At this point, these are more ideas than fully designed research experiments.
Hopefully together we can flesh it out.
Please note that you need not believe in the Law of Attraction in the mystical sense in order to do this experiment.
If that's the case, simply consider it to be psychology 101: Positive thinking.
1) Using Law of Attraction to attain lucid dreams. This applies more to those having a 'dry spell' and those who struggle with lucid dreams.
2) Using lucid dreams as the place to exercise the law of attraction. i.e. in your lucid dreams, actually act out what you want to happen. This is obviously for those who regularly attain lucid dreams, or for those who have successfully used (1)
Those unfamiliar with the law of attraction:
In short, it's the concept that dwelling on things in a positive way causes those same things to happen. Exercising it involves spending time regularly visualising what you want, as if you already had it. And visualising the consequences of your intentions coming true.
i.e. the concept that "Wishful Thinking" and "Daydreaming" works. At the very least, from a psychology aspect.
I personally believe this from a mystical point of view, based on experiences. But you need not.
When I first heard the concept, I wrote it off as new age rubbish. But despite it's origins, it seems to work (for me). In a big way.
But if you wish to argue the efficacy of the concept, feel free to discuss it here: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...law+attraction
Discussion of 'attaining lucids' experiment (#1)
The difficulty with this experiment is trying to weed out confirmation bias and file drawer effect (i.e. forgetting that you had negative results, and focusing exclusively on the positive results)
In order to stay positive, you need to at least spend part of your day forgetting about the negative results and focusing on what you're going to get.
But the experimentee needs to be honest about the findings when reporting them.
To combat this, we need a baseline for the experimentee and result sheets that reflect an unbiased result. And the experimentee should continue doing exactly what they have been doing thus far.
Example questions: How many lucids did you have last month (before experiment). What did you practice in order to achieve this? Were you under stress? Do you believe in the Law of Attraction (psychologically or otherwise)?
This isn't a complete list. Thats what this thread is for - discussion on the proposed experiment.
Discussion on experiment #2
The trouble with this experiment is in what the intention (wish) is that you exercise
Why?
1) The results need to be comparitive. Apples to apples. If person X works towards a lot of dosh, and person Y works towards peace in the family... it's not comparable. Or is it?
2) Because if you wish for something that isn't feasible, and you don't believe that it could happen, that may arguably influence results.
We preferably need to find an intention that is falsifiable, but not mystical in nature. I think.
Anyone want to ponder how this kind of experiment could be done scientifically?
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