Techniques - Part 69

The techniques described below are but a drop in the ocean of their myriad possible variations. It suffices to say that practically every lucid dreamingr will come up with some technique elements independently and be successful at using them in practice. Considering the many variations of certain techniques and the fact that several of them can be used at the same time, the total number of possible techniques numbers in the thousands. However, all of them only differ in several fundamental ways, and knowing how they differ will allow you to easily create as many techniques as you want on your own. Moreover, understanding the principles of creating techniques makes it substantially easier to conceptualize and understand the techniques themselves.

A table for creating techniques is presented below, but it is not to be overused – after all, technique is in the end a matter of secondary importance when it comes to entering lucid dreaming. The most important thing is to understand how lucid dreaming state arises, and then all of the techniques will work. Otherwise, you could know dozens or hundreds of them, but to no practical end.

Table for Creating lucid dreaming Entrance Techniques and How They Work in Practice
	A	B	C
Active (sensory perception)	Active (imagined)	Passive (detection)
1	Sight	Observing images (hint)	Visualization	Observing images
2	Hearing	Noise (hint)	Imagining sounds	Listening in
3	Kinesthesia	Phantom wiggling	Imagined movement
4	Vestibular sense	Real rotation	Imagined rotation
5	Tactile sensation	Vibrations	Cell phone
Examples of mixed techniques: Visualizing the hands technique Swimmer Technique Alien Abduction Technique Rope Technique Sensory-Motor Visualization Technique	1A, 3B, 2B(C); 3B, 5B(C); 4B, 5B; 1B, 3B, 4B, 5B; 1B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B;

Notes: This table does not include the sense of smell due to its rare use, nor emotional sensations due to difficulty in conjuring them. Meanwhile, some other elements are also left out.

Silkeborg, Denmark

I woke up one morning without moving or opening my eyes, and it was a very good feeling. I then thought to myself that I should do my indirect technique. But instead, I said to myself, “Try to leave your body”, and I thought that I would sit up on my bedside. I was lying on my back, but I had not yet moved at all, and so I decided to give it my all and thought, "Just do it!" Almost immediately, I was sitting up on my bedside.

I knew that I hadn’t moved at all because I never get out of my bed that fast; it happened in a blink of an eye.

In my enjoyment of total freedom, I forgot my plan of action, and I forgot the most important thing to do next – deepening. While sitting there, I turned my head to look at my body, just to be 120% sure that I was out of my body. Just before, I had looked down at my bed (M.R.: wrong reality check). I woke up looking at the ceiling in my "real" body (M.R.: no re-entering).

It was short, it was quick, but it was lucid dreaming. I am hooked for life!