Thread: Lucidity by Meditation Technique (L.B.M.)

Alright... So this may seem a little silly but it was very interesting when I did it and so I thought I should share it. You do not have to know a lot about meditation or anything to use this technique. Well, I'm going to stop blabbing now and tell you what I did...

Step 1: Be tired but able to concentrate. This is very important as it will not work unless you are able to relax but concentrate. The type of tired I'm talking about is the "sit around the house all day" kind of tired and not the "I've exercised the whole day and I'm ready to sleep for 10 hours" kind of tired. Basically when you're a little drowsy but not dead tired (I did it at lunch when I decided to take a nap).

Step 2: Lay down and get comfortable

Step 3: Close your eyes and begin to relax. Don't worry about focusing as it will happen naturally as you regulate your breathing. Alright, so to regulate your breathing you'll have to consciously alter your breathing at first. What you do is take in a deep breath (not to full lung capacity but close) and exhale. Wait a second then repeat. You'll notice that this becomes automatic after 50 breaths or less (took about 20 for me) and then your brain will begin to focus and your muscles will relax. This breathing technique is used frequently when one is meditating.

Step 4: Quite possibly the hardest part of this technique. You must think mentally and not physically. The reason you must do this is that it basically dislocates mind from body and allows your body to fall asleep while your mind stays awake. There is another technique that uses the same principle but I feel that meditation is a better way to achieve this state as you hardly feel the need to move your body at all (you tend not to feel the itches and uncomfortableness that your body creates to test you mind if it's asleep). Remember: THINK MENTALLY NOT PHYSICALLY. Refrain from thinking about your body. Try to think of the type of dream you wish to have.

Step 5: This is where is gets fun . You'll begin to forget you have a body (it sounds strange but it tends to happen when you think only within your brain for extended periods of time). This state took me about 30 minutes to achieve but I enjoyed every minute it took me to get there.

This is kind of branching off a bit but this is what happened to me.......

From this state I began to have auditory hallucinations. This was fine by me and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I heard voices of women talking about random things. The voices were clear as a bell and sounded as if I was hearing them in my room. I knew they were coming from my mind though and that is precisely why this technique is so fantastic. The entire time there is this gut feeling that "I'm dreaming". This should help you to attain lucidity. Anyway, after I heard the voices I was a bit started and so they faded. Not long after that I began to hear birds. Actually I heard all the sounds of the rain forest. While I was hearing the birds I began to see flashes of trees and things which was no doubt the beginning of a dream. However that soon faded and I entered a dream which was totally different not long afterward. I'm not going to bother explaining the dream but I will say that there was still that gut feeling that I was dreaming. This was my first time trying this technique (in fact I didn't really plan on entering the dream world consciously) and although I didn't have a lucid dream it seems to work fantastically. I'd also recommend listening to soothing music when you do it as I could see that influencing your dreams.

I hope some of you will try this! May all who try succeed!