The best way to create sigils is just to play around, like a child in art class. These are specific symbols of power for you; no one else needs to be able to recognize your intentions for these symbols so don’t worry about perfection. There is no right or wrong. (From www.bewitchingways.com )
Just play around, let your creativity show, and remember that, technically, (Ahem), you don’t need to use all of the letters. One of the steps crucial to the visualization process is minimizing the image to a small glyph and cutting off the rest. Check out Tsondru’s really helpful link in the first post for additional assistance.
thanks, I did it okay - it looks like a ball (or a faceless smiley) with a plastic cup for a hat. The cup has like a cross on it… I have all the letters in it too!
hmm… I’m gonna be contemplating paradoxes, I know a little bit about them.
I just did that and I was so relaxed I could have just fallen asleep on the spot! It was cool. how long should it take for me to get the message into my SC?
Meh, a few minutes tops. Don’t try too hard. As long as the belief and the intention are there, the effect will follow. Sigils are like The Secret on speed.
Don’t forget to destroy it and forget! It’s the most fun part.
why this over autosuggestion, especially talking to the subconscious about what you want (proper language being HAVE) while dozing off to bed, waking up from dreams, etc?
i’ve tried sigils before, not entirely too seriously, but i think a more interesting way is to use each night’s sleep as a chance to program reality.
Good question, holyreality. For starters, Sigils require creativity, visualization, and much more effort than Auto. I think the sheer “magic” of the designs themselves could inspire a LD. It’s just more fun and in my opinion more effective. Who said you couldn’t use both simultaneously, anyway? Sigils make for a great standalone or supplementary LD method, and I think that versatility always helps.
W00t! Just had a really long Sigil LD with high lucidity! My first good LD in my whole life! Eat that, WILD!
To answer your Q holy reality, when it comes to Sigils vs Autosuggestion in matters besides Lucid Dreaming, I still think that the messages to your Subconscious are a bit stronger with Sigils because of the creation process. They both work fine, heck they even work good when used together, but I still have a gut feeling that Sigils are better.
Another inquiry then about manifestation, what of prayer? I think it could be the most powerful of all if someone has deep faith in who they are praying to (whomever they wish including their own self).
I know because all the really powerful manifestations are happening to a devout Christian I know, and she and others are basically living jobless via prayer manifestations. It is quite remarkable.
edit: I have crafted a mantra using the sigil technique which I will try for MILD.
My will is that it will very quickly bring me into the dreamstate upon falling asleep, rather than dozing off with the potential to lose consciousness, but I more or less practice MILD / WILD every night and generally am lucid every night that I really want to be.