I H8 Reality's VILD Technique

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Originally Posted by I H8 Reality

I just woke up from and LD using this technique. The key is and I cannot stress this enough is that you must be really tired when you wake up during your brief awakening Sometime you wake up during it and you feel really awake, good luck with that type of brief awakening, it just wont work.

You'll usually have these really tired brief awakenings later in the night. Roughly 6+ hours after you first gone to sleep.

The Second part is the visualization, and yes I know what you mean about how during a brief awakening it feels impossible to visualize. The reason is your doing it with the wrong mind set

Its kind of hard for me to explain, but Your visualization should require no effort at all like your imagery you see when you first go to bed at night.Don't struggle and put all your mental powers and concentration in visualization, it will only keep you awake.

Its kind of hard to explain but you got to effortlessly visualize as if theres no pressure on you. Its ironic the harder you try and visualize, the more likely it wont work.

This is why I recommend visualizing somewhere your really familiar with

THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT: You should visualize with your mind and not your eye! The reason visualizing seems so hard is your still trying to visualize with your eye (not in the literal sense). What I mean is when you visualize walking around don't do it from your eyes perspective, do it from your minds perspective.

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Thanks for this clarification.
Really helps.

going to attempt to pwn with this technique tonight.

I'm going to try this one tonight. I've tried this technique a few times before, but I'm usually dead tired when I wake up briefly through-out the night, so doing this never crosses my mind and I forget. ):

But tonight shall be the night I remember. (;

I know what my problem is. My doctor has me on a new medication for my ADHD.... It's called Vyvanse. It really messes up my ability to sleep... I can't stay asleep the whole night, and it takes me a while to fall asleep once I'm awake. It also can give me bad depression, but thats another story.


I'm only on a trial perscription for now. I can't wait until I stop taking the stupid pills.


EDIT: I woke up at 6 this morning and couldnt get back to bed...

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Originally Posted by royksopp

I'm going to try this one tonight. I've tried this technique a few times before, but I'm usually dead tired when I wake up briefly through-out the night, so doing this never crosses my mind and I forget. ):

But tonight shall be the night I remember. (;

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Thats good that your tired in your brief awakening, your brief awakening is a doorway to a dream and visualizing is like putting a Lucidity key in the door. Metephoricaly speaking

did not pwn.

huh?

mmm, I failed the 5 day trial...I remembered a dream a night, but I did not become lucid...Im still going to go on this though, since this is the first week that I have remembered a dream every night

edit: oops, wrong technique, sorry man!!

So I just tried this technique this morning and I was able to string together around 10-15lucids in a row with it. I've never had anything be so successful for dream re-entry.

I went to bed around 1-2am after drinking heavily. Woke up around 6:30 (my normal wake up time on week days). My heart was racing from all the booz I drank, so I took about 10 minutes to calm myself down. I then lied down on my back and tried to WILD. I did a combination of deep breathing and reverse blinking to really try to slow my racing heart. My girlfriend interrupted me by sitting up and screaming from some dream. I gave up and rolled to my side. I just fell asleep attentively, watching my thoughts and HI until I felt myself start to enter sleep.

Right when I was on the border of sleep, dipping in and out, I started to imagine myself getting out of bed, opening the bedroom door paying attention to the feel of the door handle. Then I walked through the living room, opened the front door, againg paying attention to the feel of the metal knob. Then I imagined closing the door, locking it with my keys, opening the gate, and then closing it behind me paying attention to the sound it makes when it closes.

I think really paying attention to the sounds of the doors closing and the feel of the handles helped increase the vividness. By the time I reached the stoplight on our street corner, I was fully dreaming, and went from there.

I woke up from the LD after only a few minutes, knowing I was still half asleep, and did the exact same visualization again. It worked again, giving me another 5 minute lucid. I did this about 10-15 times, having short lucid dreams. They were very unstable, and it seemed like the environments changed very easily for some reason. Like I could just think of where I wanted to be, and I was there.

I will definitely be trying this again tomorrow morning.

congratulations! This technique is great its been working well for me. As you said the key is to be in the border of awake/asleep ans then to start visulaizing.

You know, I have to say that I'm quite jealous of the creator! I can really see that this is a good technique. I did try it last night, and it didn't work, because I was imagining a place not so tied to my memory. I also got distracted by my Television, which I leave on at night. But I was really close to attaining Lucidity, I could tell.

I'm going to give this a shot, ill give feed-back. :boogie:

seems like this works for alot of people... this technique should be documented in the tutorials I think... if it hasn't been

it's sort of a sub-genre of deild

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Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

So I just tried this technique this morning and I was able to string together around 10-15lucids in a row with it. I've never had anything be so successful for dream re-entry.

I went to bed around 1-2am after drinking heavily. Woke up around 6:30 (my normal wake up time on week days). My heart was racing from all the booz I drank, so I took about 10 minutes to calm myself down. I then lied down on my back and tried to WILD. I did a combination of deep breathing and reverse blinking to really try to slow my racing heart. My girlfriend interrupted me by sitting up and screaming from some dream. I gave up and rolled to my side. I just fell asleep attentively, watching my thoughts and HI until I felt myself start to enter sleep.

Right when I was on the border of sleep, dipping in and out, I started to imagine myself getting out of bed, opening the bedroom door paying attention to the feel of the door handle. Then I walked through the living room, opened the front door, againg paying attention to the feel of the metal knob. Then I imagined closing the door, locking it with my keys, opening the gate, and then closing it behind me paying attention to the sound it makes when it closes.

I think really paying attention to the sounds of the doors closing and the feel of the handles helped increase the vividness. By the time I reached the stoplight on our street corner, I was fully dreaming, and went from there.

I woke up from the LD after only a few minutes, knowing I was still half asleep, and did the exact same visualization again. It worked again, giving me another 5 minute lucid. I did this about 10-15 times, having short lucid dreams. They were very unstable, and it seemed like the environments changed very easily for some reason. Like I could just think of where I wanted to be, and I was there.

I will definitely be trying this again tomorrow morning.

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You mentioned something really important point. You said, "Right when I was on the border of sleep, dipping in and out, I started to imagine myself getting out of bed..."

Thats something I really want to emphasize, you should visualize when your flirting with border of wakefullness and sleep.

For those of you who say "Im too awake during a brief awakening" i would suggest that you just lay there for about 1 minute after youve awoken and hopefully if you dont fall asleep by then, youll hopefully be at the border of wakefulness and sleep and once you start visualizing I can almost guarantee youll be lucid

Wow!

It turns out I use this method, just not for lucid dreaming!

When I wake up at night (usually around 2-4) I need a bathroom break, I'm still very tired so I don't want to get up. I imagine doing it and next thing I know I'm very dissapointed. why? Because I thought I went to the bathroom but I didn't yet!

Now I know to use it as a way to Lucid Dream, not dream about completing my goal.

Awesome, I'll try this tonight :D

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Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

So I just tried this technique this morning and I was able to string together around 10-15lucids in a row with it. I've never had anything be so successful for dream re-entry.

I went to bed around 1-2am after drinking heavily. Woke up around 6:30 (my normal wake up time on week days). My heart was racing from all the booz I drank, so I took about 10 minutes to calm myself down. I then lied down on my back and tried to WILD. I did a combination of deep breathing and reverse blinking to really try to slow my racing heart. My girlfriend interrupted me by sitting up and screaming from some dream. I gave up and rolled to my side. I just fell asleep attentively, watching my thoughts and HI until I felt myself start to enter sleep.

Right when I was on the border of sleep, dipping in and out, I started to imagine myself getting out of bed, opening the bedroom door paying attention to the feel of the door handle. Then I walked through the living room, opened the front door, againg paying attention to the feel of the metal knob. Then I imagined closing the door, locking it with my keys, opening the gate, and then closing it behind me paying attention to the sound it makes when it closes.

I think really paying attention to the sounds of the doors closing and the feel of the handles helped increase the vividness. By the time I reached the stoplight on our street corner, I was fully dreaming, and went from there.

I woke up from the LD after only a few minutes, knowing I was still half asleep, and did the exact same visualization again. It worked again, giving me another 5 minute lucid. I did this about 10-15 times, having short lucid dreams. They were very unstable, and it seemed like the environments changed very easily for some reason. Like I could just think of where I wanted to be, and I was there.

I will definitely be trying this again tomorrow morning.

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Awesome. I decide earlier i would be using this technique and after reading this i am quite optimistic. (hopefully i will get as many) I am planning on imagining i am being in a house in my old street which i am very familiar with so i think it should work.

I'm definitely trying this.

This method sounds good, i'm gonne try this tonight, i'll keep you guys posted.

L8ers

So are people experiencing SP effects with this? Because I'm not. I feel like I just end up going straight into the dream without any notice of paralysis or vibrations at all.

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Originally Posted by StJohnny

So are people experiencing SP effects with this? Because I'm not. I feel like I just end up going straight into the dream without any notice of paralysis or vibrations at all.

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No, you shouldn't feel SP. For some reason you skip it and just go directly into a dream

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I can't fall asleep using this technique.

It is frustrating.

I tried this last night and the night before and couldn't get it to work. Maybe I'm concentrating too hard? Do you guys keep thinking about what your are doing, like running down the stairs or whatever until you are in the dream? I really hope this method works for me since I wake up 3-4 times a night.

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Originally Posted by I H8 Reality

No, you shouldn't feel SP. For some reason you skip it and just go directly into a dream

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Just to correct you slightly: your body will always go into paralysis when sleeping. Visualizing just means you'll never notice it. SP before sleep will occur when you are keeping your conscious attention on the outside and on your body while falling asleep.

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Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

I did a combination of deep breathing and reverse blinking to really try to slow my racing heart.

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I'm not farmiliar with this "reverse blinking" technique and I can't find anything about it. Please can someone tell me what it means?