There are a lot of threads and tutorial pages that talk about visualization and particularly its use when falling asleep. They all say stuff like "use your minds eye" or "focus on something", "dont use your eyes to look at it. That sounds easy, but really is more abstract than what those lines suggest.

To get to the point, maybe an hour ago I stumbled upon a way that made sense to me, and really made this "minds eye" type stuff clear.

All you do is:
-while keeping your eyes open just think about stuff, think about feeling things, and let your head play out the scene

-It kind of helps if your standing up or at least not doing something that is really relaxing

-once you come out of it (maybe seconds later) think if you can remember exactly what you were staring at.

-If you can, you weren't really imagining it in your head, you were using your eyes too much. If you cant, if you think to yourself "hmm I cant really remember what I was looking at, but I do remember my imagined scene and what I was doing/trying to do" If you say that to yourself than you correctly "visualized" .

Now when trying to sleep its a little different since your eyes are closed and all you see is darkness and staticy fuzzing rainbowing color stuff. Your eyes are still "open", they are still taking in visuals but they are just different.

I was thinking about this thread: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...=45387&page=10

I thinking about practicing "feeling" things in my mind, which is what this technique really focuses on. It really isn't hard once you have the concept of visualization under control.

And finally, you do this ALL THE TIME. Whenever you are just looking off in space and then you "snap" back into focus. Or your reading and you look up and realise you dont remember anything of the last page you just read. Thats all Visualization at work, now that you really now what it is, it should be much easy to harness it for LD goodness (at least it should be for me )


edit: I'm going to sleep now so I wont be able to answer questions until tommorrow, good luck *imagine a thumbs up*