I experimented on my story induced lucid dreaming.

[SpecterSlash]

__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ____________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ____________________________ Hello guys, I haven't posted in a long while because of my long experiment. When I read a story and it pleases me, I notice that I get goosebumps. I only noticed that my dream rate increases by a lot just a few days once I found a really good story. I devised an experiment to see if stories would increase dream recall and vividness. __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ____________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ____________________________ My First Experiment: --does reading improve dream recall? Very much. Days that I haven't read any books: No dreams that were important/not easy to remember. Days that I read a part of a story that was good: I read 5 parts of a story per day and had 5 dream filled nights. All of them, I remembered fully. __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ______ My Second Experiment: --does plainly reading a book increase dream rate? Nope. If you just read something randomly, it won't increase your dream rate by a single bit! You need to be liking what you reading because if you feel no emotion on the topic which you are reading, you would have just wasted time. One instance of knowing that your liking a book is if you talk to yourself or have goosebumps. The talking to yourself might just me be... 1 month of no (good)dreams / no reading any sort of book. After that month, I decided to read this book called MLS. I read the first, second, third, fourth part. First = It was really good I guess. I got goosebumps. = I had a vivid dream Second = Better than the first. Probably best of all four = I had a really vivid dream where I could feel everything. Third = Somewhat slow but still great = The dream was odd but it still had that clear feeling. Fourth = Quite boring part of the story = I didn't have a dream or at least didn't remember it. __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ______ Conclusion: Based on the research and another source of evidence which I will get into later, your emotion levels increase dream rate drastically. When I was really liking the story, my dreams were heavily vivid and easy to remember even after 3 days of forgetting to write it in my dream journal, I still remember what happened in the story. Find something that will trigger heavy emotion and it should increase dream rate. Extreme sadness and happiness works the best. Here are some examples of my dream which were affected heavily by emotion: 1. Sadness -----I was really sad for a week for some reason. I had a vivid dream about a certain pink character throwing me a party. I was really happy the next day like the sadness went away. 2. Story Fail -----I was really into a certain story awhile back. I read all 29 chapters of it and gotten really good dreams in a row. The 30th chapter had a plot twist that was so stupid and it made me hate the story. The plot twist ruined the story so much that after that, I didn't have any good dreams for awhile. 3. Madness -----I was really angry that my internetz wasn't working and couldn't play a game all day. Plus those idiots outside were so noisy and kept making me angry so I slept extremely early like 8:00 and got a dream where I was destroying loads of stuff. END, please post what you think and ideas in the replies.

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Useful, thank you! Will read more now surely. However about heavy emotions, anger or (especially) sadness, depression takes away a lot if not every dream from me.

[LetsRewind]

Do you think that instead of having it be a good book, it has to interest you enough that it makes you visualize the story in your head?

[Linkzelda]

When reading a book, it's easy for us to get caught in the moment because of the level of sensory detail the author can give us. We find ourselves being part of the starring roles of the main characters, spectators gazing and being amazed at the experience made manifest. But because the author gave the reader the foundations to visualize, I find it also makes us think that we have to make it a picture-perfect book, when in all actually, it's just about getting the essentials down. Things that give you certain emotions is just one component, but personally, you don't need to go too in-depth into making a detailed story to the point where you're bored of it. It needs to be detailed enough but also concise enough to where you can consistently see yourself doing this. The subconscious is going to fill out and predict what it is we want with things like creating a sensory detailed script of what we want to experience (lucidity). For me, in the general sense: 1. Speaking in a calm, relaxed tone of voice that will also give you more confidence and inward concentration with minimal distractions 2. State the goal you want to achieve and how it will benefit your life. 3. Foresee yourself being where you want to be by being descriptive with as much of the 5 senses as you can (without going too much into it). 4. Speaking in a calm, relaxed tone of voice that will also give you more confidence and inward concentration with minimal distractions 5. Seeing yourself being able to improve from the experience 6. Rinse, lather, repeat Again, people work differently, but if people can presumably find themselves inside the world of what an author makes in their book, surely it's just an example that with our ability to design and imagine can work out better if we take some time to make something short but descriptive enough to get what we want. For me, I find higher success in doing something like the format I gave above, since it's really telling your subconscious and the critical factor in our minds, "Hey, this is what I want, this is how I feel it'll benefit me, these are the feelings that I know I can experience because of it." It's like sweet-talking with the logical side of ourselves to increase the chances of that critical factor agreeing and saying, "Hmmm, that doesn't seem like a bad idea at all! I'll think about it, actually, no, I'll put that on top of my list." Of course, that was just used for an analogy, but hopefully you get where I'm getting at. Nothing has to be perfect, our subconscious can fill in the details, see it as us giving the foundations, and letting the subconscious do its wonders. Learn how to delegate the abilities of what we can do consciously, and what the subconscious can do on its own, and you'll find yourself developing the willpower where just a mere mention of what you want to do becomes true at a better pace. Of course, discipline, practice, and devotion with anything is a given, so even with something like this, it won't provide an instant and absolute cop-out from giving effort.