The Voidway Explorer's Incubation Practice
Hey everyone. If you know or don't know, I have a pretty fast paced PR to manage. It's been active and successful as of late, and I have plans to make it even more huge. The thing is however, the majority of my PR dreams are non lucid. While yes, these PR dreams are inferior as I have less control over my decisions, they can work from time to time and if I excluded my PR to only lucid dreams, it would barely go anywhere. How do I do all of this? Incubation. Not somebody else's incubation practice though. I have made my own, specifically designed for myself. However I think that others may be able to use this incubation practice to their advantage, as did I.
To put it simply, my entire incubation practice orbits around the basic idea of Associating. I do not incubate until something comes up in my day to day life that involves my lucid dream goals. (I.e, my Persistent Realm) This includes:
- Satanism
- Cultism
- Ankha (Animal Crossing Character)
- Lucidity in general
- Concept of the Multiverse
The reason I choose to not start my practice until these things are brought up, is not only because it's easier for me, because I believe my brain finds it easier to "start" something when using a key. A specific highlight rather than generally everything. For example, I get lucidity just about always from my old job in construction. I'm a construction worker in a dream? My subconcious uses that as a base and dream signs come flooding in. This is because of my Schemas. Which, you guessed it, use Associations as well. This simplifies the process and cuts out the filler.
So, a concept associated with my PR is brought up, and I start incubation. First, I use Visualization as a mnemonic, similarly to MILD to pre-construct the most likely scenarios for my PR, from my previous PR Dreams (if you're trying this practice without any lucid dreams or goals to your name, you could make one up). For example, I had a dream once where Satan was high, and mocking me for not being able to accomplish what I want. He lied about a character betraying me and being part of the cult. In my next visualization I not only visualized the probable path the PR would go, but outcomes that wouldn't exactly make sense, yet could be fixed and set back on track. This practice of creating false, self-fixing schema issues "awakens" the association that if things go off track, they can naturally mend themselves. Going on course, rather than straying. (this "schema fixer" doesn't always work yet it's a decent thing to set up)
Then, I do what I like to call "Linking". I imagine this can be difficult to understand for some people. Basically, I'm not visualizing scenes. I set my mind back and forth between different events that work as just concepts in my mind. For example,
Event A: I'm in a dream. I don't visualize, I don't think about where I am, and I don't care about what it is. I'm just holding the concept of being in a dream.
Event B: A strong path that I visualized beforehand occurs. I am not visually imagining the scene. It just exists.
I switch my mind back and forth between these 2 events. I hold the concept of being in a dream world, then I hold the concept of whatever goal I may have. Back and forth. Over, and over... First in a dream, then, my PR goal for the night is complete. From my experience, this practice directly sets schemas together perfectly.
If I don't feel ready, I repeat Visualization and Linking until I do. Usually I feel decently after completing my first link, and I move on with my day until something's brought up again. Then I visualize, and I link. When it's time to go to bed, I may or may not have a PR dream incubated.
It's not always perfect, I slip up a lot. Had a non lucid PR dream where an important character just burst into flames, and came back a day later like nothing happened. I didn't consider that dream canon, and desirably my PR dreams should be lucid. However, this incubation does me just fine.
