Chaining - New Technique

Quest for Lucidity
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I actually tried waking up without opening my eyes, and it worked!
I woke up, ALMOST opened my eyes, and kept them shut. Unfortunately, my alarm clock was going off so i had to reach for it and click the snooze button -_- Ah oh well.

I think this can work to my advantage, Sometimes when i wake up and want to continue my [ND] I just think of where I left off and sleep again. I think if i envision myself doing a [RC] in the next scene before I sleep, it might work.

What if i do do a [RC], but just think it’s part of the dream? Lol, that would defeat the purpose.

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Fantasystar0822 if you wake up from an ND or LD and it “works” for you like how you described, try talking to the last dream character that you were by, even if you don’t know their name just say

hey that girl who was standing by the door, can you come here and help me please? can you pull me back into the dream? keep talking to them.

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See it ain’t as hard as you thought… If you can, try doing it without an alarm clock. Just go to sleep an hour earlier than normal and let your body wake up naturally. Good luck! :ok:

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Holy Reality,
What is the intent of me asking the dream character to pull me into the dream? I think i’m able to continue it, do you mean pull me into a lucid dream?

And do I keep talking to them when i’m still ‘awake’ and about to continue my dream?

thanks guys ^^

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This technique works well but cuts into my RC 's during FA 's. I can’t do both. =0(

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Fantasystar0822,

If you are back in the waking world but were just in a dream, if you talk to them while awake using your mind they will often pull you back into the dream world, which is a very simple way of re-entry without having to imagine things, and it will take you back to the dream you were JUST in instead of a new one.

I will often tell the DCs that i’m about to wake up then keep talking to them after i’m awake until they help me back in or i transition back in on my own.

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Oh heheh ^^
it’s no prob though, i can continue the exact same dream either way.
i’ll try it though =D

meeehh having to wake up to an alarm clock SUCKS.

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you don’t have to wake up to an alarm clock

i rarely use mine!

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.>;; Well…
I sorta do need one
for school and all.
If i oversleep, i’m screwd. Haha.

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i really only set mine for school if i’m going to bed to where i’ll only be getting less than 8 hours of sleep.

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Eeek, I haven’t gotten over 8 hours of sleep on a school day in a long time >.<;

Maybe it’s because i’m a procrastinator?
But either way, If i do get more than 8 hours, i know i will just continue to sleep, it’s a fact >.> hehe.

Well, I try anyway if i wake up in the middle of the night.

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I’ve been doing this one for ages… You don’t actually need to think of the dream you were in before, just be aware that you’re drifting off to sleep while images of either the old dream or a new one start to appear in your mind… You’ll often get into the new dream knowing it is a dream, much like when using WILD

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Ugh, i’ve been way too stressed lately, because of school i’m not even in the holiday spirit yet. And it’s affecting my dreams @.@ recently I haven’t had time to remember them at all, Or continue them.
:meh:
But i’ll try WILD when I can.
^.^

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Woo! I chained my first dreams!

They were both ND’s, but it is still progress! In the original dream, I was in some war, and I was with my squad in a jungle/museum type place, and I woke up as we were fighting a monster, then I stayed where I was, and I fell back asleep and continued my dream! Now I just need to chain into an LD…

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:happy: congrats!
As for me, my mind’s been really awake \ excited lately… takes forever to get to sleep, and i sleep clean through the night.
But i’ve also been creating my own dreams, Like I wake up and decide to dream about something that’s been on my mind and just somehow sleep and end up in it. Then i wake up remembering everything.
Now… to put that into my advantage.

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this sounds like an awesome technique and i will definitely try this in the morning when i wake up. Do you think if i use auto suggestion before i go to sleep like “i will wake up from a dream and not move at all.” Do you think that would be a good idea?

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Can’t wait to try this!

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I’m back again! Someone posted on this and it reminded me on my email :smile:

I think I finally realized my one enemy–what is preventing me from attaining a lucid dream:
Doubt.

I am not skeptical…I believe in everything until it is disproved (except scientology… i’m sorry, no offense.) But the mere fact that there is a chance in this mundane reality where anything is possible is so mind boggling to me, deep down I’m probably doubting it lol. But I so want it to happen…

I am still able to go back into my dreams after waking, but I just need to make myself lucid somehow. I’ve noticed that usually i’m in third person when in a dream, or when I reminisce about a dream, which makes it harder for me to control myself, you know? I mean how could I control my dream if I’m not even in my dream body…?

I hope you guys are still out there!

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I am going to try this technique in combination with U-WILD!!! When I am waking up I will not move and then flash all sort of images in my mind. I will try it tonight and see if it makes a difference!

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I keep forgetting to lie still when I wake up… :sad: