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Could this be it? I posted this once here Sights and Sounds of Hypnagogia (http://www.virtualdreamer.com/sleep/sight-sounds-hypnagogia-sleep.html)
Liked On: 08-07-2012, 03:06 AM
Realizing you are dreaming is exhilarating. The secret is controlling your excitement. Staying calm extends the experience.
Liked On: 08-05-2012, 03:34 PM
Sorry,Alucinor. BS is BS... there are dozens of types of meditation. Guided Meditation In this method of meditation you consciously visualize places or situations you might find peace and...
Liked On: 08-04-2012, 11:45 AM
It is much better to do a natural DEILD. Your technique sounds more like a WILD as you state that you ' set a relaxing alarm which stops itself after 15 seconds'. If you ask me that sounds more like...
Liked On: 07-30-2012, 04:19 PM
Visualize the game whilst you are falling asleep.
Liked On: 07-24-2012, 12:22 AM
Sleep, hypnosis and dreaming are all tied together. We go through a form of hypnosis every night as we drift off to sleep, whether we realize it or not. I read your article and I like it!
Liked On: 07-22-2012, 12:38 PM
Different strokes for different folks.
Liked On: 07-21-2012, 09:04 PM
Visualization is the flow of thoughts you can imagine seeing and hearing. The imagined visualizations are a representation of our experiences or fantasies - and a way your mind codes, retains, and...
Liked On: 07-20-2012, 07:01 AM
Visualization is the flow of thoughts you can imagine seeing and hearing. The imagined visualizations are a representation of our experiences or fantasies - and a way your mind codes, retains, and...
Liked On: 07-20-2012, 05:17 AM
First and foremost: Do not get out of bed. Getting out of bed and performing even minor tasks requires a different level of brainwave activity that is not conducive to sleeping. Have your radio...
Liked On: 07-19-2012, 03:44 PM
Misinformation is handed out like free cupcakes on the Internet. This is especially true with sleep and dreams. I would suggest all patrons of this forum research the transition from the awake and...
Liked On: 07-19-2012, 10:05 AM
You are in between the Theta brainwave and Delta brainwaves during sleep onset. This is a daydreamy area and can lead to non-R.E.M. dreams . There is a popular misconception that dreams only occur in...
Liked On: 07-19-2012, 10:05 AM
You are in between the Theta brainwave and Delta brainwaves during sleep onset. This is a daydreamy area and can lead to non-R.E.M. dreams . There is a popular misconception that dreams only occur in...
Liked On: 07-19-2012, 02:54 AM
The noises were hypnagogic noises so you were probably in Theta .. the brainwave state before Delta (deep sleep). The vibrations were the beginnings of Sleep Paralysis. I would suggest some very...
Liked On: 07-18-2012, 09:26 PM
Find what works for you. Take all advise (even mine) with a grain of salt. What works for one person will not necessarily work for you. I use visualization at bedtime. It works for me. The path you...
Liked On: 07-16-2012, 06:31 PM
How dreams incorporate our waking experiences has always amazed me. Here is an example from last night. We all know that Donna Summer died a few days ago, right? Two nights ago I bought a 'stuffed' chicken and bacon pizza from DeMarco's. Yesterday we received a hot weather advisory... the first truly hot days of the year are upon us where I live which concerned me as I needed to do some serious yard work. The dream: I was in a pizza parlor when suddenly a music video broke out in front of me. The song went something like this [I]~ I need some Hot Stuffed pizza this evening~ I want some Hot Stuffed pizza tonight![/I] and so on. The tune was Hot Stuff by Donna Summer. I realize now that this was a commercial for a non-existent product called Hot Stuffed Pizza. It is quite interesting how the brain puts these things together in dreams. I would have thought I would become lucid during this vivid dream but it did not happen. Anyhoo, just thought I would share that.
Anyone who has been reading my posts /replies in this forum knows I advocate visualization to induce lucid dreaming. I thought some of you might get a kick out of an article I wrote sometime back about hypnosis in general. Hopefully, some of you will come away from the article with a better understanding on how the sleeping brain works and think of creative ways to visualize yourself into a lucid dream experience.
[B]Hypnotism Revealed[/B]
"People have been using hypnosis for about 230 years to reveal lost memories or make suggestions to the subconscious mind. Franz Mesmer stumbled upon the technique in the 1700's (mesmerizing, animal magnetism) but proceeded to completely miss the point. James Braid, taking a more scientific approach, coined the term hypnotism in 1841. We all have the image in our collective conscious of the exotic gentleman with the swinging pendulum inducing a hypnotic state. He seemed to know something we didn't. Read on and that will no longer be the case.
The human race experiences self-hypnosis every day. We don't think of it as self-hypnosis, however. We think of it as falling asleep. When we are awake and active our brains are in what has been termed the Beta brainwave state. When we are relaxed, watching television or looking at the ocean, our conscious mind slows down and enters the Alpha brainwave state. In the processes of falling asleep, meditation and hypnosis the subsequent state; the Theta brainwave state, is where all the magic happens. If the Theta brainwave state is allowed to occur then the Delta brainwave state (deep sleep) soon follows. If one accepts this scientifically proven brainwave transition to sleep then I suggest that this is knowledge we can use. In the Theta brainwave state one is neither asleep nor awake. The Theta state is a different level of awareness as our conscious mind has loosened it's control of the thought process. It is the inability to reach the Theta brainwave state that is the root of most sleep issues.
[B]Simple Hypnotism[/B]
To hypnotize someone (or yourself) one must induce the Theta brainwave state. This requires that you relax the subject and apply one simple technique. You must get them to visualize, via the mind's eye, something. One could hold up a non-threatening object; lets say a coin or marble, in front of the relaxed subject's eyes and suggest that they close their eyes and imagine the object in their mind. Have the subject then imagine a series of non-threatening objects... all while speaking in an unemotional tone. This monotone speech pattern is important as you do not want emotion to play a part in the hypnosis induction as it is counter-productive. If the subject is too relaxed (i.e. laying down on a bed) they might fall asleep so you must continually gage where they are at in the sleep process. Let me state, once again, that hypnosis and falling asleep are part of the same process.
Once the subject is in the Theta brainwave state you can begin making suggestions. Common uses for hypnosis are smoking cessation, weight loss and anxiety reduction.
[B]A brief theory about a more effective hypnosis technique:[/B]
If one accepts modern sleep and dream theory then the induction of sleep after a hypnosis session could greatly enhance the effectiveness of the procedure. Modern sleep theory suggests that the human brain crunches data, during sleeping and dreaming, from our day's experiences; discarding unneeded information and assimilating important experiences. In theory, suggestions from a hypnotic session could take on greater significance if sleep were allowed to happen, even for a short duration, directly after the hypnosis.
A word about why visualizing induces the Theta brainwave state and, therefore, the hypnotic state. In the rear of our big human brain there exists a smallish chunk of gray matter called the Occipital lobe. This area contains the Primary Visual Cortex and the Secondary Visual Cortices. The combination of the Secondary Visual Cortices is generally referred to as the Secondary Visual Cortex. When you visualize you are stimulating the Secondary Visual Cortex. Why is this important? Because this is the same area that is active in dreaming and dreaming is one of the first things our brains do when in the Delta(sleep) brainwave state. Visualization is part of the brain's process to deep sleep. To hypnotize someone, or yourself, you must willfully simulate the process of falling asleep without allowing deep sleep to occur.
About Mass Hypnosis
Lastly, when our minds wander we are in a form of self-hypnosis. Falling asleep during a lecture has as much to do with daydreaming as the subject matter of the speech. A daydreamer is stimulating the Secondary Visual Cortex and unknowingly beginning the process of falling asleep. If you do not want listeners to fall asleep then continually stimulate their Primary Visual Cortex with visual aids.( i.e. powerpoint presentations). The primary visual cortex is humming when we are in the Beta (alert and aware) brainwave state and processing the things we see with our eyes open. This also works in reverse. To attempt a mass hypnosis of an audience you must first relax them and then stimulate their collective visual imagination without external visual stimulation.
You are now a Hypnotist. Congratulations! " :shock:
Brad McBride (aka faceonmars)
The best dreams come in the dark of night as light signifies to our brain that it is time to get up. Consequently, deep sleep and REM dreams are hard to come by in a lighted room. However non-REM dreams, which are very vivid, can be plentiful. This would include non-REM lucid dreams. I try to keep my bedroom as dark as possible simply because it is a better quality of sleep. But if something works for you I say go for it!