Thread: Adam's Guide to Attaining Lucidity

ha ha ha yeah your probs right...I got carried away watching band of brothers lol

I was so tired when i woke up in the night i fell asleep while attempting to turn off my alarm lol

Trying this again.

I think I'll try this tech out tonight since its Friday, I'll post results tomorrow...

right my third night of trying I just had some good recall.

Last night I slept really soundly so did not wake up after 5.30 hours but more towards 7 hours. I filled in some dreams got up for a bit I was active for about 10 mins. Went back to bed and used you mild/wild combo technique it worked. ha ha I had a lucid dream using your technique so certainly it works nice one mate

Well, I tryed it out last night. I went to sleep at 12:30 A.M. and woke up at 5:30 A.M. I was so darn tired I didn't bother getting up, I just stayed in bed, my eyes closed, imagining a dream scene in my head. I got up to some moving pictures. I lost consciosnous. But I did actually remember my dream a lot more vividly, so I guess this tech improved my recall. I'll give it another go tonight.

I do have your PM here still, so dont think I am ignoring it, have a whole bunch to get through so will when I can

Oki, was too damn tired this night. Try again tonight, will probably get 7 or more hours of sleep

You are always too tired

I got up, got my laptop running, checked the pictures, read some lucid-dreaming related stuff, and got back to bed. I was sorta trying to WILD, but I just couldn't. I know how to WILD, but I had just forgotten how to do it

Try again tonight

I tried last night. I went to bed at 12:30 and set my alarm for 6. When I was getting to the "it seems like I'm going to fall asleep soon" part I started repeating in my head "When I fall asleep, I will know I'm dreaming. When I wake up, I will remember my dreams." I know you don't say to do this before going to bed, but more chanting can't hurt. It may help with the dreams I have before I wake up.

So, I woke up at 6, turned off my alarm, and laid there with my eyes closed to remember any dreams I may have already had. I laid there for 3 minutes and couldn't remember a single thing, so I got up before I fell back asleep and got on here. I checked my email, read some posts on here, then re-read the part of your guide that talks about after you wake up. I left it up and went to the bathroom and got some water. I came back and made sure I knew exactly what to do, then turned off the monitors and went back to bed. I was up for 10 minutes. I close my window whenever I get up after 5-7 hours now because people like to drive by really loudly that time in the morning.

When you say to lay still that it's sorta like a WILD, I wasn't sure how still you mean to lay. I know other people's WILD techniques say to lay as still as you can, but then Jeff's guide says exactly to not move anything, nor move your eyes, nor even swallow, so I wasn't sure what you meant in your guide. So, I tried to lay as still as in Jeff's guide and I tried to imagine myself in a scene and walking through it. The first thing that came to my head was a dirt road through a tree orchard, so I imagined myself walking through that. I kept telling myself "When this happens, I'll know I'm dreaming."

It was hard to keep imagining myself in the trees, though, because I'd lose focus and my mind would go blank (or think random thoughts about lucid dreaming and about your guide and other people's responses to it without realizing it) and I'd have to make myself go back to that scene and start repeating it again. I started the scene at the beginning several times because of this. There was really nothing to do there, so I automatically switched to a different scene and imagined myself being lucid there. This happened several times. It's hard for me to imagine something for very long. While daydreaming, I can usually only imagine little parts of scenes until I either jump to the exciting or interesting part, or go back and imagine the exciting or interesting part I already imagined.

I did feel like my head get all tingly like it was falling asleep (like not getting enough circulation) but I didn't get any HI (never have before). My body felt numb (has happened before) but if I tried to barely move my finger or eyelid, they moved just fine (like always). I ended up getting really hot laying there and wanted to move the blanket off my shoulders and arms. I ended up just saying "fuck it" and pushed the blanket down, knowing I just messed up my WILD (which I've never succeeded at). I looked at the clock and it was 7, so I had been laying there for almost an hour. I turned over and didn't worry about stupid WILDing anymore and just repeated the same thoughts that you said to repeat.

I don't know at what point I stopped repeating it or at what point I fell asleep, but I woke up around 10ish remembering part of 1 dream. I laid there longer and remembered the rest of it. It wasn't very vivid and certainly wasn't lucid. I can tell that my recall is a lot better than it was (still isn't that great) just from dreams being on my mind a lot more and laying there with my eyes closed as soon as I wake up and trying to remember them. How would you tailor this technique to me given this info?

EDIT: I'm anticipating RCing to be a particularly effective hinderance to me because when weird things happen, I just usually accept it as reality and think that I have just never encountered this before and I'm learning something new that I never knew before. I'm very open-minded to pretty much anything and never disbelieve anything until I have stronger proof of the opposite. Don't get my wrong. I don't just blindly believe it, either. I don't decide whether I believe or disbelieve until I have stronger proof of one way or the other. I'll be the first to suggest that maybe my understanding of reality isn't as accurate as it could be and I'm very open to the possibility that there may be all kinds of things I don't know about and haven't encountered yet. I may only know about 1% of this world and about reality. That's why when something weird happens a dream, my first thought is curiosity and I get a huge urge to learn as much about this thing as possible.

I've been trying this all week, and usually i turned off the phone alarm, went back to sleep, and woke up to my blaring alarm clock with no dream recall.

I left my phone at my friends house yesterday(and went to sleep at about 10), but woke up this morning at about 5 by myself(very unusual). I went back to sleep and i dreamed! I got lucid by doing a RC. btw, i never even get dreams during school. Huge improvement.

It's kind of weird that the night i didn't specifically try to do it, it worked. Thanks a lot Adam, I think this will end up working well for me, maybe ill be able to LD on weekdays now to!

Excellent work - Maybe the routeen of trying this was putting added pressure on you to become lucid? But with the technique already embed into your subconscious maybe it worked best this way for you?

I'm pleased elements of my technique worked for you, and good luck when trying again

I'll have a go at this in the morning

Wow! Thanks, Adam! I read this last night, and I had a lucid dream last night too, probably due to this. I appreciate this, it helped me get a lucid dream again.

Thats awesome! I am really pleased

I always sleep at 10:00pm and wake up at 6:50. I am a bit sceptcal considering the succes rate wiht other people put this seems like a well thought out tech. I'm trying tonight, like in 5 minutes. So good luck to me! I really hope this works, I've only ever had DILDs.

Hey good luck

A few have been successful, just not posted here

Thanks. I will try this. I'm trying to improve my memory now with an excersice from EWLD, I hope this will help with the MILD.

Let me know how you get on

"January 11th


Dream Recall Improvement


Using Adam's technique I could recall 6 dreams a night!!! I can't say for sure that it was only due to his technique, but after trying other techniques, this one seems to be the best so far in dream recall. Here is a short summary of each dream:

1. first wake up (04:30am):
   1. A woman keeps calling me on my cellphone, she wants to know what time is the concert going to be;
   2. My neighbors dog barks outside, I go to the window to look outside, but all I could see was my computer (Windows) desktop;
2. second wake up (07:00am):
   1. I was posting something at DV's forums;
   2. Someone knocks on the front door, I go check, and there is nobody there;
   3. I go on errands and a couple is running naked aound the supermarket/mall;
   4. I wake up, turn off the air-conditioner (I know this was a dream, because when I actually woke up the air-conditioner was on)

Thanks Adam!!"

This seems like an interesting technique! I'm going to be using it in my WBTB's from now on.

One question though. When I return to bed, should I be vizualising/thinking about my dream scene until I fall asleep?

Because last night when I tried this I had some trouble falling back to sleep and had to let my mind wander off eventually. I don't know, maybe I was focusing too much on the dream scene or something? Or it could have been that I was just up for too long (I think I was up around 20 minutes)

*Shrug*

Well initially yes, think about it, but should your mind wander let it, but make sure you stay with it, and make sure you stay awake with it or you will just fall to sleep

Alright, thanks man.

I randomly woke up around 4 hours after going to bed tonight and decided to give this another go.

I stayed up for about 10 minutes, then went back to bed daydreaming about my dream scene. I was dead tired so I passed out quick as hell. Good thing was that I had a Dild!
Bad thing was that I was so stressed about completing my LD goal that I woke up when I tried to teleport. Oh well, hopefully i'll learn from this mistake.