what method should i use

[kula35]

ok well im 15 and in high school. i go to bed from 10-11:30 usually, and get up at 6:30. on weekends friends usually stay over at my house so i sleep in the basement (no alarm clock to wake up in middle of night). im asking what method should i try during the week days, and what to try on weekends when my friends do not stay over. i want to try a wild on a weekend, but for the last 3 weeks things have made it so i cant. now im wondering if there is an easy enough way to try to LD that wont make me super tired in the morning on week nights, or some super hard core way on weekends.

[Spartiate]

You seem to be getting plenty of sleep, so I suggest you do a WBTB at 5 am. From there, you can do a WILD, MILD or just fall back asleep and hope for a DILD. P.S. Get an alarm clock...

[Raven12]

Try DEILD You might have some success with that.

[kula35]

i have an alarm clock but its in my room and half the time i dont sleep in my room, also sometimes like usually on sunday nights, i have a hard time getting to sleep so im tired for the next while

[ninja9578]

DEILD is usually close to 100%, but there is a window that you have to take advantage of that is only a second or two long. DILDs work for me, I do wake up before them though usually. If you drink a big glass of water before bed you will wake up in the middle of the night. It's SOOOOOOO MANY times better to wake up naturally than to be abruptly woken by an alarm clock.

[kula35]

ya i usually drink a lot of milk all day and a glass before i go to bed but i can drink water too, thanks for help

[kula35]

ok its 10:22 and im gona have a go at a wild, i drank a lot of water and stuff. im just gona see if it wakes me up in the night or not, and if it does ill just go with it. im just hoping that the water wakes me up lol, but im gona try not to dwell on it.

[Wavefunction]

Good luck with that WILD!

[kula35]

ok lol so i drank lots of water, and i ended up waking up about 2 hours later, so i just said screw it ill try tomorrow. im gona try tonight but id rather do like the guides say and get like atleast 5 hours of sleep first, so why not wait until today. im gona do the same thing tonight and if that doesnt work, ill go for thursday night. i have looots of time to get this

[Abra]

Aside from keeping a consistent sleep schedule (which improves general function, both dream and awake), the actual times you wake up/go to bed don't matter much. In fact, how you sleep matters much more! Are you a deep sleeper? (If yes, consider WILD) Once you wake up, is it easy to go back to bed? (If yes, consider WILD) Have you ever realized you were dreaming, prior to joining? (If yes, invest some time in DILD) Do you often wake up in the middle of a dream? (If yes, consider DEILD) Can you recall at least one dream per night? (If no, disregard all of the former questions. Dream recall is centrifugal to any lucid dreaming routine. Get good dream recall, and then work on techniques)

[kula35]

ok yes i can recall dreams easy enough. im a very deep sleeper and once i get up in the middle of the night i get back to bed really easily. that is the one reason why i considered a WILD i nthe first place. Also i have had a few lucid dreams but they were my mistake before i read up on them. I was planning on trying a WILD a few times like 4 or 5, and maybe move onto another method after that. I am not putting much pressure on myself to do this, so I am just gona wait for a right time to do it rather than put pressure on myself to wake up at this time and go to bed at this time and such.