My Personal Technique for Talking to the Subconscious

At times, before falling asleep, I practice “conversations” with my subconscious — handing it my goals, my wishes, my aspirations. I find the results rather striking, though I have no reliable, scientific way to confirm whether these practices actually shape what happens next or not.

I have a technique of my own, and it’s easy to adapt to yourself.

I settle into a comfortable position, close my eyes, and try to focus on the visualization with as much attention to detail as I can.

A deserted ocean shore of light-beige, coarse sand made of ground-up seashells. The ocean an azure blue. The water rolls in and slides back along the shore, unhurried, no strong waves on it. Stillness. No one but me. A little way into the water stands an elevator with its door open. It looks like a solid box of metal, the color of the empty void of the universe. Inside, it’s beautiful: a mirrored ceiling and pale stone bas-reliefs of scenes from my life.

I step into the elevator and look around, taking in the interior down to the smallest detail. On the right — a control panel with two round buttons ringed in glowing orange. One is C, for consciousness; the other is S, for subconscious. I press S, the doors close, and the elevator starts to accelerate downward, faster and faster. I picture it racing through the different images that surface in my mind. Then it stops and opens its doors. I step out into an endless space where the floor is a gray quantum foam, forming random patterns. Usually by this point my brain is already somewhere “out there,” serene but focused on the imagined scene.

In that state, I say my long-term, most ambitious goals to myself a few times over, I picture frames from my future life where I’ve already reached them, and I try to feel what it’s like to be inside the body of my future self. Slowly, calmly, at ease.

And… that’s it!

Riding the elevator back up to level C — optional.

A wonderful side effect of this technique, for me, is that afterward I fall asleep almost at once, even when my mind was buzzing with late-night thoughts.

May the force of the subconscious be with us! 😎