Thread: Activating the left brain hemisphere to attain lucidity

I did a little experiment last night that is inconclusive but seems to have generated a good result. I have decided to make a thread about it and to post regular updates to see if my idea has any validity. Please join in and hopefully others will be able to replicate the results I achieved last night.

The idea is based on activating, or rather coaxing the left hemisphere of the brain into becoming more active during sleep. The point of this is that the part of our brain that deals with processing logical thought patterns is in this part of the brain and is dormant during sleep. Hence this is why we don't notice how illogical our dreams are and thus why we don't attain lucidity during these illogical dreams. For example when we have flying dreams we often don't notice that we are dreaming and we accept that it is perfectly normal to fly in life. This is because the logic centre in our brains is dormant when we dream and we don't 'compute' that we can't fly and therefore realise that we must be dreaming. My understanding is that the logic centre is in the left-hand side of our brains. If anyone can elaborate on this more then please join in.

I have discovered that consciously altering certain parts of our brain just by thought alone is actually very easy. To understand this more you can check out this thread of mine: http://www.dreamviews.com/f96/try-ac...-brain-127512/

I had the idea that could it be possible to instruct the left hemisphere of the brain to become more active during sleep, and thus hopefully the logic centre, to the point that when we experience something illogical in a dream we begin to question it and realise that we are dreaming or could be dreaming.

I decided to test my idea last night. I lay in bed and instead of concentrating on eyelid space I imagined moving my consciousness to the left hemisphere of my brain inside my head. I just imagined that the 'point' of my consciousness was in the middle of the left-hand side of my brain. I then simply instructed it to become more active when I'm asleep so that I can realise when I am dreaming. I kept doing this in a slow relaxed manner until I fell asleep.

Last night I had some of the strangest dreams I have ever had in my entire life. One was extremely vivid and it is unusual for me to have a dream of such vividness. After about five hours I had a dream where I started to question the nature of the dream. I didn't know it was a dream but I started to question ever so slightly the logic of what was happening. I started thinking about dreams and how hard achieving natural lucidity was. I then started to wonder if I could actually be in a dream and not awake. I even pinched the skin on my hand to see if I was dreaming. Of course this is a diabolical reality check and it didn't work and I said to myself that I was awake instead of dreaming. I have no idea why I used this instead of one of the more well known successful reality checks. This is the first time ever I have ever done a reality check in a dream to test if I am dreaming or awake even though I have tried very hard to cultivate the reality check process in the past. In the end I gave up the reality check process because it was an unsuccessful induction method for me.

I am excited that my apparent ability to be able to question the logic of a dream seems to have increased because of my little experiment, even if it was to a slight degree. I am hoping that my experiment will have a cumulative effect and will definately be doing it again to see if it does have a cumulative effect.