Best technique from a LD 'veteran'

**Rlstric1** · 09-10-2014 06:46 AM

A little background about myself. I'm new to Dreamviews but not new to Lucid Dream forums. Around 5 years ago was when I started getting really interested in Lucid Dreaming after accidentally becoming lucid in one of my dreams. So I did what any teenager would do with a question, I went to google. Google made me come across a wonderful website, that's no longer active, called Astralviewers.com.

After spending days reading on techniques and stories on Lucid Dreaming and Astral Projections/OBEs, I began trying.... and failing miserably. Although my failures were probably attributed to trying the most difficult and frightening technique which is to induce sleep paralysis. I never actually obtained lucidity with WILD and gave up for a few months after becoming frustrated only to try again and continue failing later on and quit until recently.

Last year I started a new job and one of my co-workers told me he was becoming an insomniac because sleep deprivation was leading to sleep paralysis every few nights. I told him that he could induce and OBE through sleep paralysis or at least a lucid dream. I could explain exactly what he needed to do and after a few days he came up to me thanking me for an awesome experience. This inspired me to start trying again after years of failure.

I thought I would take up an 'easier' technique like DILD. I actually had success with DILD due to what I believe to be a clever idea. I wore a broken watch on my wrist and checked it multiple times a day until I memorize the image of the watch face since it never changed. In my dreams when I would look at the watch it would never be what I memorized it and I would become lucid. The only problem with this was that I couldn't control when I would actually look at my watch during a dream. I could go weeks with dreams where I wouldn't look at my watch.

Lately I've been researching again in what I believe is a last ditch effort because I love lucid dreaming so much but I find it so difficult to obtain. I found a Youtuber who swears by the FILD technique, and my problem with that technique is that I become too aware and I am taping my fingers and begin to become awake.

My question for all of you LD veterans would be what technique should I continue with or is there a technique with such a phenomenal success that I should try it? Has anyone else had as much of a stuggle as I have?

**Runeword** · 09-10-2014 08:07 PM

WILD is the easiest you just have to keep practicing. Trying to induce "sleep paralysis" is not the answer. I wrote a little guide on what works for me and I believe will work for anyone with patience and practice that you can check out if you want to search my threads. PM me if you need more info.

**Bobblehat** · 09-11-2014 07:00 AM

Originally Posted by Runeword

WILD is the easiest you just have to keep practicing. Trying to induce "sleep paralysis" is not the answer. I wrote a little guide on what works for me and I believe will work for anyone with patience and practice that you can check out if you want to search my threads. PM me if you need more info.

Can you provide a link please.