@fatgnomeswitchhitter1919

5 years ago

THE WAY I DO IT THAT WORKS VERY WELL: Hypnogogia is the phenomenon where when you're falling asleep you start to hallucinate: hear voices, and seeing images is the most common. You should try focusing on your senses whilst falling asleep so that you can realise it's happening. When you realise that you are in hypnogogia you will snap out of it but it's okay, you will be back in it soon. What you should then do is imagine a physical sensation on your body. I usually go for imagining rain falling on me, or a cat stepping on me or something. Whilst you imagine it, you will soon start to fall into hypnogogia and hopefully actually feel it. You can then start to imagine the environment around you, and this will turn into a dream and you will be aware of it. The reason that sense of touch works best is because you'll be able to control it the best, if you try to hear or see something there is a good chance that it will just morph into a non-lucid dream but feeling things keeps you lucid because it helps to ground you in reality, or in this case, into your dream. PROTIP: If you think about it too much you might accidentally wake yourself up by feeling your body lying in bed, but if that starts to happen grab an object or touch something in the dream, I sometimes start rolling on the ground (weird but works). EDIT: This works best if you wake up in an REM stage of sleep. I tend to go for about 6am, try to wake yourself up a bit so you don't fall back asleep normally, but not so much that you cant ease into it easily.

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