Thread: 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.

Thoughts?

JSmithPI

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?

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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JSmithPI

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).

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.