Thread: The first ( and maybe last) step in lucid dreaming induction

Originally Posted by martakartus

Which is the optimal time to DEILD?

These last few nights I've been attempting it without success. I have a tendency to wake up at around 5.30 am (after about 6 hours of sleep), but I recently heard that it's at 2-3 am that you are in optimal conditions to do it.

Marta, i don´t have much more to add to FryingMan's answer. You should really focus on sleeping as much as you can. And the last hours of sleep are the finest ones. To remember to stay still next time you wake up and visualize your last dream ( or any other visualization or imagined sense stimulation ) is the basis of DEILD.

DEILD will arise spontaneously in the advanced stages of dream recall ( when you can recall almost every dream after almost every sleep cycle ). That´s a nice reward for a very neglected skill.