Thread: My personal method of becoming lucid. If anyone is interested.

I haven't had luck with this yet, maybe I haven't been close enough to sleep. I will imagine myself walking for a long way but I end up staying awake/alert.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

I haven't had luck with this yet, maybe I haven't been close enough to sleep. I will imagine myself walking for a long way but I end up staying awake/alert.

You're probably right. I always do this when I am on the brink of sleeping.

Tried this for the first time last night. Got into sp in 3 seconds and started getting HI. Will try more tonight!

I unknowingly tried this the other day. I was lying in bed during the day, but was getting too relaxed so I started drifting in and out of consciousness a little. Eventually, as I started falling asleep, I was thinking about having to use the bathroom. Sure enough, that's what I began to dream about. Although, I didn't "feel" anything, just saw it. Shortly after, I woke up because part of me knew I needed to stay awake.

I'm going to try it properly tomorrow and promise to share my results. But there is definitely some truth to Harionago's concept of what you think about right before falling asleep strongly influences what you'll actually dream about. And my brief experience is reinforcing my belief in it. So to those who've tried unsuccessfully, don't abandon hope just yet. It is possible and I see this as one of the easiest methods because it doesn't ask a lot of time or energy.

And I think (I don't know for sure) the reason you have to wake up then go back to sleep, is so you can jump into the dream faster. In my case, I wasn't sleeping properly, and if you're sleep deprived, your mind tries to initiate dreaming sooner than it normally does. So when I dozed off, I started dreaming almost immediately. Which helps explains how my thoughts ended becoming my dreams so quickly, because I wasn't even asleep for ten minutes.

So, from my inadvertent experience, the details in your imagination don't have to be vividly perfect. But it should be something that's second-nature to you like clapping as far as how it feels to where you hardly have to think about it. I think the trick is exhaustion. Make sure you're the "I'm so bored I could fall asleep" tired, to where you just doze off.

WARNING: don't try too hard to fall asleep. This is the reason why I could never do the Wake Back to Bed method. Let yourself doze off naturally. Trying too hard to fall back to sleep is like trying too hard to blink. Just stay relaxed and your body will handle the rest.

Originally Posted by Screen

WARNING: don't try too hard to fall asleep. This is the reason why I could never do the Wake Back to Bed method. Let yourself doze off naturally. Trying too hard to fall back to sleep is like trying too hard to blink. Just stay relaxed and your body will handle the rest.

Yes, this. It is key. The instant you stop trying to sleep is the moment you can fall asleep. Learn to trust your body, it knows how to fall asleep, just don't fight it by keeping your mind active trying to force it or will it to happen.

Messed up this time. Have to try again tomorrow to get it right. Will report back then.

Thanks so much. I have been trying to lucid dream forever and this just might be perfect....
I will try it tomight and tell you the results. Wishme luck!

Ok tried three nights. Got into sp/HI point where I screwed up. For some reason I always tend to force my eyes open. They are SO heavy but yet still I try. I dont know why I keep do that. I dont know when the transition is done :/

lol tried this method this morning and woke myself up by clapping or snapping my fingers loud and close to my face with my dream body. I was so startled by the sensation that it woke me up twice. But I can tell now that this will work for me...
I am a bass player and have later imagined myself playing steady notes with my bass guitar, i guess that would work, too. But by that time I was already too awake.

Originally Posted by Djaxup

lol tried this method this morning and woke myself up by clapping or snapping my fingers loud and close to my face with my dream body. I was so startled by the sensation that it woke me up twice. But I can tell now that this will work for me...
I am a bass player and have later imagined myself playing steady notes with my bass guitar, i guess that would work, too. But by that time I was already too awake.

Fantastic! You are more or less there.

I will try it again tonight. I was really tired.

Does sleepiness have anything to do withthe chance of lucid dreaming?

With this method, yes. You have to ensure you're tired enough to fall asleep within around five minutes. Then when you reawaken, you have to be tired enough to fall back to sleep within a minute as Harionago said. If you're not, you'll find yourself trying this technique for longer than needed and still be wide awake.

Originally Posted by shire0511

I will try it again tonight. I was really tired.

Does sleepiness have anything to do withthe chance of lucid dreaming?

Like Screen said above you need to be as sleepy as possible. I always do it when I'm on the verge of dropping back to sleep.

But doesnt sleepiness make it harder? I tried but before I could do it I was asleep again.
Thanks.

If you're not tired enough, you won't be able to fall asleep properly and have a lucid dream.

The idea is once you go to bed, you wake back up for a moment. Perform the method for around one minute, and you'll consciously jump back into the dream. If at this stage you're not tired enough, then you'll be too alert while doing the method and it won't work. Maybe you'll fall back to sleep in the hour, but then you've got a WBTB method there which is different from this method. The goal is to fall back to sleep within the first minute of waking up, using this method to keep you conscious while entering the dream again.

That's pretty much it. Again, if you're too awake, you can't fall back to sleep properly within the first minute.

Well, I still try this almost everynight, and this one I almost had success. The problem was some bird outside, and random cars passing by on the road next to me (it was around 6.30am while trying this).

I imagined myself claping my hands, and suddenly I could feel my hands touching each other. It was all dark, and I could still hear the bird, and one car that passed by, but I was there rubbing my hands. Tried to look at them but I could only see some white-ish shadow, just as if they were somehow outlined in the dark. I tried to open my eyes using them, but nothing. I relaxed while still claping, but I guess outside noises were too much ...

Gotta try this again on the weekend with my ear plugs...

Sounds like you were really close Irreo, keep at it

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Irreo

Well, I still try this almost everynight, and this one I almost had success. The problem was some bird outside, and random cars passing by on the road next to me (it was around 6.30am while trying this).

I imagined myself claping my hands, and suddenly I could feel my hands touching each other. It was all dark, and I could still hear the bird, and one car that passed by, but I was there rubbing my hands. Tried to look at them but I could only see some white-ish shadow, just as if they were somehow outlined in the dark. I tried to open my eyes using them, but nothing. I relaxed while still claping, but I guess outside noises were too much ...

Gotta try this again on the weekend with my ear plugs...

This is sounding very promising, you are so close. I usually have to do it with ear plugs too because outside noises can become a distraction. I urge you to keep trying! Once you have successfully done it once or twice it will be so easy to do it again.

Let us all know how you get on = ]

I wonder if you could do plugging your nose and trying to exhale air out your nose in a synchronized pattern before you fall asleep haha
anyways it's 4'am and I just saw this method so I'll be trying it right now brb!

Sounds very interesting, It matches with the technique that I want to use: Visualization WILD. I only had succes once, and I imagined I was walking through my house, visiting all the rooms, but I dont know if it was very rhitmic. I will try with a wbtb tonight

Seems like this method would work well for me. I'll give it a try tonight and post my findings tomorrow. Cheers.

Originally Posted by Nova5002

Seems like this method would work well for me. I'll give it a try tonight and post my findings tomorrow. Cheers.

Unfortunately I think I woke myself up too early. I will continue this technique over the weekend and post an update on Monday or Tuesday.

I had a semi LD. I made the method while I was very sleepy. I appeared in some kind of comercial building. I analyzed it, and thought: I have to prepare it for the Lucid Dream. After that it was a normal dream (very vivid and long).So, I don't remember if I was aware of the dream at the biggining. I think I was semi lucid.

It's not the first time that I think or speak about lucid dreams in my dreams but I dont realize I am in a LD.

I will continue trying this. It is very promising.

Thank you!!!