Thread: A new method (SMILD) with high potential...

Originally Posted by Jakob

And I said in my post, specifically, that the smell has to be strong. Have you ever smelled fresh peppermint leaves? Not dried, but fresh. They smell very very strong. The leaves don't even have to be near your face. If you walk into a room where there are frish peppermint leaves, you'll be able to smell them, unless you have sinus problems.

So rubbing your pillow with peppermint leaves or placing a couple of leaves next to your bed, could just be enough for the smell to transfer into the dream.

Not sure if you've taken offence at my comment but it certainly wasn't intended. Just giving my opinion based on my experiences. I think for this to work (as a lucidity induction method) for me I'd need to find a way to ensure that the smell is both very strong and can be turned on only once I am in REM . If a smell were on my pillow then it might get incorporated into my dream and influence the dream content, but I don't think it would make me lucid. Sometimes I wake up dying to take a leak, but that sensation (and it is a strong sensation - probably much stronger than any sensation I could get from anything other than the very strongest of smells) is only very rarely included in my dream content in any way and has never made me lucid.

Originally Posted by Bobblehat

Not sure if you've taken offence at my comment but it certainly wasn't intended.

Hell no, I didn't take offense. Sorry if it came off that way.

Just giving my opinion based on my experiences. I think for this to work (as a lucidity induction method) for me I'd need to find a way to ensure that the smell is both very strong and can be turned on only once I am in REM . If a smell were on my pillow then it might get incorporated into my dream and influence the dream content, but I don't think it would make me lucid. Sometimes I wake up dying to take a leak, but that sensation (and it is a strong sensation - probably much stronger than any sensation I could get from anything other than the very strongest of smells) is only very rarely included in my dream content in any way and has never made me lucid.

Yeah, but the way I think, is that smells, no matter how strong they are, won't wake you up. That makes them different from lights, sounds, etc.