AAAL - Awoken At Another Location

A simple technique which I developed and has worked pretty much 100% of the time for me, and same with a friend I taught this technique to.

AAAL - Awoken At Another Location

Introduction: Pretty much in this technique, you fall asleep and awaken somewhere else. But upon awakening you are brought to the realization that you are dreaming. And nor do you acctually awaken somewhere else, that is part of the dream/reality check. Mentally changing your environment through alpha to delta. This method is basically a technique and a reality check mixed into one method of Lucid Induction.

Step 1 (Self Hypnosis) - First off find a place to sleep which feels like another place you have recently slept in. And when you go to that first place image you are in that second place. For example, I slept on my couch and imaged that I was sleeping on my girlfriends couch at her house. And as I was laying down I convinced my mind to beleive I was, as I slowly drifted into the alpha/theta state. This doesn't even take much effort at all. You can pretty much imagine with your eyes closed that everything around you is setup as if you are in the second location, and in your mind you can repeat "I am sleeping at (location)".
If you keep this up until you reach the theta state, your mind will beleive you are sleeping in that location. You thought of yourself being there the whole time you were relaxing from alpha to theta, you pretty much tricked yourself into beleiving this false piece of information, and as you know this is defined as "Self Hypnosis". Those two states are when the mind is most programmable.

Step 2 (Where am I?) - After step 1 is complete and you find yourself in the delta state, you will dream of awakening, but not awakening where you fell asleep but where you self hypnotised yourself to beleive you were sleeping. This can be more of an aspect of "Dream Control" but can lead you into a lucid very easily. It's easier to awaken in the second location if you repeat something like "I will awaken (location)", in your mind as you mentally imagine your second environment.

Step 3 (Lucid Induction of this technique) - Ok this technique becomes easier and easier over time yet can lead to alot of confusion when asleep. Once i've slept on a hammock and self hypnotised myself to beleive I was laying in a tall tree. Upon waking up in the dream I started to fall off the tree and when I hit the ground I swung the hammoc upside down and landed on the grass. But then I realized you can use locations as dream signs. You can tell yourself the next time you reach a certain location, you will do a reality check or immediatly realize you are dreaming. I then tried many techniques one also being another method of self hypnosis "When I awaken, I will realize I am dreaming" but I usually use "When I awaken, I will recall this is not really where I fell asleep". If you repeat strings such as this as you fall asleep and use AAAL at the same time, it will obviously lead to a lucid dream. I found that sleeping in certain positions change affect this technique as well.

Easiest most accurate method - Lay down and when starting the AAAL imagery, repeat this in a whisper 3 times "I will awaken at (location), and upon awakening I will realize this isn't where I fell asleep, and I am now dreaming." After repeating that in a whisper, repeat it in your head for a bit. Finally when delta state is achieved, you will find yourself in a lucid. Please post your outcomes with this technique. :D

- Dreamz (Good Night...)

Sound pretty simple. But why do you imagine yourself falling asleep somewhere else then you actually are? Couldn't you just know that if you awaken anywhere different then where you fell asleep, you are dreaming? Or is it if you have a False Awakening and if you wake up where you really fell asleep you will know you are dreaming? Also are the Alpha, Beta, Delta whatever things just stages of sleep? What is you succes rate with this method seems to look pretty good.

I'm so confused. While falling asleep, you tell yourself you're somewhere else, then when you believe you're in that place, you tell yourself if you wake up there, you're dreaming?

Yeah I'm confused about that too. Seems like you would just tell yourself that if you wake up anywhere different than you are now you are dreaming. But wouldn't it be even simpler to tell yourself that if you wake up anywhere(FA) your dreaming?

Seems like a very good method, thanks. I'm going to try it in the next nights.

For the above posters: Self hypnosis and suggestion work best and most efficiently by visualizing things, not only things, but specific locations, specific situations. Associating one specific location with a lucid dream works a lot better than something abstract such as 'anywhere'. It works even better if you can associate positive emotions and memories with that place or situation. Of course this method is a certain form of dream incubation, so it might need some practive.

This sounds like a combination of HILD and VILD. Interesting.

This sounds interesting. It probably is (like most new techniques) an adaptation of an existant one, but can definitly make it easier for people to succeed. I'm going to give it a shot, cause to me it looks like this is really a DILD where you are trying to notice you woke up somewhere else as a dreamsign (if I got it all right). This sounds appealing to me.

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Seems like a very good method, thanks. I'm going to try it in the next nights.

For the above posters: Self hypnosis and suggestion work best and most efficiently by visualizing things, not only things, but specific locations, specific situations. Associating one specific location with a lucid dream works a lot better than something abstract such as 'anywhere'. It works even better if you can associate positive emotions and memories with that place or situation. Of course this method is a certain form of dream incubation, so it might need some practive.

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But still, it doesn't make sense to me, I think I'm reading it wrong or something. One part says you trick yourself into thinking you're sleeping somewhere else, so you'd assume you'd wake up there, right? On the other hand, it seems you're also telling yourself that if you wake up there, it's a dream, which means you're telling yourself that you're not there...right? I mean it sounds like you're supposed to tell yourself two contradicting things while trying to sleep, and I just can't do that. My brain is like "Well, what is it? Are you here or aren't you?"

Last night, I convinced myself that I was sleeping in Hawaii (I was just there for a week), and I really thought I was there, but when I tried thinking about waking up there being a dream, I was just confusing myself.

What part of this am I not understanding?

The part you're missing is that dreams are always paradoxical. You are in two different places at once. When it says that you are at place XY, it doesn't mean your body is there. You're not your body. If you're in that specific location in a dream, it means that you are actually there rather than only projecting an unstable image of something. For the sake of the technique and basically ANY technique, you need to let go off your body and your thoughts of what might be where in reality. Disassociate from your body and go with the dream world. The idea of your body lying in some specific bed shouldn't be more than just latent background knowledge mostly irrelevant for the progression into the lucid dream.

Well, I thought the point was that you tell yourself you're there so you know if you wake up and you're not there, you know you're dreaming.
But if I tell myself I'm somewhere I'm not and I start a dream there...that doesn't help me know I'm in a dream at all because I just think I woke up where I was supposed to wake up.

Agh, I just confused myself even more there.

Well most cases you're not concious enough to remember you were just sleeping. If so, why couldnt you just WILD into the next dream scene. Typically when you're in a non-lucid dream you're not thinking "I JUST WOKE UP"! If you knew that much it would already be a pre-lucid dream.

This doesnt make any sense to me; it just seems like allot of extra steps. :|

Yeah! In none of my dreams to I "wake up"...I am just there.

I am a bit confused too, you think to yourself that your are waking up in another location?

I like this method, as I usually only awaken into dream in very specific dreamscapes.. sooo.. this could work.

For all confused:

I think what it is (correct me if I'm wrong), is that you're supposed to go to sleep at (location A). While falling asleep, convince yourself of falling asleep at (location B). When waking up in the dream world, you wake up in (location B) and are supposed to realize, "Wait, I'm supposed to be in (location A)!"

I hope that clears up a few questions.

Cheers!

--Sam

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Originally posted by sj
For all confused:

I think what it is (correct me if I'm wrong), is that you're supposed to go to sleep at (location A). While falling asleep, convince yourself of falling asleep at (location B). When waking up in the dream world, you wake up in (location B) and are supposed to realize, "Wait, I'm supposed to be in (location A)!"

I hope that clears up a few questions.

Cheers!

--Sam

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No, I understand it, it's just easier said then done.

The mind doesnt always remember that you just fell asleep and the mind doesnt remember to consider you just WOKE UP and realize you're in a different location.

I hope you don't feel like I was singling you out, phoenelai. :( I was more posting it for the benefit of the people who are saying "Wha?". That is, assuming I interpreted it correctly. :wink:

You know that technique sounds pretty much with an idea I once came up with and never worked on any further.
It was about this idea: ''If I find myself awake in any another situation/scene/context than awaking from my bed in the morning I must be Dreaming''

Since the first ''Real'' thing I'd be doing after falling asleep is waking up and rising from my bed. Anything I find myself doing in between those 2 actions MUST therefor be a dream. However since my Sleeping Clock and dreamrecall has gotten seriously messed up lately(Me Insomniac) I've abandonned that, or any LD-technique, untill I've improved my dream recall enough to remember 3/5 dreams a night.

But the idea of your technique is the same. I think I'll retry this technique with perhaps a mantra: ''All that happens between Sleeping and Waking is but a Dream''

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Originally posted by sj
I hope you don't feel like I was singling you out, phoenelai. :( I was more posting it for the benefit of the people who are saying "Wha?". That is, assuming I interpreted it correctly. :wink:

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No problems :D , I didnt think you were just speaking to me; I just replied (for me) based on my own feelings of the technique with a touch of theory!

Cheers! ;)