Dild

**Merilon** · 11-19-2006 02:59 PM

Hello

I think starting off doing the WILD technique with no experience at all was a bad idea... I am going to try to start building up the DILD method, then when I got that down, I might go back to try the WILD technique a time or two.

Dream recall I can pretty much do, but reality checks:

-how can I do efficient reality checks? Like with my hand, do I look at it, look away, then look at it again? Or do I think in my mind "there will be 3 fingers when I look back" while I look away?

-do I do the same with everything else, look at it, look away and concentrate on it being different, then look back?

-How many times do I do it? like once every 15 minutes?

Thanks in advance

**PenguinLord13** · 11-19-2006 03:29 PM

If you check my siggy, I have some advice on how to do RCs well, which should answer the last question well, along with a bunch of other advice on doing them well. To answer the first questions, I would recommend you just look at your hand, and count your fingers, making sure there are five on each. Then, if you have five on each, study your palms/back of your hands for a few seconds. Look for any irregularities, and if there are any, explain them to yourself (like if you have brown smudges on your hand, you think thats odd, but it turns out you had some chocolate cake, so you realize that the brown is normal). When you look at anything else, just take in what you see, look away for a few seconds, and look back, and if the thing is different, then try to explain it (like if the clock has changed, but it was only a one minute change, then it's normal). If any irregularities don't make sense you know you're dreaming.

**Howie** · 11-19-2006 03:39 PM

Hi Merilon!

I agree that DILD would be a much better approach than WILD for a beginner. That is not to say you cannot though. A WILD could happen too. Remember that and don't put any limitations on yourself.

I think PenguinLord13 pretty much covered it.

RC. Validation. Keeping it real. Comparing reality to non-real and validating it as so. Rather than just going through the motions is key.

**FreeOne** · 11-20-2006 01:47 AM

the hand rc cn be pretty acurate ( so ive heard) but sometimes it can mess up. most of the time my hands look normal in my dreams. I use the nose rc, just hold your nose so that no air can get in. and try to breathe through it, if you can then you are dreaming. this rc as worked for me every single time ive tried it ( ive tried it like 15 times in my dreams)

**Merilon** · 11-20-2006 01:57 AM

Thanks, I think the nose thing would be easiest, since your hand can vary and other things may also vary, but the nose thing is always the same. I will try that method.

**PenguinLord13** · 11-20-2006 11:31 PM

Originally Posted by Merilon

Thanks, I think the nose thing would be easiest, since your hand can vary and other things may also vary, but the nose thing is always the same. I will try that method.
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Like I have said before, excersize variety, don't use just that method. Do physical RCs because if they work, you know you're dreaming, but I would do at least one visual RC too, because the nose RC does occasionally fail in a dream, along with the finger through palm RC.

**Merilon** · 11-24-2006 01:41 PM

ok... I think I went lucid for a second... in the middle of the dream, I remembered that I was supposed to do reality checks, and I did two of them, the finger in palm... it went through and I realized I was dreaming. The dream suddenly felt different... I decided to do the other reality check, the nose one, and I was breathing and confirmed that I was dreaming, but just as it feels like I became lucid, I wake up with a loud, sudden 'whooshing' sound in my ears and I am wide awake afterwards, not even the slightest hint of tiredness...

This similar thing happened to me during a WILD... I was very close to completing it but at the last moment, just when it feels like I am asleep, I have several loud whooshing sounds in my ear and my eyes open, SP disappeared, and I am suddenly wide awake same as above...

**FreeOne** · 11-24-2006 06:09 PM

well you better put a 1 next to the dild slot on your sig. cause that right there was a lucid dream! congrats!

**Merilon** · 11-25-2006 01:20 PM

Sweet, thanks. At least I know I am making progress

Now I just need to LD for longer.

**PenguinLord13** · 11-25-2006 02:14 PM

Originally Posted by Merilon

Sweet, thanks. At least I know I am making progress

Now I just need to LD for longer.
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There are a few stabilization techniques out there, but for those you have to stay lucid for a few seconds first, and the way to get to that point is to have more LDs, and you will LD longer each time hopefully.
Also, it is very possible you are having FAs, and not even knowing because you think you're awake, and just wake up instantly. Try RCing every time you wake up, as you may have had a false awakening.

**Merilon** · 11-26-2006 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by PenguinLord13

There are a few stabilization techniques out there, but for those you have to stay lucid for a few seconds first, and the way to get to that point is to have more LDs, and you will LD longer each time hopefully.
Also, it is very possible you are having FAs, and not even knowing because you think you're awake, and just wake up instantly. Try RCing every time you wake up, as you may have had a false awakening.
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Thats what I did immediatley after I woke up, thinking I might have woken up falsly. Unfortunately, I was awake. I just wrote my dream down after that and didn't go back to sleep.

**Merilon** · 12-09-2006 02:05 PM

Yay, another dild, but it only felt like I knew I was dreaming and I can think, but not acually control anything. Oh well, I guess that comes in time.

I also had a question about something wierd in my dreams... I had pretty much just gone to sleep and this person in the dream ripped a plant out of the ground and put something from the plant on me, and immediatley after the stuff that she put on me touched my forehead I woke up, not tired at all, and remembering the whole dream clearly... every single detail, as if I had just done it in real life.

Usually the dreams are fuzzy and its hard to get certain details, and sometimes I have to try to remember dreams since I forget them so easily... Very unusual for me to remember a dream that clearly... I was also sure I was awake because the first things I did were reality checks and the results came out to me being awake.

**BPolar** · 12-09-2006 02:17 PM

nose pinch reality check worked for me last night!

it was my first time doing an RC in a dream too! it feels wierd breathing like that haha

**PenguinLord13** · 12-20-2006 10:07 PM

Originally Posted by Merilon

I also had a question about something wierd in my dreams... I had pretty much just gone to sleep and this person in the dream ripped a plant out of the ground and put something from the plant on me, and immediatley after the stuff that she put on me touched my forehead I woke up, not tired at all, and remembering the whole dream clearly... every single detail, as if I had just done it in real life.

Usually the dreams are fuzzy and its hard to get certain details, and sometimes I have to try to remember dreams since I forget them so easily... Very unusual for me to remember a dream that clearly... I was also sure I was awake because the first things I did were reality checks and the results came out to me being awake.

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Might wanna go to dream interpretation with that one. I don't know what it means, but maybe your subconsious wants something from you/you to know something. It could just be a weird dream though, as weird dreams aren't exactly uncommon.

**Merilon** · 01-06-2007 05:16 AM

I've also noticed that every single dild I have had happened because of something of great emotion. My first dild was because I was overly excited, I was aware I was dreaming and did RCs, and I confirmed I was dreaming. My second one, I was furious, realized I was dreaming, did RCs, and again, confirmed I was dreaming. My third one, I was terrified, and I realized I was dreaming... you get the drift...

Is there any way that I can somehow manipulate my dreams to have more of being furious, excited, angry etc, since that is the only way so far that I have been able to get lucid dreams... If there are any other ways, though, that you think are easy, please share them, thanks

**PenguinLord13** · 01-06-2007 02:14 PM

That's actually a good observation I never noticed, and is true for most of my DILDs, but I would not recommend getting your dreams angrier/more emotional just for LDs, as often after a angry/emotional dream, it rubs off on your day, and can damage it. Also, I can't think of a way to make dreams angrier without making yourself angrier, adn that really isn't worth it, as real life is more important than lucid dreams.

**BohmaN** · 01-06-2007 08:02 PM

Just ONE question that I have not got answered yet. WHAT exactly says that one should be able to for instance breathe through one's nose or put a finger through one's palm?

**Merilon** · 01-06-2007 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by BohmaN

Just ONE question that I have not got answered yet. WHAT exactly says that one should be able to for instance breathe through one's nose or put a finger through one's palm?
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What do you mean? If your not dreaming, you can't breath through your pinched nose or put your finger through a palm, but if your dreaming you can... that is how you differ dream from reality. if that is what you mean.

**BohmaN** · 01-07-2007 12:11 AM

What I mean is: What says that I will succeed, that I will be able to breathe through my nose when I'm dreaming...? It ought to not work since my it doesn't work in reality, and dreams reflect reality.... So what says that I'll succeed to breathe through my nose when I'm dreaming ? Understand now?

**Thimo25** · 01-07-2007 02:38 AM

Hello all

I'm sorry to ask this but what is DILD?
Is it something like a MILD?
Ive looked already on the site but i couldn't find it so would you plz tell me what it is?
Thanks
Thimo

**Merilon** · 01-07-2007 04:28 AM

Originally Posted by BohmaN

What I mean is: What says that I will succeed, that I will be able to breathe through my nose when I'm dreaming...? It ought to not work since my it doesn't work in reality, and dreams reflect reality.... So what says that I'll succeed to breathe through my nose when I'm dreaming ? Understand now?
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I thought the exact same thing... but for some reason it just does

I guess its because every time you do a reality check in real life, you always think that it would go through in a dream. Also, if you were pushing your fingers through your palm in your dream, your probably thinking *go through, go through* or something making it go through, since your in a dream. If you try to do anything in a dream, you will probably succeed, and since your trying to force your finger through your palm, you will succeed in forcing your finger through your palm... its hard to explain, but I hope that helped