Thread: Playing-Dead Induction of Lucid Dreams?

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Hi fellas,

I've been inactive on DV and in the field of Lucid dreaming for a while. Had some issues to take care of.

But Now I'm in shape again and I will resume this method as it has been very reliable and effective for me.

I will not only keep trying this at night time as a WILD method, but will also be meditating uppon this Apathic, Play-dead state of mind in day time. I will do this to practice this non-responsiveness so I can become better at it.

Anyone here care to join me?
I was thinking: First to meditate on this apathic state for 10 minutes every day, then when ready, increase it to 2 sessions of 10 minutes a day. And eventually 3 sessions..etc And off course every night as we go to sleep.

Anyone?

Does anybody feel like joining me in this method and help me improving and finetuning it?
Rome wasn't built in a day you know.

I really feel like developping and improving this method further and further, using the information gathered from our collective experiences with this techniques, Trial and Error-style.

mmm It's like Dream Yoga, don't you think? have ever heard of it?
also, your method give me an idea.
what if we make a game? like..
go and lie in bed, now imagine you are completely paralized, like in a coma, and you can't move anything, even your eyes. like a game. imagine you are playing to the paralized person. the objetive is just lie there ....
would this work?

Originally Posted by Mariano

mmm It's like Dream Yoga, don't you think? have ever heard of it?
also, your method give me an idea.
what if we make a game? like..
go and lie in bed, now imagine you are completely paralized, like in a coma, and you can't move anything, even your eyes. like a game. imagine you are playing to the paralized person. the objetive is just lie there ....
would this work?

Sounds like it could help with inducing this non-responsive state.

I just remembered a good thing to compair this hard to describe "non-responsive" state: Remember when you were a kid and pretending to be asleep when someone said something to you? And then they would try to wake you up, but you stand firm and continue pretending to be asleep. Even when they start tickeling you to prove you are awake. It's very much like that.

Your game sounds like it could work. It would allow Sleep Paralysis to start alot sooner. You could imagine some kind of Energy decrease, that starts by numbing your body and then your mind.
Perhaps you could imagine that your bed is a Gate, that once you've closed your eyes, starts transporting your Spirit gradually out of your body(SP), then it "launches" your spirit/awareness through a huge Void(helps emphasise the Passive, empty awareness state one should stay in during this phase) and eventually your spirit/awareness will arrive in a world made out of Light and Awareness/Spirit(Onset of Dreams). In fact this in reality pretty much is what happens as we fall asleep, but this envisioned fantasy-imagination of it seems to help the process.

However try not to consciously focus on this Visualisation, but instead just have it in the back of your mind, more like a feeling than a thought. This to ensure your mind is as empty as possible while Playing dead, cause dead mean don't think remember?

I will try this tonight.
Anyone here who wants to try this as well and report back results?

PS: You can use my visualisation of being transported to the dreamworld if you like it, but you may also make up a visualisation of your own if that one works better.