Inception was a major blockbuster movie introduced in summer 2010, indeed was a stunning movie yet mind blowing one, written and directed by Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Memento) and starring an international cast (Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy, Joseph Gordon-Levvit and Michael Cain). It was held in the near future and it's main idea was about controlling and sharing dreams by a matrix-like system, also talks about sub-dreams or dreams within dreams, and inserting ideas to the subconscious using "dreams", So it's all about dreaming, although sub-dreams and dreams sharing are pure science fiction(so far), there is a method you can do to control your own dreams and make it vivid as possible using the massive engine in your head called the "subconscious", this method is known as "Lucid Dreaming", it is not easy to achieve and need a lot of training, but here i'm going to tell you how it's done easily with minimum practice.
How to Lucid Dream Easily
By using this method I have around a 60% chance of successfully inducing a lucid dream or an OBE whenever I make the time to use it. So needless to say, I'm awestruck with the dramatic increase and attribute it to this technique which I'm going to pass along to anyone who hasn't heard of it. It's been mentioned a lot before and it is actually alluded to in the MILD technique by Stephen La Berge and some people refer to it as the "napping" technique, but I think "napping" is too general a term for the process.
THE Sleep/Wake/Back to Bed METHOD
- Go to bed for 6 hours or so.
- Then wake up.
- Stay awake for an hour or so (about 20-60 minutes)...(or at least until you are "awake" and not sleepy-headed or foggy-minded...get out of bed and do something ...you HAVE TO get out of bed!!! preferably record your dreams in your dream journal or do some reading about lucid dreaming.
- THEN go back to bed - using whatever technique you normally use to induce your LDs ( i.e. MILD technique, affirmations, counting, trance induction, visualization, grounding your awareness, etc…)
Then it is lucid dreaming time!!!
The timing can be adjusted to suit your purpose, but it is advisable to get a lot of sleep (6 hours is perfect) and then stay up until you are no longer groggy minded and sleepy-headed. Once you are awake, sometimes 20 minutes will be enough for me, and then I'll go back to bed with amazing results.
One key thing I've learned is to "set the pattern" by establishing a routine of doing this on a regular basis. I've been doing it off and on with good results, but once I buckled down and made it a priority the results were phenomenal. The KEY is to be consistent and get the routine engrained and absorbed into your subconscious. With time it seems to be getting easier and easier, and as a bonus effect of all this induced lucidity you can expect to have extra spontaneous lucid dreams during the night. It's like an added bonus plan. It literally works like magic.
The only thing you have to do is arrange your sleeping pattern so that you can use this Sleep/Wake/Back to Bed method.
Now, happy dreaming, and don't forget to feedback your experiences.
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Hey Mike, thank you for sharing this. :) Now that I think of it, I've been following this technique during holidays when I wake up an hour early than my usual time, stay up and read, then go back to sleep after some 15 minutes!
ReplyDeleteI do record my dreams also, I think that also helps in lucid dreaming.
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