– when a person is just falling asleep, try to be as aware as possible of the hypnagogic patterns that one sees and try to name and identify them. It is also good to train your imagination – to have images of yourself walking somewhere, e.g. on the street. Or as part of visualization training (res. Starting up into a dream), it is also a good idea to "replay" a scene from the past before falling asleep. This will then help you to be more aware of the dream's plot in a deeper sleep.
– gradual awakening is a good thing. This way, a person remembers much more from the dream. (The energy body gradually approaches the physical body, and thus a person remembers more)
– after waking up in the morning, one hardly remembers anything from the dreams. It is necessary to wake up several times during the night using an alarm clock, wake up fully and write down the dreams (most easily on a mobile phone) or record them, for example, in an Android application such as ASR Recorder. This is the only way to remember dreams (the advantage of audio recordings is that they contain more of the dream's energy. It is also ideal to record in a lossless format such as wav or flac, where there is the most energy information). In the morning or at some other time during the day, it is advisable to play the recording again.
Sometimes, right after waking up, I have a "blackout", but it takes a while before I remember the plot of the dream.
– Many elements of the energy body meditation methods, such as the "brain stillness" element, are very suitable, especially during falling asleep. They can tune a person in the right direction for dreaming. It is also very useful and helpful to do energy body meditation before sleep https://filozofia.nett.to/meditacia/sk/meditacia-energetickeho-tela
– Before dreaming, it is good to prepare for it well with meditation and contemplation. Imagine in advance how the whole dreaming method will proceed. Dreaming will not be very successful if a person falls asleep nervously when they have a lot of worries or are in a hurry.
" Hypnosis" / suggestion during sleep
What has strong potential to help in LD is sound suggestion during sleep. Using Android applications such as Alarm Clock Xtreme (also available in Czech) or Smart Alarm Free, which are alarm clock applications, it is possible to start a gradually intensifying recording exclusively through headphones. The recording may contain suitable suggestions that will help you in dreaming. The recording, which is like a ringtone, can just be something that "rings" and then turns off, or it can wake you up completely.
Another option is that another person will perform suggestion/hypnosis on you while you are asleep and will encourage you to perceive the dream carefully and to remember it as best as possible.
An improved version of this method is that a person who has dreams (who wants to achieve LD) will be connected to an EEG device (EEG devices are available at a reasonable price at http://neurosky.com/ ). The person in charge of hypnosis/suggestion will observe the EEG, which scans the brain, and their goal will be to keep the person in the REM phase of sleep (i.e., in the state when the person is dreaming. NREM is too deep unconscious sleep). If the person is in the NREM phase of sleep, the "hypnotist" can say something to the sleeping person to make them start to wake up.
Another option is to create a special program/application (preferably for a mobile/tablet for the Android operating system) that will record brain activity and whenever a person falls into the NREM phase, gradually decreasing music will be turned on through headphones to get the person into REM sleep. Once the person enters REM sleep, the sound/music will turn off. This way, the person will be kept in REM sleep all night and will have more dreams. In my personal opinion, after such a night, the person will not be tired – they will not feel sleepy but on the contrary, even more refreshed and rested.
There is scientific research that shows that whenever people were woken up during the REM phase of sleep, they reported having dreams.
– it should be noted that even though a person is unconscious during sleep, the subconscious is actually very receptive to sounds (recordings, affirmations, suggestions)
(I had one experience where people full of very negative energy were moving around me and talking to each other while I was sleeping. A person is very vulnerable during sleep, and I received a lot of negative energy from them. The negative energies materialized in such a way that I had many problems that day, and I had to eliminate these problems for many days to come)
– when you remember a longer dream plot, you will see and understand that your consciousness perceives the dream plot as more real than this ordinary reality (i.e., not as something illusory, as most people would assume). As part of a verbal affirmation/suggestion triggered by an alarm application, it is good if it is something like "this is not reality. This is a dream and you can change/adjust/model its plot/scenario with your own will."
– after waking up from sleep, it is sometimes quite good to immerse yourself in a light sleep again and try to replay the dream in order to remember as many details from the dream as possible. Always try to write down / record as many details as possible
– a dualistic plot in dreams is common – positive and negative energies fight there. The plot of the dream is often quite drastic and negative, and the person tries to improve the plot of the dream
– Until now, I thought that dreaming in which a person can control the plot of the dream is only possible if the plot of the dream has higher vibrations (and the plot of the dream is more positive). Later, I noticed that I can change even a negative dream plot to at least a little better. I observed how I can change the plot of the dream to a little better. Whether a person can perceive this also depends on how much information a person can remember from the dream.
– Since the brain works slower, it might be a good idea to edit the dream affirmations in an audio editor so that they are slowed down. The brain works slower during sleep and will therefore be able to perceive better.
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– in the NREM phase, human thinking and the plot of dreams are more realistic, whereas dreams in the REM phase usually have a crazy plot
– during the REM phase, a person has sleep paralysis
– it is harder to wake up in the REM phase than in the NREM phase
– there is a phenomenon of false awakening
– During REM sleep, the release of the neurotransmitters noradrenaline , serotonin , and histamine is completely suppressed.
– The transition to REM sleep brings marked physical changes, starting with electrical bursts called PGO waves originating from the brainstem.
-The electrical and chemical activity regulating this phase seems to originate from the brain stem and is characterized mainly by the amount of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in combination with the almost complete absence of monoamine neurotransmitters histamine, serotonin, and noradrenaline.
– The energy consumption of the brain in REM sleep, measured by oxygen and glucose metabolism, is equal to or higher than the energy consumption in wakefulness. The rate in non-REM sleep is 11 to 40% lower.
– Compared to slow-wave sleep, wakefulness and paradoxical sleep involve higher utilization of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine , which can cause faster brain waves. The monoamine neurotransmitters noradrenaline , serotonin , and histamine are completely unavailable. Injection of an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor
– "Light sleepers" can experience dreaming during stage 2 non-REM sleep, whereas "deep sleepers", upon awakening in the same stage, are more likely to report "thinking" but not "dreaming".
– Monoamines are active during NREM sleep but not REM sleep, while acetylcholine is more active during REM sleep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_cycle
The lines I studied
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rapid_eye_movement_sleep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-complex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Academy_of_Sleep_Medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-wave_sleep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_wave#Brain_waves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep#Non-REM_and_REM_sleep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_and_learning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep-learning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_in_space
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream#Definition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_eye_movement_sleep
https://web.archive.org/web/20080124000744/http://www.helpguide.org/life/sleeping.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20071011011207/http://www.ninds.nih.gov:80/disorders/brain_basics/understanding_sleep.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20071230002229/http://www.medicine.wisc.edu/mainweb/DOMPagesText.php?section=sleepmed&page=whatissleep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_neuroscience_of_dreams#Dopaminergic_activation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGO_waves
https://lucidcode.com/LucidScribe/
http://www.lucid-code.com/About/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_cycle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedunculopontine_nucleus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnogram
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Updated January 2019
- If you follow the plot of a dream and remember it better, you will notice that the plot of the dream is considered by your consciousness to be as real as this ordinary reality. You do not realize that it is a dream, that your body is sleeping in bed. The characteristic of a lucid dream is when you realize that it is a dream and that your body is in bed.
- A good and interesting application is Sleep as Android. It is used by several million people and the authors are Czech developers https://play.google.com/store/search?q=sleep%20as%20android&c=apps ** https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep ** https://www.youtube.com/user/nalevnikus/videos
- The technologies that can be found on Google under the phrase "lucid dreaming biofeedback / neurofeedback" are very interesting. The goal would be to prolong the REM sleep phase, make dreams more conscious, more memorable, and possibly, after the REM phase ends, wake the person up with an alarm clock so that they can better remember and write down their dreams.
- Psychology (and neurology) as a scientific discipline should focus much more on the research of sleep, dreams, lucid dreaming, including the use and continuous improvement of lucid dreaming biofeedback / neurofeedback technologies. Psychology is the slowest developing science, but if it focused its attention on this phenomenon, it could significantly compensate for its enormous stagnation. It would also be reasonable to address the phenomenon of astral travel using lucid dreams.
- borderline states of consciousness and unconsciousness : I consider borderline states of consciousness and unconsciousness to be very interesting, especially if these states were corrected by appropriate suggestions and biofeedback/neurofeedback technologies. However, it is also necessary to use meditation techniques. The goal is to maintain consciousness as much as possible in the deepest sleep. To achieve the phenomenon of "mind awake and body asleep". This is the key to astral travel.
- it is reasonable to wake up in the middle of the night and write down the dream – that's how you remember it best