Thread: how do you do dream incubation

Before bed I write down what my dream will be then meditate on that. Then I go to sleep and tell myself, "I will have my incubated dream tonight."

Usually this works for me 99.9% of the time.

Depends. It doesn't always work either, it depends on what I'm trying to incubate. The more complex the idea the more effort it takes. The easy stuff I just remind myself of it right before bed. The more complex stuff requires meditation.

Sometimes I just watch youtube videos, tv programs, movies, and those easily inspire a themed dream. But that's more the ambiguous stuff. I think what it comes down to is flooding the mind with enough motivation and inspiration to allow the idea to be pushed from waking life to dream life.

By taking steps to convince your mind that the dream has already taken place in exactly the manner you described, you will greatly increase the chance of dreaming that same dream. Be sure to include a note indicating you achieved 100% lucidity within the dream.

After you've written the details of the dream, spend a few minutes creating a detailed mental image of the desired dream scene. Involve all your senses by including sounds, smells, and tactile sensations in your visualization. Fully visualize the dream as you would like to see it unfold. Use the visualization as a rehearsal for your dream, and make sure to imagine yourself becoming consciously aware within the desired dream scene.

If you plan to use the dream incubation technique to seek answers from your subconscious mind, you can be creative about how you'll receive those answers in the dream. Will you meet a person, a representative of your subconscious mind, and converse with him or her? Will you watch a situation in your dream unfold in a manner that provides the answers? Will you follow a winding path that leads directly to the information you seek?

You can even use a picture from a magazine to provide your mind with a ready-made visual image. Before going to bed, look at the picture and fix the image in your mind. Using the mental image of the picture, create sounds, smells, and tactile sensations to enhance the visualization. Temporarily immerse yourself in the dream scene until it is fully fixed in your mind, and again, don't forget to imagine yourself becoming lucid during the dream.

As you fall asleep, use affirmations to affirm your intent to dream about the desired object or scene. If you are drifting off to sleep at night use the affirmation, "Tonight I will dream about _________", filling in the blank with the object or event of your choice. Include a conscious dreaming affirmation. If you are drifting off to sleep for a mid-afternoon nap or after a wake-up interval, instead use the affirmation, "I am dreaming about _________." Fall asleep knowing you'll dream about precisely what you wanted to dream about.

Don't worry if it doesn't work the first night. Keep trying until you dream about the things you programmed in advance. The first time is always the hardest. After you succeed once, you'll find it gets easier and easier with each attempt.

Dream incubation has come surprisingly easy to me. I just think of what I want to dream about, and as I fall asleep repeat to myself that I will dream about it all the while imagine myself in the dream. Usually I do this as a visualization MILD, and is one of my most sucessful lucid dream induction techniques.