I try to just chill and not worry about what I am thinking about. How to "just chill"? I don't know. Maybe I learned it by meditating. |
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Drifting off to sleep, my habit has always been to daydream. For me, that consists of imagining stereotypical good vs evil adventures where I save the world. Well, that was 8 years ago. The stories have evolved to confront more personal demons. But in the last few years, especially this year, it feels like I am forcing it. I don't have anything to daydream about. The stories are too one-dimensional and have been revisited too many times. Besides, I am not trying to write a novel with a good story, I am trying to fall asleep. |
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I try to just chill and not worry about what I am thinking about. How to "just chill"? I don't know. Maybe I learned it by meditating. |
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daydreaming is just visualization. i recommend it highly. Here is something from sivason |
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Last edited by Sensei; 12-23-2016 at 06:33 AM.
I think daydreaming could help with lucid dreaming, I think there are some daydream based lucid dream techniques out there. |
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I agree with Sensei and appdirect. If you have visualisation skills, work with it! I used to do the same as you going to sleep, like you decided I was getting too old for that... and my ability to visualise took a nose-dive. A couple of years later I found LDing and wished that I'd held on to that ability. MILD, VILD, there are many techniques that will come more easily to you than other LDers. |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
Thank you everyone for your comments. |
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This is really interesting, because I have a similar “problem” (assuming that it is actually a problem). For some reason, I also have certain types of daydreams (that usually are always the same overall theme) while going to sleep, and I just can't seem to bring myself to let them go because I enjoy them too much even though they're often rather repetitious. And while I can usually suspend this type of daydreaming activity during the day to focus on other things when needed, I just can't seem to do that when I get in bed. I'm not sure why. |
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Yes, that's the same for me. By "working these thoughts into the daydream plot", do you mean: reminding yourself that you are in a "daydream" and that you intend to transition into sleep and later into dream where you intend to become lucid? And the such? |
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This might be useful: http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...technique.html |
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Yeah, pretty much. It makes sense, as that's also what I try to remember to do during as much of my waking-life time as possible. I seem to feel an odd bit of resistance toward doing it during these daydreams, though, that I can't quite place my finger on. It's as if I really just want to place my undivided attention on the daydreams and nothing else. Or perhaps the daydreams are simply that immersive. |
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