The ''VOID'' technique

Quest for Lucidity
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This method is very similar to WILD, exept it is more advanced and has more potential.

-Quickly realize you are awake
-Become aware of you laying in bed
-Dont think/move much
-Focus on the last scene of a faded dream/LD
-Keep your mind focused on that scene
-Within seconds you will see/feel that scene come alive and absorb you
-Next, you will find youself in that enviroment
-Be careful, and let scene settle, meanwhile test your ability to reason
-Move your fingers to check if you are fully in a dream (premature movement will also move body in your bed and will result in a very shaky lucidity)
-You are lucid now, and amazingly you will find yourself at the exact spot last dream ended (with the same DCs/events/scenery)

Advantages of this method:
-Generally it’s faster
-Can result in higher lucidity then WILD
-Almost no chance of losing lucidity while entering dream
-No WILD symptoms
-Same dream (so you dont start all over again )
-Best way to prolong already lucid dream if it fades

Disadvantages:
-Works only with clear scenes
-Has a good chance of failure in inexperienced users
-If you reenter a dream more then 4 times, you gamble with your recall
-Repeating reentry of dreams can somewhat impair quality
-Some scenes are impossible/hard to visualize

Notes on this method: You should choose a static, clear scene, very close to the end of a faded dream. Moving objects/people should be visualized as static. If fading dream scene involves a lot of movement, try to stop all movement (in car chase, imagine yourself on the side of a road)

I haven’t tried this method yet, but I will ASAP. Any comments/experiences are welcomed. Thanks.

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I have tried this method :cool:

That was the first way I ever got a LD, I believe. My mother found about about this and told me. It works in the weekends when I have slept for 9 hours or more. If the dream has been especially pleasant or funny, I want to go back as soon as possible. But when I find myself back in the dream, I remember it’s just a dream!

This is still the way I get most of my LDs :cool:

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“More advanced” - More complicated? More difficult? More learning/experience required?

“Has more potential” - Like what?

Sorry. :tongue: Welcome! First post I see. Maybe you should try this? :content:

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hmm I think I must have done a VOID by mistake… the other day I had kinda re-entered a dream after hittin the alarm clock. I considered it a FA though… it was blurry and I had very little control :cry:

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VOID technique… I call it “reentry” technique. I have done that before, etc. :smile: But hey, it’s one of good techniques to use :happy:

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i was having a dream about my girlfriend a few nights ago, and she was avoiding me and we were not talking. I found out where she was so i went to her. She was in the upper level of an audiorium about to watch some kind of show that was going on. As i was walking to her I woke up. I was very worried when i woke up so i tried to reenter this dream to find out why she was mad at me. I reentered the dream but it was very weird. i could feel my body asleep but i was in the dream. It was switching back and fourth to first person to third person vantage points. I couldn’t really tell what was going on in the dream and everything looked so much differnt and i finally just woke up.
I wasn’t trying to get lucid… just find out why my gf was mad at me in the dream :neutral:

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I really like the name. :smile:
Mainly because Nine Inch Nails made a song ‘The Void’
Very good song.

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More difficult, I guess, but better results (absolute lucidity?)

Didn’t work last night, but practice makes perfect :spinning:

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Hey I do that all the time.
I use it to get back into dreams when they fade out.
I just focuss on a scene till it gets clearer and more stable. When I think I have it enough I take hold of it and raise my lucidity to help stabalize it. then I just take off from there.

I would agree with Dm7 about it is more of a re-entry tech. When I first read it I thought you wre talking about the other kinda void but never mind me.

Oh yeah by the way nothing is impossible in a dream

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this sounds folli great. I think after you just wake up, your still in a sort of tranced state and its easier to imagine things etc… atleast for me.

Im going to try this :smile:)

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I have done this many times :cool: the only problem I have is that I fall asleep so I’m not lucid :tongue: If I wake up from a ND and I really want to go back I keep thinking about it and then I go back into the dream. I’ve had many dreams where I’ve been writing down my dreams because when I woke up I focused on writing down my dreams but I fell alseep too fast, so instead I only dream that I write down my dreams :grrr: very annoying, and I never seem to remember to do a RC either before writing down my dreams :sad:

/edit/ Forgot to write that it only seems to work if I REALLY want to re-enter the dream :eh:

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Yes, I agree with JaRoD :cool:

I can only re-enter the dreams which make the strongest impression when I wake up. It could be a strong emotion, or it couls be a strong wish to see the end of the story.

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Btw, that “re-entry” technique, it’s the best method for me if I want to have at least more than just one LD.

I do that almost all the time, but I have noticed that it makes me mentally tired a bit and next day I dont want to do it again. Know what I’m saying.

Anybody have noticed that? From either WILD/reentry technique?

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The problem I have is rememberign I’m awake as soon as I awake. something I must practice. Prehaps a MILD technique, but for waking up.

I shall try this method. It sounds good.