dream technique

[Oath]

i thought for a new and simple dream technique you have something like a clothespin pinching you and you tell yourself over and over before falling asleep that when you dont feel it anymore you will be asleep? i dont know if this would work but whoever follows up on it may take credit.

-oath

[nesgirl119]

Originally posted by wizard
i thought for a new and simple dream technique you have something like a clothespin pinching you and you tell yourself over and over before falling asleep that when you dont feel it anymore you will be asleep? i dont know if this would work but whoever follows up on it may take credit.

-oath
I guess that that'll work, but the way I do it is when I enter SP, I tell myself,"When I can move again, even if I see my duplicate, I am dreaming!" Been using that since I was 3, b/c I can't sleep if I use another method! Try using that!

[Oath]

nesgirl i would not laugh at you for that

[nesgirl119]

Originally posted by wizard
nesgirl i would not laugh at you for that
That is fine! Anyways, what do you think of the dreams where there are 2 of me?

[Amethyst Star]

You could post about this in the Attaining Lucidity or Research Forums if you wanted to have others try it out. But just right off, I think I see what you're saying. It can be used as another type of reality check. This could (for some) actually be easier than relying on a watch. The way I'd go about doing it, though, is perhaps to keep a clothes-pin in my pocket, so that way whenever I reached into my pocket I could pull it out and "test" my reality. That way, if I ever (for some reason) reached into my pocket in a dream, theoretically the pin would still be there.

A problem I forsee, tho, is often we can imagine ourselves in dreams as feeling pain. When you wake up you realize that nothing hurt, but there's that point in the dream where for some reason you believe you are in pain. But with that combined with other reality checks, you'd probably be good to go. Not sure if it'd be qualified to be CPILD (clothes-pin induced LD) :P

-Amé :dreaming: