New events in effect to the subconscious.

[Merlock]

Recently I've realized a rather intriguing concept in relation to new events in waking life and how they effect dreams. Now, the idea of concerns effecting dreams isn't something really new but concerning one's self with a certain concept consciously is often not enough. New events, things that people do for the first time or haven't done in so long that they get really interested in it upon paticipating in the event (playing a new game, watching a new movie, etc.) are reflected in dreams that very night, at least that's what I've experienced many times. Just a few of such times were: when I played a certain online game after taking a break from it for quite a while and began making tons of plans about it in my head, my thoughts were often directed at it because it was a new event that I was intrigued by; just yesterday when I played too much of a certain game and thought about it half the day and then visited this forum and posted and read a lot here for the other half of the day, both the concepts united in my dream and I nearly had a lucid dream where as the dream began in a setting that had to do with the game from that day. Now, my idea is that I think it is possible to literally force lucid dreaming by channeling new events related to LDing into one's ubconscious. Consciously forcing one's self to think about LDing, dreaming, etc. just doesn't have the same effect because the conscious doesn't have much control over the subconscious (that's besides those people that have trained much to achieve a connection in between their conscious and subconscious through meditation and so on). However, new events that really interest someone (even as simple as reading an aritcle about LDing that states something really intriguing or reading a story that's intriguing and has LDing figuring in it) will have an effect on the subconscious, which is exactly what is needed to relay something into the dream state. Overall the idea is to intensify concern about lucidity through something new and intriguing, thus effecting the subconscious into making that a real concern for one's self. Any feedback on my thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

[Merlock]

After more extensive reading and thought it seems to me that althought new and intriguing events are perhaps a rather effective method to relaying something ot the subconscious, reading on a topic in general is a good way to do that as well.