The purpose of this technique is to increase and prolong dream control, and incubate new powers.

The idea is to literally play pretend in waking life, as you did when you were a child.

There are two basic paths of doing this.

Play Session

1. Go somewhere private (outdoors seems to work better as its kind of more "neutral" than an indoor setting like your bedroom).

2. Pretend you are dreaming.

3. Do a Reality Check. Pretend that you are now lucid. Pretend you are very excited about having a lucid dream, and you remain calm.

4. Now pretend you want to do a dream task, for example: shoot fireballs out of your hands.
In this example, what you would do is something like this: Rub your hands together until they become warm. Slowly move your hands apart, and imagine a fireball forming between your hands. Shoot the imaginary fireball at a target by extending your arm, and shouting, 'FIREBALL!" Imagine the smell of sulfur and smoke. Pretend there is a crackling sound to the fireball. Visualize the target getting hit, and bursting into flame. Pump your fist and say, "Yes! I rock! I love shooting fireballs in my lucid dreams!"

5. Involve as much emotion, excitement, and adrenaline as you can, because this will make the play more memorable in your sub-c.

6. To increase the adrenaline, excitement, emotion, here are some ideas: you may shout at the top of your lungs, run down a steep hill, blast some loud music, or anything that involves your body moving.

Your play session may last as long or as short as you wish.

We learn the fastest by doing. Of course, we probably can't shoot fireballs in waking life, but we can practice shooting dream fireballs in waking life.

This is a dream incubation technique which can be used to perform specific dream tasks, give yourself new powers, or practice the powers that you already have.

To further push your play deeper into your subconscious mind, and really stamp it on there, you want to involve as many senses as you can.

Instant Power Play

You can do this anywhere, including in public.

The Instant Power Play works like this:

You are walking down the street, and something reminds you of lucid dreaming. You do an RC, and it fails. You pretend you are dreaming anyway. You quickly thrust out your arm toward a target, pretending to shoot a fireball at it. Visualize the fireball, smell it, feel it. Laugh triumphantly.

I have been using this second tech to work on my Heads-Up-Display I have in my dreams, and it's been working pretty well.

Enjoy!