Thread: SSILD early worked twice but not working anymore

Hey Allonzey123,

I'm happy to hear you're still at it. One thing that is good to have with lucid dreaming - especially as a beginner - is patience. Some people are more fortunate in that they are able to lucid dream at will naturally. Most of us, myself included, have to put in work to learn how to do it. I've been doing this for a year and several months and still feel like a beginner and like I'm learning.

Even in Stephen Laberge's Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming he says it can take people up to several months to learn how to lucid dream properly. If you think SSILD is the right method for you then I would stick with it and give it more time.

If you'd like more specific help, try writing out in as much detail as possible the process you are personally performing with SSILD and how it goes and how it feels throughout each stage. It would be possible for members here to have an insight into what you're doing and where they can help.

For example, if I wrote to get some help from others I would write something like, I'm working on MILD but having no LDs. I have developed high dream recall and remember multiple dreams per night (a prerequisite for lucid dreaming is to remember at least one dream a night. You probably already know this.) I try to follow the method as closely as possible. I perform reality checks every day and try to imbue them with meaning, I do WBTB(wake back to bed), do something dream related and then get back in bed and go through the steps but I'm still having no lucid dreams yet.


They might ask questions like are you waking up at an ideal time for your body to go back into a REM phase? Have you worked that out?

That might seem like a lot of text, but the more you write the more information members can glean about your specific situation. I don't have much experience with SSILD, but I'm sure some other members do.

Good luck!

Okay some details

my sleep cycle is a bit fuzzy but im trying to fix them, but I have usually 2+ dreams a night, i tend to classify fragments as a word of barely anything resembling even a scene.

I usually wake up several times in the night naturally, at least twice.

I have a drink of water or chocolate milk then head back to sleep.

When i do SSILD i do hvae trouble completing it as i drift off easily, which is a good thing?

Ive notice my thoughts become foggy and a 'weight' on my mind when i do this now