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Aural Focusing technique

The aural focusing technique is not fully understood, but seems to work very well in amateur or casual lucid dreaming. This involves a very simple setup. One must stay awake until sleep is highly desirable, while watching a television, or listening to a radio (radio use seems to yield drastically lessened instances of successful lucid dreaming) and then lowering the volume to a point where the sound is just above the noise that is currently occupying the surroundings. The subject then lies down, and focuses all attention on the sound, while imagining climbing infinite stairs. Under this method, the user will sometimes find themselves in a room extensively similar to the room in which they fell asleep in, but upon leaving this room, something will be radically different. An interesting effect of this method is full auditory awareness, usually the subject will hear the television program that is on, but upon inspection of the television screen in the dream state, the subject will find mostly static images, and sometimes scrolling text, with mostly garbage characters, and one or two repeating words, which change when the television is left and returned to.[/b]