Thread: Testing SSILD for a month

Day 5

I slept through my alarm again (it automatically shuts off after 10 sec) but I woke up about a hour after it had gone off and I was feeling quite awake. O started the cycles did about 6 mini cycles and maybe did four long cycles (im rc every single time I slightly doze off during the cycles) I noticed that I had fallen asleep and woke up again felt like I was on the verge of being awake and asleep so I diddnt rc in case I opened my eyes and woke up, instead I tried to imagine my body lifting up in the air and I started to float up and started spinning all around my room, I couldn't control it but the spining got wider and wider till I had flung out through my bedroom wall and onto the ground outside, I quickly stabilized and begun my vivid lucid dream

I won't post it up here because I really achieved nothing during my lucid lol only walking up my street and into some houses because I couldnt fly or talk for some reason

Attempts:5
LD:2
FA:1

Day 2

Woke up, did the cycles very lazily, but eventually got through them. Didn't have any lucid dreams but my dreams are getting progressively more vivid so there's that. Still having quite a bit of trouble falling asleep after doing the cycles(any tips?), must be me getting excited.

Anyways, I'll get one eventually, even if it takes the 30 days.

LDs - 0

Weird, crazy, and random vivid dreams, last night was confusing O_o

Lucid Dreams: 0

Emtybucket- if you're having trouble falling asleep after the cycles I would say when you get up to your alarm don't even get out of bed and only stay awake for a couple minutes before your attempt.. I think ssild works best when you fall asleep during the cycles or atleast really fast after them.

Also in my experience you have to be really cautious to catch any moments of lucidity during ssild meaning a lot of times you're already dreaming even though you have no doubt that you are awake so if you find that you suddenly 'wakeup' after falling asleep while doing ssild ALWAYS RC!! I've been 100% sure I am awake and I do rc and think holy sh#$ I'm dreaming so if you can train yourself to catch those moments it'll double your success rate at this technique :p

So maybe your trouble getting to sleep is actually a false awakening!? Good luck !!

Day 12=
Result from ssild=Super vivid dreams like a mirror!

Result from BLILD= false awakening for 10 seconds.

Day 3

Woke up, did the cycles, and once again I felt way too awake to fall back asleep, guess I gave them too much effort. I also did some RCs to check for a false awakening, I'm not sure if I failed my RCs or I was seriously having a false awakening, probably not.

Anyways, shortly after lying there for a little I ended up having a short WILD/DILD, not sure to be honest which one, only lasted about 10 seconds but that's a damn success in my book, mark me down one Johnny

LDs - 1

Had my longest LD so far, around 3 minutes.
Did WBTB at 5am (about 3-4 hours after going to bed), got up and ate a banana, went back to bed and started my SSILD cycles. Something like 7 short, 2 long, and then I kind of forgot to keep it up. But everytime I realized I had stopped I would do another 2 short cycles to maintain the mental anchor.



LDs: 1

Congratulations on both of you!

Day 13=
A new sense emerged in my dreams which is taste! I never tasted anything in my dreams that clear. It was a nut cake. I suspected why it was so soft but I didn't do RC.

Day 6

I did the short cycles and only made it to around 2 long cycles, I always fall asleep so easily when doing this.. I had a dream about trying to become lucid and being annoyed that I couldn't, and I even had the classic teeth falling out dream and diddnt even do a rc, doh!

Attempts: 6
LD:2
FA:1

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

I might jump in, why not? These games are fun and yield to more LDs

Great going guys. I will blend it with other techniques tho.

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

I might jump in, why not? These games are fun and yield to more LDs

Great going guys. I will blend it with other techniques tho.

Do it! I find these things great for motivation, fun in the short term and beneficial in the long term. I also find that dedicating myself to the challenge keeps me consistent, if I just stop I will feel worse.

I'm noting my experiences here as well so I can see what worked and see how I progressed, it could also be helpful to others. And who knows, maybe we can evolve the way we use these techniques and bring up the success rate.

Welcome Percy! Its a good little thread to join in on the more ppl the better, I feel ssild has a lot of potential it's given me a lot of lucid dreams its just an elusive technique aswell :\ hopefully we can crack the code on this.
So far for me my success is a lot depending on how awake I am when I try the technique but its easier said than done I find it hard to wake up enough in the middle of the night. I'm not posting every single day because some nights I'm not able to even attempt it, but hopefully this thread will help others with trying out ssild aswell as keep us all motivated.

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

Day 14=
I can't enough emphasize on clarity of the dreams I had.
I did the cycle at the first hours of sleep. I might hinder it at the last hours of sleep to see how it works (I mean after 6 hours of sleep).

Wasn't feeling it today, didn't even remember a single dream, will resume tomorrow. Good luck everyone

Slept through my alarm today

Only remembered 1 dream fragment, it's all because I keep going to sleep at like 1 o'clock >_< I'll get an earlier nights sleep tonight for sure.


LDs: 1

you all had nearly the same results...maybe that was a lunar effect on many people! LOL

day 15=
As i said, i attempted doing the cycles after 6 hours of sleep. wowww....I had the longest and most meaningful dream in my life. It was one dream with various scenarios inside it and i even remember the conversations. the scenes had a lot of details and i had some degrees of critical thinking.
I think attempting SSILD before 6 hours of sleep is not very effective for me.

Nothing spectacular last night, pretty typical vividness and stuff. I gave the SSILD cycles a good stab but nothing came of it
And I'm taking a break for 1-2 days for my exam tomorrow.

LDs: 1

I am interested in following the progress/success of people here. Could I ask that everyone posts their number of successes and number of attempts they've made when they post? Thanks.

Originally Posted by Bobblehat

I am interested in following the progress/success of people here. Could I ask that everyone posts their number of successes and number of attempts they've made when they post? Thanks.

Hey Bobblehat, sure thing . My attempts are in the days I've been going for (Day 5 = 5 attempts), and I update my LD count each success (at the bottom of each post). I've also restarted my count at one point since I broke from the trial for a while.

Day 16=
there are huge progress in my awareness in dreams every day. This morning i had a dream with super virtual tactile senses and the level of emotional perception has increased a lot (I mean the conversations in my dreams can produce real emotional reaction in me and i am not like robot like before).

number of SSILD attempts in this month= 16
number of LD with this technique (indirect influence) = 2
number of LD with other techniques in this month = 5

Terrible dream recall >_<, I suppose it's unavoidable since my final exam is today. I attempted the SSILD cycles, managed to get through the short cycles easy, but kept losing focus during the long cycles.

LDs: 1