Thread: brainwashing

Maybe.
Think about it this way, you know the answer to something in real life, for sure, but does that come up always?
I think frequency does affect the probability, but there are other factors like awareness, because you might question it just continue non lucid.

It's more the intentions rather than the word itself. The more you practice MILD, the more you associate that certain mantra (or any mantra really) with getting lucid. Believing more and more in the technique and so therefore getting lucid more often.

Yeah, as long as your mantra is somewhat related to your intentions, and you have confidence in your efforts, the mantra should work.
You could say "I am dreaming" all the time or "Tonight, when I fall asleep in my bed and drift off into the dreamworld, be it a jungle or city or sea or woods or castle, I will see my dreamsigns and become lucid", if you have confidence behind the words, either will work.

If you just picked a random mantra and want to pummel it into your head, odds are all you will get is a headache. And just believing that pummeling it into your head will work won't work either, that's blind faith, not confidence.
Even if you just try to emulate the feeling of confidence while you repeat the mantra, that should do the trick. It's what I'm doing, and one of my mantras worked for me within 10 minutes of solid affirmation:
I woke up after a nightmare, when I was previously repeating a mantra "my dreams will be vivid". I then changed it after I woke up in the night to "my dreams will be vivid and nice" and my next dream was really vivid again but this time I was surrounded by my friends.

Originally Posted by Arch

Maybe.
Think about it this way, you know the answer to something in real life, for sure, but does that come up always?
I think frequency does affect the probability, but there are other factors like awareness, because you might question it just continue non lucid.

Of course. I agree with you. When you talk about awareness, i think of ADA technique and some other techniques that one meets in meditation (for example).

Regarding reality checks...

I´m doing my day-to-day affairs and actions, and when my wrist watch beeps (he beeps each hour), i stop everything i´m doing and start looking really close and with alot of attention to my surroundings...and mentally i question myself: "Can all this be just projections? Am i dreaming?" After the question itself, before counting the fingers in each of my hands, i say to myself: "i should have five normal fingers in each of my hands. And then i count them. Before plugin my nose i say to myself:"if i´m dreaming i will breathe normally even with my nose clogged." and so on and so on.

I told all this because i always had doubts about the quality of my rc´s.

Originally Posted by Avalanche

Yeah, as long as your mantra is somewhat related to your intentions, and you have confidence in your efforts, the mantra should work.
You could say "I am dreaming" all the time or "Tonight, when I fall asleep in my bed and drift off into the dreamworld, be it a jungle or city or sea or woods or castle, I will see my dreamsigns and become lucid", if you have confidence behind the words, either will work.

If you just picked a random mantra and want to pummel it into your head, odds are all you will get is a headache. And just believing that pummeling it into your head will work won't work either, that's blind faith, not confidence.
Even if you just try to emulate the feeling of confidence while you repeat the mantra, that should do the trick. It's what I'm doing, and one of my mantras worked for me within 10 minutes of solid affirmation:
I woke up after a nightmare, when I was previously repeating a mantra "my dreams will be vivid". I then changed it after I woke up in the night to "my dreams will be vivid and nice" and my next dream was really vivid again but this time I was surrounded by my friends.

When i started building up my dream recall, i used the sentence:" i will remember my dreams." But that didn´t worked. So i changed to :"I remember my dreams." Making it a stronger afirmative sentence, and working on my hability to convince myself of the mantra. Nowadays i remember between 3-4 dreams a night.

That's pretty good, I think the decision itself to change the mantra and the new confidence you get from a mantra you consider to be better helped a lot that time.
By all means, if it works it works. And if it works, then you know it works, and you are more confident in it working.