Thread: My way of getting lucid (100% success so far)

Fordy??? It's Herlihy!!!

You gave me this advice on friday last week, You said that following the method would give "Clear dreams". I liked the sound of that, and tried it that night - to no avail. I tried it again on the weekend - also with no results. I was pretty annoyed that i couldn't get it working, so i roamed the internet for information on "Clear dreams". One search led to another, and eventually i was searching for "Lucid dreaming". I stumbled upon this site. I have read the info on Lucid dreaming and frankly it sounds much better then "clear dreams". I'm trying other methods for attaining Lucidness now, thanks to this site. You're method didn't work for me, but thats because you didn't explain it to me properly. You said to leave the cover for your bed at the end of the bed, or just leave it hanging off slightly. But on your first post you say you shouldn't have a cover at all. Although you seem to go back to your old theory a post later.

My theory on this method: If you have a double/queen size bed, have enough of the covers hanging over the bottem of the bed so that the end of the covers touch the floor. Then all you should do is attach some sort of weight to the covers so that they can only keep slipping off, and not get pulled up.
Alternatively you could just sleep on one side of the bed and have half of the covers over you, with the other half all over the floor. I tried this and the covers fell off alright, but i didn't attain lucidness. (Although i admit i did get a moderately more clear dream after waking up and going back to sleep)

Either way, i'll try this new version of your method, hopefully it gives 100% success.
See you at school.

Originally Posted by TheIronKnuckle

Fordy??? It's Herlihy!!!

You gave me this advice on friday last week, You said that following the method would give "Clear dreams". I liked the sound of that, and tried it that night - to no avail. I tried it again on the weekend - also with no results. I was pretty annoyed that i couldn't get it working, so i roamed the internet for information on "Clear dreams". One search led to another, and eventually i was searching for "Lucid dreaming". I stumbled upon this site. I have read the info on Lucid dreaming and frankly it sounds much better then "clear dreams". I'm trying other methods for attaining Lucidness now, thanks to this site. You're method didn't work for me, but thats because you didn't explain it to me properly. You said to leave the cover for your bed at the end of the bed, or just leave it hanging off slightly. But on your first post you say you shouldn't have a cover at all. Although you seem to go back to your old theory a post later.

My theory on this method: If you have a double/queen size bed, have enough of the covers hanging over the bottem of the bed so that the end of the covers touch the floor. Then all you should do is attach some sort of weight to the covers so that they can only keep slipping off, and not get pulled up.
Alternatively you could just sleep on one side of the bed and have half of the covers over you, with the other half all over the floor. I tried this and the covers fell off alright, but i didn't attain lucidness. (Although i admit i did get a moderately more clear dream after waking up and going back to sleep)

Either way, i'll try this new version of your method, hopefully it gives 100% success.
See you at school.

Okay say this is your bed | | Now let X be you and D be your covers.

|D X|

So you are on one side of the bed sort of and your covers are on the other side next to but not on you. Now once you fall alseep you may get cold from the temperature change during the night causing you to wake up. Once you have woken up grab the covers next to you and pull them on top of you so you are warm again and go back to sleep. This is the method he was getting at.

This causes you to wake up cause you are cold pull the covers back on and go back to bed.

Originally Posted by Brandon Heat

Okay say this is your bed | | Now let X be you and D be your covers.

|D X|

So you are on one side of the bed sort of and your covers are on the other side next to but not on you. Now once you fall alseep you may get cold from the temperature change during the night causing you to wake up. Once you have woken up grab the covers next to you and pull them on top of you so you are warm again and go back to sleep. This is the method he was getting at.

This causes you to wake up cause you are cold pull the covers back on and go back to bed.

actually what i meant was: | dX|D

the small d is where you only have a little bit of the covers on you and the "D" is where the majority of the covers will be, piled on the floor. In your sleep the covers will fall off, thus making you cold.

Although |D X| would work as well.

Originally Posted by NightmareOnElmStreet

THAT my friend, is called a WBTB.

I was just about to point that out.

Yay! Herlihy!

This site just got a lot funnier!

lol, maybe.

And is that a book or something more sinister?

It is indeed something more sinister.

Originally Posted by TheIronKnuckle

It is indeed something more sinister.

I'll guess stockings up around an animated butt.

Close, but not all the way there.

Hmm but you wouldn't always get the success rate if your covers, wait I forgot what I was going to say.......

Oh right if you don't move in your sleep than your covers might not fall onto the floor is what I was going to say. If you have them already off to begin with you eliminate that problem. But if it works for you go ahead.

Originally Posted by TheIronKnuckle

Close, but not all the way there.

Bra it is! *drools*

Originally Posted by Fordy

Sleep with your sheets off and in the middle of the night when it gets cold, you'll wake up and the put the sheets back on. You will then go very quickly into rem sleep and have a very vivid dream.

couldnt u just set an alarm? , is the point of this to encourage yourself to wake up?

It should work even in summer because if you start with the sheets and stuff completely off, your body will cool down in the night and you'll wake up because of the coldness

Originally Posted by TRAHH

that would make sense, if i didnt live in nevada. =/

turn a fan on or something

I already dont have a problem waking up in bed nightly, so the technique seems redundant in my case.

I slept with my fan on high and it got really cold, but I just had a dream about being cold. It was vivid though. But not lucid.

Originally Posted by gguru1

I already dont have a problem waking up in bed nightly, so the technique seems redundant in my case.

This is just a general comment, not necessarily about this "technique": When it comes to LDing, redundancy can be your best friend.

Redundancy = positive reinforcement.

man how am I gonna do that if I live in brazil :O


Well, at least I'm not in mexico or the like. If so, keeping the sheets on and wake up sweating would be the way

It doesn't neccessarily have to be a cold room, I think. If you're used to sleeping with the covers on, it may help you stay awake by having them off.