In this article, I will talk about a way to enter lucid sleep using a smartphone.
In the early 2000s, most computers had CRT monitors, and the Internet was via a modem over a telephone line or GPSR through a push-button telephone (I had a Motorola c 650) connected to a computer via USB. Movies, games and other entertaining content people usually shared with each other on CD / DVD discs.
If now people have continuous access to "tons" of entertainment content, then before we thought more about what to do / entertain ourselves in our free time.
In my student years, in the early 2000s, I was a little fond of reading literature on esotericism and psychology. One of these books was about "lucid dreams." A person who has comprehended this practice could be the master of his dreams and by an effort of his will to see the desired plots in a dream.
To master this technique, it was proposed to keep a kind of "dream diary", where a person had to write down in great detail everything that he saw in a dream. There was even some kind of computer program with binaural beats, listening to which (through headphones), a person had to enter a state of lucid sleep.
This practice seemed to me very tempting and interesting, but I remembered my dreams very badly, and I was too lazy to keep a dream diary. I was also afraid that one of the family members would find and read this diary)).
I tried to sleep with headphones on while listening to special binaural beats, but I couldn't sleep, so I gave up on this idea.
About two years ago, I began to notice one peculiarity that in the morning, when the alarm clock on the smartphone is already signaling, but the body still wants to continue sleeping, and I click on the screen “Repeat in 10 minutes.”, Then I fall into a short and vivid sleep. After 10 minutes, I repeat this procedure again, and again I have a short vivid dream. This way I can see a whole kaleidoscope of dreams, lasting 10 minutes, until I get bored. For over a year now, I have independently learned how to manage the plot of sleep in this morning kaleidoscope, without any third-party methods. A normal night's sleep is still not manageable.
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I believe that when the brain is in a state between sleep and "half-asleep", the mechanism for controlling dreams becomes more accessible.
This "trick" with the morning alarm clock began to work only in Vietnam. This did not happen to me in Russia. In general, try it, then write in the comments about your experience.