Routinely re-entering into lucidity

Hello, many years ago I posted occasionally on the alt.lucid.dreams forum and kept a dream journal etc. I lost the strong dream interest and my dream recall is not fantastic but I now routinely have lucid dreams and have played around with some different techniques.

I only ever had a couple of WILDS back in the day, those were of the type where the whole body and mind would feel like they were vibrating with a building intensity.

This may be a technique that is already common or discussed but I have found that if one wakes up in the morning while still in the 'I could go back to sleep zone' you can induce a WILD by this method. Imagine yourself doing forward rolls (you probably don't do this too often as an adult but I'm sure you remember the sensation from your youth).. When I say imagine doing forward rolls I mean focus on that motion of the roll, imagine yourself in the first perspective doing roll after forward roll, you should find this upsets your equilibrium. I simply imagine myself forward rolling several times until I am unbalanced with my eyes closed and then I imagine myself standing up jumping in the air and opening my eyes. At this point I enter a dream state, usually lucid.

Will not work all the time, but I find if you wake yourself up for some reason (pushing the boundaries of your lucidity) this is a great way to return to the dream state. I often have mornings now where I can recall segments of lucidity spanning much of the morning (hours) applying this technique to return to lucidity after waking up.

I think maybe this technique could be used in other ways, like imagining yourself on a rollercoaster or spinning because I think the trigger is the sense of being unbalanced without visuals and then changing the action combined with an 'eye opening' (dream entering) combination.

I never usually bother to sign up on forums, more of a lurker but I am curious whether anybody else uses or has used similar methods.

nope never heard of it but it sounds interesting so might give it a shot. Also you should sign up if you're serious about getting back into lucid dreaming.

I have not heard of it either... If that's the case I will play around with it more and try give a better description of the processes but for me this is a method that I have used over and over after waking up.

I think the rolling sensation in a sleepy state is a bit like looking at your hand to stabilize a lucid dream it's giving your mind a not real stimulus which focuses the minds attention away from the other. The other being your actual lying in bed, then at the appropriate point you suddenly alter the movement and open your dream eyes.

Bam, lucidity. Most of my WILDS start out with me in my bedroom.

Another common trigger for non wilds for me is any dream in which I 'realise I can fly' I have so many of these that usually now when I have one It occurs to me I must be dreaming again and I go lucid.

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Originally Posted by thetuss

This may be a technique that is already common or discussed but I have found that if one wakes up in the morning while still in the 'I could go back to sleep zone' you can induce a WILD by this method. Imagine yourself doing forward rolls (you probably don't do this too often as an adult but I'm sure you remember the sensation from your youth).. When I say imagine doing forward rolls I mean focus on that motion of the roll, imagine yourself in the first perspective doing roll after forward roll, you should find this upsets your equilibrium. I simply imagine myself forward rolling several times until I am unbalanced with my eyes closed and then I imagine myself standing up jumping in the air and opening my eyes. At this point I enter a dream state, usually lucid.

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Visualizing remains the least understood, and yet IMHO the easiest method, in attaining lucidity in dreams. When we visualize at bedtime (and especially when we wake up in the middle of the night as we are still in a deep state of relaxation) we are utilizing the same area of our brain as when we are dreaming. Visualizing anything relaxing... or in your case fun, will help grease the grooves back into sleep and dreamland. :shadewink:

Yes, I've heard of it

http://www.dreamviews.com/f12/lucidd...chnique-60961/

It's the exact same thing as this lol

I've also noticed this. When i am very tired and want to sleep, i try and WILD. I have never been successful with the WILD method as i don't quite understand the method fully as yet. But what happens is i lay there peacefully, without any visulization and after a while, i begin getting a sort of dizzy feel sort of like how u have explained with the rolling. However i cannot focus on that feeling long enough and lose concentration. i will try your method as it seems like it will help sustain that sensation.

I do remember, when i had my first proper lucid dream, I was hit with that same sensation and i had become lucid. I believe there is some link between becoming lucid and that rolling sensation. Will post and update if i have success