Getting rid of mental garbage
Hi Dew Dust,
I’m rather new to the forum, but maybe this might help:
I used to use this technique to improve dream recall, but also found the technique useful for getting out all the mental crap from my head with regards thoughts of events during the day. Its visualization technique that while you lay in bed ready to fall asleep, you re-run in your head everything that you did during the day backwards, from the moment you laid in bed to sleep - back to the moment you first woke up during that same day. The idea is to remain objective while reviewing all events that happened to you during the day. Try not to get emotional involved in your re-cap. of the day, but rather remain a silent observer of everything you did that day. Once you review back to the beginning of the morning, visualize all the events being wrapped up in a balloon (like a helium one) that takes all the events away and than simply watch it float away up into the sky.
I found this technique would get rid of all my mental garbage of the day, and prevent the mental garbage to follow me into my dreaming time allowing me to have richer dream events.
Also this technique of remaining a silent observer like this had allowed me to not identify with the events (while having dreams), which allowed me to catch my obvious dream signs, and bingo! LD’s.
Hope this helps,
Infinityecho