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Ok so this may already be out there but i still wanted to post this because it helped me a lot. I was reading some articles about how to talk to your subconscious mind. I found that the subconscious has no understanding of the past or present and only thinks in the future. To speak to your subconscious to change a personality trait or feeling you must repeat the desired feeling throughout the day essentially getting your subconscious to memorize this trait. For example if you are afraid to approach groups of people, you would periodically throughout the day and before approaching a group, tell yourself in a convincing and positive manor that you are good at talking to people and should have nothing to worry about. Then visualize you approaching the group with a positive outcome. The idea is that if you rationalize with your subconscious you will be more likely to convince it that what your telling it is true. Using visualizations strong feelings like happiness and repetition will further enforce the idea into your subconscious mind. I then thought about how this could be applied to lucid dreaming. Before bed or whenever you remember tell your subconscious that you have all the skills you need to lucid dream. Tell it that with the skills lucid dreaming is easy. Then convince yourself you are dreaming this very moment. Go through the acts you usually go through(reality checks dream stabilization.) show true and honest excitement that you achieved a lucid dream and then think about what you want to do know that you are sure you are dreaming. I have tried this method for almost a week now and it seems to be working well i have had 3 short but promising lucid dreams this week! Before using the method i hadn't had a lucid dream in months and i had been using all the most popular methods. I couldn't understand what was wrong. I think that this method worked well for me because dreaming is a subconscious activity so interacting with your subconscious in this way will help you achieve lucidity better compared to other methods like reality checks which rely on the conscious mind. Tell me if any others have used this method already. I hope i helped explain the method well enough! |
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Last edited by gab; 05-22-2013 at 09:41 PM. Reason: adding Update
yes i do this. works . |
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Very cool! I will have to do this on top of my current reality checks. I find that the most powerful tool is meditation though, and talking to your subconcious that way. If I can peel away all my layers and reach my subconscious during meditation, I can then repeat things like "I always lucid dream", "I am a great lucid dreamer", "I have great control of my dreams", "I will lucid dream tonight", "I am lucid dreaming". I basically Inception myself into having lucid dreams. I have had 3 Lucids, all after a day or two of meditation with binaural beat meditation songs on youtube, and two of them were longer than 5 minutes. |
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This looks interesting! Is it better to do this just before going to bed or does it make no difference? Also, how long would you recommend trying to "rationalize" with my subconscious? |
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I would recommended using this technique before bed and also a few times during the day.it would also be a good idea to do it right after a successful lucid dream.A few minutes per day of rationalizing with your subconscious is good use short clear reasons and sont use to many words. Using this method during meditation will also improve your success but is more difficult and time consuming. |
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Last edited by Waitwhat; 05-20-2013 at 08:40 PM.
I will TOTALLY do this... if I can remember to. Seriously though, this sounds like a really good method, especially combined with the usual awareness and RCs! |
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"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling."
-Eames
i do this everyday, as a mantra in meditation |
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I do this as well, but you have giving me a much better perspective on it! Thanks for this! |
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I surely read this somewhere else. But I must say It's a verrrry good idea! |
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This sounds like a subset of the MILD method, I'm glad it works for you. |
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Good idea! |
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