Thread: The "Inception" Technique - Tried and True

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.

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

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.

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.

How tight should the bracelet be?

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.

This is really exciting! I'll try it tonight... I had 3 lucid dreams when I had left off doing reality checks, went back to reality checks again and nothing. Left off again, thinking, when I give up it's when they happen (I read somewhere that that happens often). But nothing yet. I am getting a bit disappointed. But now I'll try this!

FWIW I used this last night, and I didn't have an LD, but I did recal 3 dreams. Normally I just have 1, maybe 2 in a night that I remember. IDK if its a coincidence or what, I'll have to keep experimenting. It could've also been just from the fact that I was reading about dreaming and LDs all day, or maybe the bracelet just got annoying and kept waking me up?

I can't attest to getting LDs with this method but after being out of the game for three weeks (with absolutely no attempts at reality checking or dream journaling) I tried this method. Instead of making my own cardboard bracelet I used a conveniently sized watch instead. It works wonders. I hadn't remembered a dream in a few weeks and then the last two days I had two very vivid very interesting dreams.

The Technique:
I chose to call this the Inception technique because it's cool and, like in Inception, you will use an induction device attached to your wrist. The induction device in question is a 1-inch square piece of cardboard. Make a light-fitting bracelet using this piece of cardboard as a "centerpiece" and wear it to bed.

Tried it last night and nothing. Neither LD nor better recall. Was wondering: Has the cardboard piece to be thick in order to put more presure to the wrist? Mine was thin as a business card, folded to prevent its bending... If you could add some more info about this...

Originally Posted by BridgetJones09

Tried it last night and nothing. Neither LD nor better recall. Was wondering: Has the cardboard piece to be thick in order to put more presure to the wrist? Mine was thin as a business card, folded to prevent its bending... If you could add some more info about this...

Definitely needs to be thicker. I actually use two 1 inch squares cut from a box stacked on top of each other for my bracelet.

I think I'll try this, I'll use my watch instead though.

I tried this tonight, for the first time. I used a piece of cardboard from a cereal box taped to a rubber band. I didn't have any lucid dreams, but I did have three interesting non-lucid dreams, the first two of which were very convincing false awakenings. Details are in my dream journal.

(yes, this is my first post - hi! I'll write a self-introduction later.)

Hi Emiko!

I'm going to try this again tonight. I've only used it once. It's weird because for the past two nights I haven't remembered dreams at all. I occasionally have dry spells where I go up to a month w/o dream recall, but its usually because I get lazy w/ my dream journal. Recently I've been thinking about LDs all day and stuff though O_o so I hope this works to at least get me some regular dreams like it did before.

YAY! I got a lucid dream! I did some fild, and I got lucid. It's the first time I got lucid with this technique so I don't know if it's coincidence, I'll try it again tonight

Fair warning to everyone: I tried this last week and had a terrifying experience. I "tied" the cardboard to my wrist with a rubber band since it was the only thing I could find around to tie it with. When I woke up, I had cut my circulation and my hand was completely dead and no feeling whatsoever. Like I could have chopped off a couple of fingers and not felt it. I freaked out, but after a while of taking it off my hand came back to life. Not to discourage anyone from this technique, just be wary! Don't tie it too tightly! Good luck with your dreaming experiments though!

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!

I tried it yesterday, and it didn't work for me. I had very shitty recall too. I might try it again though.