Daydreaming

[SpaceCowboyDave]

During the day, I can sort of "turn my eyes off". And just think. When doing this I seem to not be aware of my surroundings very well. Is this some form of sleeping or is it just hypnosis that occurs while I'm thinking.

[Puffin]

Sometimes, usually when I'm in the car or listening to music, I close my eyes and can strongly visualize scenes behind my eyelids. It seems almost real, because of the depth of these daydreams. At this time, I'm not too aware of my surroundings either, because I'm thinking about details in the daydream or what people are going to say. Often if I'm daydreaming about an action sequence or something like that, my breathing can become almost deeper and "harder". I think it's just regular daydreaming.

[Robot_Butler]

This is good practice for training your imagination and visualization. Are you directing the thoughts? Or just passively enjoying them?

[Puffin]

It's definitely very good practice for visualization. I find that the more I visualize something I want to do in an LD beforehand, the easier it is to actually do it. It just makes dream control a hell of a lot easier, since control itself relies on visualization and imagination.

[Ctharlhie]

Without derailing the thread too much and trying to make it about me rather than the OP: This a great opportunity to ask something I've been wanting to talk about. When I was a kid I used to have amazingly vivid daydreams, paricularly as I was lying in bed, waiting to fall asleep. From the age of 6 I used them to craft a world, with characters, history, a canon and storylines, and while it was all hugely unoriginal, I was pretty happy with it. Then, when I started to hit my teenage years (I'm seventeen now) I lost interest and slowly started daydreaming less and less. While I've never really forgotten what I daydreamed and look back on it with nostalgia, my visualisation skills aren't even 1/10 of what it used to be, I simply can't daydream to the level I used to. I have a feeling if I could manage to train myself to daydream like that again it would really benefit my efforts at lucid dreaming. Does anyone have any advice?

[Rilly]

During the day, I can sort of "turn my eyes off". And just think. When doing this I seem to not be aware of my surroundings very well. Is this some form of sleeping or is it just hypnosis that occurs while I'm thinking. This often happens to me. I accidently slip into a daydream and suddenly realize, for example, that I just had missed everything my teacher had just said.

[Haydon]

Hello friends.....! Daydreaming can be a form of meditation......It sounds like you are experiencing clairvoyance .....I like Daydreaming because I get a lot of my ideas from them for my stories but I don't like them because I normally daydream at times when I shouldn't....!

[Lester]

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[Cay]

I daydream what some would call excessively, too. I don't so much turn my eyes off as direct my attention inwards, so I'm not aware of my surroundings; often someone will be repeating my name and will have to say it quite loudly to get my attention. I don't know about it as a psychological thing. I guess it could develop into something, but it causes me no problems in my daily life (might cause my friends some irritation) and only enhances my creativity. I just wouldn't do it while driving or something.

[Marm]

During the day, I can sort of "turn my eyes off". And just think. When doing this I seem to not be aware of my surroundings very well. Is this some form of sleeping or is it just hypnosis that occurs while I'm thinking. ... or boring surroundings maybe. If you can easily drift into 'daydream mode' than that is, as Robot_Butler said, good practice for imagination. And no, this is not hypnosis. (Unless you're 'hypnotised' by the boredom around you)

[Haydon]

Hello friends.....! Daydreaming can be a form of meditation......It sounds like you are experiencing clairvoyance .....I like Daydreaming because I get a lot of my ideas from them for my stories but I don't like them because I normally daydream at times when I shouldn't....! Portable Gas Grill

[XxNamExX]

This often happens to me. I accidently slip into a daydream and suddenly realize, for example, that I just had missed everything my teacher had just said. Yes that happens to me when I'm not paying attention to something very boring. My eyes are still open but I kinda "zone out". It happens sometimes when I'm doing something very repetitive; I complete the action, but I don't remember doing it. At all. Sometimes it kinda creeps me out haha :L