Thread: Nid Method

I've been trying a new lucid dreaming method. It is... nothing. Instead of autosuggestion at night, reality checks to keep yourself awake, or any type of dream control at all, you do... nothing.

Simply go with the flow of your dreams, and if you do find yourself lucid, don't do anything with it. Still just go with the flow of your dreams. Don't force anything to happen in your dreams by exerting control. Don't 'want' lucid dreams, rather want to remember dreams in general and to just enjoy them.

I've tried this for several months. The results? First, I have full consciousness in nearly all my dreams now. I'm able to easily make logical decisions in dreams, and enjoy them a lot more because of that. Second, I get a different kind of control that's just as good as 'forceful' control. My dreams have slowly shifted to become more enjoyable, and they become such that I don't really WANT to exert any control. I've in a sense already controlled it enough. Also, you might start getting abilities in dreams exactly like that of forceful control. Like being able to fly with a thought. Third, it's about the only techinque I have used, or heard reports of, that will eventually get you the fabled 100% lucid dream rate. As you go with the flow of the dream more, your subconscious starts to open up the higher brain functions it seems, and thus, you get lucid more often. Eventually I'm sure, this will get to the point where you can think as clearly in dreams as you can in real life.

What do you think? This technique takes a while to get up to speed, but for me at least it's had a MUCH greater success rate when it really gets going, and this even seems to work in LD deserts. The downsides is that it takes a long time, it doesn't have instant results, and you generally cannot lucid dream whenever you feel like it. But slowly increasing chances that you'll have a lucid dream in the night is pretty nice.