Thread: Testing SSILD for a month

Day 24=

I have noticed one important change in result if I perform this technique differently.

If I focus on usual physical stimulations and I don't look for strange senses, my dreams are super vivid and very close to reality.

But when I focus on strange and unusual senses, I don't remember much about the dreams I had but their content is also strange and far from life.

As this method is my secondary method of practice, I prefer to use it as a boost in dream recall not for LD itself.

Day 25=
I had another FA and super vivid and meaningful dreams.

Haven't had as much free time as I thought I would, ended up doing some labor work for my parents and have just been too tired at night. I tried the SSILD cycles but the past few nights haven't been good for me, too tired to even recall my dreams, too tired to make it through even the short cycles. I guess I'll just have to work hard on lucid dreaming today to try make it happen.

LDs: 1

Day 26=
Ohhhhhh noooooo!
I reality checked in my dream 3 times and 2 of them indicated I am dreaming but I couldn't BELIEVE that it was a dream....!!!!!! I thought it was solid reality and reality checked are fooling me...

That's the moooooost stupid way to ruin a LD.

You will have a good ld tonight!you are progressing fast

Had a semi-successful WILD through using SSILD. Basically I managed to make it through the transition into the dream state, but during the transition my jaw was vibrating so intensely that I thought it would break a tooth.. And lo and behold, my tooth ripped out and shattered. I then thought that this actually happened, I got out of bed and spat it into my hand, but then I actually woke up, so it was a FA... Phew...

Note:
I should mention that I do the SSILD cycles differently than I used to when I first started. I realize now that if I focus on them intensely then I seem more likely to have a DILD, if I stay pretty unfocused and relaxed then I start to feel a WILD come on.

LDs: 2
FA: 1

Originally Posted by Vahid

You will have a good ld tonight!you are progressing fast

Day 27=
Thanks!!!!!! Maybe if I had a good sleep...but I only slept for 4 hours....so no luck.....

Unsuccessful, fell asleep during the cycles. Only remembered 1 dream too, I was able to recall others after waking up but I left it too long and they slipped away

LDs: 2
FA: 1

Day 28=
I really enjoyed my long meaningful and vivid non lucid dreams, even better than a LD
As my dreams are too realistic, they deceive me that they are real. For example, I was in a paint exhibition and 20 people were matching to win. The only strange part was that all of them won!!!!!! Lol! I think if I was an expert in RCing , then I could do something to ask the reality of that dream.

Had a terrible sleep and won't be able to do it tonight since I'm not home, I'll continue tomorrow night.

Day 29=
I slept through the alarm and didn't do WBTS. But as I did the cycle before night sleep, I got the same good results on remembering the dream and increasing in their vividness.

Day 30=
Today, I had my longest dream ever! But no LD.

Summary of these 30 days=

I had 2 LD
2 FA
And my dream recall has boosted from maybe 10% to 80%.
The vividness of my dreams has increased from maybe 5% to 90%.

I am satisfied of my results in these 30 days!!!!

Congratz on finishing yaya

I've been busy lately but I have been continuing with the SSILD cycles and dream journal writing, although not in the usual way. I've been storing them in fragments on whatever I have available, so I'll be able to compile them in the next week and write everything up. But for now I'll summarise what I've had from my recent SSILD attempts:

Day 16
Little success, only some crazy vivid dreams which seem odd, some of them are quite stressful (the 2nd time I've had a dream where my teeth started falling out O_O), some of them are incredibly long adventures with recurring themes coming in from earlier dreams. I should mention that when doing these SSILD cycles I did them with such little focus and an overwhelming amount of tiredness that I never made it past the short cycles. I will say that the vividness of the dreams was directly linked to the SSILD cycles, if I didn't do SSILD cycles then I just ended up forgetting the dreams.

Day 17
I managed a WBTB at one point so I'm including this as a separate day.
Had some nice vivid dreams, quite bright dreams too. No lucids though.

LDs: 2
FA: 1

So I was away for a while because of family, but I've concluded my personal test of the SSILD technique, here's my results and analysis:

It seems like the more relaxed you are during the SSILD cycles, then the more likely a WILD type will occur, and the more focused you are during the cycles then the more likely you'll just be spontaneously lucid once you enter the dream (DILD). Personally I found the DILD type easiest to attain since I'm inexperience with WILDs.

The technique was wishy washy if you couldn't get through the cycles, and getting lucid while having had less than 8 hours sleep the previous night is unlikely. If you finished the technique properly (which can take some dedication at times) then you'll likely have a lucid dream.

Another note is that doing this before you go to sleep (in a focused manner) can keep you awake. The SSILD technique itself seems to increase your awareness, coupled with WBTB you'll be able to fall asleep easily afterwards. It has a noticeable effect on the recall/vividness/intensity of your dreams even when non-lucid.

[Summary]
LDs: 9/30 days
FA: 2/30 days

Vividness: From a weak start to a stable and clear end, vividness has gone up like a solid 300%
Dream Recall: Maybe 200% increase at times (3 dreams a night), but I get lazy and only bother remembering the coolest 1 in a night.

It took me a while to properly get my head around using this technique since I'm also quite new to lucid dreaming, but I can confidently say that I could induce a lucid dream on most nights with this technique now