Damn I'm gonna try this too! I think I'll use my parents' house instead of mine though because a lot of my dreams take place there.
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Damn I'm gonna try this too! I think I'll use my parents' house instead of mine though because a lot of my dreams take place there.
This sounds like a great technique but the sleeping for 9 hours thing is... sort of a problem.. could this work during a brief awakening, say, after 5 or 6 hours of sleep?
-Thanks!
Definatley going to try this. But i think OP said you dont have to have nine hours of sleep. Im oing to try it with like 5 hours of sleep tonight.
I can see why your technique works. The simple act of imagining... visualizing... stimulates the secondary visual cortices (cortex) in the occipital lobe of our brains. This is the same area that is active in dreams. Why this simple, yet effective, way to induce lucid dreams is taking so long to be discovered is astounding to me. People on this forum talk about certain herbs or binaural beats or what-nots. LD induction is simple. While DEEPLY relaxed visualize ... anything. Nice post.
I'm going to practice what I'll imagine during the evening and try tomorow morning, let you know how it turns out!
Didn't work, only got about 4 hours of sleep.
Going to try this today!
Sorry its been 2 years since Ive last replied, here's some tips and improvement to my Technique.
It REALLY, REALLY helps to go to you backyard or frontyard (in real life) and actually look at everything and memorize where everything is and to touch the walls/fence,furniture, BBQ machine with your hands and try and remember how it feels. Also while your in your backyard try and plan out the steps you will be doing in your visualization during your brief awakening.
Why you ask? some people find it hard to visualize when there in the brief awakening, but if you actually practice in your backyard/frontyard in real life I can almost guarantee you will have a lucid dream.
when your visualizing during the brief awakening, I want you to run and touch all the walls,fences, in your backyard/front yard and try and feel the sensation of touch, also I want you to run and feel the sensation of movement. I cant explain why scientifically but the feeling of movement and touch almost suck you into a lucid dream
Heres a perfect example, If this was my backyard, during the brief awakening I would imagine walking with my barefeet (feel the grass touching your feet) and I would run towards the fence (feel the sensation of movement) and then I would walk along the fence and touch the perimeter of the fence (feeling the walls with the palm of my hand)
I GUARANTEE your if you practice you will have a lucid dream.
http://nitnelav.com/BackyardJuly28.jpg
And with regards to brief awakening, this is the tricky part.
Most brief awakenings that lead to a Lucid dream occur 7-9 hours after you fell asleep.
Now heres what I want everyone to know. I dont care if your brief awakening is 10 seconds or 3 minutes long. The KEY is to get into a VERY comfortable position where you feel like your about to pass out to sleep any second now. Thats when you start the visualization.
So remember its that edge of falling asleep during the brief awakening that is the threshold in which you should start the visualization.
Believe me when your having a brief awakening you will know that this brief awakening is the one. Its hard to describe but you dont want to be to tired or to awake during the brief awakening.
1. If your too tired during the brief awakening, you will fall back asleep without even knowing it.
2. If your too awake during the brief awakening you will be able to know that it will take a long while to get back to sleep.
3. The key brief awakening, is being conscious or awake enough that you can think clearly, but being tired enough that if you get into a comfortable position you will pass out to sleep.
The best way to describe the perfect brief awakening, is when you go to sleep for a long time on saturday mornings when you dont have school or work, and when you you have a brief awakening after 8 hours of sleep and you think to yourself "I still feel tired, im going back to sleep" and then you roll over and pass out.
great update IH8 cheers. i got the image of my mates face in my head the other day during a brief awakening. i managed to pull myself into a dream just by trying to talk to him and imagining he was really there. the real world practices you mention will really help, and i love dreams about my house and garden. even though it can seem exactly the same as reality, there is always something that makes it seem so amazing
I have a couple of questions. For one I could have done it last night as I was aware of the awakening. My eyes were trying to stay close but I just aware enough to bust them open. I could have started visualizing but I am scared of sp and hallucinations.
What happens during the vild process?
Do I feel sp and start hallucinating?
Hmmm, i may try this technique. Not managed to achieve a lucid dream yet but not tried this, could be worth a go. I often wake up before i need to in the morning and i almost always have dreams when i fall back to sleep.
Most of the time you will not feel sp when vilding. What will happen is that the dream will just start forming in front of you, and before you know it, you standing in a dream. That's how its always happened for me. Basically you might start hearing the sounds of the dream first, and then the dream will just appear or form in front of you. I've had two full on vilds, but I have been able to visualize and form a dream many times, but it ended up fading away before i was actually standing in it. The funny thing is that you can form a dream in front of, but sometimes right when you get in the dream, you'll lose lucidity even though you just watched the dream form lol. I'll give you an example of one of mine. I visualized myself standing in a parking lot. As I visualized, I started hearing people talking in the parking lot. Then I could hear cars driving and before I knew it, I starting seeing the cars in the parking lot and the two people talking. After that, I was actually standing in the dream, and I ran off to the other side of the street. I was surrounded by mountains and I was in such a beautiful town.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fedor
great technique i like how you make the familiar your lucid trigger ingenius! :-) namaste
Nice! I wish I knew about this yesterday because I had a BA this morning :(
I'll let you know how it goes :)
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