you should watch it but not react to it or pay to much attention. |
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I have read some contradictory advice on how to handle the hypnagogic imagery that pops up in your mind while going to sleep. It seems to fall into these categories: |
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you should watch it but not react to it or pay to much attention. |
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Well I guess everybody's already nailed it. Great answer. Now that I think about it that's what works for me too. |
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I've never understood this "passively view it" advice. I think this relates to the odd hypnogogic image which might pop up behind your eyelids. |
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Lucid Dreams:-
MILD/DILD: 79
WILD: 13
DEILD:13
(TOTAL: 108)
Depends what technique you are attempting. For HIT I'd highly recommend watching them |
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Also, don't forget |
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ive had 2 wilds not really paying attention, and 1 wild/vild by option #3 |
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When you experience HI just be aware of the images and don't analyze them at all. Don't even think "wow this is cool". Just remain nonchalant and emotionless. In other words, acknowledge what is going on but be disinterested and semi-dettached all the while keeping a vague notion at the back of your mind of "I'm dreaming". Eventually you should find yourself being sucked into one of the images and a dreamscape will fully form around you. |
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Well, it's been covered now. But I just want to say that this is wrong. |
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I would have to disagree, your body doesn't goto sleep unless it knows your mind is asleep, the only way for your body to tell if your mind is asleep or not is if you keep completely still. |
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I think theres probably way more to it than simply keeping still or not thinking. I have laid in bed for hours on end without moving and had no results, but then laid still with slight movements and managed to WILD. Sometimes my mind wanders, sometimes it is blank, and either way it hasnt really done much for me or apparently many others. |
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Hi is when the dream begins to form. The only difference between HI and normal dreaming is that you don't have a dream body. So what you should do is try to shake one loose. |
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Last edited by tommo; 01-16-2009 at 04:06 AM.
Interesting! For me, focusing and pretty much watching it like a movie, is how I fall asleep every night. I can control it a bit before the HI vanishes, though. |
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Last edited by eggbert; 01-19-2009 at 07:09 AM.
Recent experience makes me agree with shift. |
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Lucid Dreams:-
MILD/DILD: 79
WILD: 13
DEILD:13
(TOTAL: 108)
That's interesting. There's so many tech explanation here about what to do when you get an itch or whatever. According to you two it doesn't matter. |
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Regarding the ITCH, or whatever. What happens is that the part of the brain called the CEREBELLUM is responsible for all muscular activity when we are awake. When we go to sleep, the cerebellum swiches off the muscular activity so we don't physically act out our dreams. |
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Scratch the itch and then forget about it! |
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If the itch stays there you're not doing it right. lol |
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