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Step 1: Preparation |
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How to Prepare for the Experiment STEP 1: At least one hour before the experiment begins, choose where you will conduct your experiment. The place you usually sleep can be helpful if you have established recalling dream/inner mind experiences there previously. If you tend to be a sound sleeper, not remembering dream experiences, you might want to choose a sleeping place you have not used before. |
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THE GLOBAL |
STEP 2: Assemble a writing instrument and tablet for recording your experience upon returning to the waking state. This should be placed beside your bed within easy reach. You will also need external light when you awake, so make sure this will be provided by either the sun or an appliance nearby. Establish a way to be gently awakened at the end of the designated time. Preferably a person who softly calls your name, allowing your mental attention to remain inward if you so choose. Tell the person NOT to touch or shake you. This will force your attention outward, upon the physical body, disconnecting the lines of recall to your dreamstate experience. |
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For the purposes of this experiment: Lucid dreaming is the conscious perception of one’s state while dreaming. |
STEP 3: A half hour before the experiment begins, record in your journal the date and time. Write the words: THE GLOBAL LUCID DREAMING EXPERIMENT. Your intention to participate is the most potent factor in setting your mind toward the lucid dreaming experience. Next. write down the level of your participation (which you previously determined and sent to us in your first email). Any other thoughts relative to the experiment can be described here.
STEP 4: Ten minutes before, follow these steps of relaxation to encourage emotional calmness and free mental focus: 1. Assume the physical resting posture to prepare for sleep. Lie comfortably with ample support for your spine. 2. Inhale deeply through the nose, filling your lungs with air, lifting your chest, expanding your diaphragm. 3. Hold the breath for a count of three. 4. Exhale slowly through the mouth, releasing tension and energy as the air leaves your lungs. 5. Remain breathless for a count of three. 6. Repeat steps 2-5 as many times as you desire. This will either lead you into sleep or produce the appropriate relaxed state to enter sleep consciously. Now you are on your way! Hint: If the timing of this experiment falls somewhere in your nature sleep cycle, begin the steps at your regular bedtime. Allowing your natural sleep cycles to prevail can be more helpful than disrupting your natural flow. If the timing of this experiment falls away from your usual time of sleep, approach the experiment as a nap, directing your attention to your intention to experience a lucid dream. The difference here rests in the point of origin, the beginning frame of mind. The first cooperates with the movement of messages transmitted to subconscious mind and is akin to what researchers at Stanford University termed the mnemonic induction of lucid dreams (MILD). The second cooperates with the movement of the reverie state in the conscious mind akin to the wake-initiated lucid dream (WILD). Both are taught and practiced in the School of Metaphysics course of study. |
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