Thread: How to VILD effectively

This was a great reread, much clarity to my visualizing Attempt it during WBTB

The thing I'm having trouble with is feeling, smelling, tasting... I can visualize image and sound really easily. I also haven't tried the actual thing yet, just trying stuff out with the senses. I'll try this tonight

I tried this last night, lost consciousness because I was so tired, will try again tonight.

I had an idea for this, what if you, during the waking day, make your own "Dream sign", as in, an item that you do a reality check when you see, or an item that makes you think "I'm dreaming" when you see it.

Then when you visualize your dream using VILD, you literally surround yourself with this dream sign item. That way even if you fall asleep, you see this item in your dream, and have a DILD.

Could that work? Or would your mind change the dream quickly because of the artificial Dream sign you made.


EX: You do an RC and think if you're dreaming everytime you see a coffee cup. In your VILD visualization, you sit at a desk covered in coffee cups. That way even if you fall asleep you see the coffee cups in your dream and have a DILD. That's what I mean.

Originally Posted by blankrofl

I tried this last night, lost consciousness because I was so tired, will try again tonight.

I had an idea for this, what if you, during the waking day, make your own "Dream sign", as in, an item that you do a reality check when you see, or an item that makes you think "I'm dreaming" when you see it.

Then when you visualize your dream using VILD, you literally surround yourself with this dream sign item. That way even if you fall asleep, you see this item in your dream, and have a DILD.

Could that work? Or would your mind change the dream quickly because of the artificial Dream sign you made.


EX: You do an RC and think if you're dreaming everytime you see a coffee cup. In your VILD visualization, you sit at a desk covered in coffee cups. That way even if you fall asleep you see the coffee cups in your dream and have a DILD. That's what I mean.

Yeah, that would most likely work! It would probably take a few days/weeks for the artificial dream sign to set in but once it did...awesome! There is always the chance that you won't be in the dream you visualized but it is worth a try! Good luck

This sounds awesome! I am not really good at visualization, but I am awesome at recreating sounds and tactile sensations, so I think I'll manage this. I am doing DEILD for quite some time without success, so I was thinking I will try to combine it with DEILD, since I can wake up without moving, but I'm having trouble with transition. Do you think it is a good idea?

When i tried your method , it gave me some pretty good results. I got 2 types of dreams , lucid ones and non lucid ones . The lucid ones were very unclear , but i could talk with dream characters , also i was still in control of my body , i could see the dream very hazily but i was still in my body and not in the dream , and shortly i return to seeing nothing , then i find myself again somehow in side of the dream but still in my body . Shortly after that i slip into non lucid dreams , very short ones too , but they are very vivid .

What i mean is that your method works pretty well , but how can i change those unstable "visions" , they are very weird , i can talk with dream characters and sometimes i can see things but at the same time i see the darkness of my EYElids .