Quote Originally Posted by Smuds View Post
I'm just wondering...

If you're auto-suggesting (if I have the right topic) to, lets say wake up after a dream. You repeat the phrase "I will wake up after a REM cycle" until you fall asleep.

Now in the case of me, although it may have been coincidental, I woke up after a dream... Not to go to the bathroom or anything, I just woke up. So I'm feeling confident that auto-suggesting to wake up works. Well here's the thing.

The two times I've done that, they have both been successful. There was one problem, I couldn't get to sleep at all. Take last night for example. I woke up at 3:30AM, and couldn't go back to sleep at all. So I just came on dream views. My question is: Is precision of language needed for auto-suggestion? Like would I have to say "I will become aware" instead of "I will wake up" or is it just my unluckiness that I couldn't fall back asleep?

Sorry for text wall. (Or whatever, a text pile... or a text brick XD...)
I use hypnosis as my primary method to induce lucids and remember dreams. I have almost a 100% success rate with 1 or more lucids every night. To me it blows every technique away but you have to know what you're doing. You have to make sure you're in hypnosis first before using the suggestions or they will be in vain. Also the suggestions have to be worded correctly and given in different varieties to be most effective. I can post some if you need suggestions.