Thread: Random Scenes Before Falling Asleep

Just go with the sence! Try and touch something in the visions! Its a dream about to start This is how I have almost all of my WILDs!

yup when I am going to sleep/trying to wild (I have a very custom way of getting LD's which is trying to wild but then sorta not succeeding, falling asleep, having an LD later on). Anyhow I also get some "semi-dreams" before falling asleep- those are usually very short and random, not vivid like dreams yet more vivid that regular imagination allows for.

Originally Posted by rvdork

Does this happen to anyone else? Is it progress towards achieving a WILD? Thoughts? Thanks!
~rvdork

It sounds like Hypnagogic Imagery. It happens to me too. Some people get a lot of HI and some people hardly get any. But noticing HI is most definitely progress towards a WILD.

By, Howie

◦HIT - Hypnagogic Imagery Technique
HIT Hypnagogic Imagery Technique </span>

Step one
Try to completely relax. When you go to bed try to let go of any thought processes.
As thoughts arise...let them go. Acknowledge it as a thought and nothing else. Meaning don't think about the thought. By repeating this, your mind will eventually slow down.
Try to keep all you muscles relaxed and not tense.

Step Two
As you begin to relax close your eyes and observe any visual images that will gradually appear. Don't concentrate on any one image. Just let the images flow and watch how they begin and end.
You will at first see fleeting patterns and images. As these images progress, they will develop into scenes that become more similar to a dream scene. More complex.
At this point you are beginning to crossover from a wakeful state into a sleeping state.

Step Three
<span style="color:red">Enter the Dream
When these images manifest into moving, vivid scenarios allow yourself to passively be drawn into the dream world. Try to maintain a level of awareness so to not fall asleep unconsciously.
Do not try and actively enter the dream scene. Take a detached interest in the imagery.
Let your involvement with what is happening draw you into the dream.
There is a fine line...... Too much involvement may lead you to awake. too little, you will drift of to sleep.
If you maintain the proper level of awareness you will find that you have just went directly from a waking state to a lucid dream state.

Commentary from > Exploring The World Of Lucid Dreaming.
"Probably the most difficult part of this technique is entering the dream at stage three. The challenge is to develop a delicate vigilance, an unobstructed observer perspective, from wich you let yourself be drawn into the dream."

Thanks, I'll try HIT the next time I get some HI. It usually only happens when I'm really, really tired, or in the morning, like this morning.
~rvdork