Asking your Subconsious to give you a lucid dream

**Frequent22** · 06-12-2013 09:44 AM

I just had an awesome lucid dream induction, the lucid dream itself was not very impressive thought. Yesterday i had so much to do, so i didn't have time to think about reality checks or lucid dreaming at all. At night i got to bed, and remembered a technique i have heard of not exclusively for lucid dreaming, but i gave it a shot anyways.

So i was lying there in bed, and started relaxing and clearing my mind. When i visualized pouring a bucket of color and when the bucket is empty, i will be in a deep relaxed state. I was very relaxed after 10 minutes and visualized me going into a room, where i saw myself sitting in a couch. It was my subconscious and i asked him if he could make me realize i was dreaming tonight. He said okay and later on that night a dream character said to me, How did you get here? Think about it... I thought about it and realized that it must be a dream since i can't remember how i got there.

That's just my experience, but i think this could be a very powerful alternative to MILD/CALD

**Timeless08** · 06-12-2013 12:48 PM

it is a very powerful tool that you are talking about and you can anchor a dc to help you quite often. try binding the dc to a particular action such as reading the time or when you see the sky, this should help boost your lds

**Zoth** · 06-19-2013 04:11 PM

I tried this once. I went to the dream character and gave her a strong shake as to "hey you! focus and remember I will be dreaming okay?!". The DC seemed to know exactly what to do, but later in another dream she made no attempt of warning me. I guess techniques like MILD could help this exercise, or just strong association in general.

**Linkzelda** · 06-21-2013 02:45 AM

Asking our subconscious to give you a lucid dream is a bit impractical (as in working consistently) seeing as you can't expect the unconscious to know things in advance. Presumably, you can't really just say, "At 3:00 AM, I'm going to have a lucid dream."

That's really just making things harder for the subconscious because think about it for a moment. Even though you're being confident and using present tense, even if your subconscious can somehow express your desire by getting a dream character to say, "Hey! You're dreaming! Do a reality check!" it still doesn't let you cop-out from basic skills like even remembering you had the lucid dream in the first place. There's many ways to get your subconscious to hopefully get you more aware, but it does take some pulling of your own weight as well. There's no magical way or cure-all method that eradicates any effort on your part, the subconscious helping you, and you having faith in it doing so is just a supplement for your desire.

You don't want to rely on getting your subconscious to do things for you that you focus too much on it rather than being content that as long as you become lucid, you're lucid. With anything involving having active focus in getting your subconscious to work with you, try to aim for reasons on HOW it can benefit you rather than just saying, "Yo, I'm gonna have an LD...kthxbai"

And as for "it was my subconscious," I guess it's just a matter of personal preference, but I found when I started entrusting a dream character as the totality of my subconscious, it only led to disappointment on my end because I expected a certain dream character to make me aware of my dreams. But that's just my input.