Visualising as fall asleep.....

I've just had a sudden realisation. When I was younger ( a small child ) I used to be able to wake myslf up from dreams at will. For example I would simply blink or close my eyes often to get out of nightmares. I was aware when something was a dream and could get myself out of it. Effectively I was a lot more aware when younger than I am now dreaming.

And I remember to fall asleep each night I would lie in bed picturing things in my mind, seeing what my imagination came up with. It was like 'counting sheep' for me, it helped me fall asleep. I did it every night. I've never done it since but now im learning more about lucid dreaming and specifically visualisation as a tool i'm beggining to see a link. Could that have been what I was doing when I was kid?

I might have to try tonight. Any thoughts?

I think some people use that as an ancor to wild, but could work for dild aswell. There definitely seems to be phases during the time a child is growing up they they feel they have "more dreams". Now that I think about it its probably because they knew they were dreaming. So do children go through phases when they have many dreams where they know their in a dream and if what I said is true what causes it? How were your results?