Can daydreams influence your dreams

**mdspencer68** · 07-06-2012 07:19 PM

I have been debating with myself for the past three days whether or not to post this question. I felt that maybe I was making too much out of this, but this has been really bugging me. Let start by saying that, though I've been primarily doing the DILD method, I have also been trying to MILD with no success. And yes, I do know techniques take time. I'm a very patient person so it doesn't get next to me.

The reason I brought up MILD is the concept of auto-suggestion and if it's possible to inadvertently do a MILD by daydreaming. Ever since I got into the concept of lucid, reading up on it and such, I have often daydreamed what my first LD would be like. That leads to what happened recently.

A couple days ago I daydreamed a dream scenario, which I won't go into much detail, in which I play a detective. I have a partner, who I based on the female cop from the movie 'Crash'. For those who haven't seen it, the name of actress is Jennifer Esposito.

The point of awareness in this fantasy is where she tells me I am dreaming. And of course I think of going through the process of becoming lucid. Now, I thought this daydreamed several times in a roll, re-editing it in my mind like a movie, within the span of twenty minutes.

Keep in mind, I only thought of this fantasy as an innocent, 'I wonder would it be like' scenario. This reason for explaining this is, the same night I had a dream in which I was lying in a bed, not mine, in a room that I didn't recognize. The room was kinda low lit, and I see myself in a third person. And sitting on the bed next to me was, you guessed it, Jennifer Esposito as the same character from 'Crash'.

As if that isn't weird enough, I get a sense that she is trying to do what I fantasized about. It seemed as though she was trying to tell me that I was dreaming. However, every word that came out of her mouth was garbled. I'm not trying to say that I almost had a LD, I'm just wondering if having that daydream somehow almost worked like an auto-suggestion or if it was purely coincidence. I'm actually leaning more to the latter. I'm just curious as what anyone thinks.

**Sivason** · 07-06-2012 08:58 PM

I think you are on the right track. Day Dreams can be very powerful tools for MILD. I do think you almost got lucid, and that the day dream trick you used is why. Keep it up!

**Burke** · 07-06-2012 09:04 PM

This sounds like a mixture of MILD and dream incubation only done during the day instead of at night when you fall asleep. Doing it throughout the day could likely help and just having LDing on your mind during the day is bound to aid you in one way or another, much like doing RCs during the day so that you may remember to do them during a dream. The reason MILD and dream incubation are normally done as you fall asleep or shortly beforehand is because it remains fresh in your mind so that when you do fall asleep it is one of the first things to get processed and have a longer lasting impact. Doing it during the day is most likely going to help but not to the extent that doing it while falling asleep would.

If you enjoy daydreaming about your lucid dreams, though, (and come on, who hasn't?) then it not only helps you attain lucidity but also can entertain you. Plus it's completely free!

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As for it being a coincidence, that's possible. Then again anything could be a coincidence so I'd rather not classify it as that. This seems much more likely that it was not only an auto-suggestion/dream incubation/MILD done during the day, but also in the same categories as RCs in which you do them during the day so that they may transfer into your dreams and get you lucid. Hope this helps

**mdspencer68** · 07-06-2012 09:37 PM

Originally Posted by sivason

I do think you almost got lucid, and that the day dream trick you used is why. Keep it up!

Really?
Awesome!

Originally Posted by Burke

This sounds like a mixture of MILD and dream incubation only done during the day instead of at night when you fall asleep. Doing it throughout the day could likely help and just having LDing on your mind during the day is bound to aid you in one way or another, much like doing RCs during the day so that you may remember to do them during a dream. The reason MILD and dream incubation are normally done as you fall asleep or shortly beforehand is because it remains fresh in your mind so that when you do fall asleep it is one of the first things to get processed and have a longer lasting impact. Doing it during the day is most likely going to help but not to the extent that doing it while falling asleep would.

If you enjoy daydreaming about your lucid dreams, though, (and come on, who hasn't?) then it not only helps you attain lucidity but also can entertain you. Plus it's completely free!

.

As for it being a coincidence, that's possible. Then again anything could be a coincidence so I'd rather not classify it as that. This seems much more likely that it was not only an auto-suggestion/dream incubation/MILD done during the day, but also in the same categories as RCs in which you do them during the day so that they may transfer into your dreams and get you lucid. Hope this helps

Thanks for the insight.