Thread: One Year Experiment: Using Self-Hypnosis to Attain Lucidity

One Year Experiment: Using Self-Hypnosis to Attain Lucidity
USHAL for short

Introduction
I am going to be attaining and developing self-hypnosis over the next year. My primary goals are to get better at both entering a trance for hypnosis and at attaining lucidity in dreams. I shall be starting using the DEILD and WILD techniques, but have plans to expand this to a means of post-hypnotic cue induced lucid dream. But that's for later. ^^

A bit about me: I am Polish, but I live in the UK. I moved here when I was about 6 years old. I study biology, chemistry, maths and psychology in college and plan to move into a career in psychology next year.

Self-hypnosis, and hypnosis in general, can be said to 'lower the drawbridge between the conscious and subconscious mind'. I believe this to have especially valuable applications to lucid dreaming, particularly in manifesting DILDs, when the conscious mind acts much less than the subconscious. Using cues to inform my subconscious to prod my consciousness into action when dreaming could activate lucidity; in face, this is the purpose of the investigation.

I have decided to make a thread for multiple reasons. I hope that you will all be able to follow my journey and perhaps be inspired to take up self-hypnosis yourselves!

Aims

• to investigate the use of self-hypnosis in attaining lucidity.
• to maintain motivation by the use of regular updates in this thread.
• to improve my rate of having lucid dreams.
• to motivate, and hopefully inspire others, to practise self-hypnosis in conjunction with lucid dreaming.

Plans

• to spend the next two weeks developing a set of self-hypnosis techniques; a procedure, using various sources, which I will be able to use for my other plans.
• to create a post-hypnotic cue to instruct my subconscious mind to create a single, easily recognisable feeling in every dream I have. At the moment, the plan is a small ball of heat in my palm, but this will probably change once I work more on the procedure.
• to then create a post-hypnotic cue to instruct my subconscious mind to alert my conscious mind of the presence of the cue, in turn informing me that I am dreaming.
• enjoy lucidity

please note, this page will probably be edited quite a lot! I will update my full procedure when it's completed here in a couple of weeks, and will post my full results, graphs and all, in the next post on the first of february, 2014.

Thanks for looking, PM me if you have any questions/suggestions