Here is a pretty good idea that I came up with for inducing dreams. I've been experimenting with it for a while, and it's resulted in some of my most vivid, exciting, immersive dreams yet:

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Oneironuat wrote:
Lol That's cool shit, man.
I have a lot of matrix-esque dreams, primarily because I base my dream experience often on the world of the matrix.
Here is an experiment for you that usually brings me some of my most vivid dreams:

If you have any of the matrix movies (or any other action-adventure movie you like. LotR, maybe?) on your computer, or some sort of video player that you can loop over and over, play it while you're going to sleep. It doesn't matter if you have the video on, or turn off your monitor and just listen to the sound. (I usually play Matrix and Reloaded back to back and let them loop through the night when I want to have an adventurous dream like this.) When you're about to go to sleep, set whichever movie you want to listen to first at the begining of one of the action sequences. As you're falling asleep, recreate the entire scene in your mind, putting yourself into it.
This is where having good visualization comes into play. You should do your best to map out everything that you're hearing, putting yourself into the situation, and doing your own thing, not just necessarily whatever Neo (or whoever is fighting in the movie) is doing, but make whatever you're doing coorespond to the sounds you're hearing. (It's hard to explain, but I hope I'm doing a good job of it.) As you're falling more and more asleep, keep your mind trained on listening to the sounds of the movies playing, and visualizing what you'd be seeing as if these sounds were going on around you.
I had one HELL of a vivid matrix-like dream last night....one that would have dominated my dream journal, had I not went to sleep high, and forgotten the dream damn near upon waking. Lol. I remember having it though, and I remember it was Badass to the 15th power. I just can't remember what all happened.

Anyway. If you've got a good imagination, TRY THIS, as I also invite Anyone who wants to try it to give it a shot. Maybe I should start a thread on this ...Audio-Visualization Induced Lucid Dream method. AVILD? (Name subject to change? Lol) And see what kind of results people come up with? [/b]
Of course, this can be altered, to induce Lucid Dreams, as stated above, simply by adding a sort of "Once this visualization begins to take form, and I can see what I'm imagining, I will know I'm dreaming" suggestion. It can also be changed to suit whatever movie, program you feel like inducing into your dream.

Those of you with good recall, and good visualization, try this out sometime, as I'd love to hear what kind of dreams you all get out of it. I'll be doing the same, periodically. 8)