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CHAINING DREAMS
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Rated green.
This technique has been successful in
scientific research and/or is part of a
commercial book about dreaming. |
Dream-chaining or “chaining dreams” is a method
to re-enter your dream after you've woken up.
It can work for lucid and non-lucid dreams, but
you will probably want to enter your dream
lucid.
Once you wake up from a dream (if you don't
think you were dreaming before you woke up, it
may not work well) you should stay still and
keep your eyes closed. It doesn't matter if you
move a little or open your eyes, it's just that
the less movement, sensory stimulation, and less
time awake, the better. Ideally, it should feel
less like you've woken up, and more like you've
taken a 30 second break from dreaming.
Once you're prepared to go back to sleep, close
your eyes and either visualize yourself back in
your dream, or use the “spinning technique”
given in the next chapter to imagine yourself
spinning back “into” your dream. Spinning is a
little faster than visualization. Be sure to
maintain the fact that you are dreaming (unless
you don't want to be lucid), or you may lose
your lucidity while falling asleep. Stimulate
your senses (see the next chapter) as early as
possible.
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