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Hey. Anyone ever explore active imagination techniques? Had my first real success recently. Flew on the back of a red dragon to the top of a mountaintop . Above the clouds. Entered and explored an ornate Elizabethan era mansion. The thing I remember most clearly is a chandelier in the basement made entirely of what I initially took as ivory but proved to bleached human bone. And another one on the main floor host to a number of dangling many colored precious stones and when viewed from above was a mosaic of a blood shot eye. Pic unrelated

>>1952 sounds very interesting. could you explain how one would go about doing this?

>>1952 I have no techniques, however I have had many hyper vivid daydreams that are effective lucid dreams. It's usually just lying in bed or sitting, mulling over some hypothetical scenario or event/s, and eventually I see it as if it were real, or in a dream. Also, my eyes were of course closed during the daydreams. Furthermore, I've entered many lucid dreams by remaining conscious as my body goes into sleep, note it helps to be an insomniac (at least for me it seems to).

>eyes were of course closed during the daydreams >of course of course? it's unnecessary. it's possible to imagine anything anyway, so long as you create ''all'' details and have sufficient time. closed eyes is a mere nicety at this point.

I've had some limited success with lucid dreaming. But some fuarrrker always wakes me up.

>>1956 Until someone catches you in a blank stare, and questions your sanity.

>>1956 You need blank canvas in order for partial sensory deprivation, allows greater depth of thought-inhabitation.

In my most recent lucid experience, I played around with unintentional creation and actually surprised myself

>>1954 Its a technique developed by Carl Jung. Im still a novice but the best explanation I can give is as follows >Induce a trance state I usually stare into incense smoke with ambient music playing. When your brain starts to "synch " the two together you're on your way. >Close your eyes >either conjure an image or allow one to form on its own >Focus on holding the image, with what i can only describe as a gentle yet firm "grip" >The image will begin to move and change without your input >Let go I can only describe it as falling backwards. Allowing the unconscious mind to come forward and control the environment while you consciously engage with it Its a way of accessing the unconscious mind while in a waking state. I've jokingly refereed to it "mind walking" It takes practice. I wouldn't recommend the use of any kind of drug use during this practice. Although I sometimes have a glass of whiskey to relax my body further. But no more than that

>>1955 >I've entered many lucid dreams by remaining conscious as my body goes into sleep I read about this technique years ago in Richard Feynman's memoir but I've had trouble actually implementing it. Somehow I always lose consciousness at around the same point (around the time sleep paralysis sets in.. sometimes a little before, sometimes after). Is it just a matter of persistence or is there more to the technique that I'm missing?

>>1980 you might be so tired that you are just falling asleep remember to always be focused on what you want you already said it in your post persistence and the will to carry on Practice makes perfect it helps if you know the specific reason why you want to do it as well

I struggle to see images in my head. I don't think I have anphantasia, I just think my imagination is weak. I can kinda get "impressions" of things if that makes sense. Does anyone know of any methods to beat this? I've heard of the one where you say what you are seeing out loud but I can't do that out of the risk that the people I live with would think I'm crazy. I constantly think words in my mind, but never pictures. It bothers me.

>>1952 >Anyone ever explore active imagination techniques? Not quiiite what you're talking about but I often find pornographic pictures or drawings to be a much more vivid experience when I use my imaginaton. The visual medium, even in something like a comic or video is inherently limited to a single sense; you can't exactly get that feeling of intimacy or touch or the gentle caress of another's breath on your neck just from an image or a video, so, by sort of using the picture as a guide to picture those "intimate moments"/fantasy things in my head, just imagine what the touch feels like, what'd she say, how'd she react... Well.. Okay, it's a bit hard to explain, but try using your imagination next time you're fapping. It'll make it like 100x better. And probably make you feel really lonely and empty afterwards. Good lord, I just want to hold her in my arms again...

>>4774 You might just be overengineering it. Do you have any moments or situations in which you can visualize things well, like a vivid memory or hearing a particular song? That would be something to reflect on to capture that state of mind and attention that builds up a good visualization. If not, just roll with it. Any sort of visualization will be good enough to get started, and as you get more comfortable doing visualization the details will fill out on their own. Be content with what you have to work with and let your mind fill out the rest over time.

Kinda wish I could travel back in time and save young Brenda Spencer from her abusive household and turn her into my girlfriend. When I see photos of young her I just wanna snuggle and kiss her.

I've tried active imagination techniques + transcendental meditation but haven't had much luck.