Body numbness and hypnagogic thought.

[Shugo332]

I thought I'd address two subjects in this post instead of making two different posts. I already know what both of these for but what I'm looking for is perhaps help in better understanding it and how to use it to attain lucid dreams. Both of these things I can attain extremely easily. In fact I wonder if it's normal or I'm gifted with hypnagogic abilities. The body numbness will come whenever I stay still and expect it to come. It's strange how it involves expectation because if I stay still to sleep or something and don't have it in mind then it won't happen. But I can do this pretty much anywhere. In fact I just did it while in fact I almost got my whole body numb in the passengers seat of a car just a few minutes ago. I know this can lead to lucid dreams if you get your whole body numb but I often just don't have the time to do it. As for hypnagogic thought. I actually just learned of this term recently I didn't know what to call it before then. This one happens a little less frequently but will be more likely the more tired I am. I mean I had times when it's four in the morning and I'm falling asleep as I'm trying to finish something and the thoughts I currently have suddenly become warped and take on a life of their own. That's when it's most frequent but it can also happen in less extreme circumstances where I'm just laying down waiting to fall asleep and then it happens as well. The strangest thing about these thoughts is when I snap out of it they quickly fade from my memory much like a dream so I rarely remember what the thoughts actually involved. I do remember a couple of them though. One of them included me becoming human paint and I started splashing myself against the wall and as I'm doing it the wall becomes very colorful and beautiful. Another one involved me associating a gold storage from a mobile game called clash of clans with my emotional stability. Despite having these thoughts quite often those are the only ones I can really remember. I want to be clear that this isn't a dream some of you might suggest that it's a dream but it is not. I was definitely awake while those thoughts occurred. So I was thinking that I could use these hypnagogic thoughts to have a lucid dream. It's difficult to time this though because these thoughts are very random and I usually end up snapping myself out of them before I think to use them.

[dolphin]

These things themselves are normal, but the ability to summon them so easily isn't, especially the body numbness. These things themselves don't have much value unless they signal that you're close to dreaming. However, the ability to summon them easy will make falling asleep easier which is useful for WILDing. These things might or might not signal that you're close to dreaming. The way to figure out whether they do or not is to do a motionless reality check: imagine anything that isn't happening at the moment. When that something happens, you're dreaming. You might want to continuously repeat this motionless reality check as long as you feel you're close to falling asleep.

[Valis1]

When ones level of consciousness drops sufficiently, the unconscious takes control of the thought process. These wondering or association driven thoughts appear when one already has one leg in unconsciousness. I do not know if they could be used as a means to induce a lucid dream because they are a result of a loss in mindfulness and intentionality. This trance like state has been used by many people to generate novel ideas and solutions to problems, since the unconscious has a amazing ability to see connections where consciousness cannot. So I do think that remembering or engaging with these thoughts could have benefits, but I do not know how they could be used to induce lucid dreams specifically.