Thread: Convincing your subconscious to have daily lucids?

So I was wondering, ever since I visited world-of-lucid-dreaming dot com and saw the little explanation video in the site:
Would it be possible to summon your subconscious as a dream character and convince him/it to make you have daily lucid dreams and perfect recall? Has anyone tried this?

Convince him... You mean, convince yourself, right ? Your subconscious mind is a part of yourself.

People visualize this part as a Dream Guide, for example, in their dreams.

That was one of the 10000 things to do in a lucid dream on some other website.

Originally Posted by Brunor2

Convince him... You mean, convince yourself, right ? Your subconscious mind is a part of yourself.

Yeah, I just speculate your subconscious would be a character since you don't have full control over it. I imagine dreams allow you to have deeper interactions with yourself? If so, it would be nice to be able to tell myself personally (tell myself personally?! wtf hahaha) to have lucid dreams every friggin' night

I dont think it would work quite like that but it could be a nice metaphore to use in a dream.

it would basicly be like keeping a contant reality check going. In the back of your head always wondering "is this a dream?"

That would deffinitly make you lucid everytime.

Vminge - I think you'll find this LILD article interesting:

Lucid Dreaming/Induction Techniques - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks

I wonder if that would work? And even if it does, you would have to get into a LD with really good control and lenght before being able to apply this idea, which I guess would be difficult.

I guess it all depends on the person. I've tried this method for myself (with my DG) and it hasn't been very successful for me. Although they can be a pain, I would still recommend working on one of the "traditional" induction methods, like DILD, MILD or WILD.

Originally Posted by vmenge

So I was wondering, ever since I visited world-of-lucid-dreaming dot com and saw the little explanation video in the site:
Would it be possible to summon your subconscious as a dream character and convince him/it to make you have daily lucid dreams and perfect recall? Has anyone tried this?

I love that video..

Whenever I'm telling someone about LDing, that's the video that really gets them interested..

Nah, I don't think you can really talk with your subconscious, or get it to do things for you.
It would just be talking with another DC, not your actual subconscious. You'd just think it was your subconscious, because you convinced yourself it was.

Originally Posted by MythicDreams

Nah, I don't think you can really talk with your subconscious, or get it to do things for you.
It would just be talking with another DC, not your actual subconscious. You'd just think it was your subconscious, because you convinced yourself it was.

Depends on the defenition of "talking to s/o" in a dream. Ofc the dream character "subconscious" (or maybe it's a machine, a building, etc) isn't your real subconscious but if you are convinced it is, and you talk to it, the message might very well get carried to the real subconscious (which you might call "talking with your subconscious", even though the DC or w/e wasn't actually your subconscious).

Ah. I tried doing something like that, but differently. Since everything around you is basically your subconscious, you might as well just shout.
I shouted once "give me absolute memory!" and that piece of shit just woke me up. Wasted a good LD on that.
And then there's the time where I screamed furiously "Give me better memory, make me more intelligent, ANYTHING!", but at least that time I didn't get woken up.

It would be the coolest thing ever if you could summon up a DC in a lucid dream and tell them, "Whenever I have a non-lucid dream in the future I want you to appear and tell me, "You're dreaming, do a reality check now." Although the ETWOLD and existing techniques work well, I simply can't accept that these techniques are the best ways to have lucid dreams.