Problems with FILD..Help please!

**Rozelie** · 07-20-2013 07:51 PM

I tried to do FILD for some nights, but I always have one problem: I do FILD for like, 15-20 mins or so, but I don't fall asleep. What's more is that I can't fall asleep for 1-2 hours after.
What should I Do?

**splodeymissile** · 07-20-2013 07:57 PM

Are you trying it immediately after going to bed? If so, you have a bit of an uphill battle. Its best to try 5 or 6 hours after you first go to sleep. Even if you try to do it immediately after going to bed, 20 minutes isn't long enough to get any results.

**Rozelie** · 07-20-2013 07:58 PM

i didn't do it right after going to bed, but after waking up from a dream
and this was always 4-6 hours after going to sleep

**Miau** · 08-01-2013 02:27 PM

Did you checked out the tutorial? Here it is : http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...ream-fild.html

If you read it already and you still can't do it then please tell me so we can talk about it

**Sensei** · 08-01-2013 03:13 PM

Could you give me a step by step what you are doing? Most importantly how you are waking. If FILD (which is really just DEILD with your fingers as an anchor) doesn't work after about a minute you should stop trying.

**Miau** · 08-01-2013 03:18 PM

Added to what BrandonBoss said,If it doesn't work after 1 min of trying you should quit it BUT,but, You can do WBTB! WBTB Tutorial - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

**Zonkitty** · 08-02-2013 07:26 AM

FILD tends to be hit-or-miss. It's a type of WILD which is a more difficult yet "better" way to induce lucidity, so it will take a lot of practice. Also, it may not be the method for you. I personally never got anywhere with it, and I remember trying it years ago for months.

**realdealmagic** · 08-03-2013 01:04 PM

Follow everyone else's advice and keep trying before you come to the following conclusion, but there's every chance that the method just isn't for you. Different people have different ways of getting lucid, some ways work for some, others work for others. That's just how it is, everybody's different. It isn't a bad thing, it just means experimentation is a big part in learning how to lucid dream; experimenting with methods, and various ways of doing those methods.

Good luck!

**Rozelie** · 08-07-2013 03:45 PM

thanks everyone for replying but i have realized that DILD is the only technique that actually works for me ^^

**Empedocles** · 08-07-2013 04:27 PM

I don't take FILD seriously. No offense.

**Zonkitty** · 08-07-2013 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by Yakuza

I don't take FILD seriously. No offense.

It's a legit WILD technique, but its efficacy varies.

**Playlaughdream** · 08-09-2013 07:48 PM

Hi everyone, I`ve been successful with DEILD a few times in the past as I wake up many times in the middle of the night but haven´t tryed FILD yet. It happens that I haven´t been succesful lately and I think that´s because I abandoned my dream journal. I seems that dream recall is fundamental in all techniques. My question to the more experienced is how long do I have to keep the journal ? And I also agree that if FILD fails in the first few minutes, the best thing to do is to change to the highly efective WBTB technique.