New _ILD technique?

I actually fell into this from laziness this morning. But to my delight, it worked!

See, I fell asleep at about 1-1:20 AM, and set my alarm for 5:30 AM with the intentions of doing a WBTB. When I woke up from my deep sleep at 5:30, I had no recollections of any dreams. All I knew what that I was super-tired, in no mood to get up and try sleeping somewhere else or anything. So, after only moving my arm a foot or two to shut off the alarm, and maybe roll over a bit, I went back to sleep, not expecting to become lucid in whatever dreams were to come.

Well at first, I wasn't. But I did have a pretty vivid, 10ish minute dream. Then, the next thing I remember, I'm laying in my bed, thinking about sleep paralysis. But I moved my arm. Luckily, for some reason, I was convinced I was dreaming. I plugged my nose and was still breathing. Just to make sure, I tried it again, and could still breathe through it. I had a nice, 2 minute long lucid dream, easily the best I have achieved to date, in about a month of really trying.

So all this babbling aside, my theorized technique, which I will test again tonight, is as follows. (Note - this may not be very revolutionary or even original or anything but it has got me excited.)

Step 1 - Set your alarm for sometime in the middle of the night. I could be a lot smarter when it comes to your REM periods/cycles/whatnot, but the point is, your sleep should be INTERRUPTED, and when you wake, the only thing you should want is more shut-eye.

Step 2 - DON'T MOVE. Don't get out of bed. Don't move away to the couch or anything. Just remember why you set the alarm, and what you intend to do when you become lucid. (This may also be a good time to set a quick VILD scene) My point is, that you should keep most of your body still asleep, only switching your "mindset."

Step 3 - Drift back to sleep within moments, while hopefully remembering what just occurred during your dream, then performing an RC.

I have trouble getting back to sleep if I record a dream in my journal or try to think about what I want to dream about. It gets me too anxious. My thinking here is that you should be able to get to sleep quickly while also keeping a lucid mindset. Maybe a WILD would be easier? I don't know.

Thanks for reading.

Interesting Idea. I actually like it, but usually when Im too lazy to perform a WILD after a WBTB i usually just go back to sleep like this. But, I don't really tell my self to have a lucid dream. I guess ill try that :)

I tried my first WILD last night and ran into this problem. I actually woke up at 4 am shut the alarm off and went straight to bed, only to awaken without an alarm later. I then woke up, entered in my dream journal and then attempted to WILD but I was too alert to do it correctly.

The next night I realize I need to wake up and force myself to change my mindset just a bit, then focus on WILDING without getting up ect. Because now I realize that WILDing is basically keeping conscious while your body goes through it's five sleep cycles over and over again throughout the night. So if you awaken in lets say stage 3, but go right back to sleep only altering your mind you will enter REM sleep much faster and be much be much easier if you get JUST awake enough.

I don't know if this will work, just my mind placing it all together, I haven't had a real LD yet, but I am going straight into WILDing.

Last night I had all intentions of trying this again, but my alarm didn't go off! I woke up really late. I was pissed that I just shut the alarm off and didn't even think about lucidity, until I found the alarm wasn't even switched to off! Very strange and very disappointing.

More recently I'm thinking this was just a fluke. The last couple nights I shut off my alarm with no memory of even doing so.