Thread: Want into an LD?

Just use the front door

Admittedly this is only my third so I'm no master but this LD entry was different. Just posting it incase anyone can use it to visualise their way into a LD.
Previous two times I have experienced something very strange or impossible in the dream that made me realise it was a dream. I become lucid, in a dull sort of way, and fumble about wasting my time until I wake up
This time was diferent. I usually experience random images before I sleep some clearer than others.
Is this what is refered to as the hypnomagogic imagery everyone talks about?
Anyway, in the image I was walking down a residential street in a town near by. Everything looked fairly normal except I don't think the houses were exactly right, not werid, just not perfectly accurate. (I want to make clear at this stage I am still awake and just seeing this)
As I was walking past one house I notice the front door is open. It looks darker, only natural on a sunny day. But it also looks clearer somehow.
I just instantly instinctively know if I walk through that door I will be in a LD.
And I do
Not much to tell apart from more fumbling and time wastage
I realy need to work on my control and clarity ... might help to stop following strange women to their bedrooms

i think thats like the bridge stuff people use


i guess thats your way of telling your mind your lucid

Sounds like an unintentional WILD if I have ever heard one. Very cool... I want one. What were your emotions like during this WILD? Amazement? Anger? Sadness? or were you scared?

There was just a calm certainty that thru the door would be an LD
There were no symptoms of WILD, Don't you usually see a vortex? and feel sleep paralysis setting in? There were none of these. Never done a WILD so I'm not totally sure. My awareness, vividness and lucidity were no higher than usual but always good to be LD
I was not scared, just happy to be in LD and curious to look around the house. I think over excitement woke me up in the end
I was surprised afterwards because the entry method was so different from the previous two, and completely unplanned.

I have been in a bit of an LD dry spell recently and I have a theory about this too.
My usual induction technique is to give up for a few days, just stop trying.
But something must be increasing LD activity because I managed 3 in a month or so where I have had none for many years before that.
I think I had been inadvertantly doing a form of reality check, or to put it more precisely reality recognition.
I think that thinking about dreaming / perception / reality for most of the day may have lead me to naturaly question my surroundings in dreams and heighten my awareness just enough to help me become luicid those times.
I am curently trying something to get a thought pattern of awareness and lucidity established to see if this is a useful technique. I will post more if I get any results.