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I have been trying Dild for almost a month now but I do not have any results. Every hour I go to a certain location and ask myself if I am dreaming. After looking around my environment I do reality checks while repeating 3 mantras. Before I go to bed, I repeat 3 mantras. So far I have not even had the slightest results at all. Is there anything I am doing wrong?
I had my first DILD at exactly the one month mark. Some people go two or even more months, everyone is different. You may want to up the frequency of the reality checks to about 2 per hour.
You don't mention anything about dream recall or journaling -- LaBerge recommends working on dream recall alone until you can recall a dream every day for 7-10 days in a row. And only then, start adding the night-time LD practice. You can do the daytime practice starting at any time like you have.
Also, make sure your reality checks include both mental and physical: mental means, really try very hard to convince yourself of your state, never assume you're awake. And do more than one physical check (which ones do you do?), fully expecting them to show you that you're dreaming.
Do you have a regular sleep schedule? How much sleep do you get every night?
You might look into the MILD tutorials on this site, they guide you in what you should think about when doing daytime and night-time visualization.
You also may want to look into the Dream Views Academy introductory class, and/or the DILD class.
edit: what are your mantras?
Do you set intention to remember your dreams every time you go to sleep?
Try visualization before falling asleep. You must prepare your mind to LD. Awake an excitement inside yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by kamenriderbaron
Feel the power of your consciousness. Feel the reality and go straight towards the bright future of LUCID DREAAAAAAAAAAAAAMING YEAAAAAAAAAH!
My mantras are: I do reality checks as I dream, I lucid dream tonight and Next time I'm dreaming I look at my hands and realize I am dreaming. I say the first two in my head when I try to breath through my nose and the finger through the palm technique. I say the last when I count my fingers and repeat it while staring at my hand. And what should I visualize.
Visualize yourself entering the lucid state or realizing that you are in dream. Not just saying that as mantras but also imagine.
I'm fairly new myself, but I've already had considerable success with DEILD with an incredibly simple approach. For me , it's much easier than DILD.Quote:
Originally Posted by kamenriderbaron
Here's my version of DEILDing...
I use autosuggestion to wake up from a dream.
MANTRA - "I WILL WAKE UP FROM A DREAM, AND EYES CLOSED, I WILL REMAIN PERFECTLY STILL."
With the mantra, I use the same kind of light intention as if I was telling my mind the time in the morning I want to wake up... setting my mind's built-in alarm clock.
Then I act it out in my mind, the experience of waking up from a dream and remaining still as best I can. I feel the bed, the emotion, what it feels like for the dream to end, etc. (Visualization)
I repeat the mantra alternated with the visualization a couple of times and then let myself fall asleep.
When I find myself waking up from a dream, I remain perfectly still, and I think over the details of the dream I just came out of until I fall back into it, only now aware it's a dream.
Simple as that.
If I wake up in the middle of the night with no dream recall, or blow it by moving or opening my eyes, I simply repeat the mantra/visualization a few times and go back to sleep.
I've been working on WILD for the last few weeks, but it's been spotty... easy when it works, impossible when it doesn't. Think I'm going to take a break from WILD and just have a little fun with DEILD for a couple of days. Sometimes when I read about the troubles some of the other newbies are having, I feel like I'm cheating by doing it the easy way with DEILD.
Hopefully some of the long-time regulars can sort out why your DILD efforts aren't going well, but meanwhile, maybe you can experience some success with DEILD.
Have fun.
Niall
You could try out SSILD. http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...eam-ssild.html It's worked for me a couple of times, and it's good for inducing false awakenings (which are very, very vivid!).
How aware do you have to be for dild to work? Is looking around at your surroundings and wondering am I dreaming good enough?