Thread: Auto Suggestion Anyone?

I was just curious to see how many people auto suggestion works for. I used it before but recently i've been having some trouble and its not working as well what are some phrases you use to remember all your dreams and or wake after every dream (without the aid of an alarm clock; hence the auto suggestion topic lol)

Well, if you use the same phrase over and over for a long time, it loses its meaning.

Try just re-phrasing the one you were using before, and really focus on it.

i simply use "i (will) remember my dreams" for dream recalls. works pretty good, i can remember up to 4 dreams every night.
and i think auto suggestion works for everybody, but some are simply better suggestible than others. while some get results pretty fast with suggestions, others need much longer and have to be patient.. although there are ways to increase your level of suggestibility (binaural beats, brainwaves, ...)

"I will wake up after every dream period and remember my dreams."

It's not as much the recall I care about than waking up around a REM cycle. I'll wake up about 3 times during the night, and use that to WILD.

It works great for me.

I tell myself, "I will wake up after every dream, and write it down in my journal." Then I picture myself rolling over and picking up my journal. I sometimes even open my journal as if I was going to write in it while I tell myself this, flipping through old dreams.

Later in the night, after a WBTB, I tell myself, "The next thing I see will be a dream. The next thing I do will be a dream. The next thing I hear will be a dream..."

Alright guys thanks for all the tips. Its worked well for me in the past but i've recently had a lot of stress and whatnot so that probably doesn't help I'll see how tonight goes

If you believe it will work without it, the effect will be the same. Like a lot of things, it's just trying to find a tangible means of utilising the placebo effect. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Autosuggestion has never failed me but there is an exception to this being - my mind has to actually grasp the concept, i.e. if I say " I will have a lucid dream tonight" the lucid dream concept is too vague for it to work. However if a more graspable concept is used such as "I remember my dreams every night" or " I will remember ALL of my dreams tonight" then it works fine. However I have to note that talking to myself as if I can already do something then the autosuggestion works a whole lot better. If you look at the first example "I remember my dreams every night" I am speaking as though I already know how to do it and know it will happen, in contrast if I use the second example "I will remember all of my dreams tonight" then it is more or less a 50-50 chance of it working and if it does I usually remember vaguely. Furthermore as I use autosuggestion, on a consistent basis, the better it will work. It is almost a progressive action working more and more as I use it. Whenever using autosuggestion I always suggest using present tense to describe to yourself what you want to happen, using future tense is something not as solid to your mind.
Using emotion with autosuggestion helps strengthen it also. If you just try repeating it to yourself a bazillion times it would not work as effectively as saying it a few times with emotion and imagery attached to it. For example if I say "I remember my dreams every night" with confidence and remember back to every time I have remembered my dreams vividly then the autosuggestion will almost always work.

Originally Posted by 1r1sh

Using emotion with autosuggestion helps strengthen it also. If you just try repeating it to yourself a bazillion times it would not work as effectively as saying it a few times with emotion and imagery attached to it. For example if I say "I remember my dreams every night" with confidence and remember back to every time I have remembered my dreams vividly then the autosuggestion will almost always work.

This is very true. When I use auto-suggestion in the form of a repetitive mantra, such as one I say to myself before sleep, my success rate is much lower than if I speak the phrase, once or twice, with genuine confidence.

Overall though, auto-suggestion works incredibly well, both positively and negatively. For instance, I have a roommate who likes to stay up until 3:00 AM playing FFXI. He also snores. I've inadvertently convinced myself that I will never be able to LD when he's in the room. Sure enough, whenever I remind myself of that, I don't have an LD. Conversely, whenever he's not there, even if he's just left for his morning class, I can tell myself that I will have an LD. Ninety percent of the time, I do.

So, yeah. I think whatever you truly believe is what will happen as far as auto-suggestion is concerned.

Autosuggestion works very well for me. Most of my LDs have been a result of autosuggestion. For me it works better then MILD, I did MILD for a week without any success, then simply decided to LD and got one a night for a few days.

What are some successful autosuggetions for directly LDing?

ie. I lucid dream every night.

The autosuggestion I used last night that caused my lucid dream was "I'm going to have a dream and I will realize I'm dreaming." Only said it once but it was my final thought as I went to sleep and a wounderful lucid occured that night. You can easily make your own autosuggestion as I do all the time. Just ensure you use concrete things not abstract concepts to tell yourself what to do.

Auto suggestion starts failing after some time, cuz your brain doesn´t like being lucid, so it ignores the suggestion.

My first LD was off autosuggestion, during a nap in the morning.

Or maybe just no lapse in self conciseness.