Hello Dreamers.
A few years back I made a post on another forum about a technique I am using to attain LD's. I thought it might be interesting to post it here too. Although I do not know if anyone else has already posted a similar technique here (I did a quick search and found some similar ideas but not exactly the same), if so I'm sorry. Of the people trying this technique quite a few were able to WILD successfully after a few nights of trying, so if you are interested give it a shot and who knows it works for you too.
First of all I do not try this technique when I go to sleep in the evening. I do it when I wake up during the morning, like after 4-7 hours of sleep (I made that a habbit), when the mind is still in 'REM-mode'. This is inportant since as most of you will know, in this state of mind WILD-ing is much easier (to me at least, I suppose it counts for others aswell).
On to the actual technique. It mainly comes down to forcing your brain to 'open up' a new dream, without having to wait and practise any relaxing or focussing/counting exercises. For me, it goes as following: I wake up during the night, and I'm still very sleepy. Before I fully wake up, before I even open my eyes, I imagine myself spinning around my length axis in my bed. This in itself could already cause a new dream to emerge quickly (some people actually do it just this way I think). However, I then use this spinning sensation to roll myself out of my sleeping position. This creates to our brain the illusion of an out of body experience. The trick is to do this ofcourse without moving your real body. You have to do it with your imagined spinning dream body! (On occasion, you will move your real body, if you do, you were too early and have to wait a few more moments longer next time.) Once you are 'out of body', your brain is instantly forced to 'project' your awareness into a dream. I say 'project', since this is what happens actually, you are mentally launched, or projected into your dreamworld.
Let me stress here that you are not actually out of your body, only your perception of what actually happens might make it look like a genuine OBE (what that realy is, is beyond the scope of this threat). When you stand there beside your bed, being lucid, it would be the same as a dream in which you became lucid and created your house and went up to your bedroom, nothing more or less. I must admit that at first when I used this technique I was doubting if I were perhaps realy out of body, but this is clearly not the case (I did quite some testing to come to this conclusion). Also, it looks perfectly like a normal LD, so why wouldnt it be one? Right.... well this is the technique i have been experimenting with, it has worked for me almost everytime I tried it (assuming im not already to wide awake, then it doesnt work anymore). I suppose one could call it RILD (R from Rolling...)
So, if anyone uses similar techniques or would try this one, I would gladly like to hear about it. Recently I havent been using this technique a lot but I plan to get back into LD-ing again and use this tech again.
