When chanting this, is it a good idea to think about what it means, or would you suggest trying to fall asleep while repeating the mantra without thinking about it? |
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Ok, Here is a very simple method that I use. It helps me have lots of DILDs, maybe 3 to 5 a week that are any good and a handful of small 1 minute or less ones. As I am relaxing and getting about half way to sleep, just when I feel any sign of driftiness, I do a trick with my breathing. |
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When chanting this, is it a good idea to think about what it means, or would you suggest trying to fall asleep while repeating the mantra without thinking about it? |
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Ill try this before bed and during a WBTB sometime soon hopefully. |
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Lucid Dreaming since 3/30/10
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So you breathe in "I am" then breathe out "dreaming" ? |
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From my rotting body,
flowers shall grow
and I am in them
and that is eternity.
-Edvard Munch
That is the basic idea, but I sometimes change it up a little. Some times, I use "Thanks for" "this dream" or "This is " "a dream" |
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Isn't this a MILD? With WBTB it can be very effective. |
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I can't imagine it would work for me. It does sound like it might work for the same reason that a MILD would, but personally, my thoughts drift while I'm falling asleep, and so I'd always eventually stop repeating the mantra. |
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I would not consider this a MILD. The idea is not to convince yourself you will have a LD for a placebo effect. I just get a phrase to be burned slightly into my subconcious, like having a tune stuck in your head. I mentioned that the idea is like when you stare at a lightbulb then look away, and an image of the lightbulb is temporarily burned in your feild of vision. |
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In my understanding, MILD is not convincing yourself for a placebo effect, but turning your attention to lucid dreaming, and focusing it there, using anything from mantras and affirmations, to visualizations, to none of those. MILD encompasses a wide variety of things, and I think this is closer to a MILD than a WILD. |
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Lucid Dreaming since 3/30/10
Ok, by that defintition it can be called that. So, using that definition, the effect is a "Simple way I increase number of WILDs, by using this type of MILD" |
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Last edited by Sivason; 02-27-2012 at 02:26 AM.
LoL, naming things can get kinda annoying =P as long as it works though, it doesn't matter what we call it. |
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Lucid Dreaming since 3/30/10
I'm going to give this a try, sounds like a good method. |
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This gives me an odd idea, that if we simply tell ourselves that we're "always dreaming" that we will constantly think that we can control things, ie try to do crazy reality checks while awake even when we know we aren't dreaming that it will passover into the dream state much more successfully than ever before. |
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"Turn around and you will see. Life is like a roundabout. A kind of LSD."
Thanks for the idea, I used to use something similar though never thought to time it with my breaths, seems an obvious way to do it now lol. |
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When I started to learn Lucid Dreaming like everyone I jumped to the WILD bandwagon. |
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