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Well, i thought since lots of people have been looking for 'the' anchor to fit them, we could list a bunch of anchors. Be creative! It can involve visualization techs. Anything at all; as vague or detailed as you want.
Ill get the obvious ones out of the way...
1. counting
2. watching the back of your eyelids
3. mantras
4. the felling of the bed pressing on you
continue...
P.S. you might have noticed the similarity to the 1000 things to do in a lucid dream thread. That was the inspiration.
5. Play the word association game with yourself.
5.5. Play the game with mental images instead of words
6: One I'd like to try and might work: Wear a rubber glove and put some ice inside the glove. It hurts at first but the gradually wears off as the ice melts. (Probably best to put the ice in a rubber glove itself, so that you don't hurt your hand and don't end up with a wet patch on the bed.) Can imagine it working with WBTB and MILD.
If anyone tries it, let me know how you get on.
7. Try to fall asleep as you normally would until you feel a slight vibration somewhere. Begin non-physical testing (movement free reality checks) like for example imagine holding an Iphone in your hand if you can feel it you know you are dreaming, prepare three typs of non-physical tests and cycle through them 4 times so 12 non-physical tests in total, if you are not dreaming start over from the beggining again and repeat. It's way that both works as a WILD technique and as a preparation for DEILD.
8. focus on your breathing.
9. play a fav song in your head
10. Imagine that your bed is spinning.
11) visualize a source of light and watch it, with out thinking.
12) Work on raising Kundalini, with out thinking.
13) Visualize a circle, then a triangle, then a square, repeat, repeat, repeat
Singing. I like singing :shadewink: to pretend I'm actually good, lol.
15: Listen to the sound of your fan and with each swoosh think of something you would like to do in your lucid dream.
Bend your arm awkardly so that it hurts a tiny bit.
17. Instead of counting like you normally would, try only counting to 5 over and over again.
18. Try to feel a small sensation in the upper left part of your brain, then focus on it just enough so you could still fall asleep.
interesting! I do a lot of focus meditations on feelings inside my brain. It is my belief that I can activate unused/underused portions of my brain this way.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1stdreamer
19. Repeat to yourself in your head "I am going to dream about ______ tonight"
20. Play with your hypnagogia
21. Use brainwave entrainment (Before lying back down, assuming you are staying up for 45 minutes.)
22. Do the classic "Counting Sheep".
23. Visualize a place to walk around in.
24. Visualize a bottle labeled "Lucid Dream" and drink from it in visualization.
25. All of the above
26. Imagine that I'm swimming up out of an abyss towards the dream, and every breath is a stroke towards it
Hahahahahahaha sorry my hypnagogia is scary enough without me interacting with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradl3s
(although I can't help but imagine playing chess with a black shadow figure after reading that.)
27. Visualize what you're going to dream about.
28. Do math. (Everybody likes math.)
29. Contemplate on deep philosophical questions, such as the meaning of life. Bonus points if you set it up like having a debate with yourself.
30. Visualize playing your favorite video game.
Have you ever tried this?Quote:
Originally Posted by doge
I only use mantras as an anchor.
I have used visualizing a motion like the movement of me sitting up, in hope that once I'm in a dream, I will sit up and realize that I'm lucid. It had happened once or twice. But for me, this is a motionless reality check and not an anchor.
Hey dopexxxxxisaiah
Opening post (Post 1)
5) - Play the word association game with yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by CJC
5.5) - Play the game with mental images instead of words
6) - Wear a rubber glove and put some ice inside the glove.
7) - Try to fall asleep as you normally would until you feel a slight vibration somewhere. Begin non-physical testing (movement free reality checks) like for example imagine holding an Iphone in your hand if you can feel it you know you are dreaming, prepare three typs of non-physical tests and cycle through them 4 times so 12 non-physical tests in total, if you are not dreaming start over from the beggining again and repeat. It's way that both works as a WILD technique and as a preparation for DEILD.
8) - focus on your breathing.
9) - play a fav song in your head
10) - Imagine that your bed is spinning.
11) - visualize a source of light and watch it, with out thinking.
12) - Work on raising Kundalini, with out thinking.
13) - Visualize a circle, then a triangle, then a square, repeat, repeat, repeat
14) - Singing. I like singing**to pretend I'm actually good, lol.
15) - Listen to the sound of your fan and with each swoosh think of something you would like to do in your lucid dream.
16) - Bend your arm awkardly so that it hurts a tiny bit.
17) - Instead of counting like you normally would, try only counting to 5 over and over again.
18) - Try to feel a small sensation in the upper left part of your brain, then focus on it just enough so you could still fall asleep.
19) - Repeat to yourself in your head "I am going to dream about ______ tonight"
20) - Play with your hypnagogia
21) - Use brainwave entrainment (Before lying back down, assuming you are staying up for 45 minutes.)
22) - Do the classic "Counting Sheep".
23) - Visualize a place to walk around in.
24) - Visualize a bottle labeled "Lucid Dream" and drink from it in visualization.
25) - All of the above
26) - Imagine that I'm swimming up out of an abyss towards the dream, and every breath is a stroke towards it
27) - Visualize what you're going to dream about.
28)- Do math. (Everybody likes math.)
29) - Contemplate on deep philosophical questions, such as the meaning of life. Bonus points if you set it up like having a debate with yourself.
30) - Visualize playing your favorite video game.
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Originally Posted by doge
That is 30 great ideas so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by dopexxxxxisaiah
In this Ask a Monk Youtube the monk describes how he accidentally triggered a lucid dream. He was very miserable at school age 13. He would come home lay on his bed and sooth himself by imagining the "Bed was swinging"
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Going to try some of these and post results.
Please don't bump old topics (this one is around 3 years old!), especially if you intend to do a follow up reply...instead, make a new thread discussing your results ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by robertcox88
Closing this :lock: