Thread: My lucid dreaming approach - TAWBTB

Three parts:

Part one – Introduction.
Part two – The outline of the approach, and how I personally apply it.
Part three – A caution, my device, additional practices, WILD and some possible experiments.

Introduction

In my lucid dreaming endeavours, I’ve always had one goal in mind that I want to achieve: to be able to lucid dream every night. In working to achieve that goal, I’ve experimented with homemade EILD devices and various techniques – the WILDs, DILDs and MILDs, and combinations of approaches together with a few of my own ideas.

The approach I’ve been working on and developing in September has made the biggest contribution so far to my search for regular lucidity and I want to share it here. This is NOT a tutorial. I don’t claim this approach will work for others. All I can say is, so far this approach has had the biggest impact on the quantity and quality of my lucid dreams since I started deliberately trying to induce lucidity. It could be placebo. It could be just a case of the excitement and my enthusiasm for the approach is the factor making me lucid. But I think it’s reasonable to share a technique that could, possibly, help others. There is nothing new here, per se, but I believe the combination of elements has made this approach effective.

A big impact on the development of this approach - in addition to Stephen LaBerge’s work and the DV tutorials - was Billybob’s “How to WILD” tutorial (particularly the part about using anchors):

http://www.dreamviews.com/f12/how-wild-62282/

I call this approach TAWBTB – which stands for Tactile Anchor Wake Back To Bed. This, as the name suggests, is a variation of WBTB – Wake Back To Bed. The problem I had with standard WBTB was the problem with the duration: I would either go back to bed quickly and fall asleep too easily, or I would stay up too long, become too awake and be unable to return to sleep. If I used sound anchors or bodily-sensation anchors, I would experience the same problems. So far, my TAWBTB approach has helped to solve that problem.