Thread: Self-induced dreams, perhaps?

i also rememeber this from when i was about 8-10.
I remember going under my covers, in the complete dark and silence, i would then visualise a note book above me (still under my covers) and then flick through the pages to a certain dream i have had previously. I would then literrally just appear into that.


Havent tried it since that age so i may try it again tonight but i imagine it is because of the imagination when you are that young and the ability just to fall asleep anytime you want haha.

Originally Posted by Kraig

i also rememeber this from when i was about 8-10.
I remember going under my covers, in the complete dark and silence, i would then visualise a note book above me (still under my covers) and then flick through the pages to a certain dream i have had previously. I would then literrally just appear into that.


Havent tried it since that age so i may try it again tonight but i imagine it is because of the imagination when you are that young and the ability just to fall asleep anytime you want haha.

That whole notebook visualization that you used is pretty interesting. Did you think of that yourself? You must have had a good natural ability for dream recall.

As for the imagination, we still have that now, but it is probably much more difficult to access due to things like stress. But I agree, children seem to have limitless imagination.

But just to clarify, when I induced my dreams it was purely an accident, whereas in your case it was obviously an intent (use of imaginary notebook).

I've tried inducing dreams and sleep recently, and I've been unsuccessful. I'm pretty sure I personally would need something like the WILD method to accomplish it now.


thanks for replying

Originally Posted by theDistant

At a point when I was very young, I remember being able to do something that I have always wondered about since. I don't quite understand how, but when going to bed, I was able to induce a dream-state from a conscious state by focusing intently on the darkness of the blanket over my head. It seemed as if I was slipping from reality for a second, and then the dream (which was non-lucid) would begin directly afterward.

Although I had no control over what occurred in the dreams, I remember them as extremely vivid and can still to this day remember certain ones that stuck out to me. It just makes me wonder if children could in fact be able to attain lucidity with more ease than adults can.

Has anyone else induced their own dreams in this way before?


Thanks.

If I'm tired enough I can do that now. Somehow focusing on the darkness makes random shapes turn into concrete images. Motion helps even more, and I can imagine flying through space or skiing down a hill and that induces sleep very quickly. But it's not reliable for deep sleep as often I jump back to reality as if I'm rescuing myself from falling into sleep.

Originally Posted by theDistant

That whole notebook visualization that you used is pretty interesting. Did you think of that yourself? You must have had a good natural ability for dream recall.

As for the imagination, we still have that now, but it is probably much more difficult to access due to things like stress. But I agree, children seem to have limitless imagination.

But just to clarify, when I induced my dreams it was purely an accident, whereas in your case it was obviously an intent (use of imaginary notebook).

I've tried inducing dreams and sleep recently, and I've been unsuccessful. I'm pretty sure I personally would need something like the WILD method to accomplish it now.


thanks for replying

Yeah basicly when i was younger i used to have a nightmare i didnt like therefore i thought of my way to counter that, and that way was to go to a dream, I would lie in complete silence and visualise a notebook that I "wrote" the dreams in, and visualise the writing and then allow myself to drift away.

It was my idea as i never thought of it as recall, i thought of it as finishing or re-living my dream.

Your right, we still have our imagination, its just hidden more.