Thread: Adam's Guide to Attaining Lucidity

I tried your technique last night! and although I didnt have a lucid dream it really helped my recall and WILD. So i went to bed at 12 and got up at 5:15, went down to my computer and read this thread along with some others. I then went to the toilet and went back to bed. I imagined my dream scene and kept repeating "When i am dreaming i
will know it and i will be doing this" imagining i was lucid in my scene. Not long after i went into SP, experienced huge vibrations and heard noises. I felt as though i was slipping into my dream but for some reason though after a while it just disappeared.

Im not sure what im supposed to do at this stage...do i wait for the scene to appear around me or do i "roll" out of my real body into my sleeping body??

But all in all i thought it was great...i tried it with a positive attitude and it increased my recall...and also this morning I had a false awakening which i should've realised!!!
ah well i think in the future ill definitely have more success! thanks!

Hey thanks for trying and glad it helped increase your recal. Most people report that if anything recal is improved.

I am working on a new technique which is a little easier than this with better results which I hope to publish before the weekend

Adam.

sweet! i look forward to it!

I know!!!! What about adding the moon as a dream location!?!?

or the bottom of the ocean? Awesome guide BTW actually i shorten the stay up time when i do WBTB anyways Def. gonna try this Tonight.

Cool, let me know how it goes

Ya i gotta get back into LD's. Past few years have been very unsuccessful. I seem to naturally wake up at 4:30 anyway and i gotta laptop in my room so it may work. lus my sleep is more regimented in the summer when I'm working.

Might as well ask this here.

Does doing a DEILD provoke sleep paralysis?

I would rather not have to go through that when I just wake up.

I will be trying this technique tonight. I hope it works. Ill post my results in the morning.

Originally Posted by Mattofla

Might as well ask this here.

Does doing a DEILD provoke sleep paralysis?

I would rather not have to go through that when I just wake up.

I wouldn't say so - not with me anyway. When I WILD it does, but this is usually because I WILD when I go to bed rather than waking up in the middle of the night to do it.

Sleep paralysis is nothing to be affraid of, and is actually one of the easiest ways to induce lucid dreams. Once you're aware that you're in SP then you just become lucid

Hi Adam, i will try this Technique tonight...usally i wake up without any help some time until i have to get up for work but i noticed that its only like 40 minutes until my alarm would go off so i stay in bed and have thoughts like " oh no just 40 minuted to have a LD.." i think that this thoughts destroy tha chances to LD...so i will try to get up at 5:15...i better not tell my wife ^^

I know it is fake and all, but I just have a fear that i will see the girl from "The Ring" hovering over me or something.

then you get a bazooka and kick her ass

Originally Posted by Mattofla

I know it is fake and all, but I just have a fear that i will see the girl from "The Ring" hovering over me or something.

Well how will you know unless you try?

adam. how do you just become lucid after you know your in SP?

Difficult to explain, but really it just a case of know that SP really is just a dream. Your mind is awake but your body isn't, this is effectively a lucid dream. I generally just start thinking about something else and it becomes the dream then. Most of by strong and lengthy lucid dreams have come out of SP.

Let me know if you need me to go into more detail.

ok today i tryed your technique but its just not possible for me to fall to sleep after 15 minuted beeing awake on a unusual time...today i was 1,5 hours awake then falled to sleep but 10 min after that i had to go to work...

maybe im just thinking to much about havin a LD and try to much fall to sleep i dont know what im doing wrong..

I "tried" doing this at least three times...but i cant wake up to my alarm! i always sleep through it! its crazy i must sleep ridiculously deep b/c ill set the volume of my alarm to the highest setting which NEVER ((used)) to fail to wake me up, and i wake up naturally that morning and dont remember hearing a thing! but i know it went off because my mom had to come and turn it off.ahhhhh what the hell? any suggestions? this is driving me insane! I wanted to try this guide too ;__;

I'm not sure what to suggest to help you wake up. Maybe try having your alarm closer or try some affirmations before bed, for example telling yourself over and over that you MUST and WILL wake up at 4am or what ever time you plan. Or maybe try setting your mibile phone alarm and having that on your bed?

Another DEILD related post:

So i was having this strange dream... and I eventually noticed that all that was just a dream and I noticed I was sitting in my bed with my eyes closed. I continued to sit there while looking over my dream and I even visualized the next part of it to kind of kick start the process.

Nothing Happened. :\

I am guessing my REM sleep was over and you can only do it in REM or something. I know your not an expert on DEILD, but thought I'd post it here.

haha i woke up to my alarm yesterday morning after posting that guess all i needed was a little sutosuggestionn like you said. but i have another question i woke up and did the whole get up for 5 min and all and got back to be and did my dream scene which is this forest i created in my mind while doing one of my WILD attempts a couple months ago. so your guide was really similar to what ive already done just experiementing so anyways i think at one point my dream scene DID become my dream. the only problem was that it happened without any signs of SP or anything so i had no idea.and it was in my dream scene i imagined. so even though random things started happening (like some people i hadn't imagined started chasing me)the whole dream i kept wondering/asking myself whether or not i was dreaming or still in bed visualizing.and i didnt want to decide i was dreaming if i was really awake. this spanned for like 5 different dreams and for some reason doing a reality check never entered my mind? so my question is how do you tell you've entered a dream? mine was done so smoothly i couldnt tell plus the whole dream i was aware and had semi-control so i was like? what is going on am i still visualizing? sorry if this is a stupid question. but im so confused! did i actually WILD?

You didn't WILD - but you were close. The realisation was almost there since you questionned yourself in the dream. A good thing to remember is that when you question yourself you must always go with it, but you're never going to question yourself when you're awake - trust me.

So when you next attempt it, if you find yourself wondering if you're dreaming or just imagining it, then just go with trying an RC or something, because more than likely you wil be dreaming. Also sounds like you went back to sleep pretty quick, maybe try staying up for a minute or two longer

Hope that helps?

I went to sleep at 10:45 and set my alarm for 4:30, i got up for about 10 mins and then i went back to bed to lay down. While i was lying still for about 10 - 15 mins trying to lucid dream, i got this feeling like my body was tilting backwards and kind of flipping. I also saw visual things like colors and flashes. I ended up falling asleep because i gave up and turned on my side and went to sleep. Do you know what that tilting/flipping feeling was? Also, do you think i was close to a lucid dream?

Ok, so it's been some time since I've gotten myself together to attempt any special techniques, but I have a feeling I'm ready to get back on the horse, so I am gonna start out by stabilizing my sleep patterns. Does 23:00/24:00 -> 7:00 sound alright?

edit: wow I just took a look through this thread. That's some wonderful english I had going for myself back in 2007. Goddamn.