MILD and dream journal question

**Kona** · 01-03-2011 04:42 AM

hi i have 2 questions

1. Mantras always keep me awake when i try to mild and i honestly find them a pain in the ass

so is there another way to do the mild without a mantra? or is that essential for one.

2.Ok so i have natural dream recall, before i started LDing i could remember at least one dream a night and even more, so a dream journal is just a pain in the ass

, so would it really affect me if i didn't keep a dream journal since i have natural dream recall?

any help is appreciated

**Bizarre Jester** · 01-03-2011 05:13 AM

An alternative method is to repeat the mantras for a few minutes before getting into bed, but it has to be the last thing that you do. Sit in a comfortable position and focous on your mantras, then go to sleep and try to clear your mind.

**faceonmars** · 01-03-2011 05:38 AM

I never use a manta... I ask myself periodically during the day 'am I awake or in a dream' . Sometimes I find myself asking the same question in a dream which then becomes lucid. To lucid dream I use simple visualization techniques , thereby stimulating the secondary visual cortices in my occipital lobe. This is the same area where dreams occur. We visualize and dream in the secondary visual cortex. About a dream journal... I have one but I also have a bedside recorder that works better for me as it is faster then writing down the experience.

**Kona** · 01-03-2011 05:51 AM

Originally Posted by Bizarre Jester

An alternative method is to repeat the mantras for a few minutes before getting into bed, but it has to be the last thing that you do. Sit in a comfortable position and focous on your mantras, then go to sleep and try to clear your mind.

yeah i think i will do that then so like right after i brush my teeth just think about my mantra for a min or two then go to bed?
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