. When I do VBIM, it is all mental. I am not moving my physical hands, nor am I actually speaking. Because while asleep in my bed, I am not physically moving my hands or speaking audibly. All the activity is taking place in my "dream mind" while I'm awake. As I look at my vision board and practice projecting its message through my third eye, it becomes embedded more and more deeply into the subconscious. And when I lay down at night, after doing a WBTB, I can go right back to sleep after journaling whatever recall I have from the first part of the night without having to worry about any additional techniques. For when I close my eyes, I automatically see my vision board -- and this provides an instant autosuggestion. The first time I tried this method, I went lucid so fast that I didn't have time to stabilize or ground myself. Literally, as soon as the dream started (I was in a car, driving down the road), I began questioning my awareness. I thought the car drove strangely. When I slowed down to park, the brakes seemed bad; that's how keen my observation was. I remembered that my truck's breaks weren't nearly this bad in IWL. Up came the hands (an automatic reflex), and this time I saw that they were fat and misshapen -- BAM I was lucid. The dream had hardly started, yet I picked up on something so insignificant and mundane to which I would have never noticed otherwise (usually it takes me having a conversation with a dead person, or wandering around the halls of my high school naked to even think to do an RC). This method works very effectively for me. Maybe it will work for you? Good luck, and sweet lucidity!

[IAmCoder]

Very cool... someone needs to make an app that pops up this image every so often! Maybe with a random finger missing or extra that you need to click to close. Then count and graph to find correlations.

[Clidu]

This sounds really interesting and might give it a go....i have 2 questions tho Does it haveto be made like on a board and could i just make it on my phone and use it as a wallpaper? And Do you still do it now and are u still having frequent LDs because of it? Thanks for sharing =)

[AstronomyDomine]

It doesn't have to be a board. You can put the image up anywhere. I think someone here took the image and set it as their wallpaper. Don't know yet how effective it's been for that person. But I made an actual LD vision board after the model for vision boards I use in goal achievement and in attracting money. These are usually full size boards you hang on walls. But I don't see why wallpapers shouldn't work just as well. Btw, I have it on my phone's lock screen too. People look at it and see the hands and go, "What the hell is that?" To answer your second question, no, I am not having frequent LD's (I only have about 5 per month on average right now), but this is because I do not regularly engage myself. I get pulled away because of work and family life (2 little kids, running a business, etc.). But when I devote myself to it, I get effortlessly lucid -- and lucid very quickly. It also takes a few days to start working, because the correlation of the hands image (RC) with the affirmation (AS) needs time to sink into your subconscious. Another reason I do not go lucid frequently is because I am prone to insomnia. And impulsive visualization methods with mantras tend to trigger it if you're not careful, especially if you do WBTB like I do. Unfortunately I don't get LDs when I'm sleep-deprived. So this can be a blessing, or a curse. It just depends on how much control you have over your mind during the "witching hour"

[Ancrion]

Hey, that´s what i was looking for, thank you! Would this image work: http://i.imgur.com/mRFWqti.jpg

[fogelbise]

I like this idea for multiple applications. Since I often have 6 fingers when I check my hand in my lucids, I like this image: It is from a cool VR game where you perform magic, including throwing fireballs, that may be inspired by lucid dreaming…especially considering the 6 fingers logo.

[AstronomyDomine]

I like this idea for multiple applications. Since I often have 6 fingers when I check my hand in my lucids, I like this image: It is from a cool VR game where you perform magic, including throwing fireballs, that may be inspired by lucid dreaming…especially considering the 6 fingers logo. Yes! I usually have ectrodactylous fingers, but sometimes I'll just have another digit as well. It's a very nice feeling, that moment you discover any kind of deformity. This type of "visual board" method is effective, but it definitely doesn't replace work and discipline (found this out the hard way lol). I've taken a hiatus due to not feeling feel, but now that my health is improving I realize it's high time to get back to work; i.e. updating my DJ, doing RC's more regularly, getting up for wbtb's, etc. I miss my LDs

[Serene]

I used your photo that you have attached and put it on one of my screens at work and take a look at it quite a few times during the day, then I printed one out on 11 x 17 and just take a look at it before bed. Then before going to sleep I visualize it and say the mantra. This worked for me after a couple of days when in my dream I noticed it on my screen at work only the Mantra was wrong. It changed from Dreaming to sleeping, so it was my RC. This method is easy without much effort at all. Saying the mantra is just to get my mind off of clutter, but the visualizing of the board helps me to fall asleep as well. Thanks for the idea.