10 years ago, I’d have put my ability to visualise at 0 out of 10. Practice and occasional halucinogen use has got me to 2 out of 10. It causes no end of problems in day to day life, so I’m interested to hear if anyone has tips or just experiences to share so it doesn’t feel such a lonely frustrating issue.

edit informative comment from @Gwaer@lemm.ee about image streaming, I did a bit of digging on the broken links, the Dr isn’t giving the info away for free anymore without buying their (expensive) book, but I found some further info on additional techniques here, pages 2/3: https://nlpcourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Image-Streaming-Mode-of-Thinking.pdf

  • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The best way I’d describe it is that it’s like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands. The moment I try to reach out and grab it to get a better look, it goes away.

    That’s an excellent way to describe it.

    One of the main starting points for lucid dreaming is remembering your dreams

    And that right there is why I never got into lucid dreaming, luckily on a normal wake I don’t remember much of my dreams… when I started writing them down and remembering them I realised how often I’m having horrible dreams. Like, I’ve died in my dreams multiple times, though I always come back as something else (like the time a demon chopped me up and boiled me, and I came back as crisps, or the time I fell off a cliff then came back as a big red bird).

    Thanks for these tips, will give me a good excuse to read to my niece next time I visit :)