How to stay asleep
It was after you called
desired lucid dream,
it is extremely easy to either wake up or
fall back into normal sleep
dreams. Moreover, even if you
maintain a vivid lucid dream, however
less certain may occur
difficulty controlling actions,
happening in a lucid dream.
Some researchers are clear
dreams, discovered that intentional
rotation of your “dream body”,
like a baby top, can increase
duration of vivid lucid dreams.
Rotation will allow you to influence the location and
the setting where the action takes place
dreams and will serve as a means for
travel, similar to flying in a dream.
ROTATION TECHNIQUE
1. Focus on the beginning
disappearance of the dream. First at the end
visual sensations disappear during sleep. All
others - later, and the last to disappear
tactile sensations. The first sign
the disappearance of a lucid dream usually
is a loss of color and realism
visual picture. Details are erased
and everything takes on distorted or blurry
outlines. The lighting dims, or
Vision gradually weakens.
2. Rotate at the first sign
disappearance of sleep. At the first signthe disappearance of your dream images and
before your dreaming body begins
evaporate, try as hard as you can
Spin it faster like a top.
No matter what it looks like:
pirouettes, spinning top, dervish, child or
bottle, the main thing is that you have a living one
sensation of body movement. It doesn't look like
imaginary rotation; to get
positive results, you should
a living experience arises.
3. When rotating, keep in mind that
the next picture you see is
will also be a dream.
Continuing to spin, constantly
remind yourself: everything you are in
the next moment you will see, you will hear why
touch it, it will most likely be a dream.
4. Wherever you find yourself, check
your condition. Spin until
you will feel the situation around you
has stabilized. You either continue
sleep or you'll wake up, so
check carefully the condition
you are at this time.
Comment: Often rotation generates
a new dream scene, such as a bedroom
or some more unusual place.
Sometimes in all the details it arises
the setting of a dream that has just ended.
Staying mindful while
rotation, you can transfer it to a new
dream. Without this effort you can
mistaking a new dream forpresent
awakening, despite the many
absurdities inherent in dreams.
Typical case of false wakeup:
when you rotate you feel how your hands
touch the bed and think: “Since my hands
rest against the bed, which means I woke up.
The rotation didn't work this time." At that
time to think:
"Because the hands touching the bed are
hands of the dream body, then I must be
I touch the bed that I dream about.
That's why I'm still dreaming!" Don't neglect
checking your condition after
application of the rotation technique.
Why does spinning in your sleep reduce
probability of awakening? Apparently
There are several factors at play here. One
of which - neurophysiological. Information
about head and body movements,
controlled by the vestibular system
inner ear (which helps you
maintain balance) through the brain closely
associated with visual information, which gives
the most stable picture of the world.
Thanks to this connection, even if
the image on the retina moves
your eyes when you move your head, you
understand that the world around you
remains motionless relative to you.
Both in a dream and in reality, the sensations of
rotations are indistinguishable, since in both
cases the same brain systems
excited in the samedegrees.
An interesting prospect is that
that the rotation technique stimulated
brain, closely connected with the vestibular
activity, which in turn excites
adjacent components of the REM sleep system.
Neurophysiologists have obtained indirect
evidence of vestibular involvement
systems in exciting rapid movements
eyes in REM phase.
Another possible reason why
rotation helps delay awakening,
is connected with the fact that, imagining
any sensation, you reduce your
sensitivity to external sources
this feeling. That is, completely
absorbed in the production of bright
internal sensations are more difficult for the brain
process information from external
sources of sensations.
What to do if you still
woke up early
Don't despair if, despite
all your efforts, you wake up earlier
time. Play dead. After
awakening from awareness (or
unconscious) dreams, try not
move and relax deeply, this
will most likely help you dive back in
into REM sleep while maintaining awareness.
With people especially prone to staying
in REM sleep, this happens almost after
every waking up if they fulfill
specified conditions.
How to stay mindful
Sincewe learned to speak
we use language to control our
thoughts and behavior. Parents spoke
us, what and how to do, and we
were guided by their words. For the first time
when we start doing something on our own, we
repeated parental instructions out loud,
so as not to make a mistake. Gradually it became part of
habit, and now, doing some
new difficult work, we repeat
instructions to yourself.
Verbally direct your behavior
It is also possible in a lucid dream (for example,
maintaining the awareness that this is a dream).
Until you acquire the skills to achieve and
maintain lucidity in a dream,
the likelihood of losing it due to instability
attention remains high. It may
happen when we are too
focus on some detail
dreams. To maintain awareness,
I can advise beginners the first time
talk to yourself. Remind
imagine that you are dreaming (for example, in the words:
“This is a dream!.. This is a dream!.. This is a dream!..” or: “I
I'm sleeping!.. I'm sleeping!.. I'm sleeping!.."). This
reminder, if necessary, can be done in a dream
pronounce at the top of your voice. However, it's better
produce it quietly so that the process
repetitions did not become dominant in the dream.
Over time you will learn to recognize
situations that threaten loss of awareness,
and learn to preserve it without resorting to
conscious effort.
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