• TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Probably about 5-10 minutes most of the time.

    Your brain chatters to itself all the time, so if you stfu with the inner monologue and instead just try to eavesdrop on what’s going on in the background, that leads pretty much directly into a dream state.

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      1 year ago

      Thats called WILD!

      Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming, hard to do but pretty cool if you can pull it off.

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      1 year ago

      Same, I have sleep tracks I listen to as well that usually start with a relax/disrupt your self-think exercise and then start describing a scene, like a train ride through pastures, this is not the same as leaving the TV or YouTube running, or an audiobook; it’s intentionally boring and low engagement but it gives you something to focus on listening to so that you don’t get caught up in your own thoughts, similar to the eavesdropping.

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        1 year ago

        Interesting. I basically do this to myself by counting two breaths and repeating that count while focusing on the darkness behind my eyelids. If I catch my mind wandering I go back to the simple count and staring at my eyelids again. Works pretty well most of the time as I’m not picturing anything nor am I allowing my inner monologue to run away on me.