Let Your Day Die!

Let your day die, by that I mean stop going over everything that happened during the day all through the night. You already lived that day so why do you want to live it twice, let your day die. You’re up all night you have complete and utter insomnia simply because you’re constantly paying attention to the things that happened during your day. Your focus on them extremely, thinking about what you should’ve did and what you didn’t do. Focus on your rest, say to yourself I did all I could do today I can do no more the only thing that I possibly can do is rest my body and correct my mistakes tomorrow. If your body gets no rest you’ll never be capable of correcting your mistakes, if you’re never capable of correcting your mistakes, then you never truly grow and evolve.

Dream Meditation Training

Using concentration and deep meditation techniques to put yourself to sleep, is definitely a great way to fight different sleep disorders such as insomnia this can be considered one of the natural sleep aids. I’ve been trying this method out for a while now, it seems to have deeply positive effects on the mental state that I’m in right before I want to go to bed. I usually load of the video one of the main YouTube videos that they use for this is by Jody Whiteley she has a huge list of relaxation and dream videos. Once I start playing this audio, the relaxing feel to it starts the help me to drift off into sleep, and because I don’t have to repeat anything because the person is basically repeating everything for me I’m slowly relaxed. Once I get into this deeper relaxed state I naturally start to fall asleep without having to force myself to be tired. I put on one of these videos every night before I go to bed because the deep meditation method definitely is a huge sleep aid.

Dreaming Out Loud

Lucid dreaming is an extraordinarily vivid form of mental imagery, so realistic that the trick is to realize it is a mental construct. It is no surprise, therefore, that many people use lucid dreaming to rehearse for success in waking life. Examples of such applications include public speaking, difficult confrontations, artistic performance and athletic prowess. Because the activity of the brain during a dreamed activity is the same as during the real event, neuronal patterns of activation required for a skill (like a ski jump or pirouette) can be established in the dream state in preparation for performance in the waking world. See EWLD for examples. The creative potential of dreams is legendary. The brain is highly active in REM sleep and unconstrained by sensory input, which together may contribute to the novel combinations of events and objects we experience as dream bizarreness. This same novelty allows thought to take on forms that are rare in waking life, manifesting as enhanced creativity, or defective thinking depending on one's point of view (As Roland Fisher put it, "One man's creativity is another's brain damage."). The claim of enhanced creativity of the dream state is supported by LI research: One study found word associations immediately after awakening from a dream to be 29% more likely to be uncommon compared to word associations later in the day (NightLight, 6.4, 1994). Another study comparing a variety of kinds of experience including daydreams, memories of actual events, and dreams, found that dreams were judged as being significantly more creative than both daydreams and memories (NL, 4.1, 1992). In any case, many lucid dreamers report using dreams for The effects of visual imagery on the body are well-established. Just as skill practice in a dream can enhance waking performance, healing dream imagery may improve physical health. Medical patients have often used soothing and positive imagery to alleviate pain, and the dream world offers the most vivid form of imagery. Thus, some people have use lucid dreams in overcoming phobias, working with grief, decreasing social and sexual anxieties, achieving greater self-confidence and by directing the body image in the dream to facilitate physical healing. The applications, which are described in greater detail in EWLD, deserve clinical study, as they may be the greatest boon that lucid dreaming has to offer. Other potential healing applications of lucid dreaming include: practice of physical skills by stroke and spinal cord injury patients to encourage recovery of neuromuscular function, enjoyment of sexual satisfaction by people with lower body sensory loss (fully satisfying dream sex requires only mental stimulation!), more rapid recovery from injury or disease through the use of lucid dream imagery, and an increased sense of freedom for anyone who feels limited by disability or circumstance.