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Originally Posted by Craven Morehead
I'd love to know how to manipulate dreams. I never recall them. Maybe I'll catch fragments of one about once a year. If that.
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I don't recall most of the dreams after waking either. If I'm focusing on finding a solution to a problem; it's like Geometry, I always seem to know the answer, but forget about the postulates and theorems that got me there. If I'm drifting in and out of sleep, sometimes I'll scribble some notes on a bed side pad. Even then, the actual content of the dream is vague if I remember anything at all.
Manipulating dreams starts with visualization, which is done while awake, similar to meditation.
Visualize a peaceful place: a green meadow, mountain stream, drifting on the sea, anything that is peaceful to you. Somewhere calm and safe. Something you're very familiar with works the best. See it, smell it, feel it, taste it and hear it. Be there. It took me a few times trying to get every sense tuned into the visualization.
Once you can consistently go to this place and stay there; walk around and explore. This took me a few time to get down as well.
When you have the wandering or exploring down, you can begin to manipulate the environment. I started by picking a blade of grass and smelling it, but instead of smelling grass, I smell toast. I used smell, because it has a very strong memory and was easy to recall. I smelled toast by telling myself, 'I smell toast'. While holding and looking at the blade of grass.
I think I got that to work after the second try. You can use any sense you want for the manipulation. It can feel like sand paper, sound like a river, taste like gravy or look like a dog. It doesn't matter as long as it's something you know. What you're doing is recalling memories from your senses, teaching your conscious brain where to find these memories.
Now it's time to play! Go to your place and go nuts. Do anything that comes to mind. Usually what pops into mind is the easiest to do. But keep trying different things. Paint the sky with your finger, hear glass shattering as you walk on the grass, smell grass in the middle of the ocean.......
I did these visualization exercises for about a year before I realized I could do it in my dreams as well.
I was sleeping one night and had one of those falling dreams, but instead of panicking and waking up. In mid fall I thought 'Fuck this, I can fly' (Flying was my preferred means of exploring my visual world) and just like that, I was flying. After that, almost any dream I was in, I could manipulate.
I don't have
complete control over the dreams. It's more like I'm moving along to a specific destination, but along the way, I can control every aspect of how I get there. Scenery, mode of transport, interaction, sights, sounds, smells, tastes, anything except the actual destination. I can usually even see and understand the destination. Just not change it.
Does that make sense?? It's been 20yrs since I started doing this, so some of the details of how I remember doing it are a little vague, but I think this is very close.
Working with things (memories) very familiar to you makes it easier.
When you're unable to manipulate something in the way you want, often you'll loose the visualization entirely and have to start over.
If you're not relaxed, don't bother. It's not going to work.
Don't try to force it, stay calm and relaxed. Try to just think, then let it happen.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
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Originally Posted by Plan9
The urge to piss from drinking giant bottles of water and caffeine products all day long despite ceasing consumption after dinner.
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An incredibly sensitive (and thus faulty) computer-operated alert system that notifies me of "INCOMING, INCOMING, INCOMING."
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Yeah, drinking a quart of water, just before laying down, is how I get up early when I don't have a choice.
Anything yelling "INCOMING" while I'm sleeping would be met with exactly that, likely in the form of a steel toed boot at high velocity.
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