Need help with FILD

[verance]

I've tried FILD quite a few times now, but without succes. So past night I woke up naturally about 4hours after I went to sleep. When I woke up, FILD instantly come on my mind and the first thing I did was not moving at all and get ready to fild. I waited a little bit until I really felt like I could fall asleep any moment now and started doing the finger movement. I feel my body falling asleep, some kind of tingling, warm, pleasant feeling is coming up and expanding through my body. The feeling keeps getting more intense until it reaches a certain point and then stops. The feeling stays for probably not even a minute and then it drifts away. So I've tried fild about 5-6 times this night. And almost every time I got this feeling, sometimes a little more intense. After the first 2 or 3 failures (not sure), I thought maybe I just woke up too early. So I went back to bed set my alarm to about an hour from now, I instantly fall asleep. I wake up, this time I do a short WBTB because I had read it somewhere yesterday. Still not working. So after another failure, I tried doing the RC while I was having this feeling, instead of after. But sadly, I'm still not dreaming. Am I doing something wrong? Or is FILD just not the technique for me?

[sparkley]

Sounds like you're doing it right to me. Do you have any doubt in your self while doing it? That could be a reason or you can always try change when you do your WBTB. And try not to think about it while doing it because whenever I try FILD, I never concentrate on the technique I'm doing. I just imagine myself to be in a dream and that's how it usually works for me. Just keep trying and don't give up

[verance]

Hmmmm, this could be part of the reason. Because I have never had a LD I am not really sure what to expect, and I'm getting excited when I feel like I'm getting closer. Also everytime I try pretty hard imagining a dream but maybe this just keeps me awake and I should try to think about nothing? Just focus on breathing?

[VinceField]

Sorry, what is FILD? Fart Induced Lucid Dream?

[AstralMango]

Sorry, what is FILD? Fart Induced Lucid Dream? http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...ream-fild.html

[sparkley]

Being excited could be one thing also. Just try get that falling asleep feel and then start doing FILD, it should work and if it doesn't, that's okay. It comes with practice and I still fully don't got it down but you should easily. I barely try it. Just do what feels best for you. And you should go for the breathing part, just find out what works best