Hi Drake.... I believe what you are experiencing is a form of self-hypnosis while in a Theta brainwave state. When we visualize we use the same part of our brain as when we dream. I would keep experimenting (it works for me, too) |
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Please feel free to read my Dream Journal to get the full story of what happened last night. |
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Hi Drake.... I believe what you are experiencing is a form of self-hypnosis while in a Theta brainwave state. When we visualize we use the same part of our brain as when we dream. I would keep experimenting (it works for me, too) |
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Being an insomniac, and a general fan of the night, I'm going to try this technique. If this is indeed a type of self-hypnosis then would this be easier to do if you're more suggestable? Plus, again if this is hypnosis, can someone else guide you into this? |
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@ Tuesday - I am going by personal experience here but I think that lack of sleep had something to do with it. My mind was tired and probably in a more "open" place to suggestion and imagery. |
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@Faceonmars - Thank you.Typically in the past when I have tried this technique or "stared at the imagery" in my eyes it just ends up keeping me up all night and I get nothing out of it. This time I was also up all night but there was a pay off... |
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Lol, my last lucid what when I got 3 hours of sleep on day and 10 the next on a school week since I lasted in REM more longer and I was happy |
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DILD: 0 | WBTB: 0 | WILD: 0
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This sounds like a form of Dream Exit or Dream Re-entry. Not sleeping the night before and the same night would mean that you are set for REM rebound. The insomnia that you are describing might be a form of Non-REM sleep where you are actually asleep, but do not fully lose consciousness (NREM2). It's possible that your visualization excercise pushed you towards a deeper sleep stage. |
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Now let me ask you this, I have a hard time falling asleep in general, so when I lay down I will think of all the stuff that has happened in my day, and the one time all of a sudden a random thought just went in my head, almost like if you have a folder on your computer and there is a bunch of videos that will play automaticaly after the one prior to it has finished. Well it was like someone almost stuck a random video in that folder and it just started playing, and I didn't even think anything of it (maybe cause I was only partially concious) but then I remembered it was time to start stomping my feet, and then I did and for some reason I appeared over my body. |
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I guess you could compare Lucid Dreams & Reality to a computer, the only difference between reality and a lucid dream is that one is stored on the Hard Drive and the other purely in RAM, if you don't try to remember it, you wont.
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