• Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views




    Results 1 to 5 of 5

    Threaded View

    1. #1
      I LOVE KAOSSILATOR Serkat's Avatar
      Join Date
      Oct 2005
      Posts
      2,609
      Likes
      2

      Techniques for exploring your psyche and subconsciousness

      Hi there,

      I think there should be some sort of collection for concrete techniques that can be used for investigating your psyche and subconsciousness and learn about yourself. Yes, there should be
      If you can post some technique that you know of, please contribute The following are well known and too complex to be handled in this thread:
      - Lucid dreaming and dream interpetation
      - Meditation and Self-Hypnosis/Hypnosis

      All of this works best if you're relaxed and focused, so that you can build a light connection between consciousness and subconsciousness.

      I konw of these:

      1. ABCDE-Tool (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

      a - activating event (what event or situation are you analyzing)
      b - beliefs (which believes and values are important for your mental and physical behavior here)
      c - consequences (what did you think, feel and do and why)
      d - discussion (discuss the pros and cons of B in relation to C)
      e - effect (what are possible effects of the things you learnt in D)


      2. Sentence completion exercise

      Write the beginning of a sentence, for example "If I'd do more of this and this...". Then quickly write 6 to 10 endings for this sentence without putting conscious effort into it. It doesn't matter if they're right or wrong. Don't hold yourself back. Do this twice a day for a week and analyze your results.
      Any open ended question can be turned into the beginning of a sentence ("What would you do, if...?" -> "If... I'd).
      The point of the exercise is to learn something new about yourself, so you should pick a sentence stem that might give you more insight and also you shouldn't think about what you are writing. It should come directly from the subconsciousness and can then later be analyzed.

      3. Socratic dialogue

      On the basis of (1) or (2) or some other basis you want to think about, ask critical questions on your results and try to answer them. Then ask critical questions to those answers and so on.


      4. Active Imagination

      This is kind of like lucid dreaming, except you're awake and it's more stable and less realistic. Focus on some picture or thought you want to investigate, follow the flow and get into contact with characters you might see. Ask them stuff, interpret their meaning.
      Write down your explorations.


      5. Psychonautic writing (diary, introspection, analysis of some thoughts or situations)

      Doesn't really need any explanation, you can do anything by just writing about it and thereby putting structure into your thoughts.


      6. Automatic writing

      Let your subconsciousness take control of your hand and just start writing, without holding anything back. This needs some practice. You can focus on some specific topic, or maybe some problem you want to solve.


      7. Devil's flower (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

      Based on an activating event, collect your central cognitions and thoughts and, mapped around them, investigate the following aspects that stand in relation to these central thoughts: Bodily feelings, emotions, behavior, memories, focus of awareness.


      8. Using a pendulum

      You can use a pendulum to let your subconsciousness answer specific Yes/No questions by idiomotoric movements. Can work but it's not very complex and possibly too rigid in it's structure to get satisfying results from your subconsciousness.


      Do you know of any more techniques? I'd like to hear of them.

      Greetings
      Last edited by Serkat; 08-14-2007 at 10:23 PM.

    Bookmarks

    Posting Permissions

    • You may not post new threads
    • You may not post replies
    • You may not post attachments
    • You may not edit your posts
    •