Thread: Good dream environments?

My personal advise is to take all these abstractions and put them into an environment with your personal taste. Say the music and the complaining, put yourself in a starbucks by the beach listening to music you like, while in the background someone got there order wrong, you space that out and watch the waves crash against the rocks, problem solved.

You could always try earplugs or playing your own quiet music, that might help filter out unwanted noise.

As the night goes on, your REM cycles get longer and longer, so there's basically more dreaming time as the night goes on, that could explain why most of your dreams are in the morning, after you've been sleeping for a while (I assume). Do you wake up at all in the early morning, then go back to sleep? If so, it's probably a WBTB effect that's helping out too.

That's a good idea to use with the rocks, I'll try that. Thanks Elwood!

I wake up a few times in the early morning. I never thought about that with the WBTB effect. Thanks Bear!

Tell your dad to shut the fuck up at 6 oclock in the morning. Politeful manner of course..

I posted this in another thread...it's about OBEs but it's the same concept.

Originally Posted by Rainman

It's not as hard as you think blade It's just hard to sustain it for a very long time like they suggested, and they really need to explain that. It's certainly not as easy as they make it seem (even though they said it was really hard) but it's not as hard as you think. As with anything else, blade it's just a matter of practicing!

What happens when you are trying to get into a trance for something and you hear a sound? A million thought processes (is that the proper plural for "process"?!?! bloody hell...) are going crazy at once! You hear a car alarm go off near the place where you are meditating.

Immediately, your mind is filled with questions and/or thoughts that distract you from your goal of concentrating only on one thing, or not thinking at all. See in a trance or hypnagogic state, your thought process is different. One thought leads to another, leads to another leads to another, until eventually your mind becomes lost, and you simply fall into non-lucid sleep. So dissapointing!

That is what makes not thinking so difficult! Your mind goes A.D.D. in meditation! That is why you must practice not thinking a single thought. Do not let one devolop. It sounds impossible of course, but simply try this.

Stare at a spot on the wall. Go as long as you can without thinking. Naturally a thought will pop up against your will within 2 seconds. The idea is not to "not think" it is simply to not allow yourself to dwell on any thought, because they will evolve into others, and build and build as I said before. Do not allow it to develop. You may start to think something like,

"How am I supposed to not think?"

The thing about thoughts is, you mentally SAY what you're thinking. Someone on this forum called that "vocalization" I don't remember who it was, but their post was brilliant. I can nearly guarantee right now that as you are reading this text at this very moment, you are mentally going through the motions of speaking them. You do the same thing when you think. The idea is to stop this "vocalization" as it's called now, from occuring. It takes a while but you'll learn to cut yourself off. With practice,

"How am I supposed to not think?"

will become,

"How am I supposed t..??????

will become,

"How am I- ?????"

"How a- ?????????"

"Ho- ????????????"

"?????????????"

It does take practice, but it takes no extra time to practice. You can do it at any time of the day. I can meditate and achieve an OBE (maybe a WILD) on a noisy city bus, or a train station (so long as I'm not touched) with no difficulties anymore than I would have anyway. You can do it too!