Originally Posted by
Koji
Lately I have been using a method of WBTB that has shown some pretty good results. Here is what I do:
• I write down an affirmation on a word document. It can be no longer than a line and should generally be short and to the point.
• Before I go to bed, I type the affirmation out 45 times to fill up one page. I do not copy and paste and I make sure I am actually paying attention to it and saying it in my head or out loud. This step is not necessarily required, but it couldn’t hurt either.
• After I finish writing it, I look over it and try to focus on that affirmation and my determination for a lucid dream in my head.
• I go to sleep and wake up about 5 hours later. I do this again, then I go back to sleep.
I only save the document with the one affirmation on it because obviously the rest of the material is pointless to save.
I also think it is important to write it on a computer if available. The reason is that the brightness of the computer screen, which you are forced to look at, will bring awareness to you as you write the affirmation repeatedly.
My current affirmation is: “I will gain lucidity in my next dream and establish control.”
It is important that you state the initial goal, to establish lucidity, in whatever way best suits you. The “establish control” is my secondary goal. Currently, control is what I have trouble with. I am able to move around and it is usually as vivid as real life, but I have trouble actually willing things to change. For someone that has trouble with accumulating more than a few seconds of lucidity, I would suggest the secondary goal address that. You could do that in a variety of ways, but some might say actually having a goal to do in the dream is enough to keep you in it.
Keep in mind, the secondary goal is optional; furthermore, note my secondary goal does not go into detail concerning how I will establish control. To help keep it short, just choose words that encompass a variety of things in which you want to try. For me, “establish control” covers many methods that can help me do this.
Results: In the past three days I have had 3 LDs (2 in one night and 1 in the next), and a semi-lucid. Also, sprinkled throughout all three nights, there was a high concentration within the dreams about lucid dreaming. More than once I talked about it, thought about it, wondered if I was in a dream, or considered the technique I am referring to. On my last true lucid dream yesterday, I had actually established some minor control too. Unfortunately, during my little practice, my alarm triggered my waking frustration . . .
Things like this have been suggested, whether for WBTB or to incubate a dream, but usually I see guides telling people to write the affirmation and read it over and over. To me, it is better to write it because you are forced to put some effort out. Writing it 45 times is a lot so I imagine that the idea will at least somewhat get stuck in your head, which might also help in MILDing if one tries it. When I go to sleep, I try to keep my mind at least vaguely on the thought of what I wrote down.
Concerning the semi-lucid dream, read SKA’s topic about it if you are not sure what I mean. I would best describe mine as a semi-lucid. In my dream, I was aware that I had fallen asleep but apparently this led me into an alternate dimension, or at least that is what the silly DCs told me. It was a warring world that was appointing a new emperor and apparently I was prophesied to aid the young emperor in his pursuit of domination. It was kind of cool though because I was a god to these people (considering I had some special abilities within the dream). I was clairvoyant, strong, fast, and immortal. During the dream I was even learning new abilities that I was prophesied to have. I still wish it had occurred to me that, despite what the DCs said, I was only in a dream, not a different realm.
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