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Has anyone ever tried burning incence while going to sleep? It seems like a good way to become lucid while doing WILD.
I burn incense quite often, but haven’t noticed any difference. Does it help you? I guess anything that makes the process of falling asleep go slower could help wild, if falling asleep too fast is a problem.
I think it helps if you only use it for falling asleep, Im allso going to try burining a diffrent flavor each night.
I have so many incense sticks and candles in my room so i ought to try this. It would be interesting to see how the different smells influence my dreams.
If you’ve had a lucid deam while burning a particular type of incense, burn it again when you want a lucid dream, you may become lucid just by the associating lucid dreaming with the smell of that incense.
Very interesting comment, Josh Redstone! 
I read it in a very good lucid dreaming book, which I bought a loooong time ago when I first began to lucid dream 
It makes sense to me, they say that scent is the strongest sense tied to memory.
I’ll have to try burning incense before I sleep. But if you breathe in the smell I’m worried that it’s going to be not good for your respitory system, it won’t harm it will it?
I used a specific perfume oil once which seems to make dreams more intense. The problem there is that if it’s used in combination with alcohol, it gives you pretty nasty nightmares.
Does anybody know about specific scents which have an influence on dreams?
Oh! I’ve burned incense while attempting to AP and for dream incubation. I got halfway through the AP, but got bored. However, the dream incubation worked well, so I believe incense are quite exceptional (the incense fragrance was called ‘Butt Naked’, but I swear I didn’t buy them 
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Don’t you guys be so scientificist! People don’t dream the same way, if one thinks incese helps keeping awareness while the other thinks it just makes them sleep faster, one should try more; and the other should quit it.
The results should not be the same for everyone.
What exactly is scientificist? I never heard the word before. [size=75](But I’m a bit spooked already - in the american language, the ending “-ist” is rarely a good sign.)[/size]
Hm. I made that word up. (Actually, there is a Portuguese word cientificismo. I just thought I had heard its possible English translation somewhere.) Anyway, I was just stressing they were being excessively scientific (that would be the definition, if you want any) with something that can be very unpredictable and difficult to categorize.
I mean, I don’t think incense is a drug or something, I think it’s just something that creates a smell and some smoke, something tha makes an environment. So it’s up to each person wether it workes for them or not, but we won’t be able to get any useful result from studying if it works for all us as a whole.
I think smells can make a difference. Isn’t there a thread on placing coffee beans in your pillow to assist in waking the brain up?