Double Reverse Blinking

So, I don't know if this is posted anywhere but I know that there is a guide on normal reversed blinking. Reverse blinking is used when your eyes are closed and you are ready to fall asleep, it's used as a relaxation method. I believe it was posted by KingYoshi, but the concept is to keep your eyes closed and open them very quickly as if you were blinking, focus on maybe one little thing then close them again.

I just had my first lucid a couple nights ago and I've been experimenting with different ways of 'reverse blinking'. Instead of opening your eyes and focusing on something like Yoshi does you can keep your eyes closed and just perform the motion of blinking. So, you are blinking with your eyes closed and they never open, but your muscles are still moving as if you were blinking. If you don't get what I'm saying close your eyes right now and try to blink without opening them, you'll get the motion down.

So the night that I had my first lucid I tried this double reverse blinking, the moment I felt I was getting tired enough to fall into REM/SP I started doing the blinking. For me it kind of tricks me into thinking my eyes were open in the first place and when the motion is finished it feels like my eyes are open. When I hit SP I started using the blinking method and immediately started seeing images of dream scenes. They would fade for a second then I would do it again and they would come back for longer. I double reverse blinked one last time and my eyes opened in the dream and I was instantly lucid, I confirmed it with a nose plug and I was set to go :)

I feel this could help people a lot when they are doing WBTB or CANWILD's or any WILD pretty much. Picturing your dream scene helps with this also. So if anyone is willing to try it and tell me the results I would love to hear it. It probably wont work for everyone but it worked for me. This is also meant for lucid dream induction NOT relaxation.

hi, interesting stuff thanks :)
by blinking you mean "closing" the eyes and not "opening" them as a faked reverse blinking, right?

All I mean is that you keep your eyes closed and use the muscles you blink with to blink while they are still closed.

Ahhh this is kind of like the FILD idea but with ur eyes.

wow i am going to try this tonight! One question. Did you do this with prior sleep like a WBTB? thanks :D

Ya I did a WBTB 7 hours after I woke up for about 3 mins, got up, bathroom, make yourself comfy, back to bed. Then I started doing it after like 5 mins and I had one ;p

Great idea! I'm going to have to use it.

I do this sometimes. Depending on when I do it, it either relaxes my eyes or makes them tense (which really doesn't make any sense to me). :P

I think the idea of reverse blinking was first started by Sythix, but this is an interesting idea nonetheless. I'll give it a try tonight.

I was messing around with this again and I've been using it when I suspect SP is going to happen, it has sped up the process of SP for me and I've been starting to see the start of dreams a lot more now. I just use it after I wake up and go get a drink and it seems to work :)

This inane 'reverse blinking' thing is a derivative of visualization. Simply visualize anything while deeply relaxed. Most 'techniques' I see here and elsewhere on the Internet that have any sort of effectiveness at all have something to do with visualization. This is simply because when we visualize (imagine visually) we are utilizing the same area of our big human brain as when we dream. This is not a spiritual guru 'thang'. It is a scientific fact.

No one said it was a spiritual guru thang foo, it's a trick to get into a dream from SP quicker and on short notice by mimicking the movements you'll be making while in the dream. THis is especially helpful if you woke up unplanned and wanted to try a WBTB, since you didn't have time to visualize a full scene.

It has more convenience then just visualization alone, + I've already thought of your point of view along time ago the advantages out weigh your argument. Unless you are saying you can't do two things at once?