Thread: Having multiple LD's in a row

I had 4 or 5 LDs this morning, mostly DEILDs (I got one with Paradigmshift's WILD method combined with a DEILD, that was the best one). I just wake up from one LD and reenter the dream while staying relatively conscious. It's called "chaining" I think.

I've had LD REM periods in a row probably more than I think. But if I don't wake up in between them, I won't remember the earlier ones. Only once have I lucid dreampt multiple times in a single night, and remembered.

Originally Posted by Naginata

I had 4 or 5 LDs this morning, mostly DEILDs (I got one with Paradigmshift's WILD method combined with a DEILD, that was the best one). I just wake up from one LD and reenter the dream while staying relatively conscious. It's called "chaining" I think.

Yeah, that sounds adequately. The thing that I find interesting about this is that recently I've thought that by this "chaining" it's possible to have at least ten LDs in a row and still it's your choice whether you want to wake up or continue in this chain. The way I do this is by Wild and every time when I feel like I'm gonna wake up (I know I'm in bed and it's really easy to wake myself up) I have my eyes closed and I stand up (not literally - well, it feels like I'm standing up) with eyes closed and a second after that I'm in another vivid LD.

Originally Posted by Abra

I've had LD REM periods in a row probably more than I think. But if I don't wake up in between them, I won't remember the earlier ones. Only once have I lucid dreampt multiple times in a single night, and remembered.

I know what you mean. As for the remembering the earlier ones is harder than the latest ones, I make memory marks during LDs. It works like this, I recall the best aspects of each dream during sleep and then I'm trying to repeat it once in a while so I better memorize them.

My new technique I have been working on works perfectly for this, I manage to string multiple LDs at will

Come on! Tell us what's your technique!

I'm lucky and can WILD almost at will. But even so, I find 3 or 4 LDs in a row are my limit. My technique is to see a ball of fire right in front of me as I sleep, therefore I know I am going to sleep, and I am going to dream. My laptop is by the side of my bed so that when I wake up, I can turn it on and quickly write down what it is I saw.

One thing I have found is that if I don't visualise the ball of fire I don't LD.

Originally Posted by polmc

Come on! Tell us what's your technique!

The trick is I wake up in the morning, then I'm awake a half an hour to one hour (with staying up longer it's possible as well) and then I'm going to sleep. This is commonly known as WILD, if I'm not mistaken. Then I'm in a position in which I stay for twenty minutes or so. When I'm feeling like I succumb to sleep and still I know I'm in my bed that's the moment when the Lucid Dreaming starts so the thing is not to go to sleep but to stand up (in the dream-verse) and go elsewhere. Then I'm in a vivid Lucid dream. The chaining is sometimes "automatic" and sometimes it needs a little help by repeating the first step so if I know I'm in bed after LD I have to concentrate on it so I stand up not literally but in a dream state. This way it's possible to have many vivid LDs and I'm not really sure where is the border in a rate of LDs summoned this way. But let's say it's many.

I'm not sure if this needs a lot of experience with Lucid dreaming. I had a few of very good vivids and hundreds of non-vivid LDs as a child and this year I've had more than hundred vivid LDs so far.