Hey Woodstock, interesting guide. Your link in your signature needs to start with http (colon) // though, btw.

I had a dream like this a few nights ago, if I can call it that by an extended definition of "hallucination at night".

I'm a hypnotist and was taught by the discoverers of a theory of hypnosis called "automatic imagination". Basically you imagination something happening automatically, such that it will happen without your needing to consciously attend to it. You imagine it continuing without your help. If you are reminded that you're imagining, you imagine what you want to imagine and also that you won't be reminded. This seems to cause you to experience what you want to imagine as real.

I was laying on my bed practicing dream incubation and visualization. I was visualizing a meadow and talking to a guide in the dream, using automatic imagination. I started to feel sensations in body that I was not consciously creating. It was like I was shape shifting and incorporating parts of things into my body. Not very visual really, but very tactile. Very cool.

I didn't exactly use your method but I will try it because WBTB's aren't huge fun. Thanks.

I know that we have different areas of our brain associated with different parts of our physical body, e.g. an area for the tongue, the hands, the face, the feet. If we think about these parts merging, perhaps the neural connections between those areas are also feeling what it's like.

The way I think about hallucinations in general (which may be mistaken) is that we aren't exactly changing the sensory input but changing the associations with the sensory input, so we see a dog and think "banana" and thus hallucinate the dog as a banana and see a banana.

I don't know if these thoughts are related but I find quickly-attained lucid dreams to be the most fascinating, as yet.

Cheers!