Lucid Dreams in 30 Days by Keith Harary Ph.D

Author:Keith Harary, Ph.D.
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466876446
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

DAY 17

HIGH LUCIDITY

On Day 17 you will learn how to enter the dream state of high lucidity. Again, by high lucidity, we mean the state of acute dream lucidity that results when you carry your conscious awareness directly into a dream.

To achieve high lucidity, you must take the exercises of the past two days one step further. Your goal: to generate what’s known as hypnagogic imagery, vivid but conscious mental pictures that emerge as you hover between wakefulness and sleep. By following our instructions, you should be able to generate hypnagogic images and follow them into bona fide lucid dreams without ever losing conscious awareness. The result: high lucidity, in which you should have even more control over your lucid dreams than you did before.

Begin today’s session an hour before you would normally go to bed. This will enable you to carry out the exercise completely and then follow it directly into your full night’s sleep. As before, practice in a private room where you can relax and then sleep without being disturbed. Again, arrange to watch an appropriate television program or video, at low volume and brightness, for at least an hour. Please make sure that the episodes you watch today are different from those you viewed the day before. We also recommend that, if at all possible, you arrange to have your television turned off after you have fallen asleep. If you are using a video recorder, it should simply turn itself off automatically at the end of the tape. If you are watching a television without a VCR, you might hook your set to a separate timer so that it will automatically disconnect. Or, alternatively, you can ask someone to quietly slip in and turn off the television at a prearranged time.

After you have made the arrangements, lie back and absorb the images you’ve selected. After about thirty minutes, roll over onto your back and close your eyes. Continue listening to the program playing in the background while filling in the pictures with your own mental images. As you do this, gradually enter a state of alert relaxation.

As you become increasingly relaxed, focus on the images in your mind while also doing your best to maintain conscious awareness. Allow the images to become as spontaneous as possible, using the audio input from the television to help generate fresh images as the earlier ones fade. As much as possible, allow all of these images to blend and interact with one another, and to take on a life of their own. As the exercise continues, these images should become increasingly spontaneous, or hypnagogic, in nature. Whenever you feel yourself losing conscious awareness, focus your attention more intensely on the sound of the television, and say to yourself, I’m entering a dream. Once again, the more spontaneous and lifelike your mental images become, the more likely you will be to move directly into a dream without losing conscious awareness.

Dream Alert—Be advised that this is not a simple process for most people.

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