Windy's Self-hypnosis Test for LD, SD, and AP
Hello. Few days ago my long dream partner friend Katsuno recommended me a book called 'A Practical Guide to Self-hypnosis' by Martin Solveig and we decided to apply this self-hypnosis on LDing. To put in short, self-hypnosis is just like the title says - you hypnotize yourself to 'program' something that you want in your subconscious mind. (posthypnosis?) It requires both focus and visualizing with positive auto-suggestion which makes your intent dream come true. This morning I had successful 2 LDs through self-hypnosis, and Katsuno had his own, too, which broke his 2 month dry spell! So in this thread I want to see what my results would be; how it would increase my LD frequency with self-hypnosis. The achievements will be (other than LDing):
1. Lucid dreaming
2. Shared dreaming
3. Astral Projection
4. Other dream incubations
I've been LDing for 3 years and half, and I was still struggling to have LDs everyday until I read the self-hypnosis book. Sometimes I went into 'good' phase of LDing, and then it just stopped, which brought something very annoying for LDers called dry spell, then tried to find another method to get lucid, I had some success but it stopped again - I just kept going in circles and circles. I couldn't figure out the way to be confident, to erase doubts that LDing was hard. (but it's not true!)
Self-hypnosis was the last straw, I think. It's been only 2 days since I've tried it but I know now it will be holy grail for achieving lucidity, and perhaps just everything in dream life and real life. :)
I wanted to create this thread for my own, and for showing people of my attempts so I can make myself promising. So let's have LDs!
First and Second Attempt of Self-hypnosis
Before the first attempt I've been in almost 2-weeks-dry-spell.
Day 1 (2/18/13)
Time slept: around 3 pm
Time woke up: around 4
Results: 1 WILD
So here's what happened. After I read the how to part in the book it was so simple like the book said, and it was almost close to WILD and OBE techniques. I felt already tired that moment so I stopped reading the book and gave it a try for short nap. I lied on my bed and did what the book exactly said. I imagined of a deep nice voice of a man and I used the phrase "I" instead of "you". As I breathed through nose I kept telling myself sleep and deep sleep, and tried to feel very relaxed and sleepy as much as possible, BUT being aware at the same time. I think the whole process took about 35-40 minutes but it felt like 2 hours. I noticed that my body was suddenly 'sinking' - like the muscles relaxing, but most of the time when this happened I 'jerked' and it made me completely awake. However, this time I didn't even jerk! My body wasn't 'awake', instead my mind got a little awakened but my body still tried to keep sleeping. I kept auto-suggesting myself (I didn't focus on only words, I tried to picture of me getting deep sleep) and I felt really relaxed, but the interesting thing was I still aware. So at this point I tried to picture of me getting lucid, but somehow I lost my focus and I think I slept...or I just blacked out. I don't remember if I ever slept lol. Suddenly at some point I heard a melody of familiar song. It took a while to remember that song. It was once the song I used to listen to but I completely forgot few years ago, but this whole melody of it came out nowhere and it brought my memory back! After that I started feeling close to WILD so I pictured myself playing guitar at huge concert. I started playing music in my head and it was so vivid. I could even hear its clear bass drops. It felt like I didn't even need a mp3 player to listen to this song lol. It sounded so real. I tried to get into LD but somehow I only could stay at the 'border' between dream and half asleep. Like I felt playing the guitar but my point of view was still in bed...its hard to explain lol. Anyway after playing the song I got into dream. I was still aware that I was dreaming but not fully aware. I was lurking around the town, trying to picture my dream house. I got into this one house and everything was so vivid. At some point I woke up from the dream and I was lying on my bed. I tried to open my eyes but it didn't work! My whole body couldn't move. I immediately noticed that I was in SP but I didn't even have vibration or nothing. At this state I really felt like my mind was awake, my body was supposed to move but it didn't work. My mind was still active and think logically. This never happened before when I was in SPs. My heart was beating fast and I started getting scared but my body still couldn't move. Then I remembered the thing in the book. When I was reading it I didn't understand why there's a techqniue to wake up but now I understood. I remembered its technique and followed the procedure carefully. 'as I count to 10 my eyes will open.' so I counted to 10 and it worked :o but I was too tired my eyes felt so heavy so I counted again and my eyes were compltely open, but my body couldn't move yet. I counted 10 for the body too and I could finally move my body.... but then I felt so tired and hazy so I counted 10 again to refresh my mind, and it totally worked. I never felt tired.
Day 2 (2/19/13)
Time slept: around 1 am
Time woke up: 8:40 am
Auto-suggestion used: "I will have long, stable lucid dream without doing anything."
Results: 2 DILDs
(sorry for the bad grammar in this entry, it was early in the morning and I was too excited having Lds lol)
LD
I went to bed late last night too so when I tried to AP I just fell asleep, and for some reason I didn't wake up during night. and I couldn't remember most of the dreams. Anyway, I woke up some time in the morning and tried self-hypnosis. I still don't know how this auto-suggestion works. My body felt so heavy and my throat felt really dry so I tried to swallow but it didn't work! My body went pretty numb so I suggested to myself 'I will have lucid dream' then 'I will have long lucid dream' and then... 'I will have long, stable lucid dream without doing anything'. As I kept repeating this statement I pictured of me getting lucid and doing stuff what I want. Then I counted to 5 and woke up myself, and normally went to sleep. It was a little hard to fall asleep because I got excited to have LD, so at this moment I suggested to myself that there's no reason to get excited...as I count to 5 my mind and body will fall alseep and this also worked! I even did a count to slow down my hear beat and this worked too :o So at some point I lost my consciousness and....I immediately got lucid as I entered dream!!!!!!! holy sh** I got so excited. I was in my hometown in Korea and evereything was so vivid and happy and sunny and it was good to see my hometown. I opened the veranda door and flew away... I got really stoked I yelled so much but I didn't wake up!!! normally I would wake up if I got too excitted, but that was another stupid rule that I made!! :D everything from my town looked exactly the same and I flew so fast like Iron Man. I could feel the strong breeze brushing my body.At some point there was noise outside so I woke up. When I fell asleep back I got lucid AGAIN!!! Everything seemed really stable as I auto-suggested. I was in a very beautiful flowery town and I burrowed a nice acoustic guitar from a boy sitting on a bench. I started playing the guitar and singing and showed people in the park a good performance :D Even though I didn't know the cord of the song I just stroke the strings randomly and it made right melody. it was so fun...and it felt like I was in 'heaven'. I woke up soon because of noise again but I was so happy, and I couldn't believe this rly worked. Also I felt so tired and I did count for getting rid of tiredness and headache again, and I feel so comfortable right now!
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Although druing the day 2 the LDs were short due to outside noise, it was huge success! Tonight I'm going to try an auto-suggestion saying "I will have long, stable lucid dream every time I dream without doing anything." lol
