Rauno Metsa
startups & consciousness
Waking up in your dreams is a cognitive skill that you can learn, and some smart people have come up with many different techniques for that.
I'm not going to go into these different techniques here because there are too many. I also don't know which one of them is the best one because people are different and it depends, but I DO know that one of the most popular techniques was invented by the father of lucid dreaming Stephen LaBerge in the late 1970s at Stanford.
I also know this has worked for me. It's called Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreaming but that's just too long and we're going with MILD.
I built a very simple app that lets you write down your dreams and go through the MILD process. This is how it works:
1. Do whatever you do in your bed before going to sleep. Read a book or scroll on your phone. Whatever puts you in the mood.
But the last thing you do before closing your eyes is read your latest dream and replay it in your mind. Find a moment where you COULD have realized you were dreaming and ask yourself: what would I have done then?
2. Then, when you wake up in the morning, the first thing you do is write down your dream:
3. There's also a separate Dreams tab where you can type your dreams whenever: during nocturnal awakenings or during the day when you suddenly remember a dream:
The app is available on the App Store for iPhone. Everything is ready for Android, too, but I'm waiting for my Google Play developer account to be activated. it seems that Google Play now requires you to find 20 (!) people to first test your app and THEN you can publish it.
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