Thread: Interesting method that may lead to lucidity. Does this already have a name?

Hi, forgive my ignorance if I'm missing something obvious here. I don't believe I've heard this mentioned on here before, but do understand it's been a good year and a half since I've regularly studied/participated in lucid dreaming.

Last night, I went about a very odd way of using the MILD method to try to trigger a lucid dream. I have all of this documented in the last 2 paragraphs of my most recent dream journal, located here which I'll quote for ease of reading:

Originally Posted by celestialelixir

I had trouble falling asleep that night before dreaming. I'm sick right now, which has a lot to do with it, but I used the mantra: "I will have lucid dreams tonight" repeated about 150 times before I quit counting, just trying to keep dreaming in my mind before falling asleep. I remember trying to picture something specific as well, which was originally a giant horse*** (big enough to step on buildings), which eventually morphed into a giant cat. This may have some relation to my first dream involving cats, but I can't be sure.

***I figured trying to picture something completely unrealistic and keeping it in my mind before going to sleep might trigger that thought manifesting itself in my dreams. I figured a horse the size of king-kong is something you don't see everyday, and should immediately tell me that I'm dreaming if I were to see one. The horse ended up becoming a cat as I lost focus while succumbing to sleep, and it's possible that it did have wings; like the cat that triggered my lucid. I can't recall at this point. I'm not sure if this is a common method for triggering a lucid dream, but it's something that seems to give me results and will continue to keep trying as I document my results in my DJ

What I wanted to ask is if anyone else has tried this, if this is an already tried-and-true method, or if there is even any correlation between the LD I had last night and what I pictured in my head before falling asleep. All comments are appreciated, but again, please don't blow me up if I'm pointing out something seemingly obvious here. Thanks for your replies.