DAY ONE 

        We are here to establish a routine that you can follow which will aid you in dreaming.  The most important factor is your desire to dream and trusting in the fact that you, like everybody else, are quite capable of dreaming, and dream recall. 
        We start by focusing on Stage One.  The moment before we sleep.  In stage on, we create a simple model that I call a "psychological device".  This model exists purely as a form of "cognitive technology."  The first step to this model is you standing at the edge of your bed. 

STAGE ONE: 

        Start by standing at the edge of your bed.  Take a few breaths and mentally prepare yourself for dreaming.  Enter a frame of mind with the purpose too dream.  Tell yourself in your mind or out loud the following affirmation. 

         "I am going to bed for the purpose of dreaming.  I know that I do dream so I will fully, 
          consciously, willingly dream with full knowing that this is my desire, my intent, my will to do 
          so." 

         Become aware of the fact you are about to fall asleep.  Generate a strong awareness of how you feel when you are awake.  Create a "map," in your mind, of that feeling.  Observe how you can recall your name, where you live, how you can remember details in your room.  Tell yourself this: 

         "I will be as I am now here in Waking Physical Reality with my full mental abilities needed to 
         observe, record this experience and remember as clearly as I do now, but this time, I will be 
         as I am here, but in the dreamstate." 
 

         Go to bed; take a few relaxing breaths.  Think about how much fun you will have, how great this will be.  Become excited and enthusiastic about dreaming.  This is going to be fun!  We are about to enter stage two, but before then.  Make another mental map of yourself.  Think about your abilities to recall information, analyze, think, and store memory.  This is part of everything that makes you, "you."  Impress this on the dream by saying: 

         "I am clear, fully awake, fully aware.  My intent is to have a clear dream of which I will have 
         full memory.  When I awake, I will remember my dream in full, clear and vivid detail.  I am 
         in bed, about to fall asleep.  I know that I will be dreaming." 

STAGE TWO 

        This is a critical stage for your dream development.  Much can happen here as you begin to fall asleep.  The important thing is, you can fall asleep normally.  We are not trying to remain conscious, just dream.  Stage Two is not as important at this point.  It will be extremely vital later, so you need to become aware of it, and start to map it out.  To do this, as you fall asleep…remind yourself to remember what effects and changes you went though before you totally lost consciousness. 
        This is the hypnogogic territory.  In this state, many things can happen see HYPNOGOGIC STATES AND BARRIERS for more information.  You will need to remember what stages you experienced as you fall asleep as you will have to record them.  This will help later when we begin lucid dreaming. 

STAGE THREE 

       This is the dream. 

STAGE FOUR 

        When you wake up, write down what you experienced as you fell asleep.  I have included a questionnaire for you to use.  Secondly, write down what you have dreamt.  If you have some difficulty remembering, even if you don’t remember at all.  Sit down in a quite place where you will be undisturbed.  Make sure there is no distracting sounds, close your eyes and remind yourself that you slept so you must have dreamt and just search for any traces of a dream.  Write down even the faintest details that come to you.  This helps develop a routine and you will progressively remember more dreams with more details if you constantly take the time to try to recall.  Failure to do so will end up in loss dreams, poor dream habits, and poor dream recall practices.  You'll find dreams will just start flowing once you focus on them on a regular basis. 

QUESTIONAIRRE 

1.) How long do you estimate it took before you fell asleep? 
2.) Did you notice any hypnogogic effects? 
a.) Color, images, flashes of light?  Please Describe. 
b.) Faint sounds, music, noise?  Please Describe. 
c.) Vibrations, physical sensations?  Please Describe. 
d.) Did your thoughts change to abstract thoughts?  Please Describe. 
e.) You don't remember you just fell deep asleep?  Yes / No 
3.) Give a small detailed list of what you can remember before falling asleep: 
4.) Did you remember dreaming?  Yes/No 
5.) Were you Lucid in the dream?  Yes/No 
6.) Please describe in as much detail what you recall of your dream. 

DAY TWO 

         Start day two with a smile.  Wake up and tell yourself you will have a good day.  Get positive.  Make sure to practice some of the stress release techniques, and dream enhancing techniques as described above.  Compare what you remember of your dream in terms of perception to how you see waking physical reality.  Ask yourself if you were dreaming right now, what would you change?  Think about those changes and imagine them as clearly as you can.  Make it something fun. 
        We are going to start using the dreams for problem solving, and stress release.  When you prepare for tonight's dream, still follow the four stages as described above.  This time, we are going to add a specific focus for the dream to help lighten the load of stress/anxiety/fear and let the dream do some problem solving for you. 

STAGE ONE 

         Repeat the same steps in Stage One of Day One.  This time, we are adding an intent to start creating a structure for you to dream.  This intent is a programmable purpose for tonight's dream.  In this case, we will make it a problem solving/stress release technique.  This is done with your eyes closed, and mentally repeated in your mind. 

INTENT: - "I am allowing myself to use my dream to release any stress I am under, and help in 
                    solving (any desired issue) that I am having.  This will be done in a fun, stress-free, 
                    enjoyable manner.  I will have full conscious knowledge of this dream when I wake up. 
                    My memory will be clear, detailed and vivid." 

STAGE TWO 

          Remind yourself now as you fall asleep to pay some attention to the natural sleeping process you have.  Remind yourself you will remember the changes towards unconsciousness. 

STAGE THREE 

        I hope that you are having a good stress releasing and/or problem-solving dream during this stage. 

STAGE FOUR 

       You can fill out in your dream journal this questionnaire. 

QUESTIONAIRE 

1.)  How long do you estimate it took before you fell asleep? 
2.) Did you notice any hypnogogic effects? 
     a.) Color, images, flashes of light?  Please Describe. 
     b.) Faint sounds, music, noise?  Please Describe. 
     c.) Vibrations, physical sensations?  Please Describe. 
     d.) Did your thoughts change to abstract thoughts?  Please Describe. 
     e.) You don't remember you just fell deep asleep?  Yes / No 
3.) Give a small detailed list of what you can remember before falling asleep: 
4.) Did you have an intent before sleeping?  Yes/No 
5.) What was that intent? 
6.) Did you remember dreaming?  Yes/No 
7.) Were you Lucid in the dream?  Yes/No 
8.) Did you dream your desired intent?  Please write down your desired intent. 
9.) Please describe in as much detail what you recall of your dream. 
 

DAY THREE  

        Now that you have had some practice with dreaming, I hope by now you have had two clearly remembered dreams.  Each day, compare how much more you remember if anything at all.  Try to keep track of your progress, and make note of anything that may cause problems in your sleeping patterns i.e., bad sleep habits, restless nights, stress, anxiety etc.  This is important because you are going to become your greatest teacher once you start to identify the challenging areas and learn how to overcome them.  Having a clear understanding of your sleep patterns will help. 
        For Day Three work on releasing stress/anxiety and fears.  Develop a sense of inner peace because this helps tone down many the heavier emotions we tend to want to avoid in our life.  A small 20-minute quite meditation is healthy and doesn't require anything but a deliberate focus for the removal of stress etc. 
        If you have many repeat dreams, day three might help.  We are working on problem solving and removal of excess emotional baggage in this course.  This will help you in the more advanced stages of consciousness and personal growth.  Focus on a repeating dream that you may still experience.  Think about the possibility it may be something you need to face or solve in that dream.  This time, you are going to pre-program your dream for tonight's lesson to solve and change that repeating dream. 
         My observed understanding of repeat dreams is usually an issue that needs to be resolved.  If you do not have any repeat dreams, then this pre-programming is of your benefit.  The next few sessions we will attempt to pre-program desired dream adventures to make the move conscious dreaming fun. 

STAGE ONE 

 Follow the same steps in session one, but this time we change the intent. 

FOR REOCCURRING DREAMS 

INTENT: - "I am aware that I have reoccurring dreams.  My desire is to solve any issues that I 
                    may face in this dream.  This time, I will be in control.  At any time, I can change the 
                    dream should I desire too.  My solution will be fun, enjoyable, funny and clear to the 
                    point.  I will remember in full clear detail my dream, and the solution when I awake. 

[If the repeat dream is a nightmare, add] 

                   "I know that I am dreaming, and dreams cannot hurt me.  I create my dreams of my 
                    own free will and can alter/change/modify them at will." 

        Try to use as much visualization as to your changes to this dream.  Go over some of the details in your mind, and imagine some changes that you desire.  If you ever get frightened because of nightmares, the balancing techniques for stress release we use here can be applied.  Just calm down, take a few dream breaths and focus on peace, love and tranquility.  That or just pull out a dream cannon and blast away.  Either solution works.  When I was younger, I used to pack a gun in my dreams for self-defense.  I had such horrible nightmares that each night, I would take an imaginary gun with me and it helped me face some of my darkest fears. 

PRE-PROGRAMMING INTENT 

INTENT: - "I am allowing myself to influence my dreams so that I dream in full vivid detail and 
                    clarity my desired dream." 

[Visually and mentally impress what you want to dream here and picture it in a window.  Tie it down 
  with some fun thing you really like to do, or want to experience.] 

       Examples of some fun things to dream really depends on what you really like to do.  Watch a movie, fly across space, play Luke Skywalker in some epic tale of heroic valor, dance with moonbeams, read astrophysics.  Personally, it's your dreamland; you create what you most desire.  Just use your imagination and have fun. 

STAGE TWO: - Remains the same as above. 

STAGE THREE: - Hopefully is your dream. 

STAGE FOUR: - Use the same procedure in Stage Four of Day Two. 
 
DAY FOUR 

        At this point, your should start to develop clearer dreams.  If not, take a look at what might be causing you not to dream.  Are you following the course?  Do you have the motivation, desire and passion to dream?  Is there outside factors influencing your sleep?  Are you under the influence of drugs or alcohol?  Are you having fun?  Do you need more stimulating dreams?  At any rate, keep practicing because this is a skill, and an art form.  It takes practice, training and some discipline. 
        Make sure to keep mapping out the waking day.  Compare your waking physical reality to your dreams and see how much quality, consistency and detail you have while dreaming.  Dreams once fully realized can be super-real if not more than waking physical reality.  You may have already experienced super-real dreaming. 
       Try to make the next four days of dreaming fun and exciting.  Continue to work on programming your dreams.  Progress further in the hypnogogic territories in Stage Two, as we are preparing to advanced into lucid dreaming.  Continue to try to challenge yourself with your dreams, try to make each dream clearer, longer, more vivid dream.  If you need more problem solving, or stress release, continue with this style of dreaming.  On the other hand, need to break some more repeating dreams, just continue to follow the above. 
       Work towards pre-programming your dreams.  Get used to thinking in vivid images, sounds, textures, smells, and tastes while you begin to sleep.  I used to play many mind-made video games to try to incorporate a lot of thinking, sound, color and animation.  Other things I would do were; listen to music, then think in music.  You'll understand more as you practice with these natural abilities of your consciousness how they relate to good strong dreaming skills.  Dreams are as much a language, as they are an art form. 

STAGE ONE 

        As in Day Three. 
 
STAGE TWO 

        We are going to start manipulating the hypnogogic territories here.  Remember a song that you love.  Just think the song at first, and relax and let it slowly just play.  Don't worry about how clear, how accurate, or how close it is.  Try to imagine the song, focus on making it louder and clearer.  This requires a relaxed, focused sense of "allowing."  Do not be forceful, or try too hard, this pushes away the desired state. 
        Play with sounds and music.  See if you can create any sound you desire just by thinking in that sound.  I can experience clear sounds; music can be as loud and real as if I was wearing headphones.  Remind yourself to remember how clear these sounds are.  Try sampling a song with headphones on to get some practice.  Listen to the song and recreate it in the Hypnogogia States. 

STAGE THREE 

      Should be your desired dream 

STAGE FOUR 

       Use the same questionnaire from Day Two - Stage Four.  Make a note of how successful the sounds were. 

DAY FIVE 

       Continue with the meditations, the relaxation, and the dream building techniques.  You should start to see why dreams are a good source of entertainment.  Treat yourself like a king/queen in your dreams.  Fill each night with wild adventures, knowing it's going to get better and better because you are in control of it.  We are starting to play with hypnogogic territories more regularly.  This is to help you learn to control this stream of potentially vivid thought and experience. 
       We will work with visual imagery for this exercise.  By now, you should be savoring life, eating foods you enjoy with the intent to map the experience.  Absorb the fullness of music, life, and passionate living.  All this mapping helps to establish stronger dreams that are more vivid.  If you like art, movies or video games, this session we will try to either watch a movie, view some art, or play a video game as we fall asleep in the hypnogogic territories of Stage Two. 

STAGE ONE 

        Same as Day Three. 

STAGE TWO 

        As you fall asleep, try to think about something you enjoy.  A movie, art or a video game.  As with the music from last lesson, when you begin to fall asleep.  Start imagining scenes from your favorite movie, or start playing a video game.  The objective is to get so involved in this that it starts to become vivid and clear.  Work on recalling the sounds for the game as well.  Take a patient, peaceful approach and don't let if frighten you if you shift consciously into a dream.  As you know, we are progressing towards "Lucid Dreaming" rather than just dreaming. 

STAGE THREE 
 
       The dream 

STAGE FOUR 

       Fill out the questionnaire from Day Two, and make a note of how successful the hypnogogic movie/art/video game went. 

DAY SIX 

        By now, you should see that your ability to think changes as you fall asleep.  You are now taking responsibility for creating the vivid dream reality you desire.  Dreams are a form of art such as singing, playing music, drawing, painting, writing etc.  You don't have to be an artist to dream.  You just need to know what you like to dream.  I'd rather see you enjoying some wild adventures and stomping out some horrid nightmares because you are growing more adept at controlling your dreams, and your thinking abilities.  Day six will not be any exception.  To day, continue with the 20-minute meditation if needed.  Continue the cognitive mapping and compare the quality of dreams to this reality.  See what areas you need to develop more.  Are you dreams lacking smell?  Are they lacking Taste?  Time to put this too the test. 

STAGE ONE 

        As Day Three. 

STAGE TWO 
 
        While entering this state, you should be getting used to it by now.  At this point, imagine a table with some food on it, and a drink.  Make it a rich, flavorful food.  I like creamy pasta with garlic bread and a glass of beer.  Now just like the music and sound.  Try to create the visual sensations of the room, the table, the food and the drink.  Just pace it out slowly, eat a mouthful of the food and take time to really imagine and remember its taste and texture.  Try to recall temperature as well.  If you are getting better at this skill, you will be amazed just how vivid this initial stage of dreaming can be if you can change your thinking skills from a linear verbal language to a third dimensional sensory interactive thought.  A big step from the usual "Hi, my name is Ted.  I think like this in my head." 

STAGE THREE 

        This is the dream; some of you may experience spontaneous lucid dreams by now because of exercises and working with hypnogogic states.  I hope that you're having a great dream. 

STAGE FOUR 

        Follow the questionnaire in Day Two.  Just make a note of how successful the hypnogogic dinner went. 

DAY SEVEN 

        This is graduation day from the Introduction to Dreams.  Day Seven should be the most focused dream you have had.  Your enthusiasm should be increased, your motivation high.  There is lots of work to cover, don't think that just because your dreaming more vividly is a reason to stop there.  We have Lucid Dreaming to entertain us even more. 
        Day Seven is open for you to dream what ever you desire.  We are going for a consciousness stream and trying to stretch out the dream by exaggerating the time of the dream for your dreaming pleasure. 

STAGE ONE 

       As in Day Three replace the old intent with the following 

INTENT: -"I am allowing myself to have a long, series of dreams which I will remember clearly, 
                   vividly and in full detail.  I know that I can dream, and I know I can dream for extremely 
                   long hours." 

STAGE TWO 

         Still playing with the Hypnogogic Territories, we are going to play with tactile sensations.  Try to create rain falling on you.  Create the vivid scene of clouds, mountains etc.  Watch each drop fall, and let them hit you.  Keep recalling this for some time relaxing your control, balancing out your thoughts until it just naturally flows peacefully around you.  Make the drops big and huge, turn it into a raging storm the more you feel and sense the tactile sensations of this form of thinking. 

STAGE THREE 

        The dream. 

STAGE FOUR 

      Use the same questionnaire as in Day Two, and make note of the rainstorm.