Help with visualization please.

Hey everybody, I am currently starting to use the MILD technique to try and have LD's.

My main problem is that I can't visualize stuff very well. It's hard to explain - like, I can get a good clear picture in my head but it just dissipates quickly. When all the MILD tutorials I've read say that you should visualize for 5-10 minutes, that really discourages me, because I can't string together 20 seconds of visualization.

Is there anything I can do to help my self visualize solid and continuously? I know some people will just say "Practice" but it's hard to practice something that you can't really do to begin with.

-thanks in advance for any reply's.

I've always been curious about visualization for years. I've had a few times were my visualizations are quite solid, but they usually won't remain steady. It is difficult to hold together a single visualization for a long time.

In order to introduce the best visualizations your going to have to shut off that inner voice/judge (your left brain), you can't judge them or analyse the visualizations. So just make sure your mind is blank beforehand, some meditation usually helps that. Visualizations are big pictures (how the right brain works), and so you use the right brain to form them, just like dreams. I believe that technically a visualization is a dream, just a very loose, weak, and flexible one.

The right brain works through a single feeling to generate a big picture scene, in order to involve yourself in your visualizations, you have to feel like what if you where there, if that makes sense. Feel like you'd feel if you were standing right there. It's not an emotion, it's a "vibe" that you get automatically when you first think about a scene, just focus on that vibe. It's kind of like, the vibe of the color blue, that "vibe" of blue holds everything you ever thought of the color blue and stores it in the feeling. If your imagining your dream really try to remember how you "felt" in it, not necessarily worrying about the details of what you saw, they will come naturally with the feeling. Because it's the feeling that ties together all the details.

Also if your visualizing for MILD, try visualizing with your eyes open. It's easier that way because the part of your brain that controls visions is overall more active.

I searched visualization exercises on google a while back and found some that seemed pretty useful, I haven't really been working with them much so I don't know how helpful they really are.

Please, don't get discouraged because of visualization. It's not my strong suit either, and yet, I'm having lucids. I also practice MILD. You should find what works for you and practice that.

After all, once you end up in lucid dream, if you don't like the location, you can change it.

If you still want to visualize, it helps to visualize places that you are very familiar with and have some emotional ties to.

Here is a very easy visualization exercise : While relaxing in bed turn on some very soft music ( I use NPR radio sometimes) and imagine seeing someone ice skating to it. This technique also works well for people with insomnia.

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Originally Posted by faceonmars

Here is a very easy visualization exercise : While relaxing in bed turn on some very soft music ( I use NPR radio sometimes) and imagine seeing someone ice skating to it. This technique also works well for people with insomnia.

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Hmm, NPR, huh? Wouldn't it make more sense to visualize some people saying the things that they are saying on the radio? I can see that being interesting.

I do MILD and LD about once a week. Visualization isn't really something I use. I prefer to get back to the dreamy state I was in before when I awoke and then affirm I will remember I am dreaming.

For some reason I can visualize things very well, but during my wbtb attempts I lose it and can't hold it at all. It is disappointing since that is when I need it most.

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Originally Posted by Frobthebuilder

Hmm, NPR, huh? Wouldn't it make more sense to visualize some people saying the things that they are saying on the radio? I can see that being interesting.

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That's interesting that you should say that as I have experimented with visualizing people talking on the radio, also. It helps if they have a calming voice!