Thread: DEILD Tips

I find it much easier to return to the dream you just woke up from instead of creating a whole new dreamscape. Your brain already has all the details of the previous dream so it has much less work to do. This allows you to just sleep into the previous dream much faster than if you were trying to enter a completely new scenario. Picture where you came from, all the sensory stimulation it gave you, and imagine yourself floating back into it, or perhaps the dream forming around you. Let this continue for a couple minutes or until you feel comfortable with the stability. Then carry on with whatever you want, either teleporting to a new scene if you didn't like the old one, or just picking up right where you left off.

If you can't get to the point where the dream begins to form, try focusing a little less on the things around you/the thoughts in your head. You're likely paying too much attention to these things which is stopping you from falling back asleep. You have to find a nice balance of awareness so that you can fall asleep without losing consciousness. Also, forms of WILD/DEILD don't have to include HH. Sometimes when I do a DEILD I'm just sort of back into the dream. No HH, no transition period, I'm just there.

Unfortunately, you can't really get around your cat jumping on you/waking you up, unless you put him in a cage, but that'd be mean . However, if you've been laying there for more than 10 minutes with no success, you'll likely just want to fall back asleep.

Originally Posted by Burke

Also, forms of WILD/DEILD don't have to include HH. Sometimes when I do a DEILD I'm just sort of back into the dream. No HH, no transition period, I'm just there.

I've only had two recalled dream re-entries, one lucid to non-lucid, and one non-lucid to lucid (hah, mix and match!), but yeah, the non-lucid to lucid one found me just all of a sudden staring at a bright image/scene, and was a bit curious about how that could happen because I knew I was lying in bed with my eyes closed .