Today I'm going to share with you my favorite lucid dreaming technique.
What is it?
Let's find out.
Hi, dreamers.
Well, there's one question I'm asked more than any other, which is what is your favorite
lucid dreaming technique?
Which lucid dreaming technique do you use?
And with the usual obligatory disclaimer, there is no perfect lucid dreaming technique.
Today I'm going to share with you my personal favorite lucid dreaming technique.
But what I mean by that is the one I use the most often.
And today's video is going to be a bit of a quickie because technically I'm supposed
to be taking the weekend off, but I couldn't leave you guys hanging.
So here's some additional content that you weren't going to get otherwise.
So I have, I suppose, two favorite lucid dreaming techniques.
One, my absolute favorite that I use all the time, I only share with my lucid dream tuition
students because they pay the rent, they pay my bills, they allow me to do what I'm doing.
But my second favorite technique is one that I use almost nightly.
It's essentially the Swiss Army knife of lucid dreaming.
And just to be super clear, there is no perfect technique.
Every technique doesn't exist in a vacuum.
You have to do all the other work required for lucid dreaming for particular techniques
to work.
So I don't want you coming back saying, I tried the technique and it didn't work for
me if you're not doing all the other lucid dreaming practice, because that would be bonkers.
So what is the technique?
Well, it's called the impossible movement practice, or Imp for short.
And it's one of the easiest lucid dreaming techniques in the world.
And it's so simple, there's no way this video is going to be ten minutes long.
So what is the imp technique?
Well, it's something you use during a sleep interruption.
So what that means is if you wake up naturally in the middle of the night or you perform
wake back to bed or you're doing a morning nap, that is when you use imp, you could even
use it for a daytime nap, but it's less likely to work.
But it is varied.
You can use it at almost any time when your sleep is interrupted.
And basically, it's a focus technique where you're trying to fall back to sleep consciously.
So here's what you do, and it's super easy when you're lying in bed and you're ready
to fall back to sleep, whatever position you're lying in, whether it's on your back, on your
front, on your side, hands under your head, whatever it is, be aware of that physical
position.
Now try to think of some movement, some physical movement that would be impossible to perform
in that position.
So, for example, if you're lying on your back, you're not going to be able to bend your legs
at the knee because they'd have to travel through the mattress, which is impossible.
So an impossible movement would be trying to bend your legs at the knee.
And the same would be equivalent if your head is against the pillow like this and your hand
is flat against the mattress.
You wouldn't be able to do that because, again, it would need to go through the mattress.
So there's literally hundreds of different impossible movements you could imagine, because
it depends greatly on your sleeping conditions and your bodily position.
So just one more, just for an example.
If you have a bed which is up against a wall, you wouldn't be able to roll out of bed in
the direction of the wall because the wall would stop you.
So rolling is another potential impossible movement.
And what you do when you're laying in bed is you just imagine over and over again performing
that impossible movement.
So this is tactile imagination.
You imagine performing that movement, and just to be absolutely clear, there is no physical
movement.
This is all in your mind.
It is all imagined.
So what you're doing is you're lying in bed, drifting back to sleep, imagining on repeat,
performing this impossible movement physically.
Why are you doing this?
Because you're trying to transition your attention away from your physical body and into your
imagined dream body.
And you keep doing this until the imagined movement suddenly feels real.
And when it does, you're in the dream.
So how exactly do you imagine this movement?
Well, the important thing is you're not hyper focused on it.
So the mindset you need to be in is the same mindset you are when you're walking.
So if you're going for a stroll, you know that you're moving your legs.
You're aware of moving your legs, but you're also able to daydream and observe what's going
on around you.
So you're kind of a split consciousness where you're aware of your physical bodily movements,
but you're also up here in your mind.
So this is a really passive form of imagination.
It is exactly as passive as your focus on your leg movements when you're walking.
You're not hyper focused on them.
You know it's happening, you're in control of them, but you're doing other things with
your mind, exactly the same mindset as that.
So you imagine your impossible movement on repeat.
Just let that continue the same as when your legs are walking, when you're going for a
stroll.
And at the same time, you're letting your mind wander and daydream and drift off into
different thoughts.
But you know the moment that that imagined movement feels realistic, that you have transitioned
from the physical body into the dream body, meaning you're now in a dream.
So of course, this technique isn't going to work for everyone because everyone's mind
is a little bit different.
But here's a quick test to see whether it's good for you.
So take your hand like this at the moment and just start doing this.
And I want you to feel what a real movement feels like now stop doing it and try to imagine
the movement.
Let's score it between zero and ten.
So ten is your hand physically moving and zero is your hand not moving.
Now, when you imagine that movement, what score would you give it?
Does it feel nine, almost the same as really, truly doing it?
Or zero?
You can't imagine it at all.
If you score above five in your ability to imagine that, then the impossible movement
technique or the impossible movement practice is perfect for you.
And the nice thing about imp is it's so easy, it's so passive that you can use it at the
drop of a hat.
And that's why it's one of my favorite lucid dreaming techniques, because you can use it
with very little effort, and the results you get for using it far outweigh the effort involved.
And the more you do it, the better you get.
So that's one of my favorite lucid dreaming techniques.
What's your favorite lucid dreaming technique?
Let me know in the comments.
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