Thread: Testing SSILD for a month

Yep, we gotta keep each other motivated! we runnin this thread

Day 4

Today felt like a great success, no LD, but I think I may have put myself in the right direction. I read over the SSILD technique post, and tried to figure what I might be doing wrong, I read his words recommending that we do it in the laziest manner possible, specifically the let your mind drift part. So today I decided I would do the cycles whilst letting my self day dream before hitting sleep (which is usually what I do to fall asleep, daydream that is)

I felt myself on the brink of lucidity, I was so close to a WILD, when I got closer to lucidity I noticed the cycles were generating things to see in my vision as opposed to the expected nothing before, I felt my body getting very light. Letting my daydream drifting happen during the cycles are making it heaps easier to fall asleep and potentially enter that lucid dream.

My dreams were quite vivid as well. So taking the cycles and seeing them through full execution seems to be the worst thing to do, insomnia + wakefulness expected at least for me, When weaving it in with my daily daydreaming and doing it in a lazy manner without any concern of completion seems to be a better route. This is exciting! can't to try again and hopefully master this at some point!

LDs - 1

Didn't get much dream time since the night before I had a lot less sleep than usual, and I spent most of last nights sleep just resting.
I attempted SSILD at the start of the night to see what would happen, nearly had a DILD but the dream was too short and nothing came of it.

Originally Posted by EmptyBucket

I read his words recommending that we do it in the laziest manner possible, specifically the let your mind drift part. So today I decided I would do the cycles whilst letting my self day dream before hitting sleep (which is usually what I do to fall asleep, daydream that is)

I felt myself on the brink of lucidity, I was so close to a WILD, when I got closer to lucidity I noticed the cycles were generating things to see in my vision as opposed to the expected nothing before, I felt my body getting very light.

I recall having a similar experience when I was first starting SSILD (nearly had a WILD). And I also remember reading somewhere that SSILD induces WILD not DILD, so I think you're onto something . I'll try doing it this way too, and we can see if we get results.

LDs: 1