Thread: The "Inception" Technique - Tried and True

I'm using tape. I had a vivid, but not lucid dream.


Have you ever experimented with this technique, but used a watch? It basically serves the same purpose as the cardboard.

Originally Posted by A dreamer168

Have you ever experimented with this technique, but used a watch? It basically serves the same purpose as the cardboard.

If I had one that wasn't HUGE I would

My attempt at using the bracelet after a WBTB didn't go so well... My baby brother (on the lower bunk) was hacking and coughing all freaking night long. Will try again tonight.

Originally Posted by A dreamer168

I'm using tape. I had a vivid, but not lucid dream.


Have you ever experimented with this technique, but used a watch? It basically serves the same purpose as the cardboard.

That doesn't work, I wear a watch all the time and I don't get lucid dreams as often as this guy claims. It's great for RCs, though! You just look at the time several times and see if it changes. The first time I did RC in a dream with my watch the time was 80:15 or something like that, so it should work really good!

Originally Posted by A dreamer168

I'm using tape. I had a vivid, but not lucid dream.


Have you ever experimented with this technique, but used a watch? It basically serves the same purpose as the cardboard.

ive been wearin my watch (cuz it has my alarm on it) on my wrist all week and ive been gettin extrmely vivid dreams wit it on
i nvr knew it was cuz of this pressure point tho...
anyway ill post my results 2morrow

Originally Posted by rajofthenee

ive been wearin my watch (cuz it has my alarm on it) on my wrist all week and ive been gettin extrmely vivid dreams wit it on
i nvr knew it was cuz of this pressure point tho...
anyway ill post my results 2morrow

There is another important pressure point to be aware of (my opinion), when it comes to meditation and aiming to achieve altered states of awareness. I believe that there is a good reason why many Gurus meditate placing the index fingers against the tops of the thumbs, since the pressure point on the tops of the thumbs are linked to the brain. This area can be used to stimulate the mysterious Pineal gland ("Third Eye") within the brain. Apart from what we already know about it’s function it has been discovered that the Pineal Gland, deep within the brain contains liquid and “cones and rods” just like the eye (hence “Third Eye”). This goes some way to explain why we see visions and imagery (HI) before sleep and during dreams.

Originally Posted by A dreamer168

I'm using tape. I had a vivid, but not lucid dream.


Have you ever experimented with this technique, but used a watch? It basically serves the same purpose as the cardboard.

Sounds like a great idea, I'll try that.

I hadn't had a lucid dream in almost two weeks, and I've been having less than I use to a few months ago.
Last night I wore a piece of cardboard with a rubber band and I had a very vivid lucid dream, and some non-lucid, but still vivid dreams.
Although I'm not sure if it's because of the cardboard thing. yesterday I realized that I need to rethink my whole approach to lucid dreaming. So it might have been my change in attitude that mostly helped me have a lucid dream.

When I read "The "Inception" Technique" in the title, I expected this to be some radical method involving shared dreams or external dream penetration of some kind. I suppose it's good that it's not that out there. This is certainly an interesting method; I'd consider giving it a go when I've got a stable method going using more traditional techniques.

tried it, but i woke up several times to find it fell off. will try again

I really thought this was a placebo but i tried it anyway with my watch and I had two of the most vivid dreams I've had in a LONG time! IT WORKS

If you have read about it being a placebo, it definitely isn't placebo. In order for the placebo effect to work, you can't know that this technique actually does nothing.

Ex. If your doctor gave you a pill filled with only sugar and said it would help with depression, then it might actually have an effect. If he convinced you enough, that is. If you knew it was only sugar, it would have no further effect on you.

In the Art of Dreaming by Carlos Castaneda, his 'Dreaming Emissary' advises the use of a similar device:


"Dreamers should wear a gold ring," said the emissary
to me another time, "preferably fitted a bit tight."

The emissary's explanation was that such a ring serves
as a bridge for surfacing from dreaming back into the
daily world or for sinking from our daily awareness into
the inorganic beings' realm.

"How does this bridge work?" I asked. I had not
understood what was involved.

"The pressure of that ring around a finger serves
equally well to ensure a dreamer's return to his world. It
gives him a constant, familiar sense on his finger."

first let me say inception is my favorite movie ever. it kicked the matrix off the top of the list for me. how is this related to that??? in the movie they use totems which would be an item you know so well that when you try it in a dream you can tell it's a dream because it won't act as in real life since dreams are inconsistent and strange with small intricate details. like in the movie one guy uses a weighted die. in real life one of these would always land on the same number, in a dream probably not. cobb uses a top, in dreams he said it never stopped spinning. this is just putting something on your wrist. totally different. directly related to acupressure which is a semi valid science. if i remember correctly there is zero talk of acupressure in that movie and no one goes to sleep with a piece of card board on their wrist. if it's because they put those tubes on their wrist that's not the same, those tubes injected them with a fictional drug which was what gave validation to all the impossibilities of the movie. not saying it won't work, i'm going to try it tonight. but why all the inception talk???

if this was an inception method tutorial it would instruct people to make and use totems. i'm confused.

however if there is some scene in the movie i'm missing then please clue me in.

which hand?

Originally Posted by Motley

which hand?

Either works. Although I recommend switching off every other night or so, that might keep your brain from getting used to the bracelet being there and ignoring it.

OK thanks a lot, I will try it

I'll give this one a shot tonight. I'm having an absolutely terrible time lucid dreaming these days; I'll try anything

Used this technique again last night.... Lucid dream . I am hoping that my past 2 lucids using this technique are not placebo ..

Ok, results from night 1 of trying this: no lucid dream, but great recall. And I was definitely headed towards a lucid dream, but unfortunately at some point in the night the cardboard got bent up and stopped touching my hand, and that's also when I stopped having great recall and stopped heading for lucidity, so I think that pretty much proves this isn't a placebo...cuz how was I to know the cardboard got bent up when I was totally asleep and in a dream?

I'll try a different setup and see how it goes. I move quite a bit in my sleep, so I need the cardboard to be really securely in place.

Originally Posted by rynkrt3

Used this technique again last night.... Lucid dream . I am hoping that my past 2 lucids using this technique are not placebo ..

This discussion is being held here. And got me thinking...(yes, believe it or not!). What if it is a placebo? Placebos in sick patients work as good as real medicines most of the time, right? and then, if this work, does it really matters whether it is a placebo or not? As far as it works...
And, as far as my understanding goes, this is more of an acupuncture thing, and acupuncture is serious stuff...
That's it, I had my say!

Respecting this technique, haven't got results yet, as I haven't found a way of propperly attach it to my wrist (I am skinny and it slides). I'll try tape next!

This is promising!
LiveInTheDream, are you using shoelace, rubberband, tape... or something else?

Originally Posted by vmenge

This is promising!
LiveInTheDream, are you using shoelace, rubberband, tape... or something else?

rubber band, but that wasn't the problem (except it left awful marks on my wrist the next day ) the cardboard I used just wasn't very strong, so it got bent up too easily.

I taped the thing to my wrist. No lucids, but I did have a few very vivid dreams which I thought were real and then when I woke up I was disoriented because I thought I was already awake in the dream...

New info, I think this works best if this isn't tried every night. I've had two lucid dreams with this, then nothing but slightly more vivid dreams. I think the brain adapts to the use of the pressure point. I'll wait a week and then try it again.

How tight should the bracelet be?