Picking a dream before you fall asleep?

**Trivium** · 08-31-2011 06:50 AM

I remember when I was little, back when I still thought there were monsters around me when I closed my eyes, I would have like a dream wheel. I would close my eyes and imagine what type of dream i would have. I remember one time there were 4 options. A dream involving a witch, a dream were I got to go to disney land, a dream were I didn't have to go to school, and i can't remember the last one but it had to do something with outer space. So i remember picturing myself like on a game show spinning the wheel and it landed on disney land, i remember being really excited like I was actually going to disney land. And I don't remember if I had that dream. So one of these days when I actually master LD, I would like to try this and see if it works. Has anybody done something similar to this?

**Puffin** · 08-31-2011 06:54 AM

I've done this quite a few times, as have many others! It's called dream incubation, and basically involves imagining and daydreaming about a certain dream you want to have. Usually incubation involves actually visualizing the location and scenarios you want to experience, but the wheel is an interesting variation on it.

**ultranova** · 08-31-2011 05:57 PM

Yeah, I've done it too few times. I remember once I woke up during the nigth and went back asleep. I really wanted to dream of driving a jet plane and I actually did dreamt about it. There was other time when I woke up from dream and I badly wanted back so I visualized the environment and few details that I've rememberd and yeah I was back in the same dream. So, actually it's possible to dream dreams you want to. At least concept of it if nothing.

**Ctharlhie** · 08-31-2011 06:42 PM

When I was a kid I had a very interesting experience of incubation. It was one of those saturdays when you have no reason to get up, I think I was around the age of 6. I was lying there daydreaming about the Land Before Time (I know

) and suddenly I was there! I was controlling the experience. It was my first lucid dream before I even knew what lucid dreaming was, when I woke up I ran into my parent's room and told them about it, they said I was just daydreaming, but I knew it was more than that.

I think sometimes kids can pick up intuitively what adults have to train and work for.

**IAmCoder** · 09-01-2011 11:51 PM

I programmed a function that takes a block of text that you can paste and then flashes each word real fast on the screen. The results in my dreams however, are not very predictable.

**CliffDreamer** · 12-28-2011 07:59 AM

I also would experience the dream wheel phenomena when I was younger. I would also have vivid hallucinations and would pass between waking state and dreaming state quickly.