Inducing Dreams

I can trace back each element of a dream and find out what has influenced me during the day to have that exact element in my dream. Usually it's things that made me wonder or space out; most of all, it's things associated to a dilemma. I'm interested in inducing dreams in others. Why am I interested in this? I simply find it fascinating. To all the ethical faggots who think this is an immoral thing to do: quit reading my blog; I don't care about my reputation, and I don't care about readers. This blog is simply for introspection purposes. I have a curious spirit and I'm not going to allow the social pressure and taboos get in my way of exploring things that capture my interest.

There are three main components that I think are needed for inducing a dream: subject's full attention, their full interest, and an unanswered question. The question itself has to be a thing that the individual can personally relate to. The three elements should be incorporated. In other words, the subject has to be provided with a question, or a dilemma, that is left unresolved. This allocates a small buffer in the subconscious mind, where a search device is on the lookout for anything that might be related to the subject of the question.

The way I explain it is, we've all had this instance of not being able to remember, for example, the title of a movie. Let's say it's a film with Billy Drago and prostitutes. We get in this deep trance state but we simply can't remember the title. Perhaps hours later, we experience this Eureka moment, and we finally recall what it was, because something reminded us of it. The subconscious mind is setting up a search agent with keywords "Billy Drago, Movie, Title, Prostitutes". The search agent constantly compares new input to the keywords and checks if they all have anything in common. The movie title is "Imprint", but you don't remember that yet. You have to print a document for a project, so you click on the "Print" button with your mouse. At the same time, the search device recognizes that the word "print" is related to all of the keywords, and you suddenly remember what the movie title was.

If what we're dealing with is a "Yes/No" dilemma, the unconscious search agent would constantly be on the lookout for more instances that support either of the options, until one of them becomes convincing enough. The Keywords would be "Do X, Yes, No". Each encountered instance supporting the alternative options would be added to a list. If one falls asleep undecided, there's a chance the buffer may still be left open. And we'll tend to see the elements from the listed instances in our dreams.

In order to influence one's dreams, you have to be able to inspire them to open up a buffer in their subconscious mind, and feed them with associations. It would be one or more of these associations that they're gonna see in their dreams. So if Cats and Dogs are related, and you want Chester to dream about Dogs, you have to ask a vague question about Cats; Cats should be important to Chester; and you have to expose Chester to Dogs. Basically it goes like this:

1. SET OBJECTIVE: What do you want the person to see in his dream? Let's say it's Dogs. 2. FIND ASSOCIATIONS: What would the person associate with Dogs? Perhaps Bones, Teeth, and Cats. 3. PICK THE BEST: Pick the association that you think the individual can best relate to, and personalize. Let's say that out of Bones, Teeth, and Cats, you picked Cats. 4. GET FOCUS: Get the person's full attention. 5. PROVIDE THE QUESTION: Ask an ambiguous question, or suggest a dilemma, regarding Cats. This would activate the person's subconscious search agent. Next, change the topic, and leave the question unanswered. 6. SEED: Now, expose the individual to Dogs. This would make the search agent register Dogs as a keyword, right next to Cats, because both things are related.

I'm not sure if this works yet. I'm being merely speculative. In order to test this technique, one must know the dreamer very well. This framework helps for influencing the WHAT, but not the HOW. That is, you can put actors and objects in one's dream, but you can't write the script, itself.