Visualization Induced Lucid Dream?

**AKASammy** · 01-04-2013 08:02 PM

I'm fairly new hear and I currently struggle with LDing, and by that I mean I've never actually had one, but I have had a few close encounters, one of which I'm about to describe. I've read about DEILD techniques in which are often included visualizing the previous dream and yourself in it to have one. I've also read the WILD technique where you just stare at the back of your eyelids until your dream form, and you can enter it from there. So, what if you kind of combined the two and visualized a dream that you have not had before and enter it from their? I have attempted this twice, and it seemed like I was getting close both times, but that was only a hunch because I've never had one before as far as I can remember and don't know what it feels like.

Has anyone ever had success with this technique? Am I just wasting my time? Should I keep trying? Any and all comments or questions will be very apreciated.

**gab** · 01-04-2013 08:18 PM

It would not be a new technique, since visualization already is part of WILD and DEILD. Even DILD as dream incubation.

You visualize a dream in order to engage that part of your brain that deals with dreaming. The newly formed dream is not necessarily the same one you were thinking about, but that's ok, since your first goal is to get into lucid dream and then if you want to, you can change the dreamscape.

But there is so much more to all these techniques than just visualizing.

WILD (sageous)
DEILD (dutchraptor)

**CitizenOfZeal** · 01-04-2013 09:12 PM

Inducing an LD based only on visualization? It's usually a mix of things that make them happen probably, but maybe if you are very intent on visualizing and keep at it, it could work.

**AKASammy** · 01-05-2013 05:11 PM

Originally Posted by gab

It would not be a new technique, since visualization already is part of WILD and DEILD. Even DILD as dream incubation.

You visualize a dream in order to engage that part of your brain that deals with dreaming. The newly formed dream is not necessarily the same one you were thinking about, but that's ok, since your first goal is to get into lucid dream and then if you want to, you can change the dreamscape.

But there is so much more to all these techniques than just visualizing.

WILD (sageous)
DEILD (dutchraptor)

Thank you so much, this is what I've been looking for!

I appreciate the help.

**AKASammy** · 01-05-2013 05:16 PM

Originally Posted by CitizenOfZeal

Inducing an LD based only on visualization? It's usually a mix of things that make them happen probably, but maybe if you are very intent on visualizing and keep at it, it could work.

Well, I did plan on mixing in a couple of other things. I was just going to play with it a little and see what worked.

**AKASammy** · 01-05-2013 05:33 PM

There is one other thing though, in the staring at the inside of your own eyelids technique there isn't much else to it (as far as I know), so I'm still not convinced that visualizing your own dream world, letting your subcontious fill in the rest, and just projecting your dream body into the dream won't work. I just think it's worth trying is all.

**jsbender** · 01-05-2013 06:12 PM

Usually when I'm lying there and starting to enter that zone where I'm almost in a dream but not quite, I start to visualize things but I have no control over them. They are some of the most random things that I could never think up by wondering what I should try to visualize, and they keep on changing so I can't get a grasp on what they are. If they do eventually lead to a dream, that is when they start to get more logical and usually I just end up seeing my bedroom and starting a lucid dream there.

**AKASammy** · 01-06-2013 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by jsbender

Usually when I'm lying there and starting to enter that zone where I'm almost in a dream but not quite, I start to visualize things but I have no control over them. They are some of the most random things that I could never think up by wondering what I should try to visualize, and they keep on changing so I can't get a grasp on what they are. If they do eventually lead to a dream, that is when they start to get more logical and usually I just end up seeing my bedroom and starting a lucid dream there.

The random images happen to me too. I think they happen to everyone, and I read up on the freefalling technique which is the only one I've had much luck with. I say that because the freefalling technique uses those random images to help you induce a lucid dream. you might want to read that tutorial if you haven't already.