Flash Light Initiated Lucid Dream

**westonci** · 06-13-2007 04:05 PM

This is a method I’ve come up with which has been proven to be very successful for anyone who tries it, probably one of the best. First let me tell you that I have tried a lot of methods including MILD, WILD and many more to no success. Until now I haven't had one lucid dream and it’s been 3 months!! Until I came up with this method that is.

For this method you will need two things:

1. A Flash light
2. A friend/helper/brother/sister etc.

First you will need to do WBTB, it is extremely important that you do this. Go to sleep and wake up 5 hours later. The reason why WBTB is so important is because you go directly into REM sleep from wakefulness, and its the best REM period of the night.

When you wake up 5 hours later first recall your last dream (this helps) then tell your friend that when you go back to sleep to come in the room very quietly making sure he doesn't wake you up. Tell him to flash the light on your eyes for about five seconds and then to stop and leave. Make sure you do this once because if you become lucid by the flashlight cue your friend would not know. So if he kept doing it the excess flashes would become annoying and could even wake you up. It’s kind of a hit or miss strategy

Users should modify the settings of the flashlight to find a cue with the right intensity and length to enter their dreams without causing awakening (basically not to bright to wake you up but not to dim so that you don't notice the light). In addition, users should practice mental exercises while awake to enhance their ability to recognize the light cues when they appear in dreams.

After about an hour of being awake go back to sleep, try your best and relax and tell yourself “The next time I see a flashing light I will do a reality check”.

Now this is the tricky part. The lights from the flash light filter into the user's dreams. This can occur in several ways. Cues can be superimposed over the dream scene, like a light flashing in one's face, or they can briefly interrupt the dream scene. The most common (and most difficult to identify) incorporation of cues is into dream stories fore example Little brother flashing the room lights, flash bulbs, lightning, traffic signals, police car lights: all are real examples of incorporations of flashlight cues. The trickiness of cue appearances underscores the need to thoroughly prepare one's mind to recognize cues via waking practice.

If everything goes well you’ll notice the flashes of light and will do a reality check and hopefully will recognise that you are dreaming. And I can almost guarantee you will have a lucid dream in just three tries.

**luv2dream** · 06-13-2007 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by westonci

In addition, users should practice mental exercises while awake to enhance their ability to recognize the light cues when they appear in dreams.

what kind of mental exercises? Like, could you give me a few examples? this sounds like it would work, i just dont know if anyone in my family would want to wake up and shine a light in my eyes! and another question, when I do this, should I do WBTB how people normally do it, like for a few minutes, or would it work to just wake up long enough to tell them to shine the light in my eyes in a few minutes?

**westonci** · 06-13-2007 09:40 PM

basically you should stay awake for one hour after waking up. For some reason this is an optimal amount of time to be awake according to Stephen Laberges studies on his patients. In that time you should visualize what the experience will be like, try your best to prepare your self by saying over and over "The next time I see a flashing light I will do a reality check". Narrow your mind on the thought of the flashing light while your going asleep.

After the hours up go back to sleep, and about 15-30, minutes later you should be dreaming. This is when your frineds shines the light at your face. 15-30 minutes is not a long time so your mind will remember very easliy the light cue.

The problem with MILD is that you really dont have any reference point to notice that your dreaming. MILD realies on an internal cue, while the flashlight technique is an external cue so that finishes half the job. The othe half is remebering to do reality check when you see the light