While lying still waiting to enter my dream via the WBTB + WILD technique this morning, I was repeatedly stating my intended dream over and over again, in hopes that my subconscious would pick up on the desire to create that particular dream for me when I crossed over into the dream state. This method of dream induction has had mixed results for me, with the majority of times having little to no impact on the actual dream content that actualized once I began dreaming.
To be perfectly honest, I found saying the same exact phrase over and over to myself both repetitive and increasingly insignificant. It made it too easy for my mind to drift to other topics and therefore loose focus of my intentional efforts to have a particular dream. After a while, I found it more distracting to stay on this particular dream topic the longer I lay there and continually tell myself what I wanted to dream, and this resulted in prolonging the WILD effort overall.
So I decided to slightly alter the grammatical structure of the intended dream mantra and continuously come up with new ways to phrase the same idea, just using similar words in a different order….much like the MojoJojo character does for all his dialogue in the Power Puff Girls cartoon.
For those not familiar with this show, Mojo Jojo basically says his lines three or four times in a row, stating his purpose, but changing the way in which he says it each time.
For instance, in taunting the Power Puff Girls, he would say something similar to:
“I, Mojo Jojo, am your master, and you shall obey my commands like the dogs you are! Because I am your master, it is I who you will obey! Obeying commands is what you’ll do! I will give you commands, and you will obey them!”
While this is meant to be humorous for the purpose of the TV show, I found this method of restating the same idea, but in a different way, quite effective in creating the dream scene I was envisioning when I finally entered my dream and lucidly realized that this was indeed where I pictured myself while lying in bed.
Lets say I wanted to have a specific flying dream, where I wanted to soar over vast landscapes of mountains. My induction dialogue would go something like:
“I will dream I am flying over a mountainous landscape. As I fly, I will see mountains everywhere. Flying in my dream will be incredible, because I will soar and swoop over beautiful mountain ranges. The mountains in my dream will look gorgeous as I fly over them”
Not only did this change up the monotony of waiting for a dream to begin, but it seems to have made a greater impact on my subconscious and its perception of my expectations and desires.
I have only attempted this once so far, as I just thought of it this morning, but I plan to try again and see if I have any repeated successes. And I’d be interested to know if anyone else has success with this technique or any variations of it.
It sounds like a pretty good idea to me too, I’ll see if I give it a try and post my results. I usually don’t repeat my mantra over and over and over exactly because I find it boring and get distracted easily and because it doesn’t really give me much result…
and since itìs the intention that matters, this method forces you to keep it always in mind so you can formulate new phrases. It’s nice to have it noted down though