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    1. 02-09-2006 05:35 AM #1
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      Has anyone realigned their subconscious to increase LD freq?

      LDers,

      I've had variable success in the past with self-hypnosis and management of my subconscious in other areas. Has anyone tried "switching on" the ability to LD?

      I'm giving this a shot myself, but I'm fascinated in other people's experiences. The rationale is that dreaming is normally governed by the subconscious, with the conscious mind acting as a passive observer, so if one can alter the subconscious' rules of operation, one might move the dream state from a naturally passive one to a naturally active, LD state. I'll keep everyone posted.

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    2. 02-10-2006 04:45 AM #2
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      I think that is pretty much what you're doing as you work on dream recall and frequent reality checks.

      Do you have a different technique?
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    3. 02-10-2006 06:16 AM #3
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      I think that is pretty much what you're doing as you work on dream recall and frequent reality checks.

      Do you have a different technique?[/b]
      What I've done in the past is put myself into a self-suggestible state, envisioning the entering of my subconscious and changing an aspect of my subconscious--for example, I locked away a particular pain I wasn't ready to deal with, and then, years later, revisited that area of my subconscious and let the pain back out to to overcome it.

      I'm wondering if I can change the default dreaming state from "passive" to lucid by manipulating a similar psychological lever. Instead of locking an emotion associated with a particular event inside a mental vault, it would be flipping the master dream lever from passive to lucid.

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    4. 02-10-2006 08:27 AM #4
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      Lucidity within a dream is achieved through awareness. Thus, I would think that the use of hypnosis and such methods would need ot be aimed at the increasing of one's constant awareness (while awake and thus while asleep as well).
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    5. 02-12-2006 08:27 AM #5
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      Yes, I've tried self hypnosis at the same time as I did subliminal imaging.
      A week or two later I experienced a 2 week period with somewhere around 13 to 15 lucid dreams.

      Thus, It can work
      Unfortunately my second attempt brought nothing.
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      Unless otherwise stated, views expressed in this post are not necessarily representative of the official Dream Views stance. Hell, it's probably not even representative of me.
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