Saturday, 10 August 2013

Hypnagogic imagery

Your dreams serve as a window to your subconscious mind and reveal your secret desires and feelings.Also a dreaming mind has access to vital informations that are not readily available to you when you are awake.
So,how would be like if you could recall your last night's dream?The answer to this is Hypnagogic imagery.


Scientists have designed the world's first 'dream reader', that can successfully decode your dreams with reasonable accuracy. Neuroscientist Yukiyasu Kamitani and his colleagues at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Kyoto,Japan has been successful in monitoring the brain activities of three young people as they slept inside the FMRI scanner.This surely reminds us about the Leonardo DiCaprio starrer 'Inception',where people manipulate others dreams and steal their sleeping thoughts.This might help us to demystify the complexities of human mind by exploring the subconscious state while sleeping.
However there is also an alternate theory,which claims that an altered state of consciousness can be achieved by a practicing Wake Initiated Lucid Dream(WILD) technique.The goal of this exercise is to reach a liminal state between sleeping and waking.This state of consciousness can provide vivid hypnagogic imagery and profound insights.

The "WILD" technique 
1. Find a quiet place.
2. Lie down on your back and just be comfortable.
3. Now close your eyes and say to yourself, "I will  dream lucid".
4. Patterns in the random space might start to appear, shapes could form, let your mind be a blank canvas.Just relax and passively observe what you see.
5.The images could take life, they can change quickly and flow into each other.
6. Reach out and step beyond its surface and become part of the scene,and you'll be there, lucid  and ready to enjoy.



I think there is a whole new world of possibility, unrevealed within our subconscious state of mind.So,try dreaming lucid and rediscover your inner self. And please share your individual experience with all of us.

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