The BIG VILD Topic - Part I

odd2k · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:00 pm Post subject:

I think I need to start practicing visualisation if I want to succeed with VILD. At this moment, I can't even hold on to a simple shape like a red circle for more than a few seconds.

I wonder if it really helps to practice visualisation. Does anyone know if visualisation skills can be improved at all? Have anyone tried it?

JaRoD · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:49 pm Post subject:

odd2k, I now possible to increase your visualisation skills. A few years ago I had trouble visualising. I had a really hard time thinking about something visual since it could change almost by itself. But since I tend to create a story in my mind every night before going to bed I have learned to controll it better. And my skills have gotten even better since I started to LD. Now I can even look at an image in my mind and look at something trough my eyes at the same time. Sometimes I can even see entire words in my mind, and I have started reading them backwards from my mind. Maybe everyone can do this, but for me it's a great improvent

.

I have even started getting flashbacks. When I was driving I saw a girl from behind and she reminded me of someone I know. Then suddenly an image of her face flashed before my eyes, and I could see her in perfect detail.
Btw I have found that my visualisation skills can vary very much from day to day.

fabuian · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 1:17 am Post subject:

same with me, since i try lding, many pictures of older dreams (sometimes few years old) flash into my mind, if i look at anything in RL . I remember things, that ive already forgotten...thats very interesting and happens to me every day...in my opinion visualisation is just a question of concentration...relax...and stop thinking of other things except of the visualisation...

Miklos · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 2:49 am Post subject:

james · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 3:15 am Post subject:

hahaha, Miklos..."...final exercise is imagining fun things... ...smelling a skunk..."

ok, well i've tried some meditation methods to help me get better with visualizations but for me, this works pretty well: http://home.comcast.net/~coresite/experiments.html "Experiment 3 - Two Exercises" both exercises 1 and 2

try it and see if it works well for you

Hallstrom · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 3:51 am Post subject:

i have a hard time visualizing the scene. do you think it would help if i film it and watch it over and over?

Miklos · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 6:25 pm Post subject:

How would you film it? But yes, if you could it would help. You could watch the film, then immediately try to visualize it in your mind, and repeat these 2 steps as many times as possible.

sme_bro · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 8:47 pm Post subject:

Sounds like a cool technique, but woah you should see the post on this topic on certain other ld forums, Some people are very cynacal about is validity. But to each person is theyre own technique!
tried it last night but didnt remember and dreams fullstop so dont know if it worked or not...but ill be trying again.
peace out

Pedro · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 7:49 pm Post subject:

I don't understand why people find VILD so hard to believe... Everyone accepts that dream incubation is possible. It's a method of incubating any dream you want.... and I do one which forces me to RC.... therefore: Lucidity! If you think about it.... it's actually really simple. I know visualization can be hard for some people but technically VILD is maybe the simplest method! Infact, I find it so simple that maybe it isn't the method itself that people don't believe. Maybe it's the success I have had with it. But have you had a lucid dream? If yes then you know they are possible. And they could happen night....there isn't a certain night where they wont work. So if you think about my SIMPLE method then it's easy to see how, with good visualization skills, I can become lucid so much! Sorry,, that was in responce to other forums who tend to assume VILD is a load of crap before thinking about it seriously like they would think about other methods.

JaRoD · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 7:36 am Post subject:

Yesterday I was reading up on selfhypnosis. I read somewhere that good visualisation skills are really helpful when you do selfhypnosis. So maybe VILD is really a form of selfhypnosis.

evilshiznat · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 3:15 am Post subject:

I just had an idea. Do you think that maybe if you wrote your "reality dream check" plan down on paper, then looked it over a few times before you went to bed will help?

Just an idea.

mystic · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 8:24 pm Post subject:

For those interested in the VILD technique.. I came across a thread about it on another forum. It's an interesting read smile

http://www.novadreamer.com/discus/messages/41/2021.html

Hanzomaru · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 4:09 am Post subject:

I didn't know you could get bored in dreams. To me, bored simply can't exist in a dream! There is too much to do...and you can do it all! O_O;

WindRunner · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 11:42 pm Post subject: VILD

hey i just read your thread on your VILD techneque and i just wanted to say that i'm glad u took the time to explain it all. I'm going to try it tonight and i really hope it works. its a great method wink

and i hope it works for me and continues to work for u. Happy LD'ing

Pedro · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2004 10:56 pm Post subject:

AWW look how my cute little post has turned into a massive monster of a thread! Jesus, three thousand posts is pretty cool!

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