Stimulating your senses for vivid dreams?

[bombdiggity]

I have a theory but I need other people's help in testing it. First of all, if anyone HAS heard of this or if this is proven to work, forgive me for a useless post but I have personally never heard anyone mention it, so I decided to post it. My theory is simple. It basically is that if your waking life is vivid, so are your dreams. By this I mean that by exciting your senses during waking time, you will likely have more vivid dreams. Whether it's examining things closer, looking at things you've never seen, or just looking at vividly colored images/videos, your vision in your dreams will be more vivid. I assume that this could apply to all senses too. The common person doesn't go around sniffing every object they can, instead we look at them or touch them. This is why I believe people hardly ever smell things in their dreams, and when they do, it's only food because food is the only scent we pay attention to in waking life. Perhaps instead of just looking at the environment you are awake in, you should try to use all five senses as much as you can to really stimulate them. If someone has feedback or already knows this works, please post!

[hadoitz]

I think it's similiar with what atkins513 wrote here: http://www.dreamviews.com/f14/my-tut...ours-ld-94752/ Upon entering the LD: Don't just take off flying, or run around doing what you have wanted to do, or want to experience. A weak start will just end up in an average LD, but we can correct this with about 30 seconds of dream time. Upon entering the LD: * Immediately take note of all the senses as mentioned earlier. 1. Take a good look around you, all the bright vivid detail, take in the full sight of everything around you. The more you look at the detail, the brighter and more vivid it will become. 2. Listen to the sounds around you... really take in and appreciate all the different sounds you hear. If you heard none at first, you were listening with the wrong ears... (the ones in bed)... the more you listen to the sounds and look around you the more the sounds will correspond with the things you see.. 3. Take a nice slow whiff of everything around you... Smell that? Smell the things you are seeing around you.. take a slow whiff though.. you do not want to interrupt your sleep breathing... but smell all the different things around you and really take note of all the variety of smells.. 4. Now, as you walk, feel how amazingly real it feels to move your legs as you walk. Lift your arms up and down a few times, feel the weight of them? Its amazing how that feels.. 5. Rub your hands together, feel the sensation of what that feels like.. feel the walls around you or pick up a rock and feel the sensation and weight of holding it....

[bombdiggity]

Well I think he's talking about what to do once you are in the dream. I was saying maybe doing something similar in real life could make them vivid.

[scrumpy]

This would probably help with your general awareness as well and help you to get more LD's. As you're smelling stuff etc. ask "Is this a dream? How do I know it's not a dream". I'm gonna incorporate this into my routine