Image Streaming Tutorial

[Raspberry]

The only bad thing is that it might be a black and white dream.

Would it help to use color in your drawings?

I like this. . . it is a great point.  I'm a musician, and music always fills my dreams after a night of rehearsal or performance.  It is complete immersion, and it does carry over.

I am a sketch artist, so I don't color. I really don't have a coloring media. But I am sure it would help to color the drawing.

I love music in dreams, I am quite envious of you.

[anti_nation]

Wow this sounds so incredible!! I'm not sure but I might have done this before. On long car rides when I was young I would look out the window and just get lost in these incredible vivid daydreams. I would imagine myself (in all honesty) a human shaped rabbit holding onto a chain that's attached to the roof of the car I was riding in, swinging myself back and forth, bending gravity as I floated and everything. I would imagine the cool wind rushing past my face and the roar of the car as I ran beside it, and floated on my belly a foot off the side of the road. I imagined using my momentum to throw saw blades into the trees, clearing out whole rows of them.

I would be so into the daydreams that the long car rides seemed like a short drive. I don't think I did any of the talking out loud bits but it sure was vivid. I gotta try this the way you guys were describing it! Would this be the same thing?

[Sunshine]

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[iadr]

I'm not sure but I might have done this before. On long car rides when I was young I would look out the window and just get lost in these incredible vivid daydreams. I would imagine myself (in all honesty) a human shaped rabbit holding onto a chain that's attached to the roof of the car I was riding in, swinging myself back and forth, bending gravity as I floated and everything. I would imagine the cool wind rushing past my face and the roar of the car as I ran beside it, and floated on my belly a foot off the side of the road. I imagined using my momentum to throw saw blades into the trees, clearing out whole rows of them.

I would be so into the daydreams that the long car rides seemed like a short drive. I don't think I did any of the talking out loud bits but it sure was vivid. I gotta try this the way you guys were describing it! Would this be the same thing?

Thanks for your reply anti_nation. Those well could have been image streams or WILDs you were experiencing on those long car rides. The main difference between an image stream and a day dream is that with an image stream you subconscious will take over and start providing the scenes. With a WILD the scene may become so alive that you will feel like you are actually there, or else you may suddenly find yourself somewhere else doing something completely different. If you happen to be in any of those scenes yourself then I'd consider that a WILD and not an image stream.

If nothing else those kind of daydreams are a great way to get the images coming from your subconscious so you can find yourself in a WILD.

As far the verbal feedback, the primary reason for that is to let your subconscious know that you received the images it sent to you, so whether you give that feedback out loud or silently it should work either way, as long as your subconscious knows you received the image, which should then encourage it to provide more images.

[anti_nation]

I tried this last night. I got through about two images. I imagined a guitar and I heard music, I felt the strings on my fingers and I smelled dusty wood. This was right as I was in bed and falling asleep. I can't remember much but I imagined another image and I was just knocked out. Image streaming put me to sleep so quick it was unreal. 

[Sunshine]

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[Shellidfl]

I believe I should talk about it here.
Drawing right before going to bed delivers the same effect as streaming images. You are encased in your art, and that image will stay within your mind for a long time. And you drew each detail, so the details will be picked up in your dreams. I use to draw all the time to help with my Lucids when I went to bed. I just drew what I wanted to dream about.
The only bad thing is that it might be a black and white dream.

I noticed some guests were looking at this topic, which, in-and-of-itself, is cool!  It also made me want to bump it.  Then, I saw this post.

An old and very dear friend and her hubby visited us this week.  They both (luckily) retired at the age of 50, and have done lots of world travelling, volunteering, and occasional work.  She was (and still is ) a nurse.

She told me that she started to do Zen-Tangle, which is a sort of art form.  As you follow the single line, at least as she described, you become meditative, zen-like.

I wonder if I tried this before bed, and tried iadr's image streaming, as I suspect he still does and is truly reason for his continued success, I can get more into LD without supps?

My plan (after tonight, anyway - supps calling  ) is to try this method with doing something zen-like, and maybe get a book and a  very fine-tipped pen to do the Zen-Tangle.

Anywho, wanted to bump this for the newer members of the site!

[iadr]

I wonder if I tried this before bed, and tried iadr's image streaming, as I suspect he still does and is truly reason for his continued success, I can get more into LD without supps?

Thanks for bumping the thread Shelli. Although we've made no conscious effort to do this for a while, but probably should, and might start doing again, we sort of do it anyway by the way we record our WILDs using a digital voice recorder, because we record them right as they are happening, which seems to provide the verbal feedback needed to encourage our subconscious to continue providing more images. Because the nights that we're able to get the images started early in the night, they seem to come effortlessly all night long. We're thinking that if we assume the image streaming position before going to bed, and are able to get the images flowing before going to bed, that it will make it easier to keep them flowing all night long, which will result in either a lot of lucids or else vivid dreams. Then the only problem we will have is finding time to record them all..