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Hemi-Sync Lucid Dreaming DVD |
Suggestions for Lucid Dreaming
- During the day repeatedly ask 'Am I
dreaming?' - perform some reality checks whenever you remember. With
practice, if it happens enough, you will automatically remember it
during your dreams and do it.
- Keep a dream journal. Keep it close by your bed at night, and write in
it immediately after waking. Or use a recording device if you
find it easier to repeat your dream out loud. This helps you recognize
your recurrent patterns (people from your past, specific places,
etc.). It reinforces your brains ability to recognize and learn
lucid dreaming.
- Establish the best time to lucid dream. By being aware of
your personal sleep schedule, you can arrange your sleep pattern to help
induce lucid dreams.
- A nap a few hours after waking in the morning
is the most common time to have a lucid dream.
- Lucid dreams are associated with REM sleep. REM
sleep is more abundant just before the final awakening. (Sleep-onset REM is a symptom
of narcolepsy. If you have lucid dreams right after falling asleep,
you may wish to consider seeking medical advice from a sleep medicine
specialist. People can recall
dreams after being awakened during non-REM sleep).
- Dreams usually run in 60-minute (Weiten Psych
book 2004) cycles during sleep. If you are working on dream recall, it
may be helpful to try waking yourself up during one of these cycles.
- Try Stephen Laberge's mnemonic induction of
lucid dreaming (MILD) technique.
- Set your alarm clock to wake you up 4 1/2, 6, or 7 1/2 hours after
falling asleep.
- When you are awakened by the alarm clock, remember the
dream as much as possible.
- When you have remembered as much as you can, go back to
sleep, imagining that you are in your previous dream, and becoming
aware that you are dreaming. Say to yourself, "I will be aware that
I'm dreaming," or something similar. Then go to sleep.
- If you have random thoughts when you are trying
to fall asleep, repeat the imagining, self-suggestion part, and try
again.
- Immerse yourself in the subject of lucid dreaming. You can research lucid dreaming information, watch movies
with lucid dreaming, read books about it, have discussion with friends
and family about lucid dreaming, etc...
- Use simple techniques to distinguish awake and
dreaming states. Mark an "A" that stands for "awake" on your palm.
Every time you notice the "A" during your waking hours challenge whether
you are awake or asleep. Eventually you may see the "A" in your sleep
and become lucid.
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Do three
reality checks every time something seems out of the ordinary, strongly
frustrating, or nonsensical, and that habit will carry on into your
dreams. In a dream, these will tell you that you are sleeping, allowing
you to become lucid. In order to remember to do reality checks in
dreams, you need to establish a habit of doing reality checks in real
life. One way to do a reality check is to look for "dream signs"
(elements that frequently occur during your dreams, look for these in
your dream journal), or things that would not normally exist in real
life, and then conduct the reality checks. When these actions become
habit, a person will begin to do them in her or his dreams, and can come
to the conclusion that he/she is dreaming
suggestions:
- looking at a digital clock to see if it stays constant;
- looking at a body of text, looking away, and then looking back to
see if it has changed;
- flipping a light switch;
- looking in a mirror (your image will most often appear blurry in a
dream);
- pinching your nose closed and trying to breathe;
- glancing at your hands, and asking yourself, "am I dreaming?"
(when dreaming, you will most often see greater or fewer than five
fingers on your hand);
- jumping in the air; you are usually able to fly during dreams
- poking yourself; when dreaming, your "flesh" might be more elastic
than in real life; a common reality check is pushing your finger
through the palm of your hand;
- Try leaning against a wall. In dreams, you will often fall through
walls.
- Prolong lucid dreams by spinning your body in the dream and rubbing your hands (prevents you from
feeling the sensation of lying in bed). Take care while spinning.
Remind yourself even as you spin that you are dreaming, as you will find
yourself in a completely different location when you stop spinning and
may lose lucidity otherwise.
- Be Pro-active about your dream. Have a goal in mind and try
to accomplish it.
- Listen to Binaural Beats.
Binaural Beats are often used to
induce lucid dreams, and many assure this method dramatically improves
success rate. Theoretically, listening to Binaural Beats lowers brain
frequencies, triggering different effects such as relaxation and dream
induction.
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