Yeah, how heavy of a sleep you are is definitely an important factor. I'm a fairly moderate sleeper, so long as there's no noise bothering me as i'm going to sleep, I won't notice it as i'm sleeping, unless it's extremely loud or such. Typically I only notice stimuli consciously (that wake me up) when i'm in that 'waking up state' of my last few dreams of the night. Otherwise they don't usually make it into my dreams, but there aren't many around to make it into my dreams anyway.
I'll have to experiment - it may be that i'm too heavy a sleeper, in which case i'll have to work on methods or ideas (such as simply turning the volume up) to get it just right for my sleeping patterns. For your case, perhaps doing it in very short bursts at a very soft relaxing non alarming way would be better. I guess it really depends.
By day job I'm a script writer so I have some experience with story structure, and speaking as a story writer I think it's ex termly important that very few story techniques for film or television (or even literature) make its way into these 'dream books.' Since these are being written for the mind, the key is to make sure they're extremely repetitive, specific, authoritative, and limited.
For example, if in your 'dream story' you want to become Luke Skywalker and blow up the death star, you can't narrate it as you would the original Star Wars movie. You'd have to use a lot of techniques to continually reinforce your mind that you're doing this, and then let your mind create the atmosphere.
You'd have a 'narrator' for example say 'You climb into the cockpit of the space jet.' Then instead of having it take off, you have your own voice "think" to itself perhaps with an echo to indicate this: "Wow, I can't believe i'm in a jet fighter. I'm actually going to be fighting the death star. I'm going to be .. " and so on. Even still then, you'd have perhaps another character radio into you: "Hey, Joe, I see you've entered your fighter. Good luck buddy." And then you can finally move on and have it take off, and you could use a sound effect to help aid the scene.
Those are my thoughts so far anyway.. thanks for the responses so far guys, you've given me a ton of ideas!
And I'll of course be sure to let you know how it turns out, good or bad!
Although it's an objective method it still requires faith for it to work...
Yeah, you have to WANT to dream about what you're going to dream about. I do, so I don't think that'll be too big a problem!
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