I’ll take that recommendation . I sometimes have issues concentrating long enough to properly perform this technique, so I need the practice.
Last night I realized why I kept drifting off and losing my place as I would do my count down.
Truthfully, it was because I my mind thought it was boring so it would try to come up with random things so that I would lose focus and unconsciously fall asleep.
So this is what I did. First I thought that my mind was like how a child is when it comes to reading. As a small kid, you need pictures to go along with your story book right? the mind wants to see some pictures, yet you need to keep it focused
So I combined visualizing with the counting.
I see a green chalk board. I see my left hand holding a white chalk stick;
Now 100 is being drawn.
Now I see right hand holding a chalk-board eraser; quickly erases 100 and then left hand quickly writes 99.
Right hand quickly erases 99 and chalk-holding hand quickly writes 98… and so on.
Or
Keep it more simple and on a dark screen I see in white the number 100 or 1000 and then it flashes to 99 or 999 and so on, actually trying NOT to verbally say the #'s in my head but simply see them.
heh sadly for me this didn’t work last night cause i couldn’t keep concentration i was so tired and then didn’t even remember any dream i may have had ;.; (was a short night 3 hours of sleep X.x)
but gonna keep trying and thats looks like a good suggestion as well
and thank you 6 i should probaly go post in that new people forum soon XD
I shall try this technique!
does anyone have any hints on that?
yay had a bit of luck with this last night need to count to like 150 though i think cause i got to 100 with no luck then accidentally fell asleep XD
but wow this is awsome so far
never tried it
i will try it
I’m going to try this tonight with a twist. I think maybe making it harder count downwards would require more concentration, thus it will probably carry over into a dream. I’m going to count down in Japanese, tomorrow night I’m going to skip every other number. I’ll post if this works or if I think of any more ways.
That’s so funny I, out of the blue, started doing the same thing, I was reliving my lucid dreams in my head figuring out how my body felt. The only thing different is indeed a lighter feeling, no gravity. So I have been trying to be aware of gravity and the heaviness of my body in WL, I had not anticipated that this is actually causing me to get quite exhausted! LOL
Hopefully I can keep this up so one of these days it will dawn on me in a dream that I feel awfully light and become lucid.
It becomes easier after the first times, as it becomes less of an active chore, and more of a state of being. Good luck to you ^^
This seems really interesting! I want to try it But for some reason I’m scared of sleeep paralysis. It’s all in a state of mind but it still scares me ;__;
I am going to try this tonight.
I haven’t had any LD for a month already (normal for me in present time). Last night i read about this technique here. I didn’t plan to try it out.
What happened is this. Today early morning i had disturbed sleep because it was my turn to be with our 1y4m old son, and his sleep was disturbed. In one moment when i was awake, i remembered this technique, but i wanted to use counting just to get back to sleep. I was counting to 20 when i felt that i’m about to fall asleep. As my mind was awake i thought why not to fell asleep conciously (WILD), and i tried to keep my brain wake. When i arrived to 25 with my count i felt how SP kicked in. So it was the right time to “move” my dream body and get out from bed to start my LD
So thanks for this topic. It helped me to get lucid again
Wow, amazing! I’m glad for you. I didn’t realize however that you’re supposed to move your dream body the second sleep paralysis sets in. I’ve always just kept still waiting for images or scenes etc. But then again, I haven’t really determined yet as to whether or not that what I sense is my dream body. What I sense is very barely there.
I’m having troubles keeping my brain awake and alert that i’m falling asleep
and congrats on your LD!!
Well, i was pretty tired and afraid that if i wait few more seconds i just fall asleep unconciously. Usually when i’m not that tired and i feel SP, i don’t hurry to move “dream body out”. But now, as it felt the same sensation as during usual SP, i did not see any reason to wait any more
Last night I was just relaxing before going to sleep and listening to some binaural sounds that were accompanied by the soothing sounds of littles water waves hitting the shore. I just relaxed and focused on the sounds when all of a sudden I saw a pair of intense eyes looking at me, totally caught me by surprise seeing as I was not even attempting to notice HI. I remembered someone saying something about old hag symptoms, but her eyes (definitely feminine) were not old, only very intense. Kinda cool.
I would probably scream like a little girl if i saw those eyes. Seriously
I doubt that! I think you would have been exited, as was I, this was actually the most vivid, and very present, HI so far.
I haven’t had LDs for about a year (been too busy with school, I guess), but yesterday I decided to make a comeback. And this technique almost gave me results right away. I woke up (which I told myself to do before I fell asleep) and immediately thought about counting and then doing a RC. At times I struggled with keeping my mind focused on the numbers, but I grew more and more determined and almost shouted out the numbers in my head. Suddenly (by the number of 70, I think), I felt an extraordinary feeling all over my body - almost as if I was “dragged” into my dream, but I got too excited and woke up.
I’ll definitely try this again tonight
Congrats Revolve! Hopefully that will happen to me soon