Changing Sleep Location to Influence Ones Subconscious (for Lucidity and Scene)

[DrTechnical]

I think this topic may have been covered in some old threads. But I know the admins are not fond of necro threading. Plus I have a personal side trick that I've found to be very useful. The core idea is pretty obvious. Your bed should probably just be your bed. For sleep and intimacy. That is what your brain is going to associate your bed with. Personally I have found it extraordinarily helpful to go elsewhere when I want to lucid dream. So basically during WBTB I migrate to the den couch. This in and of itself signals to my subconscious (SC) "it's lucid dreaming time". As opposed to "regular sleep time". If you've never tried it or even thought about it. Give it a try. Like any technique don't expect instantaneous results. It takes time to retrain your SC. The other weird little trick that works brilliantly for me, is leaving a small waking reality thing on the kitchen counter and leaving some night lights on. With the intention of finding myself lucid, checking for the night lights being off, and retrieving the item. Which historically has been a nicely made and custom magic wand. Because you know - why not. It's magical It's well known that electronic things are often disabled in a dream. And leaving out an item with the intent of retrieving it makes it more likely you will start to dream about being in the position you left off in, in waking reality. Then when you open your eyes and sanity check the lights, off means dreaming. And voila - you're lucid. Essentially I'll perceive I've awoken from a dream, but I'm really still dreaming. Which on another forum we dubbed "In Not Really Asleep Lucid Dream" or INRALD. From there any number of scene change techniques can be used if your looking for variety. With a little G, this is pretty fool proof for me. But again it takes some time to train the SC.

[DrTechnical]

There have not been any comments, so maybe it does not matter. But I came to realize there is a rather egregious error in this post. First paragraph should have read "have found it extraordinarily helpful". Anyway, I'll be damned if I can figure out how to edit a post after the fact. Can someone give me a tip please? Thanks

[Lang]

Hey, you can just ask the staff. Let me know what you want to edit, or merge, I would be happy to help!! But, in the future, You can go to talk to the staff or me, if you need help with something. The link to Talk To Staff is here: https://www.dreamviews.com/talk-staff/ ~Lang. DV mod

[DarkestDarkness]

Anyway, I'll be damned if I can figure out how to edit a post after the fact. Can someone give me a tip please? Thanks Unfortunately, the edit window for regular users is pretty abysmal. As Lang said, if you ever need any corrections on a post you can't edit anymore, just ask someone. Myself and Lang are probably the most active people who can help with this sort of thing lately I think. I'll correct your first paragraph for you now. (You can let me know via PM if it is as you wanted)

[DrTechnical]

Thanks guys. Yes, that was the desired correction.

[Kalios]

Hi DrTechnical, It s been ages I havent been on the Forum, but keep continuing practicing and it s funny that you post that, because recently, maybe a month ago, I started to use my basement as lucid dream practice to be able to set alarms for WBTB, because If I do that beside my wife, she would kill me haha By doing so, I found that it s a good way to reset your will and intent to keep motivated. I had couple of lucid dream happening but not specially while I was in the basement. I will try your technique of trying to retrieve something in the room. what I usually do, it s call my dream guide, set my intention and doing some exercise of dream yoga. How long did it take for you to lucid dream from that new location and exercice and what is your frequency to go on the couch and what is your LD frequency ?

[DrTechnical]

Hi DrTechnical, How long did it take for you to lucid dream from that new location and exercice and what is your frequency to go on the couch and what is your LD frequency ? I would have to think about your first question. First, I probably stumbled upon this as like you, I wanted to minimize disturbances to my wife. I've been leaving the bed as long as I can remember. And I got into lucid dreaming in the early 2000 timeframe. This method kinda came to fruition on it's own. As one of my early methods was to use a lucid dream mask to induce lucidity. And I came to realize that I had false awakenings very easily. Which lead me to leaving out things to retrieve with the intent of realizing I'm dreaming where I left off in waking reality. I used to have a lot more flexibility in my schedule. Now maybe I try every other week on average. My odds of getting lucid are very good as long as I use some galantamine. Pretty much a given. Yeah it's cheating I guess. But it does work.

[dreamxreality]

Why galantamine is cheat? Who would you be cheating?

[DrTechnical]

Why galantamine is cheat? Who would you be cheating? Oh, I mean that slightly tongue in cheek. It just seems that there are quite a few people here who are purists. Which is to say they don't seem to care for technology solution (electronics or drugs) to get lucid. Honestly I come from a different mind set all together. But it's all good.