Thread: an importand question:does this form your dreams

ok if i am going to sleep and i tel myself that my friend is going to say hi to me in my dream continously till i fall asleep will my friend come to my dream and say that

Yes, it definitely can happen. Not always though.. But the more you think about something or expect to see it in a dream the better your chances are of it happening.

hey then i can just tell myself that my friend will say that i am dreaming and tell me to look at my hand so that chances of me being lucid increase as well right? Also are the chances like 1/5 or 3/5 of that repitive saying works

Originally Posted by ChaosReaper

hey then i can just tell myself that my friend will say that i am dreaming and tell me to look at my hand so that chances of me being lucid increase as well right?

Absolutely! That's a good plan.

Originally Posted by ChaosReaper

Also are the chances like 1/5 or 3/5 of that repitive saying works

Well, it's not really that simple. It depends on how strongly you believe it will work, and on how suggestive your mind is. Sometimes it will work and sometimes it won't, there's no way to predict when though.

Are you keeping a dream journal? You definitely should, and you'll begin to see how much your expectations affect your dreams. Just realizing this makes it much easier to affect what happens in them. I also find that if I write what I want to happen in my dream journal before I go to sleep it increases the chances even more that it will happen.

ok i shall try today then

It's called dream incubation you can read about it here. Good luck!

ok i will try it today wish me luck!!^^

It's called dream incubation, and yes it works... sort of. It's not perfect, your brain will ultimately decide what to dream, you can just drop the hint. The more you focus on it though, the higher the chances of it working.

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